The ocean temperature barely has reached 60 degrees in Boston Harbor and vicinity, but the warnings on our beaches have confirmed what the beachcombers among us have known for a week or so — the dreaded jellyfish have arrived. According to…
Category: Editorials
Guest Op-Ed: The Moment Is Now for Big, Structural Change
By Joe Gravellese, Candidate for State Representative Back on February 28 – which feels like a lifetime ago – I was quoted for the first time in the Chelsea Record about my interest in the State Representative race. At the…
“Defund” the Police? Not so Fast
Racism, from subtle to overt, has existed at every level of American society since our nation’s inception. It was embedded in our Constitution by our Founding Fathers, many of whom were slave owners, who declared that slaves should be counted…
Guest Op-ed: Police Brutality in 21st Century America
By Kenneth Umemba We condemn in strong terms the police brutality on African Americans, people of color, and peaceful protesters. Police Departments in the country have turned into agents of oppression and suppression, by turning around to hunt the citizens…
Letters to the Editor
Boston Building Trades Unions: We Fight for Black Lives, because Black Lives Matter To the Editor: The recent heinous murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery are unconscionable and unacceptable, and demonstrate, again, the brutal, institutionalized racism within…
Most of the Protesters Are Not Looters
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government…
Guest Op-Ed: We Can’t be Silent
By Leo Robinson This has been happening for too long. I look back to 1968, the presidential convention, the uprising where four students were killed at Kent State, the MLK assassination on my birthday, Robert Kennedy killed the day before…
Guest Op-Ed: Tough Conversations
By Damali Vidot In recent months, our lives have changed significantly. Canceled events, learning/teaching and working from home, lay-offs, masks covering the warm smiles that once greeted us and the fear of illness or loss have lingered on our minds…
Letters to the Editor
Embarrassment to the Movement To the Editor, Loud, even disruptive, protests honor the memory of George Floyd and increase the pressure for swift, transparent accountability for those who killed him. I commend those who protested loudly, yet peacefully. But stealing…
Americans Will Survive Without Bacon Double-Cheeseburgers
The decision of the federal government to invoke the Defense Production Act to order meat-processing plants to reopen raises a number of issues about the use of the act for this purpose. First and foremost, the order ignores the reality…