DALTON — What’s the obligation of any business to serve the community it calls home? By the very laws of business, none. That’s not the purpose of business. The purpose — plain and simple — is to make money, to grow, to make more money, etc. Unless, of course, your business is Berkshire Money Management, and you’re CEO Allen Harris. This might come off as a gush fest. To me, it’s Allen Harris’ love letter to the Berkshires, which he spells out in actions. I, as the writer, also want to be clear: While Allen’s firm is paying for me to…
Insights & Advice
Nichole Dupont
Cowards can take their business elsewhere
To the editor: I am literally writing this letter to you on the morning of Juneteenth after receiving an anonymous note at the Berkshire Money Management office where I work. It reads: “All lives matter. No more business.” The message is scrawled — in bright red sharpie — across a page torn out from this very newspaper, where BMM has been running blackout space for the entire month in active support of Black Lives Matter. No return address, no signature, just the impotent scrawl of yet another coward who does not “approve” of our business taking a stand against the…
We cannot be silent: A special statement from Berkshire Money Management
Dalton, Mass. – The events of the last few weeks have brought directly to the forefront the longstanding inequality and injustice that plagues our communities, our cities, our schools, and yes, even our homes. We cannot be silent. We cannot say that “this has nothing to do with me” while blatant inequality and brutality continue to permeate every pore of this country. The brutal murders of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and George Floyd (and who knows how many others that have not been made public) are sadly just the most recent in a countless line of Black Americans who have…