A great deal of media has been generated because the former governor of California and one of Hollywood’s great movie stars has admitted to fathering a son out of wedlock. By doing so, this has caused his wife Maria Shriver…
Category: Editorials
A Week of Rain is Forecast
The weekend was about gray skies and rain. Monday came up gray and rainy. The weathermen and women on Boston’s major television stations are all predicting a week of gray and rain at a time when all of us want…
Pension Funding not Up to Par
The city of Lynn has unfunded pension obligations of almost $451 million for 2,020 retired employees and 1497 current employees. This is not new news. It is the same old news and quite likely, nothing will be done about it.…
Lynn Showing its Colors, again
In the entire state of Massachusetts there are 1700 public school buildings. A recent study conducted by the state of all those buildings found 23 in the dead on arrival category. Two of those are located in the area –…
A Sunday to Remember
By all accounts, Sunday was a lovely spring day. A bit cool with a sea breeze all day – but a fabulous day to be alive and, it turns out, to be an American. Lynn and all of the North…
Hall of Famers
Our congratulations to Lynn candlepin bowlers Joseph Tavernese and Nancy Vestal. Both bowlers have been notified by International Candlepin Bowling Association officials that they have been selected for places in the Candlepin Bowling Hall of Fame. This is a tremendous…
Home Prices Decline; with No End in Sight
Those of us who live in this city tend not to check out the value of our homes anymore at websites like Zillow. Those who are brave enough to do so always report back that the situation is very bad,…
Municipal Salaries Now and Then
Most local newspapers print municipal salaries as though they are all about insults, shock and awe – that we should be shocked that municipal employees make good salaries and benefits with the awe – why should it be that way?…
Stale History Repeating Itself?
It is spring, again with the summer heat just around the corner. Driving down the Lynnway two days ago with the front window down, a nauseating stench filled the car in the area of the Garelick Farms milk plant. No.…
Lynn Police Marathon Team Raising Money for Cancer Kids
A group of Lynn police officers are running the Boston Marathon to raise money for cancer victim – kids who are fighting for their lives. These are all good, good guys, doing the right thing for kids who are in…