Here is a graphic that appears in the Greenfield Recorder today. The article covers a forum held at Holyoke Community College yesterday. The forum dealt with the need to unite eastern and western Massachusetts. We all know that there are two economies, but we over here see it more as two states. The forum highlighted the divide in participatory terms, saying that there is not enough representation of western Mass in the decisionmaking that is done in Boston. So it is our fault? Maybe so. Historically, Shay's Rebellion, the attempt to divert some of the Connecticut River and the siphoning of funds for the Big Dig from capital improvements in western Mass have all contributed to the second class feeling here in this part of the state. Maybe the feeling isn't so bad as I make it sound but it is a valid criticism none the less. An armory won't have to be taken over in order for us to be heard. Just don't stop fixing our bridges.