On Thursday, Weastec was officially welcomed back to Greenfield with a reopening ceremony at its Greenfield facility, which has been shuttered since 2011.
âSunshine is the best disinfectantâ is a maxim dear to the hearts of journalists, including my first boss, the late editor Doug Ernst.
We make a living by exercising the privileges granted by the First Amendment, Doug used to say. He lived for the thrill of dragging a shadowy taxpayer-funded boondoggle or a corrupt public official into the light of public scrutiny.
So what happens when that impulse to expose, to publish, to tell the whole ugly story, runs up against the current movement to scrub the cultural marketplace of words and ideas that are deemed offensive or are espoused by powerful and abusive men?