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 Disputes Report of 'Data Breach'

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10:19AM / Friday, August 14, 2026

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Mayor Jennifer Macksey says a Facebook post accusing the city of a data breach is false.

She has scheduled a press conference for Monday to take questions.

Michael Milazzo posted that he received "private confidential records" from the city in response to a public records request.

These records were purportedly unrelated to his request but rather to a third party and inadvertently sent to him.

"It appears that the person who received the names, addresses, and Social Security numbers of at least 419 individuals from the local area may be associated with web or AI-related development," he wrote on Facebook.

In a late-night message to local media on Thursday, the mayor wrote that "the City has found no evidence to substantiate the claim that a widespread data breach involving personally identifying information has occurred."

The information was a vendor list provided to Starbridge, which had vendor names, addresses, ID numbers and amounts paid. Starbridge is a public sector vendor platform run on artificial intelligence systems.

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