Divided, fractured, segmented, split, polarized… we don’t need to wait long these days to hear someone using one of those words to describe this country. “More divided than ever,” is a common expression. Hot issues that separate people headline today’s…
Category: Opinion
Letter to the Editor 1-28-22
A good outcome is possible To the Editor, On December 3, the Gazette ran an article, “Local Business Worried about its Future,” about 21st Century Foods’ distress at the Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Development Corporation’s (JPNDC) decision to relocate them in order to create…
Op-Ed: The 3Gpocalypse is coming — Is your car ready?
By Kane DiMasso-Scott Just this week I heard about something that I’m surprised has not received more media coverage on the national level, as it’s extremely important to us as consumers. Beginning in February and continuing through the end of…
Safe injection sites are needed now
Among the side-effects of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has been the increase in drug-overdose deaths in this country. The death rate from opioids finally had begun to decline in 2019, but then came COVID-19 and the number of deaths from…
Letter to the Editor 1-14-22
Gnashing my teeth Dear Editor, I hold my breath every time I read a ‘special editorial’ by former JP Gazette Editor Sandra Story – wondering whether I will cheer or gnash my teeth. I am gnashing today at her claim…
Op-Ed: Our kids need sports, I will stand up for our BPS kids!
By Erin Murphy Boston Public School parents were disappointed when some of them noticed the small blurb, only two sentences long, buried at the bottom of the newsletter this week saying that they have made the decision to continue the…
Op-Ed: Pressley’s statement on anniversary of January 6 insurrection
Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (MA-07) issued the following statement on the anniversary of the January 6 insurrection. “One year ago, the nation watched in absolute horror as a violent, white supremacist mob—incited by Donald Trump and Republican lawmakers’ hateful rhetoric and…
We must never forget the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
As we were watching the recent coverage by the media of the events of a year ago on January 6, we were struck by the contrast between the Trump Mob’s violent storming of the Capitol and the many peaceful marches…
Editorials 12-17-21
‘Tis the season for giving — and never has the need been more urgent “It was the best of times; it was the worst of times.” — Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities. With Christmas fast approaching, most…
Guest Op-Ed: Somehow, some way, may this be a Christmas worth remembering
By Dr. Glenn Mollette We had difficulties when we were growing up in Martin county, Kentucky but overall, we thought we were doing okay. President Lyndon Johnson came to Inez, Kentucky in 1964 to let us know we weren’t…