During the past ten years, the city of Revere has had a tremendous influx of new residents coming into the city. The population went up by over 5,000. These new residents have placed pressure on police, fire, educational and public…
Category: Editorials
Summer Arrives: Things are happening all around us
What is better than the summer arriving in a beach city like ours? We wait for it all winter. We wonder about it and what it will be like – and then it comes, and passes, just like that. Like…
Time to Move On: E-mail Controversy Underscores the Need to Focus on the Future of Revere
Two weeks ago, the Journal broke the story and brought to light the specifics about the alleged unethical use of the city’s web site and city owned computers by city employees. Candidate for Mayor George Rotondo deserves credit for bringing…
Sand Castles: Extravaganza is Great for the Beach, City
Those in charge with the city’s wildly popular Sand Castle exhibit have a tiger by the tail. This is an event that has all the elements of something that can be so much more. It is difficult to know exactly…
The Class of 2011: Congratulations to Revere High Grads
The Revere High School Class of 2011 will hold its graduation exercises tonight at Della Russo Stadium. It will be a night for the grads and their families to mark an important milestone in their lives and also to acknowledge…
The Bruins: Black and Gold Show a Lot of Fight
The Boston Bruins, their backs against the wall and their egos on the floor, stood tall Monday night in the TD Garden. Needing a win to make a series out of the Stanley Cup Finals, the Bruins delivered a proverbial…
A Real Loss: Mayor Ambrosino’s Outstanding Attributes
When Mayor Thomas Ambrosino leaves it will be a loss of the first order for this city. The city will be losing a self assured administrator who has made a positive mark on this city during the past decade. He…
Memorial Day 2011
For those who have lost a son or a daughter, a father or a mother, a dear friend or even a neighbor to the ravages of war, Memorial Day is a time to remember and to celebrate the lives of…
Misguided Intentions: Our Veterans Deserve a Better Stage
A recent effort by a city council candidate to have the city council offer a few moments of silence for our war dead before the beginning of every council meeting has caused some thought about the measure. The measure itself…
Rain, Rain, Rain: Some Spring, Eh?
It is bad and seems to be getting worse. The weather we are now experiencing reminds us too much of the spring and summer that never came 2 years ago. If you can’t remember the spring and summer 2 years…
Positive Presence: Renzo’s has Earned a Thumb’s Up
The city’s licensing board is apparently going to weigh and measure Renzo’s request to serve alcoholic beverages to people of age seated at tables and chairs that are located in a confined space on the sidewalk outside of the restaurant.…
A Healthy Choice Deleo’s Bill is the Way to G
It was arguably House Speaker Robert DeLeo’s finest hour last week when the House bill giving cities and towns the right to put their municipal employees into health insurance programs that reduces premiums paid for by the cities and towns…
Justice is Done – the Death of Osama Bin Laden
The assassination of Osama bin Laden by a team of brave and heroic Navy Seals in his Pakistani hideaway Sunday afternoon was justice being done almost ten years after the tragic 9/11 catastrophe. More than 3,000 innocents died that day…
The FBI in Revere – It Remains to be Seen What Visit Really Means
For quite some time – for well over a year – the FBI has been a constant visitor to Revere. There have been obvious, repeated FBI visits to Revere City Hall and to other locations in the city. At city…
A Good Idea – Drive-Through Proposal is Sound
The owner of Honey Dew Donuts has petitioned the city government for a drive-through for its location on Squire Road. Our observation of this request is that it doesn’t vary at all from what presently exists on at least a…
Bagel Bin
On Shirley Avenue, down at the Bagel Bin, the menu has changed and so too have the hours of operation. The restaurant has been entirely redone and it is looking and feeling more welcoming and comfortable than ever before. At…
Ocean Club Sold, Again
The Ocean Club property at the crescent of Revere Beach was sold at auction, again, last week for $1.7 million. This was the former property of developer Steve Fustolo, a great guy who came along just as the market was…
Big Meeting on Health Insurance
Revere was the host last Friday of a meeting of municipal and school leaders a well as community leaders who are calling on legislators to vote for Speaker of the House Robert DeLeo’s municipal health insurance reform proposal, which was…
Thank You Mr. Speaker
Speaker of the House Robert DeLeo has ordered his leadership to officially begin discussing an expanded gaming bill at the beginning of May. We applaud the speaker for beginning this important push. This comes as great news locally, as an…
City Clean-up Effort
It has been a long time since anyone in public office in this city has attempted to organize the city, by ward no less, for a city wide attack on trash. Yet this is exactly what Councillor Dan Rizzo is…