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…
Category: Editorials
Guest Op-Ed: What Could Have Been: Amendment #105 as Changed to Bill H4876
By Chris Marchi with AIR, Inc. The basic idea is that all Americans have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, right? So it follows that if families living in areas near power plants, chemical factories, or…
A Real-life Twister Struck Revere 10 Years Ago this Week
It was 10 years ago this week on Monday morning, July 28, that the neighboring community of Revere made national news when a tornado touched down at Mill Creek at the Chelsea line and tracked up Broadway to Brown Circle,…
Congratulations, Mayor Wu
We would like to offer our congratulations and best wishes to Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, who recently announced that she is expecting her third child in January. Mayor Wu has told the press that she does not plan on taking…
Make the most of the rest of summer
Sad to say, the summer of 2024 rapidly is coming to an end. We’ve passed the midpoint of what’s known as meteorological summer — the months of June, July, and August — and we now have less than six weeks…
We’re back in the game
A couple of weeks ago we wrote of how we were resigned to an election season featuring the same old faces — and we literally meant old faces — that almost nobody wanted. If you were among the 50 million…
Putin: The Hitler of the 21st Century
The horrific bombing recently of Ukraine’s largest children’s hospital by Russia only adds to the genocidal atrocities being perpetrated upon the people of Ukraine at the direction of Vladimir Putin. The Russian assault on the hospital marked one of the…
The Revere Beach Sand Sculpting Festival is this Weekend
One of the biggest events of the summer season in the Greater Boston area will take place this weekend when the 20th annual Revere Beach International Sand Sculpting Festival, sponsored by the Revere Beach Partnership (RBP), will transform America’s oldest…
Hurricane Beryl: A Harbinger of Things to Come?
By now we’ve all become aware of Hurricane Beryl, which left a trail of death and destruction in its wake during the past week stretching from the Southern Caribbean to Texas as it set records for the strongest-ever hurricane —…
Ready to Turn on, Tune in, Drop out
As newspaper people, by necessity we’re political junkies, whether at the local, state, or federal levels. When it comes to national news, we try to read as much as we can from reputable news sources to learn as much as…