By Catherine Duffy, NP, ACHPN Note: This article is published in observance of National Healthcare Decisions Day. Times of our lives may be forever defined as what happened “before the COVID-19 pandemic” and everything after that. One thing that hasn’t…
Category: Editorials
Guest Op-Ed: Mask Wearing in America
Dr. Glenn Mollette Like most everyone else, I’m tired of wearing a mask. Every time I go to the grocery, a restaurant, church, or work I have to put on a mask. Not long ago, if we wore a mask…
Letters to the Editor
I Cannot Support the NE Development Project as Currently Presented To the Editor, After attending two public meetings and reviewing New England Development’s (NED) proposal for 201 Rutherford Ave., I cannot support the project as currently presented. While others may…
Royal Family, Common Problems
On a certain level, it is easy to dismiss the recent interview of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle as frivolous and irrelevant to the lives of the rest of us. To most Americans, the concept of a royal family is…
Guest Op-Ed: Let the Youth Speak for Trees
By State Rep. Dan Ryan and Councilor Lydia Edwards A significant amount of discussion has taken place in the last month regarding the Bunker Hill housing redevelopment. While some residents have asked to extend the review process in an effort…
Guest Op-Ed: It’s too Loud in Charlestown
By James Medeiros What’d ya say? Can you speak louder?! That’s what it’s like trying to have a conversation when walking up Lowney Way by Peace Park. The noise coming off the Tobin Bridge can be deafening. I find myself…
Letter to the Editor
Zelma Lacey House to Transition Away from Assisted Living Model To the Editor, What a sad surprise to read the article in the April 1 issue of the Patriot-Bridge. My mom lived at Zelma Lacey for six years. She moved…
The Markey-Warren-AOC Build Green Act Is Needed
The recent catastrophic winter-weather event in Texas has highlighted the degree to which our national infrastructure (among other things) has fallen victim to the penny-wise and pound-foolish thinking that has dominated our national politics for the past 40 years. The…
Guest Op-Ed: Goodbye and Thank You, Boston
By Former Mayor Martin J. Walsh I left Boston City Hall for the final time as mayor. I packed up the last of the photos on my desk, say goodnight to the security guards as I’ve done a thousand times…
Violence Against the AAPI Community Must End
Prejudice, discrimination, and violence against members of the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community has existed ever since immigrants from China began to arrive in America in the 1850s. The first anti-immigration law in our nation’s history, the Chinese…