For those of us who have been around for a while, the warning signs are flashing red for the prospects of a budget crisis for our state and our cities and towns thanks to the promised changes in policies by…
Category: Editorials
Guest Op-Ed: Regarding the lawsuit filed against Federal Government by the Cities of Chelsea and Somerville
By City Councilor Todd Taylor The cities of Chelsea and Somerville filed a lawsuit against the Trump Administration in response to its threats to cut funding to sanctuary cities. I strongly oppose this legal action because it puts Chelsea’s essential…
Letter to the Editor
National Economic Boycott To the Editor, The readers of the Chelsea Record and all local residents are invited to join the National Economic Boycott on Friday, February 28, 2025. People are urged not to make any purchases in stores or…
State Officials should Support Autonomous Vehicles ASAP
Last week in this space we expressed our view that legislation to allow communities to install speed-detecting cameras is ill-advised and not a great use of resources, although we suggested that red light cameras would be more efficacious for improving…
Traffic Speed Cameras are a Bad Idea — Red Lights are Better
As our regular readers know, when it comes to the issue of motor vehicle safety, we take a back seat (pun intended) to no one. However, we believe that the budget put forward by Gov. Maura Healey that would allow…
10 years ago, we were amidst Snowmageddon
Yes, time does fly, and for those of us who lived through the Snowmageddon, it’s hard to believe that 10 years have passed since we were in the middle of that epic winter season of 2015. Major snowstorms just kept rolling in,…
GLP-1 Weight-loss Drugs Should be Made Affordable for all Americans
The widespread acceptance of the so-called GLP-1 drugs, Zepbound by Eli Lilly and Wegovy by Novo Nordisk, for weight loss has created a game-changing dynamic for the overall health of the 72% of Americans who struggle with maintaining a healthy weight.…
We’re over the hump
The winter season generally is measured in two ways. There’s meteorological winter, the three months of December, January, and February. And then there is astronomical winter, which begins with the winter solstice on December 21 and ends with the spring solstice on March…
Our Remarkably Unremarkable Weather
When the National Weather Service made its long-range forecast for the winter last fall, it was a good news/bad news scenario. They were predicting warmer-than-normal temperatures for our region, which was the good news (after all, who likes cold weather),…
This is the SAD-dest Time of the Year – So Get Outside
With the holiday season long in the rear-view mirror and the oppressiveness of a New England winter fully upon us, for many this can be the saddest time of the year — quite literally. The medical community has long-recognized that…