By Jack Clarke Among the hundreds of thousands of federal employees furloughed during the record-setting partial government shutdown, were those responsible for tracking pollution, safety hazards, and other threats to the American people’s health, safety, and welfare. EPA was missing…
Category: Editorials
Immigrants Are Our Future
It is an undeniable fact of history that all Americans other than Native Americans are descendants of immigrants. It also is undeniably true that immigrants have not always been welcome with open arms, starting most conspicuously with the Know-Nothing Party…
Thank You, Bob Deleo
It’s hard to believe that it has been 10 years since Winthrop/Revere State Rep. Bob DeLeo was elected the Speaker of the House by his colleagues. (Yes, time flies.) We wish to make note of the 10th anniversary of Speaker…
Thank You, Jay Ash
When Governor Charlie Baker was elected to his first term of office four years ago, his first major announcement was the appointment of Jay Ash to the post of Secretary of Housing and Economic Development. The announcement by Gov. Baker,…
What Would Dr. Martin Luther King Think?
When one considers that it has been almost 51 years since Dr. Martin Luther King was assassinated, it is easy to understand why so many of our fellow Americans today have so little understanding of who he was and what…
Charlie Baker is Not an ‘Enigma’
A story this past week on the eve of Gov. Charlie Baker’s State of the State address in the Boston Globe stated that although Gov. Charlie Baker is the most popular governor in the country (he has an approval rating…
So Far….So Good
With the rush and hub-bub of the holiday season now over, we’ll all be settling in for another long New England winter. Up to this point, we have been fortunate. We have yet to feel the wrath of any truly…
Have a Happy, Safe — and Mindful — New Year
The arrival of a new year marks a time for reflection, as to both the year that has passed and the year that lies ahead. In the words of the poet Alfred Lord Tennyson: Ring out the old, ring…
Enjoy the Holidays — Safely
Christmas this year is part of what for many people will be a four-day weekend, which means that for many of us, we will be indulging in the “Christmas spirit” early and often. By no means do we wish to…
Enjoy the Holiday Season
This is a wonderful time of the year, to paraphrase the song, with holiday music playing in the malls and on our car radios, resurrecting our earliest childhood memories — even for the younger set — of Christmases-past. We choose…