THANK YOU Dear Editor, The Friends of City Square Park would like to extend a thank you to the Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) and to State Representative Danny Ryan for helping connect the dots and move long-awaited improvements…
Category: Editorials
Congratulations, Class of 2026
High school graduation season is upon us, the time of year when communities across America celebrate the accomplishments of young people receiving their high school diplomas. Graduation is a bittersweet occasion, marking both an ending and a beginning. For the…
High Speed e-bikes Must be Regulated Like any Motor Vehicle
A bill proposed by Gov. Maura Healey, known as the Ride Safe Act, that would require an annual registration, liability insurance, and an official Massachusetts license plate for electric “bicycles” that are capable of exceeding 30 m.p.h. is long overdue.…
Let’s Eemember the True Meaning of Memorial Day
Memorial Day is the most solemn of our national holidays, commemorating the Supreme Sacrifice that has been made by an estimated one million of our fellow citizens, which now includes the 15 members of our military who have died in…
Enjoy the Weekend — Safely
Memorial Day weekend marks the traditional start of the summer season, bringing with it the anticipation of sunshine and warmth and of time spent with family and friends. But while we contemplate all of the good things that will occur…
Letters to the Editor
Thank you for honoring me To the Editor, To my friend Moe Gillen, president William Lordan, and the members of the Old Charlestown Schoolboys’ Association, thank you for honoring me with the George E. Murphy Fellowship Award this weekend. I’m…
Guest Op-Ed: Freedom is only Step One: The Best Holiday You’ve Never Heard of
By The Boston Synagogue Staff If you happened to walk through Beacon Hill last month, you likely heard the echoes of Passover—a holiday celebrated with grand Seders/dinners and stories of a dramatic escape from slavery. But in the Jewish calendar,…
The dumping of raw sewage has to be fixed
The “plan” recently announced by the Mass. Water Resources Authority (MWRA) that would continue to allow for raw sewage to be dumped into our watersheds in the Greater Boston area during periods of heavy rainfall is, in a word, unacceptable.…
Housing, health, hunger: This is why America is failing
Americans’ optimism about their future has sunk to an all-time low, according to a recent Gallup Poll (which was conducted, we might add, before the war with Iran had begun). Why the malaise when we have record-low unemployment and a…
At last, common sense regarding marijuana, psychedelics
The recent actions by the Trump administration to reschedule marijuana and certain psychedelics has brought a measure of common-sense to the regulation of these substances. Federal policy for more than 50 years has classified marijuana and psychedelics as Schedule I…