Thanks to our mild winter, this past spring season was the most glorious in many years in our area. The early profusion of daffodils and tulips was followed by a gorgeous display of flowering crabapple trees, magnolias, and dogwoods, as…
Category: Editorials
An Olympics to Remember
From the glorious opening ceremonies along the Seine River more than two weeks ago to Sunday’s closing and traditional pass-off of the Olympic flag to Los Angeles, the site of the 2028 Summer Olympics, the Paris Olympics were spectacular in…
Women are Making America Great
So here are some interesting facts from the Paris Olympics: Women accounted for more than 50 percent of the medals won by Team USA and two-thirds of our gold medals. If the US women were a separate country, American women…
Letter to the Editor
We need a change in Congress Dear Editor, We need to start electing more blue collar workers to the United States Congress. Our nation’s legislative bodies should represent the full spectrum of American society, and that includes the hardworking men…
Noah Lyles’ — and our — Olympic moment
The quadrennial Summer Olympics turns even the least of sports fans among us into active, if not rabid, rooters of the athletes who captivate our hearts and imaginations, both in sports with which we are familiar (basketball, soccer, gymnastics) and…
Guest Op-Ed: What could have been: Amendment #105 as changed to Bill H4876
By Chris Marchi with AIR, Inc. The basic idea is that all Americans have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, right? So it follows that if families living in areas near power plants, chemical factories, or…
Revere’s Real-life Twister was 10 Years Ago this Week
It was 10 years ago this week on Monday morning, July 28, that Revere made national news when a tornado touched down at Mill Creek and tracked up Broadway to Brown Circle, leaving a trail of destruction in its wake…
Congratulations, Boston Mayor Wu
We would like to offer our congratulations and best wishes to Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, who recently announced that she is expecting her third child in January. Mayor Wu has told the press that she does not plan on taking…
Guest Op-Ed: On Our State Budget
By Maura Healey I just signed a groundbreaking new budget for our state. This budget delivers on our shared priorities. It drives our state forward with urgency and purpose. Massachusetts is the best place in the world to live, work,…
Make the Most of the Rest of Summer
Sad to say, the summer of 2024 rapidly is coming to an end. We’ve passed the midpoint of what’s known as meteorological summer — the months of June, July, and August — and we now have less than six weeks…
We’re Back in the Game
A couple of weeks ago we wrote of how we were resigned to an election season featuring the same old faces — and we literally meant old faces — that almost nobody wanted. If you were among the 50 million…
Guest Op-Ed: President Biden Puts Country Over Self
By Juan Pablo Jaramillo The Biden-Harris administration has been the most pro-worker administration in the history of our country. President Biden has served our country diligently and has fought hard for working families. His decision to drop out of his…
Letter to Editor
Strength In Unity Dear Editor, In the aftermath of the attempted assassination of a former president and presidential candidate, our nation stands at a crucial crossroads. This tragic event is a stark reminder of the challenges we face and the…
The Revere Beach Sand Sculpting Festival is This Weekend
One of the biggest events of the summer season in the Greater Boston area will take place this weekend when the 20th annual Revere Beach International Sand Sculpting Festival, sponsored by the Revere Beach Partnership (RBP), will transform America’s oldest…
Putin: The Hitler of the 21st Century
The horrific bombing recently of Ukraine’s largest children’s hospital by Russia only adds to the genocidal atrocities being perpetrated upon the people of Ukraine at the direction of Vladimir Putin. The Russian assault on the hospital marked one of the…
Ready to Turn on, Tune in, Drop out
As newspaper people, by necessity we’re political junkies, whether at the local, state, or federal levels. When it comes to national news, we try to read as much as we can from reputable news sources to learn as much as…
Hurricane Beryl: A Harbinger of Things to Come?
By now we’ve all become aware of Hurricane Beryl, which left a trail of death and destruction in its wake during the past week stretching from the Southern Caribbean to Texas as it set records for the strongest-ever hurricane —…
Happy Fourth of July
With the Fourth of July falling on a Thursday this year, many of us will be enjoying an extra-long holiday weekend for which the weather hopefully will cooperate. The Fourth of July brings back fond recollections from our youth, when…
Enjoy a “Safe and Sane” Fourth
Back at the turn of the last century (i.e., 1900), newspapers exhorted their readers to observe a “safe and sane” Fourth of July. That’s because in communities big and small all across America, the founding of our nation had become…
Three Years Ago This Week, Racial Hatred Came to Our Area
It was three years ago this week when an unspeakable act of violence, motivated by racial hatred, befell the peaceful seaside community of Winthrop. The tranquility of a typical, early-summer Saturday afternoon was shattered when a 28 year-old white man,…
