By Maria Termini Countries around the world are wrestling with one of the worst public health crises of modern times, as the coronavirus continues on its ravaging course. Many have died, many are experiencing the painful effects of this disease,…
Category: Opinion
The Stock Market Does Not Represent the U.S. Economy
We don’t pretend to be experts either in the stock market or the economy in general. However, as Bob Dylan put it, “You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows,” and similarly, the average American doesn’t…
Letters to the Editor 06-26-2020
Thank you for the coverage To the Editor,Thank you very much for the broad coverage of the June 4 Vigil in Support of Black Lives Matter. The photos were exceptional. We do, however, want to clarify a couple items you…
Guest Op-Ed: None are protected from COVID-19 until are all protected
The apparent on-camera murder by slow asphyxiation of George Floyd drives ongoing protests throughout Massachusetts. Together with yet more shooting deaths of Black people in recent weeks, it highlights not only how acceptance of police violence against Black people was…
Covid-19 is a predator — and we are its prey
The media, politicians, and others have likened our ongoing battle with the corona virus as the equivalent of “going to war.” The doctors and nurses in the overburdened ERs in New York City, when its hospitals were being overwhelmed with…
Letters to the Editor 6-12-20
I stand with Rachel To the Editor: Recently, our elected District Attorney, Rachel Rollins, used her platform to demand systemic action in response to the newest wave of police brutality. Predictably, she was met with condemnation from the Boston Police…
Editorial 06-12-20: 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…
Letters to the Editor 5-22-2020
On Forest Hill Cemetery Dear Editor, I thought it was only me who was shocked, disappointed and frankly more than a bit miffed by what seemed to me a little mean-spirited of Forest Hills Cemetery’s all-of-a-sudden squishing visiting hours…
Memorial Day, 2020
This will be a Memorial Day unlike any that Americans have known. Ever since the official inception of the holiday on May 30, 1868, when the practice of decorating the graves of the fallen Union soldiers with flowers, wreaths, and…
This Sunday Is Mother’s Day
During this time of unprecedented upheaval because of the novel coronavirus pandemic, the rituals that most of us traditionally follow either have been eliminated or drastically changed because of the need to practice physical distancing. So too, the manner in which…