By Mickey Friedman August 13, 2011 In the early summer of 2010, Bruce Springsteen came to London town and offered up a stirring version of The Clash’s “London’s Calling” to a Hyde Park filled to the brim with adoring fans.…
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Conflicting Ideas for the EPA Remedy Review Board
By Mickey Friedman August 5, 2011 EPA Region One officials responsible for the GE/Housatonic River site spent two days on July 27-28, 2011 presenting a cleanup plan for “The Rest of the River” to the agency’s National Remedy Review Board…
Lennoxx: More & More & More
Editor’s Note: This is the story here in the Berkshires that will not die. A small town with big dreams, Lenox MA,, the summer home of the Boston Symphony’s Tanglewood, has once again looked to a big city for aid.…
Of Red Crows, Train Crashes, and the Open Internet
Mickey Friedman July 29, 2011 New evidence of the age-old battle between open and closed, freedom and control, takes us from the U.S.A. to China and home again. The spirit of Red Crow, and a million permutations of Red Crow…
Local/Schmocal – Debt/Schmebt
By Mickey Friedman and the Red Crow Economic News Team™ July 27, 2011 Our crack Red Crow Economic News Team™ has been busily at work trying to come up with a new definition of “local.” The local debate has been…
EPA: Moving Ahead with Housatonic River Cleanup Process
July 14, 2011 Mickey Friedman The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today signaled its intention to proceed as scheduled with its plans to present cleanup options for the Housatonic River to EPA’s National Remedy Review Board (NRRB). The EPA had recently…
The PCB Wars: The Commonwealth et al vs. EPA
By Mickey Friedman July 11, 2011 What do Massachusetts Congressman John Olver, Sen. Scott Brown, General Electric, and officials at the Massachusetts Executive Office of Environmental Affairs all have in common? Together, they’re doing their best to influence the Environmental…
Time to Take The Tourists
By Mickey Friedman July 3, 2011 Editor’s Note: We at Red Crow want to make it clear how much some of us like cats. And remind you of our Poetic License when we say there’s more than one way to…
Henny Penny, The Ice Is Melting
June 27, 2011 Mickey Friedman Woke up this Monday morning, June 27, 2011 to the shocking news that what some people call global warming but what I prefer to call the climate crisis is real. Like in, “happening.” Maybe Henny…
Small Town Arson; Small Town News
By Mickey Friedman June 24, 2011 I’m not really a news man. I’ve written a non-fiction book, am writing a mystery novel, and have made films. And I write a quirky column every other week for The Berkshire Record about…
Denmark Meets Main Street: Something’s Rotten
Great Barrington Building Inspector Ed May – Photo © David Scribner As I sat there in the Great Barrington Selectmen’s meeting, I was thinking about once again falling down a rabbit hole. But instead of something from “Alice in Wonderland,”…
More For Mozart
For many, many years classical music lovers knew one of the best bargains could be found on Saturday morning during the Tanglewood season: the open rehearsals. Not only could you watch and listen to Sunday’s performance being shaped, but you…