In the mid-1990s, our newspaper group was honored in consecutive years by the Massachusetts branch of the American Cancer Society for our reporting and editorials regarding the regulation of tobacco products in our local communities. We wrote about every aspect…
Category: Editorials
Guest Op-ed Resiliency in Action
By Tim McKenna Earlier this month we came together to witness the 123rd running of the Boston Marathon, an event that Mayor Walsh reminded us is a continuing symbol of the city’s resilience. Resilience is a theme called upon several…
Letters to the Editor
Consider adopting older dogs Dear Editor: Hello, My name is Carina Fujimoto and I am a sixth grader at The Learning Project Elementary School. I have two dogs. One of them is an Italian Greyhound named Carmine. He is 7-years…
Support Senator Markey’s Effort to Ban Robocalls
Robocalls are the new plague of the digital and cell phone era. According to some estimates, Americans received 48 billion robocalls last year, up from 30 billion in 2017. It used to be that only a person’s land line would…
Will April Showers Bring May Flowers?
As Bob Dylan noted, ‘you don’t need a weatherman to tell you which way the wind is blowing’. Similarly, we have not needed a weatherman to tell us that this has been a particularly rainy April. However, we learned this…
Guest Op-ed: Fighting the Opioid Epidemic with Care and Data
By Alexander Acosta A little more than a year ago, I had the opportunity to visit Maryhaven treatment facility in Columbus, Ohio to hear from those recovering from the effects of addiction. The visit was an impactful one. I met…
Letters to the Editor
Working Together To the Editor, Thank you for your good article “CNC Calls for Respect from City Leaders; Needs Interest from the Community” (April 5) and for printing Boston Planning and Development Agency (BPDA) Director Golden’s letter in response. The Little Mystic…
Townie Tidbits
Gerry Doherty Getting Award The Friends of the Charlestown Branch Library will be honoring author, politician and political advisor Gerry Doherty with its 2019 Friend of the Year Award on Thursday, May 16, at 6 p.m. at the library. Doherty…
The Curse of Social Media and the Internet
In the aftermath of the terrible coordinated attacks by suicide bombers on Easter Sunday in Sri Lanka that killed more than 300 people and wounded about 500 in churches and hotels across the small nation, the Sri Lankan government took…
Guest Op-Eed Grassley-Klobuchar Ushers in Dangerous Counterfeit Drugs
Sally C. Pipes Congress is poised to consider a bill that would allow Americans to import prescription drugs from Canada. The bill’s authors — Sens. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and Chuck Grassley (R-IA) — label their effort as a bipartisan push…