A while back we wrote an editorial about the clear and obvious evils of the easy availability of sports gambling via smartphones. This past Sunday evening, the news program 60 Minutes had a segment on exactly that topic, highlighting how…
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Guest Op-Ed: A Little Bit of Kindness To Protect Massachusetts Parklands and Foster Community
By Brian Arrigo Just under a year ago, I had the honor of being appointed to lead the Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR), the state’s largest landowner and steward of roughly half a million acres across Massachusetts. It’s been…
Guest Op-Ed: Erica, Empathy, and the Independence
By Tracy Iannelli My friend Erica is homeless. When I met her, she was sleeping in her car with her feral dog, Bert. Earlier, Erica lived in the woods with him. She told me she was an attorney, owned a…
Letter to the Editor
Scholarship Applications Are Now Available To the Editor, Once again the Old Charlestown Schoolboys Asssociation is pleased to announce that scholarship applications are now available. Would you please print the following announcement and run it for four weeks. The Old…
Obituaries 02-08-2024
Deidre Ann Malloy Charlestown Realtor — A Larger-Than-Life Individual – And a Rare Human Being Deidre Ann Malloy of Charlestown and formerly of Holliston passed away in Naples, Florida on January 5, 2024. Deidre leaves her husband, Michael Giltrap of…
DiDomenico Supports Comprehensive Gun Safety Reform
Special to the Patriot-Bridge Last week, Senator Sal DiDomenico joined his Senate colleagues as they introduced Senate bill S.2572, An act to sensibly address firearm violence through effective reform—the SAFER Act—comprehensive gun safety legislation to reform and modernize the state’s…
The Chain Forge Project Is No More
By Michael Coughlin Jr. A project at the Chain Forge building at 105 First Avenue that would have brought several public amenities, including a hotel, to the Navy Yard is no longer happening after the Boston Planning and Development Agency…
MBTA Completes Expedited Critical Track Work on Green Line, Removing 16 Speed Restrictions
Special to the Patriot-Bridge The MBTA announced on Monday its successful and on-time completion of critical track work on the Green Line, which removed 16 safety-related speed restrictions – one more than planned. Moreover, a 17th speed restriction on the…
Wu Appoints Tania Del Rio As Commissioner of the Inspectional Services Department
Special to the Patriot-Bridge Mayor Michelle Wu appointed Tania Del Rio as Commissioner of the Inspectional Services Department (ISD) starting February 26, 2024. ISD administers and enforces building, housing, health, sanitation and safety regulations mandated by city and state governments.…
Environmentalists: Putin’s ‘Useful Idiots’
Vladimir Lenin used the term “useful idiots” to refer to journalists, labor leaders, and politicians in the West who extolled the virtues of Lenin’s new Communist regime in Russia as a “worker’s paradise.” They were in the vanguard of the…