Alarming new survey reveals how high MBTA fares are harming riders Dear Editor, On the heels of Governor Healey pledging to fund a permanent low-income fare for the MBTA in her FY25 budget, a groundbreaking survey of riders finds that they forgo…
Category: Opinion
Op-Ed: A little bit of kindness to protect Mass. parklands and foster community
By Brian Arrigo Just under a year ago, I had the honor of being appointed to lead the Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR), the state’s largest landowner and steward of roughly half a million acres across Massachusetts. It’s been…
Zuckerberg, et al: The worst of the worst
Last week’s dramatic hearing in the U.S. Senate, in which the heads of a number of social media companies testified in front of a gallery that was filled with parents who lost children because of the pernicious effects of social…
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Never Gave Up
For those of a certain age, it is hard to imagine that 2024 will mark 56 years since the assassination of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Memphis while he was standing on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel…
Merry Christmas
This is the most wonderful time of the year, to paraphrase the popular song, with holiday music playing in the malls and on our car radios, resurrecting our earliest childhood memories of Christmases-past. We choose just the right tree, decorate…
Op-Ed: Why preventing Diabetes should be a priority at all ages
By Dr. Donna O’Shea More than 96 million Americans, or 1 in 3 adults, live with a potentially life-altering condition – yet many of them are unaware they even have it. That condition is prediabetes, which in up to 70%…
Op-Ed: Bay Staters deserve opportunities to build a better financial future
By State Reps. Jeffrey Rosario Turco and Francisco E. Paulino Whether you grew up in Boston, Brighton, Jamaica Plain, Revere, Winthrop, Lawrence, every community in the Commonwealth values kitchen-table issues; an honest day’s work, safe streets, affordable homes, good schools,…
Pearl Harbor was 82 years agobut has lessons for us today
It was 82 years ago this week that the nation of Japan launched its attack on the United States at the Pearl Harbor Naval base in Hawaii on December 7, 1941. The very next day, President Franklin D. Roosevelt convened…
Who benefits from aggression
Dear Readers, As Jews, Buddhists, Muslims, Christians, and Atheists, we mourn the thousands of people who have been killed in Gaza by Israeli forces. We also grieve for those Israelis who were killed in the Hamas-led attack on October 7, 2023.…
Remembering President John F. Kennedy
The assassination of President John F. Kennedy 60 years ago seared an indelible imprint into the memory of every American who was alive at that time. Just as the Japanese sneak attack on Pearl Harbor on December 5, 1941, had…