Letter: Elect Democrats to Stop Project 2025 Agenda

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To the Editor:

While the national debate about the top of the Democratic ticket in November is sucking so much oxygen out of our political room, it is easy to forget that there is more than one way to make sure the MAGA agenda does not have a chance to spread its intolerance and injustice across our great nation.

If we can make sure that we elect Democratic majorities to our Congress and our state legislatures, then Project 2025 priorities such as gutting our public education system, destroying our commitment to averting a climate catastrophe, privatizing Social Security and Medicare, appointing ideologues to the Supreme Court, and abandoning our important international defense alliances, have little chance of becoming the law of the land.

Our Massachusetts legislative delegation and state legislature remains committed to maintaining the rights and privileges so many groups have worked for over many generations. But candidates in other states, in swing districts in New York, Pennsylvania, Colorado, and North Carolina to name a few, need our help to mobilize local voters and ultimately protect our democracy.

I urge readers to call your friends in these states. Make social media posts they will read and understand. Join in with mail and phone banking efforts such as the Rural Freedom Network (ruralfreedomnetwork.org). Let's spread the word to keep our country on the right track.

Ross Jacobs
Chair, North Adams Democratic City Committee

 

 

 

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Jillian Tatro's Killer Guilty of First-Degree Murder

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Jillian Tatro
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — A Berkshire County jury on Tuesday returned a verdict of guilty in the murder of Jillian Tatro four years ago. 
 
Luis Rosado, 53, was found guilty of murder in the first degree with extreme atrocity for stabbing his 38-year-old wife to death in an apartment they shared at 46 Charles St. on May 28, 2022.
 
He and Tatro had been married five months and during that time, Tatro had sought a restraining order against her husband.
 
Rosado had been convicted of domestic violence on another individual in October 2020. At the time, he was charged with three counts of assault and battery on a household member, strangulation and larceny and was sentenced to a minimum of a year in the Berkshire County House of Corrections.
 
He went on trial for murder this past week in Pittsfield and was found guilty by a Berkshire Superior Court jury. Sentencing has not yet occurred. 
 
The conviction was announced on Tuesday morning by Berkshire District Attorney Timothy Shugrue at the arraignment of David L. Boucher, who is charged with murder in the death of his father. 
 
"While we were waiting here this morning, [a jury] returned a verdict of guilty in the first degree, cruel and atrocious behavior. So I don't know when the sentence will be. I don't know whether it will be life without parole," he said. "Obviously, I really want to congratulate the North Adams Police Department and all the departments of law enforcement that worked hard on this case."
 
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