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…
Category: Editorials
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,…
Give Thanks to Our Veterans
This coming Tuesday, November 11, our nation will celebrate the 107th observance of Veterans Day, a day of solemnity and reverence that honors those who have served in our nation’s military. Veteran’s Day initially was known as Armistice Day when…
A Great Day at Revere Beach
We’d like to tip our caps to the Revere Beach Partnership for once again conducting an outstanding Pumpkin Dash 5K Road Race along Revere Beach Boulevard on what was a beautiful Saturday morning on October 18. The race, which also…
Get Out and Vote on Tuesday
Many of us view local government in the same way that we think about the weather: Everybody complains about it, but nobody does anything about it. However, unlike the weather, there actually is something we can do about the future…
It’s Halloween Season — Enjoy it Safely!
With the Halloween season reaching its peak this week — Halloween itself is this Friday — we urge all of our readers to enjoy the festivities in a safe and responsible manner. Halloween has come a long way since we…
Guest Op-Ed: President George Washington’s little Known Brief Journey through Revere in 1789
By John J. Henry Two hundred and thirty-six years ago, in 1789,the Town of Chelsea, (now Chelsea, Revere and Winthrop), had a total population of 472 residents, with a majority of the population living in the Revere section of the…
Letters to the Editor
Answering the Call to Serve Ward 4 Families Dear Editor, With the recent change in Massachusetts law, Revere now has local ward representation on the School Committee, just like the City Council. That means every neighborhood will finally have a…