The tragic death of a 62 year-old bicyclist last week on Memorial Drive has highlighted the lack of safety on our roadways for even experienced cyclists. We ourselves know first-hand how dangerous Metro Boston’s roads can be. We train for…
Category: Opinion
Guest Op-Ed: A milestone for Massachusetts housing: new solutions for a growing crisis
By Sen. Lydia Edwards On July 31, the Massachusetts legislature passed a groundbreaking $5.2 billion housing bond bill. Less than a week later, Governor Maura Healey signed it into law, setting the stage for one of the most ambitious efforts…
Red Sox and Pats are Taking the Fans for Granted
For the third year in a row and fifth time in six years, the Red Sox appear doomed to fail to reach the playoffs, a stretch of futility that the Patriots promise to mimic almost precisely if they fall short…
The Hostages are Just Pawns
The brutal deaths this past week of six innocent civilian hostages who were taken captive by the Hamas terrorists on October 7 has shone a bright light on a simple reality: The hostages are nothing but pawns, if even that,…
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…
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…
Op-Ed: On our State Budget
By Maura Healey I signed a groundbreaking new budget for our state. This budget delivers on our shared priorities. It drives our state forward with urgency and purpose. Massachusetts is the best place in the world to…
Op-Ed: How would you spend the city’s money?
By Renato Castelo How would you spend $2 million of the city’s money to benefit your community? That’s the question we’re asking Boston residents as the City heads into its first-ever city-wide Participatory Budgeting process this July. But…
Happy Fourth of July Weekend
With the Fourth of July falling on a Thursday this year, many of us will be enjoying an extra-long holiday weekend for which the weather hopefully will cooperate. The Fourth of July brings back fond recollections from our youth, when…
Enjoy a ‘Safe and Sane’ Fourth
Back at the turn of the last century (i.e., 1900), newspapers exhorted their readers to observe a “safe and sane” Fourth of July. That’s because in communities big and small all across America, the founding of our nation had become…