By Mickey Friedman March 9, 2014 It’s not often I get a letter from President Obama. In big letters on the front of the envelope it asked: “Do you still have my back?” My legal name is Michael but my…
Category: Red Crow News
The Best We Can Afford
February 9, 2014 By Mickey Friedman I went to listen on Wednesday night, and many spoke about the Monument Mountain High School renovation project. Clearly, the Superintendent, School Committee and teachers are committed to providing the best education they can…
Marking Time
January 18, 2014 By Mickey Friedman I was relieved to read in the New York Post that “George Clooney and Rande Gerber are throwing their annual Casamigos party Sunday in Cabo.” And that “Cindy Crawford, and other stars vacationing in…
Days of Wonder
December 24, 2013 By Mickey Friedman The other day, Roland showed me his spiffy new blue hard plastic cover for his MacBook Air. It protects his laptop and has cute little plastic feet to lift the computer at an angle…
Falafels R Us
By David Scribner December 16, 2013 Last month, I went to Israel on what I thought was a two-week leave of absence from The Berkshire Record. I was with Americans for Peace Now, and we were learning about the potential…
Occupy Rome
By Mickey Friedman December 8, 2013 I would have said my mother is rolling over in her grave except she has no grave to roll over in. I scattered her ashes where we had scattered my father’s ashes. But she’s…
Burning issue: The firehouse sale
By David Scribner December 6, 2013 The firehouse, the bloody old Castle Street firehouse in Great Barrington. And the town’s 21-month struggle to sell the 120-year-old historic structure. Aren’t you just sick and tired of this story? It’s like the…
Benefit dinner to support the needy
December 2, 2013 By David Scribner There are a number of unheralded heroes in Great Barrington. One of them is Michael Ballon, owner of and chef at the Castle Street Café. So when he asked me to help get out…
No
November 26, 2013 By Mickey Friedman Like so many others in The Best Small Town in America, I voted against the $56 million renovation of our high school. With no room on the ballot for alternatives, the choice was simple.…
I Miss You, Martin
September 16, 2013 By Mickey Friedman These are indeed great days for America. For as we celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the historic March on Washington, there are everywhere the clear signs that the racial divide is dissolving before us.…
Stand Your Ground
August 4, 2013 By Mickey Friedman We seem to compensate for our lack of control over the large events of life with an almost pathological need to exercise the little power we do have making others miserable. Wife beaters, bullies,…
A Most Beautiful Day
June 20, 2013 By Mickey Friedman Saturday was a most beautiful day. Summoned, I believe, by the beautiful Melissa, for her wedding to Dominic. And it was a day for us all. For the first time in weeks, I was…