On a recent trip to Cal’s in the heart of the downtown to buy the newspaper and a lottery ticket, we passed by a Lynn police officer who was patrolling the area. There weren’t many people around. The downtown isn’t…
Category: Editorials
Storms More Potent?
One of the quick moving storms over the weekend took down tree limbs and branches throughout the city. Is it reasonable to conclude that the fast moving thunder and lightning storms this summer were more intense than any summer before?…
The Summer of Our Discontent
Where did the summer go ? What has happened to the economic recovery ? How did the easy and seemingly pleasant and uneventful spring devolve into the plunging stock market and volatile mix of bad economic news from around the…
Garelick Farms Lives Up to Promise
Nothing is flawless or perfect but the new anti-pollution odor mitigation system installed by Garelick Farms at its Lynnway milk producing operation has vastly reduced the odors that used to eminate from the plant. The Lynnway has been almost entirely…
DCR and the Beaches
The Department of Conservation and Recreation has done another outstanding job this summer of keeping the beaches clean and manicured and we’ve had another precious summer of our lives without the God awful stench that existed for a century before…
Regarding Our National Government and Our Fragile Financial Lives
There is a very real and compelling connection between our financial lives as individuals and families and that of the national government. In the modern age, we individuals are only as strong as our national government. If the national government…
Heat Wave is Over; Danger is Everywhere
Lynn is a beach city so when it gets hot, Lynn goes down to the beach. This is exactly what Lynners and everyone else did last week. It got so intensely hot that many of us were at a loss…
John Pace as Whistleblower;a Defense Without Cause
When John Pace was fired from his job a few weeks back following his abortive effort to fire the man who fired him, many people around Lynn City Hall thought they were done with Mr. Pace. But he has proven…
The U.S. Women’s Soccer Team
The loss to Japan by the U.S. women’s soccer team over the weekend was really hard to take. The US women were so, so good, and they seemed so destined for the World Cup, that it came as a terrible…
The Dead of Summer
It is the dead of summer, that moment in our lives and in the life of the summer when there is as much summer in front of us as behind us. For those of us who love the heat, who…