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Bill Shein

Writer and journalist Bill Shein is the founder and editor of The Berkshire Argus. His work focuses on in-depth reporting and fully-told stories.

The Uncertainty Machine

The Uncertainty Machine

Concerned about PCB exposure and cancer, in January 2021, members of the Pittsfield City Council asked the Massachusetts Department of Public Health for an updated cancer-incidence study. After more than four years, they're still waiting. But when results are finally released, will they even matter?

Argus acquired for $1 billion in stunning all-cash deal

Argus acquired for $1 billion in stunning all-cash deal

From scrappy little newsletter producing in-depth journalism to something ... different.

NOTED: Advancing storm clouds darken ‘Sunshine Week’

NOTED: Advancing storm clouds darken ‘Sunshine Week’

With government transparency and press freedom under attack in Washington, a timely look at a little-known Great Barrington story from the nineteen thirties.

Will Trump’s January 6ᵗʰ pardons absolve a pipe bomber?

Will Trump’s January 6ᵗʰ pardons absolve a pipe bomber?

With conspiracy-minded leadership installed at the F.B.I., and federal prosecutors now broadly applying the president’s controversial pardon, will a still-unidentified bomber escape justice?

NOTED: Lee activists take their fight against a PCB dump to Boston

NOTED: Lee activists take their fight against a PCB dump to Boston

As plans for a PCB landfill in Lee, Massachusetts reach a critical stage, a group of Berkshire County residents rallied in Boston—near the headquarters of General Electric, the company responsible for dumping PCBs into the Housatonic River.

At the Pentagon, reality likely to trump rhetoric on climate change and national security

At the Pentagon, reality likely to trump rhetoric on climate change and national security

Even as the Trump administration rolls back climate-related initiatives, current and former Pentagon officials told The Argus that work related to climate and national security is likely to continue.