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 | @theMarket: Fed Stimulus Continues to Pump the Markets
When asked, the members of the Federal Reserve Board continue to argue that the almost $500 million they have pumped into the overnight repurchase market since September is not quantitative easing. The stock market disagrees.
"Not QE" is the term most often used by the Street in describing this fairly hefty expansion of
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 | 10X10 Upstreet Arts Festival Returns in February
Mayor Linda Tyer tells how she used to tend a community garden at Canoe Meadows Wildlife Sanctuary.
PITTSFIELD, Mass. — The expanded 9th annual 10X10 Upstreet Arts Festival returns to cure those winter blues this February with a new emphasis on outdoor recreation.
Mayor Linda Tyer announced this
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 | Pittsfield Receives Insurance Grant to Inspect Parks
City Council accepted a number of grants and referred several matters to the Finance Subcommittee.
PITTSFIELD, Mass. — The city received a $10,000 grant from the Massachusetts Interlocal Insurance Association to inspect all playgrounds and provide inspection trainings.
The City Council accepted the
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 | BArT Tops Buxton at the Armory
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. -- Brandon Bamba and Isaac Bamba scored 20 and 19 points, respectively, to lead the BArT Charter basketball team to a 63-23 win over Buxton on Thursday.
Owen Brady and Kayla Saunders scored seven points apiece, and William Peet recorded three blocks.
BArT hosts White Oak on Tuesday at the
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 | The Independent Investor: Can We Afford 4 More Years of Trade Wars?
The Phase One trade deal with China was signed with a great deal of pomp and circumstance this week. While happy that trade tensions on both sides have been reduced, the vast majority of Wall Street players saw the deal as a win for China.
After almost three years of threats, bluster and on-again-off-again tariffs, we are right
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 | BCC Announces Fall Semester Dean's List
PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Berkshire Community College has announced its fall 2019 Dean's List.
To be eligible for the list, full-time students must have declared a major; completed a minimum of 12 non-repeated, traditionally graded credit hours during the spring semester; and achieved a 3.250 to 3.749 grade point average for Honors, or
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 | '1917': Mistaken Destiny
Anyone with half a brain knows that there's no such thing as a war movie … that there are only antiwar movies, of which director-writer Sam Mendes' "1917" is an iconic example. They also know that this harrowing, R-deserving delve into the bowels of humankind destroying each other with whatever new, technological device
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 | BHS, Williams College Collaborate on Retail Pharmacy on Spring Street
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Berkshire Health Systems and Williams College have announced the development of a new retail pharmacy in Williamstown, expanding access to prescriptions, over-the-counter medications and many other products, in close proximity to the Williams campus.
The new pharmacy, to be called the Williamstown Apothecary,
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