The only things I love more than blogging (Jada) (Kira) Well how about that! The Valley Advocate declared me one of the "100 t...

Select Board reading draft doc written by Temp Town Mgr Peter Hechenbleikner So yes, more than a few people have asked how I came in po...

Amherst Select Board 12/21/15.  Jim Wald on right Amherst Select Board member Jim Wald was arrested by Amherst police over the weekend ...

Growing up in bucolic Amherst during the carefree pre-Internet days just before Vietnam changed our national psyche, my Irish mother had...

Today's Gazette above the fold story (at least they used a question mark) Well I guess now I know why the Gazette sent a photograp...

 Mike Seward Editors note:  This is only the 2nd "guest post" I have published over the past 8 years.  Self serving perhap...

They also fail to mention photo taken by supporter of the movement  

8/10/2013 Torch Run for Special Olympics The downside of publishing 10,000 photographs over the past 7.5 years is it's sometimes ha...

Chancellor Subbaswamy and Stan Rosenberg Saturday UMass Homecoming Parade Well I guess there goes the Pulitzer Prize for the venerable ...

Daily Hampshire Gazette version of Boston Globe story I'm sorry but I find it odd the venerable Boston Globe went with this story ...

I always cringe when Massachusetts hastily passes a new law in reaction to a high profile event, such as the exceedingly good intentione...

My friends at the Gazette have switched over to Facebook commenting for their online articles, which I of course think is a good thing. ...

The door to open government just closed a few inches with an "emergency" measure signed earlier this month by Governor Duval Pa...

The painful decline in the newspaper industry nationwide continues unabated.   Once again it hits close to home.  The Daily Hampshire Ga...

Shine the light on the story, not yourself I consider myself an aggressive reporter.  When at the scene of a fire or riot, if I don'...

Worst Tweets Ever has a whopping 3 followers As I close in on a Twitter milestone, one thousand followers (hint, hint), I'm reminde...

So I should have stayed up a little later last night because sometime just before midnight the milestone one millionth visitor came a cal...

UMass Amherst: Not exactly a drug free zone UPDATE January 24, 2015 My sitemeter tells me a bevy of folks are now coming to this pos...

Growing up less than well off in a Irish Catholic single-parent household in Amherst, you couldn't help but notably mark St Patrick&...

The brain is a terrible thing to waste For those of you who think sports writers are more cheerleaders than journalists, you may want t...