When a small gang of extreme Republicans undertook the ouster of former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy last year, we wrote at the time that the refusal of Democrats to aid in keeping McCarthy in his seat was foolhardy. Despite the…
Category: Editorials
Democratic Leaders Need To Tell Biden To Step Aside
It has become increasingly obvious that President Joe Biden is spiraling faster-and-faster downhill, both physically and mentally. He can barely string together two sentences — not even from a teleprompter — and if he answers questions off-the-cuff (which he seldomly…
Ol’ Man Winter Is No Match for Climate Change
The record-high temperatures and beautiful weather this past weekend and Monday may have lulled us into thinking that the worst of winter was behind us. But Ol’ Man Winter gave us a head-fake worthy of Patrick Mahomes by bringing our…
Pats Fans, on the Outside Looking In
The Super Bowl has become our biggest national holiday. There is no other event that even comes close to grabbing the attention of just about every American, even more so this year with the addition of Taylor Swift into the…
Letter to the Editor
The Short-Changing of Charlestown To the Editor, As Mayor Wu delivered her State of the City address recently, my hope was that the City of Boston is in a good place. Mayor Wu spoke of many new initiatives, programs, and…
Zuckerberg, Et Al: The Worst of the Worst
Last week’s dramatic hearing in the U.S. Senate, in which the heads of a number of social media companies testified in front of a gallery that was filled with parents who lost children because of the pernicious effects of social…
…And Those On-Line Sports Betting Companies Are Not Far Behind…
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…
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…