Letter: Elect Democrats to Stop Project 2025 Agenda

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To the Editor:

While the national debate about the top of the Democratic ticket in November is sucking so much oxygen out of our political room, it is easy to forget that there is more than one way to make sure the MAGA agenda does not have a chance to spread its intolerance and injustice across our great nation.

If we can make sure that we elect Democratic majorities to our Congress and our state legislatures, then Project 2025 priorities such as gutting our public education system, destroying our commitment to averting a climate catastrophe, privatizing Social Security and Medicare, appointing ideologues to the Supreme Court, and abandoning our important international defense alliances, have little chance of becoming the law of the land.

Our Massachusetts legislative delegation and state legislature remains committed to maintaining the rights and privileges so many groups have worked for over many generations. But candidates in other states, in swing districts in New York, Pennsylvania, Colorado, and North Carolina to name a few, need our help to mobilize local voters and ultimately protect our democracy.

I urge readers to call your friends in these states. Make social media posts they will read and understand. Join in with mail and phone banking efforts such as the Rural Freedom Network (ruralfreedomnetwork.org). Let's spread the word to keep our country on the right track.

Ross Jacobs
Chair, North Adams Democratic City Committee

 

 

 

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Northern Berkshire United Way Sets 90th Annual Meeting

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — The Northern Berkshire United Way holds its 90th annual meeting and campaign kickoff breakfast on Wednesday, Sept. 16. 
 
The breakfast will be held from 8 to 10:30 a.m. at Norad Mill's 3West event space and cated by Bounti-Fare Restaurant of Adams. 
 
Guest speakers will be Matt Alcombright, executive director of Berkshire Food Project, and Deborah Leonczyk, executive director of Berkshire Community Action Council.
 
The business meeting will include election of officers for the coming year; the official kickoff will announce the chairs and the goal of the 2026/2027 campaign drive. Corporate sponsors this year are Adams Community Bank and Greylock Federal Credit Union. 
 
In addition to speakers from organizations supported by NBUW, the agency will celebrate the impact they are making together across Northern Berkshire, share a look at what's ahead, and kick off another year of working together to strengthen the community.
 
More information and registration here
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