In this episode of the Berkshire Argus podcast, Bill Shein speaks with Matt Tannenbaum, proprietor—since 1976—of The Bookstore in Lenox, Massachusetts, and subject of the 2022 documentary, “Hello, Bookstore.”Tannenbaum recalls learning the book

AUDIO: Great Barrington's Affordable Housing Trust takes on the community's largest economic challenge

Dec 28th, 2023 1h 2m

There’s no discussion of the economic future of the southern Berkshires that doesn’t have the cost and availability of housing at its center.Trends well underway in the last decade were accelerated by the COVID19 pandemic: The cost of houses to

AUDIO: Is it possible to have civil online conversations?

Dec 14th, 2023 1h 18m

Is it possible to have a thoughtful, constructive conversation about important issues, including politics, in a social media comment thread? About any issue?In 2016, Jon Rosen, fresh off his Ph.D. studies in philosophy at the University of Mass

AUDIO: What's next for the nonprofit Triplex Cinema in Great Barrington?

Sep 21st, 2023 59m 47s

When residents of Great Barrington, Massachusetts learned that a movie theater central to their community’s cultural life and a key component of their downtown economy might close for good, they quickly organized to find a way to save it. In ju

AUDIO: Bob Jones on plans for a PCB dump in Lee, Massachusetts

Jul 31st, 2023 50m 34s

When news headlines refer to “the Housatonic River clean-up,” some assume that the GE-funded and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)-approved remediation work will remove all PCB contamination and return the river to a safe, healthy stat

AUDIO: A housing discussion with Patrick White

Jul 18th, 2023 58m 1s

With available and affordable housing remaining a top regional and national issue, last week I had a wide-ranging conversation with Patrick White, a member of the Stockbridge Select Board. White was recently re-elected overwhelmingly to his sec

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