The MBTA is saying that services will remain intact, entirely without cuts, if fares can go up by 25%. At first blush, this sounds much better than Draconian cuts that would have affected all public transit users in Boston’s neighborhoods…
Category: Editorials
The Auditors Knew
The drubbing this city has taken because of Mike McLaughlin’s treachery is due the ineptitude, dereliction of duty or outright corruption of state auditors who knew McLaughlin was overpaying himself with funds he was not reporting. We are told the…
Senators Brown and Grassley Are Doing the Right Thing
The disgraced former executive director of the Chelsea Housing Authority Mike McLaughlin and the world of hurt he laid on the CHA are now under a microscope in Washington, DC where our Senator Scott Brown and Iowa Senator Charles Grassley…
Marguerite Donovan
The death of Marguerite Donovan brings sadness to those of us who knew her, and her late husband, John. Mrs. Donovan was a real personality, a character actually. When this city was turning around 30 years ago, she was one…
Kevin Murphy’s Chelsea Courthouse All About Compassion; Fair Play
District courts all over this state operate under the laws of the state of Massachusetts. Those laws allow them each to be harsh district courts; angry district courts; drab and inconsistent district courts; and district courts wracked by inside politicking,…
Mike McLaughlin Redux
Over and over again the city is continuing to have its eyes blackened by the greed inspired avarice and likely illegal doings of disgraced former Chelsea Housing Authority executive director Mike McLaughlin. Once again the Globe’s reporters have published a…
Shirley Rosenberg and Murray Band; Chelsea Loses Two Former Residents
With the deaths of Shirley Rosenberg and Murray Band, the city has lost two individuals whose names and deeds over a lifetime were alive in every way with the city of Chelsea. Mrs. Rosenberg was a member of the family…
Martin Luther King’s Birthday
Had he not been cut down by an assassin’s bullet in 1968, Martin Luther King would have been 83 this week. For those of us old enough to remember, MLK was in his prime when this nation was racially divided,…
What’s a CHS Receiver Worth for a Month
Perhaps the most interesting single thing about the Chelsea Housing Authority receiver’s first monthly report to the Supreme Judicial Court and the Attorney General is the bill for her services which was provided with it. Receiver Judith Webber has billed…
Fire Chief Robert Better Jr.
The appointment of Robert Better Jr. as Chelsea Fire Chief ensures that the CFD will remain one of the best fire departments in the state of Massachusetts. Heading up a fire department that faced the burning down of the city…