Letter: Political Bias

Letter to the Editor07:00PM / Tuesday, August 09, 2022Print Story | Email Story

To the Editor:

Do you only report about Democrat candidates or am I missing your reporting on Republican candidates some how? The Berkshire Eagle is a left-favoring periodical that I've learned to simply ignore because of their bias. Please clarify my dilemma sooner than later.

I appreciate your efforts & overall coverage but it appears a political bias is showing itself.

Chuck D. Wright
North Adams, Mass.

Editor's note: iBerkshires covers all local candidates and state candidates who visit Berkshire County (and let us know they're coming!) We have been focusing on the upcoming primary, which has no local Republican races. We wrote about gubernatorial candidate Geoffry Diehl and two candidates who recently came to Pittsfield.

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North Adams Council Accepts Controversial Policing Grant

By Tammy Daniels iBerkshires Staff
05:30AM / Wednesday, November 11, 2026

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — The City Council on Tuesday accepted a fiscal 2025 Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant in the amount of $14,231 for the construction of an evidence room.

The small but contentious grant was accepted 5-4 after weeks of debate.

"It was appropriate for us to accept the Byrne grant as those items of question, we'll say, were not going to be enforceable," said Mayor Jennifer Macksey, then turning to the packed audience, "I don't know how you feel, but I'm very sensitive to what you feel and the worries that you have. And I would speak on behalf of Chief Bailey ...

"Our job is to make sure everyone is safe, whether you lived here five minutes, whether you lived here 50 years, 100 years."

The grant received weeks of pushback from area residents who have filled council chambers for the past four meetings and started a petition. The crux had been certain language added to the grant this year that put conditions on local law enforcement regarding immigration and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

At the last meeting, councilors had asked for a reservation of rights, a legal letter outlining that the city could not be compelled to comply with four provisions in the grant, based on the opinions of the city solicitor and Attorney General Andrea Campbell, and recent court cases.

Councilor Peter Breen, who had urged the submission of a letter, noted the 23 states that have filed class action suits.

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