Episode 6: Reason Gone Mad's Bill Shein, with new reporting on 343 Main Street, Great Barrington

This week’s episode features local independent journalist, philatelist (you’ll have to listen to find out what that means), muckraker and editor of Reason Gone Mad, Bill Shein.

He tells us about meeting the Postmaster General at a recent stamp convention, and he gets in the weeds on his latest reporting on the complicated history of 343 Main Street in Great Barrington and its adjacent plot of land, which now looks quiet, peaceful and serene little park, but is actually a brownfield site, and has a $2 million state lien against it.

Bill notes in our interview that both Ian Rasch and Chris Rembold declined to comment for his reporting.

SHOW NOTES

This is the full MassWorks application referenced by Bill in our conversation.

343 MAIN STREET IN GREAT BARRINGTON AND THE PROBLEMATIC TOWN-OWNED PLOT BESIDE IT.

This is Bill’s story that references the application, called A Tale of Two Sidewalks, from March 8, 2024.