The tragic death of a 62 year-old bicyclist last week on Memorial Drive has highlighted the lack of safety on our roadways for even experienced cyclists. We ourselves know first-hand how dangerous Metro Boston’s roads can be. We train for…
Category: Editorials
Deja vu all over again for long-time Sox, Pats fans
The Red Sox once again are on the outside looking in. The Sox have failed to make the playoffs for the third year in a row and the fifth time in six years. The Sox had appeared destined for a…
Letter to the Editor
‘Laughter Heals’ Comedy Night set for Nov. 7 To the Editor, My wife, Maribeth McKenzie, started the Maura Wilkins Foundation last year. Since then, the foundation has been able to provide funding for numerous individuals with alcohol and substance abuse addictions…
Forever Chemicals are in All of Our Bodies
On top of the recent news that micro-and nanoplastics are in our bodies and in just about every living thing on the planet, a new study published last week has revealed that of the 14,000 known chemicals — commonly referred…
We Need to Ban Styrofoam
While on the subject of harmful chemicals and substances in our environment, we’d like to take the opportunity to commend the efforts of Revere City Councilor Joanne McKenna for ensuring that the city’s ordinance banning the use of single-use styrofoam…
Too Many Guns = Too Many Shootings
The spectre of yet another lone-wolf gunman attempting another assasination of Donald Trump is shocking, but not surprising. Up until the past 50 years, assassinations of public figures in America were carried out by individuals with a political agenda –Abraham…
How can a State Police trainee die in a boxing ring?
The death last week of 25 year-old Mass. State Police (MSP) Trainee Enrique Delgado-Garcia in a boxing ring during a “training exercise” is, in a word, unfathomable. Mr. Delgado-Garcia was less than one month away from graduating and achieving his…
Letter to the Editor
Tom MacDonald and the Charlestown Harvest on Vine Food Pantry Dear Editor, As a longtime Charlestown resident, I had no idea that we had a food pantry in our community much less that it’s been in existence for the past…
Remembering 9/11
For anyone who is old enough to remember September 11, 2001, all of us know exactly where we were and what we were doing when we heard the terrible news. For this generation of Americans, that day was as memorable…
Red Sox and Pats are Taking the Fans for Granted
For the third year in a row and fifth time in six years, the Red Sox appear doomed to fail to reach the playoffs, a stretch of futility that the Patriots promise to mimic almost precisely if they fall short…