Imagine your employer locked you out of your job, stopped paying you and canceled health insurance for you and your family all as a way to send a message: When you get desperate enough you’ll come back with fewer benefits…
Category: Editorials
Dementia-Reporting Bill Will Help Us All
Gov. Charlie Baker signed into law a landmark bill this past week that has been hailed as a first-in-the-nation effort to require that medical professionals undergo training in the diagnosis, treatment, and care of patients with Alzheimer’s and other forms…
Townie Tidbits
CASTLE ISLAND BREWING TAKES BEER GARDEN TO CHARLESTOWN Castle Island Brewing Company has now opened a beer garden, which will run through the end of the summer over at Constitution Wharf in Charlestown. It had previously planned to open the…
Want Better Business? Invest in Public Transit
Earlier this year, an Amazon executive called officials in Detroit to explain why the city had fallen out of contention for the retail giant’s new headquarters. The main reason? The lack of investment in Detroit’s regional public transit. The city…
Summertime — and the Livin’ Is Easy
With this past week’s high temperatures and high humidity, those of us who work and live in air conditioned buildings have had a lot to be thankful for. Even a sojourn to the beach offers no relief from the heat,…
Townie Tidbits
ENGINE 50 CELEBRATES A CENTURY OF SERVICE TO CHARLESTOWN On Thursday, July 26, it was a red banner day for Engine 50 in Charlestown as folks gathered up by the Monument to honor Boston firefighters, Engine Co. 50 and…
A Tragedy That Affected All of Us
The news reports this weekend about the tragic motor vehicle accident that claimed the life of a 32-year-old Cape Cod man who had just become a new father — as he was returning home at night from the hospital after…
Hands-Free Driving Law Needed
Public safety advocates have been disappointed this week that the legislature has failed to adopt a bill in this legislative session that would ban the use of mobile electronic devices while operating a motor vehicle unless the devices are used…
Townie Tidbits
THE VIEW FROM THOMPSON SQUARE On this past Monday, I met up with Julie Hall is spearheaded today’s Engine 50 Birthday Party at at the Monument. Engine Company #50 has been in operation since July 26, 1918, at 9 a.m.…
Letters to the Editor
THANK YOU Dear Editor To Friends of Ryan “Duce” Morrissey Scholarship Fund and the Morrissey family, I would like to take this opportunity to thank you all for awarding me with your generous scholarship toward my education at Matignon High…