For those of a certain age, it is hard to imagine that 2026 will mark 58 years since the assassination of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Memphis while he was standing on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel…
Category: Editorials
Still time to get flu shots for yourself and your children
An estimated 7400 Americans already have died from the flu this season. Although most deaths occur among senior citizens, young children are the next most-vulnerable group. The tragedy is that almost all of these deaths would have been preventable if…
Thank you, Stranger Things
The long-awaited conclusion of the hit Netflix series, Stranger Things, finally arrived over the holiday week. It’s hard to believe that it has been more than nine years since the show became a cultural phenomenon when the first season debuted…
Letter to the Editor 1-7-26
A NEW YEARS MESSAGE FROM THE MAYOR Dear Editor, Residents, Family, Friends and Neighbors, As we welcome 2026, I want to wish you and your loved ones a safe, prosperous, and healthy New Year. The start of a new year…
Happy New Year
It’s hard to believe that another year has passed and that 2026 is here — and that we now are entering the second quarter of the 21st century. For those of us who ourselves are close to three-quarters of a…
Merry Christmas
This is the most wonderful time of the year, to paraphrase the popular song, with holiday music playing in the malls and on our car radios, resurrecting our earliest childhood memories of Christmases-past. We choose just the right tree, decorate…
The Mass Shooting in Australia: Shocking, but Sadly, not Surprising
This past weekend’s tragic shooting in Australia at a Hanukkah festival once again has demonstrated to the world the pernicious and evil effects of anit-semitism, which is the world’s oldest form of prejudice. Anti-semitism may have reached its peak with…
A Long, Hard Winter Lies Ahead
We didn’t need a weatherman to tell us that the first part of December has been unusually cold. So it was not at all surprising when we recently read that this has been the coldest start to December in our…
Letter to the Editor
A Big BIC Thank You and the Launch of the “Kindness Cabinet” Dear Editor, The Beachmont Improvement Committee (BIC) has debuted its first-ever “Kindness Cabinet,” a new community initiative developed by BIC members Megan and Jason Simmons Herrling to provide…
The MAHA moms are Right about Toxic Waste
As our regular readers know, we have been highly-critical of the so-called Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement led by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the least qualified and least knowledgeable person ever to lead the Department of Health and Human…
Happy Hanukkah
The eight-day observance of Hanukkah, also known as the Festival of Lights, starts this Sunday evening, December 14, and will culminate on Monday, December 22. Hanukkah is observed for eight nights and days by lighting the candles of the Menorah,…
Remember those in Need on Your Holiday Shopping List
Americans already have been spending a record amount of money thus far this holiday season, spurred on by the extended “Black Friday” (we are using quotes because Black Friday sales began in early November), Small Business Saturday, and Cyber Monday…
Trump Delivers on GLP-1 Drugs
Back in January, we wrote an editorial entitled, “GLP-1 weight-loss drugs should be made affordable for all Americans.” We pointed out that the U.S. ranks among the most obese nations in the world — an astounding 72 percent of Americans…
Letter to the Editor 11-26-25
Impressed by the Board of Public Health Dear Editor, I am writing to recognize the wonderful, hardworking, brilliant women of the Board of Public Health. I recently had the absolute pleasure of volunteering with these lovely ladies and was…
Happy Thanksgiving
Although a Harris poll a few years back revealed that Christmas is the favorite holiday of the year among all age groups of Americans, we think that Thanksgiving, our uniquely American holiday, has much more to recommend it than Christmas.…
Young Men are Paying the Price for Casinos on Our Cell Phones
The evidence is clear that the rush by many state legislatures, including Massachusetts, to buy into the sports-gambling craze has had a hugely negative impact upon one group in particular — young men. When the Supreme Court struck down the…
A Victory for Marriage Equality
Advocates of marriage equality breathed a sigh of relief last week when the U.S. Supreme Court refused to take up a request that it consider overturning its 2015 landmark decision, Obergefell v. Hodges, in which the court ruled that the…
The Stark Message of a House of Dynamite
More than 40 years ago, a made-for-TV movie, The Day After, shocked Americans of all ages. We were among the 100 million of our fellow Americans in nearly 39 million households (about 62% of the viewing public that night) who…
The Shutdown Made No Sense
As we are writing this earlier in the week, it would appear that the government shutdown is about to end after almost six weeks. Enough Democratic senators joined with Republicans in the Senate to achieve the 60-vote threshold necessary to…
Letters to the Editor
On the SNAP Shutdown Dear Editor, As consequence of the Federal government shutdown, more than ten thousand of our neighbors, friends, and family members in Revere are facing imminent food insecurity when SNAP benefits are suspended on Saturday, November 1,…
