Among the side-effects of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has been the increase in drug-overdose deaths in this country. The death rate from opioids finally had begun to decline in 2019, but then came COVID-19 and the number of deaths from…
Category: Editorials
Omicron Can Lead to Long COVID
Public health officials have defined so-called long COVID as the physical, neurological, and cognitive symptoms that can persist indefinitely after infection. Over the past two years, we’ve all seen the countless news stories about the devastating effects of long COVID…
Guest Op-Ed: The 3Gpocalypse Is Coming — Is Your Car Ready?
By Kane DiMasso-Scott Just this week I heard about something that I’m surprised has not received more media coverage on the national level, as it’s extremely important to us as consumers. Beginning in February and continuing through the end of…
Mayor Michelle Wu: Grace Under Pressure
The job of mayor of a large American city never has been easy, but these days the challenges facing our public officials who lead our major metropolitan areas are greater than ever. The COVID-19 pandemic has created a confluence of…
Something Else to Worry About
We were driving on the Expressway the other day and we heard on the radio that the Florida orange crop will be at its lowest output since the 1940s. “What? The 1940s?!?” we thought to ourselves. The point of the…
We Must Never Forget The Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
As we were watching the recent coverage by the media of the events of a year ago on January 6, we were struck by the contrast between the Trump Mob’s violent storming of the Capitol and the many peaceful marches…
Guest Op-Ed: The Way to Combat the Horror of Jan. 6, Is to Abolish the Filibuster
By Assistant Speaker Katherine Clark (MA-5) In 1787, upon exiting the Constitutional Convention, Benjamin Franklin was approached by a group of people who asked him what kind of government the delegates had created. His answer: “A republic, if you can…
Thank You and Best of Luck, Fidel Maltez
Bad news for Chelsea and good news for the Town of Reading came this week with the announcement that Chelsea DPW Commissioner Fidel Maltez is leaving our city to become the Town Manager of Reading. Fidel has done a tremendous…
If COVID-19 Has a Brain, It’s Much Smarter Than Us
We don’t pretend to be experts in biology — and maybe we’ve been watching too many science fiction movies these days — but the ability of the COVID-19 virus to mutate (or shape-shift, in the lingo of sci-fi fans) in…
On the Bright Side…..
The lengthening of the daylight hours is imperceptible at first. The least amount of daylight occurred on December 22, clocking in at nine hours, seven minutes. But by the end of this week, January 8, we’ll have nine hours and…