Greenfield Community Television

July 31, 2016 by

Hurricanes Could Blow In a Carbon Tax

There are no solutions to complex problems — except when the problem becomes so complex it must have a simple solution. That is the paradox thrown up by global warming and the shattering report of the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The report cries out for dramatic, simple remediation of the amount of carbon […]

Postcards from Chicago: America’s Second City in Poetry and Paint

Linda Gasparello

Long before my first trip to Chicago by plane, I traveled there by poetry and stories. Carl Sandburg’s “Chicago” took me to the city as a teenager. The poem’s opening verse added to the foundational image of the city which my father, a Boston-based meat broker, built with his stories about the Chicago meatpacking industry: […]

Do You Want a Faceless Algorithm Deciding What You Read?

Llewellyn King

Old friends from The Washington Post in the 1970s write to me, agonizing over where journalism is headed. There is no shortage of news or need for news, but there is a desperate need to find new platforms to carry it forward. There are three existential crises facing the news trade: —How to finance newspapers. […]

Achieve the American Dream, Start a (Little) Business

Llewellyn King

I love little business. I say “little business” because “small business,” like “family farm,” has suffered politicization to a point of abstraction. Even the Small Business Administration doesn’t have a precise definition for small business. It defines “small business” either by revenue or by number of employees — and that can range up to a […]