Boston Mayor Thomas Menino does not want to allow tankers from Yemen carrying enormous amounts of LNG to pass through Boston Harbor on its way to a dockage in Everett. City Manager Jay Ash has joined Mayor Menino, the belief…
Category: Editorials
Ashley Rodriguez
There are some kids growing up in this city who are winners from the time they are very young and who will always rise to the top of whatever it is they are seeking for themselves. Such a young woman…
Senator Galluccio’s fall
He was a man who had come to be a senator and who was serving with distinction but was unable to control or to confront the demons residing inside. One of the terrible things about what is inside us, is…
Happy New Year
There is no way to know what awaits us before it happens – and so – we watch the coming of 2010 with great interest and hope. The hope is for a healthy, prosperous New Year. The interest is in…
Something has to give with city paid health insurance
Municipal employees here and everywhere spend lifetimes building up pensions. Part of the promise of working for the city besides one’s pension has been cheap health insurance largely paid for by the city. However, the days of cheap health insurance…
Fighting for the People
When an attempt was made recently by the city council to change the Minimum Residential Tax Factor in order to favor commercial property interests over residential properties, Councilors Stan Troisi, Mike MeKonnen, Roseanne Bongiovanni, Deborah Washington, Brian Hatleberg and Ron…
Chelsea for Capuano
Chelsea voters can be proud of the vote they gave to our Congressman Mike Capuano. He won here, but lost nearly everywhere else. During concession remarks made at the Fairmont-Copley Plaza Tuesday night, Capuano said he was humbled by the…
Congratulations to AG Coakley
Martha Coakley is one small step away from becoming Senator Edward Kennedy’s successor in the United States Senate. The Republicans don’t have the numbers to defeat her in the final election. So the primary was actually the real deal for…
Thanksgiving 2009
This time last year, the national economy was preparing for collapse. The economy’s beginning of the end, or as Churchill once said, the end of the beginning, came into full force in and around Thanksgiving 2008. Yet we all sat…
Veterans Day 2009
Veterans Day has come and gone – and with it – the remembrances all of us have of those who served and gave their lives and of those now serving and willing to die. Since the time of the Revolutionary…