By DA Rachael Rollins (The following statement is in regard to the release of a convicted sex offender and rapist in Dorchester through the efforts of the Massachusetts Bail Fund in July. The DA’s office has brought charges against the…
Category: Editorials
Guest Op-Ed: School Reopening Plans
By Thomas Scott and Robert N. Baldwin, Massachusetts Association of School Superintendents (MASS) Across the Commonwealth, school districts are beginning to announce their plans for the start of the 2020-2021 school year. Some communities are choosing not to reopen school…
Letters to the Editor
Supports Ed Markey Dear Editor, As we get closer to Massachusetts’s Democratic Senate primary, we must consider what is on the line for Revere. The last few, trying months, our country and community have gone through make one fact clear:…
America Is Circling the Drain
On January 30 — what seems like a lifetime ago — the World Health Organization declared that COVID-19 was a world-wide pandemic. On that same fateful date, the United States’ Centers for Disease Control issued a press release that stated as follows:…
Car Repossessions are on the Rise
Although most of the attention of the financial crisis brought about by the coronavirus pandemic has focused on the evictions and foreclosures facing millions of out-of-work Americans, the number of repossessions of motor vehicles because of loan defaults is starting to…
Guest Op-Ed: Social Responsibility on a Sunday Afternoon
By Jessica Ann Giannino Sunday afternoon started out as a beautiful summer day on the North Shore. Just before 2PM things took a turn as East Saugus became cloaked in toxic smoke. As terrified residents turned to social media for…
Guest Op-Ed: To Thwart Polluters, We Need Better Policies
By Joe Gravellese, Candidate for State Representative The hazards of living near heavy polluters in our district – from Logan Airport to our south, to the Wheelabrator incinerator in Saugus, to the emissions from trucks and tailpipes that impact Chelsea…
Guest Op-Ed: How Can We Come Together to Work on a Solution, With an Inclusive Approach to Unite Revere
By Patrick Keefe Where do we go from here? We can continue down the same path of social media and talking around each other tearing one and another down, or we can work together on a solution. The hardest way…
Letter to the Editor
Refrain from Ticketing Dear Editor, With Revere COVID-19 cases on the rise and the state of Massachusetts leading the nation in employment at 17.4% as reported last month, our community is experiencing a very challenging time. Adding to these challenges…
Waiting for the Big One
As we are writing this, we are awaiting the arrival of Hurricane Isaias, which is the earliest-ever ninth named storm of a hurricane season. Although Isaias was a weak Category 1 hurricane when it made landfall in the Carolinas and…
Deaths Are Only Part of the COVID Story
Whether the subject is drunk driving, gun violence, or COVID-19, the headline that grabs our attention always is the death toll, of which there tragically have been more than 150,000 of our fellow Americans from COVID-19. However, what often goes unreported are the…
Letter to the Editor
Actions Speak Louder than Words Dear Editor The rejection by the City Council of Dimple Rana’s appointment to the future Human rights Commission is a discomfiting chapter in Mayor Arrigo’s recent attempt to address the needs of all members of…
Guest Op-Ed: Investing in Small Businesses, During and after the Crisis
By Joe Gravellese, candidate for State Representative Small businesses are the backbone of any community. A just and equitable revitalization of areas like Revere Beach, Route 1 Saugus, and downtown Chelsea requires strong, locally-owned businesses, which not only add economic…
Guest Op-Ed: Human Rights Commission Was Wronged
By Steven Morabito A Human Rights Commission’s purpose is to promote basic human rights and to also review and investigate complaints of discrimination and violation against basic human rights. These Human Rights are inherent to all people, no matter their…
Guest Op-Ed: Looking at the Research on Human Rights Commissions
By Dimple Rana At the July 27 City Council Appointment sub-committee meeting, Councillor Councillor Gerry Visconti repeated several times that there are 21 Human Rights Commissions in the state and of the seven boards that have executive directors, six are…
More than $1 Trillion Is Needed
We’re all familiar with the phrase, “A day late and a dollar short.†What brought that to mind this week was the announcement by the Republicans in Washington of their $1 trillion economic pandemic plan that would supplement the $3 trillion…
Schools Must Be Safe to Reopen
We will be the first to concede that we do not know what exactly must be done in order to reopen our state’s public schools safely in the face of the pandemic. However, what we do know is that a large…
Letters to the Editor
I Am Disappointed in the Actions Dear Editor: The actions taken on Monday night by the Revere City Council was, without question, the clearest example I’ve ever seen of that old adage that the only thing necessary for the triumph…
Guest Op-Ed: Defend, Don’t Defund the Police
A bad idea has taken hold in the wake of the rallies protesting the brutal murder of George Floyd at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer. Defund the Police is the rallying cry for this radical response. We’ve seen…
Change Military Base Names Immediately
If you’re like us, then it truly has been a revelation in these past few weeks to learn that U.S. military installations throughout the South were named in “honor†of Confederate heroes in the Civil War. Whenever we would hear…
