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2/14/2008
Dear Glenn Heller & Rinaldo Del Gallo III,
Thank you for your respective responses.
Glenn Heller does not understand the meanings of the words: PERSECUTION & EXTRAPOLATION.
My mental health providers are like Glenn Heller in his misunderstanding that:
I am a persecuted man and my extrapolations from my persecuters' actions are justified.
I have rationally explained event after event after event where I have been persecuted by top-down, powerbroker, opportunistic, conspiratorial, and the like, Pols and other bullies in my life.
I am seen by many as irrational, dark, self-righteous, harassing, threatening, violent, and a self-defeating person who believes he is always the victim in every situation, and on and on.
I guess that in Glenn Heller's, et al, views that I would satisfy every bully by proverbially "taking it up the ass." Well, bullies of the World, my response to all of you is a healthy and hearty: "FUCK YOU!" (Especially to Denis E. Guyer!)
I am not going to either figuratively or literally "take it up the ass"! I am going to survive, live and fight like hell to defend myself against all of the "ASSHOLES" out there who like to screw over good people like me.
If my emails scare you, Glenn Heller, then I will remove you from my list and not email you anymore. However, I do admire some of your good work in politcs, which is not to say you have my permission to bully me into agreeing with your beliefs. We live in a FREE COUNTRY where everyone has an opinion along with an asshole, and guess what? They both stink no matter who you are: Glenn M. Heller, Jonathan A. Melle, Alan Chartock, Mary Carey, Rinaldo Del Gallo III, Deval Patrick, John Kerry, Denis Guyer, Andy "Luciforo", Dan Bosley, Chris Speranzo, Chris Hodgkins, Peter Larkin, Jimmy Ruberto, Smitty Pignatelli, Stan Rosenberg, and every other "Son of a Bitch" and "Bitch" out living on our good Earth.
I will always speak my good conscience as long as I live. And just like everyone else out there, I will always poop, too. I have a right to do both just like everyone else.
The people who chose and still choose to bully me are all ASSHOLES! Chief among these bullying assholes is Denis E. Guyer and Andrea F. Nuciforo, Jr. They have persecuted me for many years of my adult life. I am proud that I have been able to stand up to them.
As for Rinaldo, he has been put in similar situations to me. Rinaldo was persecuted by Berkshire County District Attorney David F. Capeless and ultimately cleared and vindicated in state Court.
I am proud to call Rinaldo Del Gallo III my friend. I see Rinaldo like I see FDR and Winston Churchill contrasted to Adolf Hitler. FDR & Churchill had many human vices and flaws. FDR smoke and drank, had a mistress, and was NOT always "politically correct" on civil rights. Churchill started his day off at noon with an alcoholic drink, and had similar vices to FDR. Neither man exhibited model behavior. The man who had model behavior --started his day at dawn, never drank & smoked,...-- and grew his country's economy and military industrial complex was Hitler, who ultimately ended up to be a mass murderer and possibly the "Antichrist" of his time. The men who stopped Hitler were men with flaws and vices: FDR & Churchill.
Rinaldo Del Gallo III, like me, was persecuted for his petty personal and behavioral matters by men whose real character were those of PERSECUTORS like Hitler. I believe it is a fair EXTRAPOLATION for me to say that people who are "perfect" are really only PERSECUTORS like Adolf Hitler and other ASSHOLES who choose to bully instead of defend goodness. I believe someone like Rinaldo Del Gallo III would re-save the World from the next Hitler because someone like Rinaldo has the real character of goodness, not just a nice facade of "model behavior"!
In truth,
Jonathan A. Melle
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"Glenn M. Heller"
Mr. Melle:
You are continually claiming that you have been harassed and threatened by various politicians over the years. Yet, it seems to me that you do the very same thing to those whom you consider your enemies. You certainly malign far more frequently than the few times you claim politicos have maligned you.
I cannot count the number of emails I have received from you stating how much you 'hate' this or that politician. Worse, the tone of your emails seems to me to have gotten considerably darker these past few months, so much so that you appear regularly to cross the line between protected speech and that which could be construed by reasonable people to be making threats by email and harassment by email, both of which are criminal offenses.
I don't have a problem with anyone intent on actual 'muck-raking'. If one is able to uncover information about politicians (or public figures) that helps to expose underhanded dealings or anything else about which the public should be aware, then I consider all that fair game.
But once you cross the line and make personal threats against your target or 'enemy', or you harass by sending emails purporting to be from your enemy, then not only do you do disservice to your cause (and to your own veracity), but you place yourself in legal jeopardy.
Sincerely yours,
Glenn M. Heller, editor
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RDelGalloIII@aol.com wrote:
February 14, 2008
Jonathan:
Regarding Glenn Heller. Believe it or not, I just read this e-mail though it was sent a month ago, so I apologize for the belated response. Being in the public you constantly come across people that are unstable, angry, or feel they have right to pry into your personal and family life. From my recollection, my first e-mail with Mr. Heller indicated that he was angry. The subsequent e-mails indicated he is obviously not emotionally balanced.
Obviously, I am not going to personally defend my private family life in public discussion forums. I also think that sending someone a private e-mail, getting a response, and blasting it to numerous people says much about the type of person that this guy is.
I told him, as I have told countless others, that I have little interest in discussing my personal life with him and informed him that I would not respond to his futher e-mails. Any other stranger that started demanding questions about my personal life would get similar treatment.
I also question his intelligence. Here I am acquited of an obviously baseless charge, and there is a preoccupation with the fact that I lived with my parents. I know many single adults who live with their parents, and I know many married adults that live with their parents, wherein extended family unit remains at one domicile.
He did send me an e-mail, "So I asked him what does his lack of money have to do with imposing on his folks. I'm still waiting for a reply to that one." I have no idea why a complete stranger feels they have a right to e-mail me questions about my personal life and demand answers. Based on this, I assume that (1) he has serious mental health issues AND (2) he (or she) is clearly clueless as to what is appropriate and inappropriate conduct. He is quite correct, no reply will be forthcoming.
While I can't remember specifically what occurred, I remember an offensive e-mail, a one sentence reply, and then after he replied I sent him a polite letter indicating that I have no interest in conversting with him. I do not recollect what his e-mail address is. In my situation, I meet whack jobs on a continual basis. I simply step to the side and keep on going where I am going. I treat it like dog poop on the sidewalk. There are hundreds of Glenn Heller's I meet in my life.
I am interested in issues, rational debate (in a meaningfully public manner), and change. I'll take a raincheck on the other horse manure.
Rinaldo
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April 13, 2020
Re: Open letter to Glenn M. Heller
Hello Glenn Heller,
Berkshire County residents have paid tens of millions of their hard earned tax dollars on the arts and cultural projects over the past 20 years. I found this to be an interesting story to follow because the state and local politicians know that thousands of living wage jobs were lost, which caused thousands of people to move away, which further meant that the tax base diminished year after year after year. The politicians took their turns in the spotlight with their success stories about bringing tourists from NYC and Boston to the Berkshires to spend their vacation money on the Berkshire’s arts and cultural venues. But now with the coronavirus pandemic, the Berkshires’ decades long investment in arts and cultural is a losing proposition. To be clear, Berkshire County’s tax base has considerably shrank with decades of population and job loss, while state and local politicians have raised taxes to invest in the area’s arts and cultural institutions, and now tourists will stay away this Spring and Summer of 2020. What does that say to the remaining Berkshire County taxpayers? The sad answer is that the politicians sold out the taxpayers on a broken promise.
I have a Master of Public Administration, which means I have studied state and local government. The one main thing state and local politicians are supposed to do is “Invest in People”. That is because the people are the community’s most valuable resource. The people live, work, and invest in their properties and community, such as paying taxes and shopping at local businesses.
Public Policy and Administration is so simple! Politicians are supposed to work with the people who live in their community. When people have a nice quality of life, then they have the opportunity to work in living wage jobs, which gives them the means to invest in their properties and their community. Sadly, in Berkshire County politics, the people have to move away to not be shaken down and live in fear of the state and local politicians whose decades long bet on the arts and cultural institution backfired this year of 2020. But what do these career politicians care? After all, they always win with their lucrative taxpayer-funded pay and compensation.
In Berkshire County, the local people live in fear of their state and local politicians. In Berkshire County, the state and local politicians are shakedown artists to feed their selfish ambitions as career politicians while “Rome burns” around them.
To illustrate, my dad, who once served as an elected Berkshire County Commissioner, and me spoke out about Berkshire County’s political issues decades ago, and we faced a lot of retribution for it for a number of years. State politicians (Nuciforo) filed multiple “ethics” complaints against my dad to try to get him fired from his then state government job at the Pittsfield Courthouse and try to make my dad resign his then elected position on the Berkshire County Commission. They (Nuciforo) conspiratorially had people bully me for many years without leaving behind their (Nuciforo’s) own fingerprints/DNA. They (Nuciforo) even tried to jail me by making hypocritical and false allegations against me to the PPD. They (Nuciforo) blacklisted me from employment. They (Nuciforo) conspiratorially had people spread vicious and false rumors against me. They (Nuciforo) still pick on my today, or nearly 24 years later.
Best wishes,
Jonathan A. Melle
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/arts-were-the-catalyst-for-economic-renewal-in-the-berkshires-what-now-with-a-summer-of-closures-and-cancellations/ar-BB12zggJ
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“Arts were ‘the catalyst’ for economic renewal in the Berkshires. What now with a summer of closures and cancellations?”
By Murray Whyte, The Boston Globe via MSN, April 13, 2020
North Adams — On a recent bright day, Melahat Karakaya walked the empty hallways of the Porches Inn in North Adams, thinking of what should have been. Spring is always the season for fresh starts, and in the Berkshires more than most. Spring is boom time here: The region’s many museums host a full slate of openings and events, while a string of festivals gets underway at nearby theater and music venues.
Spring also means a starting gun for the summer onslaught, when hundreds of thousands of visitors descend upon Western Massachusetts. But this year, all is silent, outside and in.
“Everyone has canceled everything," said Karakaya, the inn’s general manager. "They don’t want to take a risk, because the immediate future is so unclear.”
As the coronavirus thunders its way across the planet, through big cities and small communities alike, an unearthly stillness has become the unnerving new normal. But in the grinding days and weeks since social distancing — our only defense — started choking nearly every aspect of public life, something more has been revealed about the Berkshires regional economy: It is especially vulnerable.
The 21st century has been a time of incremental rebuilding here. The region has picked up and dusted off from the collapse of its 19th- and 20th-century industrial economy, forging a new path alongside cultural organizations, new and old alike, to make Western Massachusetts a global arts destination. Over time, restaurants, bars, and hotels blossomed to serve growing numbers of tourists drawn by the area’s riches. And while dubious locals and longtimers had their doubts, recent numbers suggest the transition was thriving.
According to 1Berkshire, the local regional economic development agency, the visitor economy — hotel stays, restaurant meals — accounted for $1.2 billion in economic activity in Berkshire County in 2017, well more than the $917 million brought by manufacturing. Jonathan Butler, 1Berkshire’s CEO, said as many as 8,000 jobs were either directly or indirectly tied to tourism last year, with the industry’s economic footprint growing by 35 percent in the last decade alone.
“We’re very much a new economy, in the last 20 years or so,” Butler said. “More recently we’ve been able to diversify — the creative economy, innovation, even some new manufacturing. But it’s without any shred of doubt that the visitor economy is the backbone of our economy, and that it’s critical to our economic health.
"That’s why this is so scary.”
The region is replete with cultural venues, from the Tanglewood and Jacob’s Pillow campuses to the Clark Art Institute. But perhaps none is more emblematic of the area’s reinvention than the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art. Even the site of it — the 16-acre former Sprague Electric Company in North Adams, which closed its doors in 1985 — has the air of resurrection. With 250,000 square feet of gallery space, Mass MoCA, as the museum is called, has the biggest footprint of any contemporary art museum in the US.
But Mass MoCA is now also a weighty symbol of economic fragility in the coronavirus era. “When you’re in the gathering business, like we are,” said Mass MoCA director Joseph Thompson, “this hurts.” The museum has been shuttered since March 16, as part of the global effort to slow the spread of the disease. As the pandemic drags on, though, the economic fallout becomes increasingly alarming.
Eight days after closing the museum’s doors, Thompson sent a jarring e-mail to the museum’s members. He began by saying that, amid a sea of uncertainty, one thing was distressingly clear: The museum’s “earned revenue” — ticket sales, largely — had been “wiped out overnight.” That was hardly surprising, given the circumstances. What did surprise was his explanation that earned revenue accounted for 70 percent of the museum’s annual budget, all of it gone in a flash.
Mass MoCA is hardly alone in such dire circumstances. In recent weeks, other museums in the region including the Hancock Shaker Village sent pleas for financial support; and furloughs arrived for employees at the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge on Friday. Meanwhile, the cancellations keep stacking up. Jacob’s Pillow, the Berkshires-bred dance festival, canceled the entire 88th summer season late last month. Last week, the Williamstown Theatre Festival canceled its own summer season. As for the monthslong Tanglewood season, the Boston Symphony Orchestra is expected to make an announcement in mid-May.
Deep layoffs soon followed at Mass MoCA — 120 out of a staff of 165 — as well as a raft of scrapped events and postponements. “Normally, at this time of year, we’re taking in hundreds of thousands of dollars for ticketed events throughout the summer,” Thompson said while on-site at the museum last week, standing amidst 26 buildings of unpeopled gallery space. “Right now, we’re sending hundreds of thousands of dollars back.”
Museums, especially large ones, have a raft of unique, and expensive, concerns. For starters, you can’t simply lock the door and walk away from a facility filled with millions of dollars worth of art. And no museum will weather this storm without some damage to the bottom line.
Even so, there are degrees. Museums are often generations old, armored against financial disaster by decades’ worth of philanthropy and the foundations such largesse can build. Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, which turned 150 this year, held assets in its endowment valued at nearly $644 million, according to tax filings for the fiscal year ending in June 2018 (the most recent available). Down the road from MASS MoCA is the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, a jewel box of a museum surrounded by lush forest and rolling hills. Established by wealthy patrons in 1955, the Clark holds an endowment of $107 million, according to its most recent tax filings. And earned revenue accounted for just under 7 percent of total income during that same period, according to the Clark’s most recent annual report.
Mass MoCA, still an infant among its peers, is without deep historical resources to fund the strenuous upkeep of its sprawling historic campus. The museum is accustomed to operating on a tightrope. When it opened in 1999, “the money we took in one week was the money we used to pay the bills the next week,” Thompson said. “We had no working capital, no endowment, and no line of credit. As you can imagine, I spent a lot of time with a tin cup in my hand.”
That led to a pioneering museum finance model that emphasized live events such as concerts and music festivals to help feed the fiscally demanding but less lucrative world of art exhibitions. Signature events including LOUD weekend in August and FreshGrass in September showcase dozens of acts and draw thousands of people. (Neither event has been canceled yet; Thompson said the organization was making decisions about six weeks out as the crisis progressed.)
For many years, that event-based revenue stream was enough. By 2007, Mass MoCA started raising money for an endowment of its own. (Timing, Thompson joked, is everything; the endowment wasn’t established in time to take a hit from the 2008 financial crisis). As of mid-March, he said, the endowment was still modest at $21.25 million, a little less than double the museum’s annual operating budget of $12.5 million. (A more-established institution typically holds 10 to 15 times its annual budget in its endowment.) But last week, with the crisis mounting as it announced layoffs, the museum dipped into its endowment to cover health care costs for staff, whether laid off or not, through the end of July.
For a region whose economy was rebuilt on the most hopeful of things — a social economy, based on the gathering of people — the level of cruelty feels almost farcical. Mass MoCA sees around 300,000 annual visitors, which it says generates about $52 million every year to the local economy.
“We were founded to attract large numbers of people to North Adams around acts of creativity, and we’ve done it quite successfully,” Thompson said. “So this, well, it’s quite the punch in the gut.”
The threat to the larger Berkshires economy has raised the alarm on Beacon Hill as well. State Representative John Barrett, a Democrat representing North Adams and Williamstown, filed a joint bill on April 8 with his south Berkshires House colleague Smitty Pignatelli to divert emergency funds to the region’s nonprofit cultural institutions. “We need to get this on the radar screen — that arts and culture are vital to the economic health of this region,” he said. “It’s been the catalyst there for 20 years. What happens if it goes away?”
For Barrett, it’s personal. In the 1990s, he was the mayor of North Adams as Thompson led a small consortium of believers to reclaim the Sprague complex as a contemporary art museum. “It took a long time for some people to see that this wasn’t an elite vanity project, that it was an economic development project,” Barrett said. “I was the mayor in North Adams when we lost Sprague Electric, and it took us 25, 30 years to come back from that. And here we are again.”
For Tom Bernard, the current mayor of North Adams, the irony of the moment is powerful indeed. Growing up in North Adams, he remembered the shift changes at Sprague, the constant flow of workers into a lively downtown. And he remembers when the bottom dropped out, the shuttered shops and empty hulks of brick.
As Bernard noted, arts organizations brought more than restaurants and hotels to the region. They’ve brought a new way of thinking. “For a generation of people here, I think, maybe entrepreneurship wasn’t in the cards because the economy we inherited didn’t create a lot of space for ownership and creativity,” he said. “In this generation, that’s really changed. You can’t say that’s because of one institution, or even a group of institutions. But together they create a feeling — that things are possible again.”
Case in point: On Route 2 between North Adams and Williamstown, the old Norad Mill stood vacant for decades until an investor repurposed it and filled it with more than 50 small businesses, some of which relocated from as far away as California. Nearby, Greylock Works, a campus of low-slung factory buildings that once housed a cotton-spinning mill, reopened this year with swaths of the massive complex retrofitted as an event space, a culinary lab, a co-working space, and a craft distillery. Not far away, in Pittsfield, the Berkshire Innovation Center opened earlier this year; it acts as an incubator for STEM and life-sciences businesses in the region.
Through it all, the Berkshires cultural economy was the grand convener — the reason to gather, to linger, even to stay. In North Adams, Mass MoCA has been vital enough that grand plans for the city now include even more museums — a model train museum, for one, and a museum of architecture.
But with convening now a mortal threat, what happens to the economy built around it? That’s something Thompson grapples with daily. This won’t last forever, though the pain will be felt a long time. What might also linger, he hopes, is the extreme clarity of an economic reinvention long scoffed at, but in its sudden absence, now undeniable.
“Those of us whose job is to gather people together around art and culture have long endured sidelong glances from steely-eyed bankers, who look askance at the service sector economy,” Thompson said. “That’s now over, and for good.”
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October 15, 2020
Hello Glenn M. Heller,
I received your email that WAMC (Alan Chartock) won't publish or air news reports about Robert "Hunter" Biden and his corrupt ties to the Ukrainian firm Burisma. I listen to all sides of political issues. I listen to you, who is conservative, and Alan, who is liberal. I will never get in the middle of the two of you. I have donated my personal money to Alan's WAMC public radio station.
I believe that Hunter Biden is a scumbag. The U.S. House of Representatives Impeached Trump over a telephone call to the President of Ukraine about Hunter Biden. I can never support Trump in politics, but I actually take Trump's side on this matter.
Hunter Biden got a college woman, who worked as a Hooters waitress and stripper, pregnant. He lied to a Judge by telling the Judge the baby wasn't his. The Judge ordered Hunter Biden to take a paternity test. It turned out that he was the father. Not only that, U.S. Senate reports say he had sex with Russian prostitutes who may have been sex trafficked . Did Hunter Biden father any children in Ukraine and/or Russia? Hunter Biden made millions of dollars in Ukraine, Russia, and China. He used his father's name, Joe Biden, to make millions of dollars in political graft. Did he give some of his millions to his father, Joe Biden? How does Joe Biden afford to live in a mansion by the water in Delaware? Joe Biden spent 47 years as a D.C. career politician. How do politicians become so wealthy? Obviously, the answer is that they are wheelers and dealers who shake down people, PACs, and businesses for millions of dollars. They use family and friends to make big money via their political connections.
I already voted via absentee ballot. I voted for Joe Biden, but I did not like it. Donald Trump is a white nationalist who had neo Nazi's and white supremacists work for his campaigns and administration. Donald Trump is repugnant.
Best wishes,
Jonathan A. Melle
October 15, 2020
Hello Glenn M. Heller,
I used to listen to Alan Chartock and WAMC public radio when I lived in the beautiful Berkshires in my youth. I have written to Alan over the decades about the topics he covers. I have expressed my disagreements with him, especially when Alan Chartock gave praise and air time to "Luciforo". Alan Chartock wrote in the Dirty Bird (Berkshire Eagle) that "Nuciforo is a great guy". I told Alan that he had Nuciforo all wrong. To this day, Alan never admitted that he was wrong about Nuciforo. Other than that, I think Alan does a great job in radio news media. I hold Alan in high regard.
Per Alan Chartock and his criticisms of Donald Trump, I agree with Alan. Trump is an abomination. We should have learned about hate and white power fascism after the fall of Hitler and Nazi Germany in 1945. I went to the U.S. Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C. There are political nightmares throughout our World's history, and the Holocaust is the worst one yet. Trump is fanning the flames of hate. Trump equals Hitler on many levels. I hope Trump will be stopped very soon.
I stand for Human Rights. I come from the school of Human Rights. I am a 100 percent service connected disabled Veteran. If it were not for Human Rights, I would not be here to write this very email. I believe every person on Planet Earth should be protected by law that stands for Human Rights. That is my cause in politics, government, and my life. Everyone has a fair chance to live a rewarding life free of persecution by hate groups, hate governments, hate businesses, hate religions, and so on.
I understand how Capitol Hill and K Street works. It is all about money and power in our nation's capital in Washington, D.C. Our country's number one non-farm export to the World are military weapons and related technologies. Our country's economy is ran by Wall Street that benefits the billionaires and top 1 percent of wealthy people. All that matters in big business and big government is "the Almighty U.S. Dollar". The working class and underclass are always getting the proverbial royal screwing over by the ruling elites of both the Republican and Democratic Party.
What is Alan Chartock supposed to do about it all? He runs a public radio station in Albany, New York, and lives in the southern Berkshire County Town of Great Barrington. Is Alan Chartock supposed to change the system by covering Donald Trump or Joe Biden's adult children? We all knew about Hunter Biden's flawed and corrupt way of life well before the New York Post covered Hunter Biden's allegedly incriminating emails from his time with Burisma.
How many friends and family members have benefited from their father being a "Big Wheel" in U.S. Politics over the years and decades? The answer is too many to count. Politicians use their political networks to build wealth and power for the people closest to them. Hunter Biden is no different than the rest of them.
In closing, I didn't like voting for Joe Biden. I wish a more progressive candidate won the nomination this year of 2020. Lastly, I am just a little guy or a political pawn in all of this. I wish things were different, but that is not the case. It is what it is, and it all stinks!
Best wishes,
Jonathan Melle
October 22, 2020
Re: 'President Trump plans to bring Hunter Biden associate Tony Bobulinski as guest to debate'
Hello Glenn M. Heller,
The Biden Crime Family will see many Congressional Investigations and Hearings if Joe Biden wins in 12 days on November 3rd, 2020. Hunter Biden is GARBAGE! Here is a list of everything we that has been reported on Hunter Biden:
Hunter Biden is a crack cocaine addict. Trump called him "a crackhead".
Hunter Biden has at least 5 children from at least 3 different women.
Hunter Biden, now 50 years old, lied to a Judge about a college woman/stripper he got pregnant. After a court ordered paternity test, the child was fathered by none other than Hunter Biden.
Hunter Biden had sex with Russian prostitutes who may have been sex trafficked.
Hunter Biden made tens of millions of dollars overseas in Ukraine, Moscow (Russia), and China by using his father's status as a Vice President and candidate for U.S. President.
Hunter Biden's first wife filed her divorce papers where she outlined all of Hunter Biden's substance abuse issues and womanizing with strippers and prostitutes, while not providing sufficient funds for his immediate family.
The Biden Crime Family are millionaires despite Joe Biden being a 47 year long career politician.
Joe Biden lives in a mansion by the water in Delaware, but he never held a job in the dreaded private sector.
Is there anything else I should add, Glenn M. Heller?
Best wishes,
Jonathan Melle
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January 21, 2023
Hello GMH,
I signed your online petition to save the GB regional airport. I am upset with the events going on in Great Barrington. The water issue in Housatonic is horrible. Nobody should have sewage-colored water flowing from their taps. The middle school is named after a registered Communist W.E.B. DuBois, who praised evil Communist dictators - Stalin and Mao - who combined mass murdered over 100 million innocent Peoples and people, which is far more deaths than in Hitler's Holocaust, which was a tragedy in and of itself, of course, whereby an estimated 17 million innocent Peoples, especially the Jewish People, were mass murdered in a genocide. I understand that W.E.B. DuBois founded the NAACP - The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a civil rights organization in the United States that was formed in 1909 - but his historical record later in his life is wrong. I read about Great Barrington's housing crisis whereby working families are no longer able to afford to live there. Whatever happened to a community investing in the people who live there? Why doesn't Great Barrington build more affordable housing units? I used to enjoy visiting Great Barrington many years ago. When my dad, Bob, was a Berkshire County Commissioner (1997 - mid-2000), we got to know the people there many years ago. Great Barrington is a wonderful community overall, but the events there in recent years have upset me.
Best wishes,
Jonathan A. Melle
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