While on the subject of harmful chemicals and substances in our environment, we’d like to take the opportunity to thank Ward 1 Councillor Joanne McKenna for ensuring that the city’s ordinance banning the use of single-use styrofoam containers will go…
Category: Editorials
Letter to the Editor
Correcting Course on Cannabis Dear Editor, In Monday night’s council meeting it was encouraging to see what appears to be a change in perspective of councillors and the Council alike at the prospect of marijuana dispensaries in Revere. I last…
Too Many Guns = Too Many Shootings
The spectre of yet another lone-wolf gunman attempting another assasination of Donald Trump is shocking, but not surprising.Up until the past 50 years, assassinations of public figures in America were carried out by individuals with a political agenda –Abraham Lincoln…
How Can a State Police Trainee Die in a Boxing Ring?
The death last week of 25 year-old Mass. State Police (MSP) Trainee Enrique Delgado-Garcia in a boxing ring during a “training exercise” is, in a word, unfathomable.Mr. Delgado-Garcia was less than one month away from graduating and achieving his dream…
Letter to the Editor
What We are not Hearing about Revere High SchoolDear Editor,We are three weeks into our new school year and Revere High School has been the top story on the local news on several occasions. However, the notoriety is not one…
Thank you Mayor Keefe and Judge Bagdoian
We’d like to offer our thanks to Revere Mayor Patrick M. Keefe Jr. and Housing Court Judge Irene Bagdoian for the roles they have played thus far in ensuring that the tenants of the Water’s Edge high-rise at 364 Ocean Ave.…
Remembering 9/11
The replays on TV this week of the hijacked jets crashing into the twin towers still seem like a nightmare — did it really happen or was it all just a dream? But as much as we’d like to unwind the past, the…
Letter to the Editor
Hello From Fort Moore Dear Editor, I hope this message finds you well. As many of you know, my commitment to public service extends beyond my role as your state senator. It is with great pride and a sense of…
Guest Op-Ed: A milestone for Massachusetts housing: new solutions for a growing crisis
By Sen. Lydia Edwards On July 31st, the Massachusetts legislature passed a groundbreaking $5.2 billion housing bond bill. Less than a week later, Governor Maura Healey signed it into law, setting the stage for one of the most ambitious efforts…
Red Sox and Pats are Taking the Fans for Granted
For the third year in a row and fifth time in six years, the Red Sox appear doomed to fail to reach the playoffs, a stretch of futility that the Patriots promise to mimic almost precisely if they fall short…
The Hostages are Just Pawns
The brutal deaths this past week of six innocent civilian hostages who were taken captive by the Hamas terrorists on October 7 has shone a bright light on a simple reality: The hostages are nothing but pawns, if even that,…
Enjoy a Great — and Safe — Labor Day Weekend
Although the weatherman is not predicting a great Labor Day weekend (as we’re writing this, Saturday and Sunday are forecast for some showers), we hope that all of our readers will have a chance to make the most of the…
School’s Back — Drive with Care
With schools going back into session this week and next after the summer vacation, morning rush-hour commuters need to readjust our driving habits to ensure that we take into account the thousands of children who will be filling our streets…
Guest Op-Ed: Navigating Negotiations: Revere Schools’ Approach to Teacher Contracts and Community Needs
Dear Revere Community, As we welcome our students and staff back to Revere Public Schools, we are excited for a new year ahead of learning and joy. Just last week, we welcomed over 100 new teachers and staff members. We…
Thank You, Attorney General Campbell
We’d like to express our congratulations, and thanks, to Mass. Attorney General Andrea Campbell for her efforts in securing the recent landmark $600 million settlement with the major tobacco product companies. In addition to the $600 payment this year, the…
A Great Summer for the Garden
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…
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…
