With the Fourth of July falling on a Friday this year, many of us will be enjoying a long holiday weekend for which the weather is expected to cooperate. The Fourth of July brings back fond recollections from our youth,…
Category: Editorials
Enjoy a “Safe and Sane” Fourth
Back at the turn of the last century (i.e., 1900), newspapers exhorted their readers to observe a “safe and sane” Fourth of July. That’s because in communities big and small all across America, the founding of our nation had become…
Letter to the Editor
Do your job To the Editor, For five years, Ward 1 in Lynn has watched the Broadway Project transform our streets, delivering fresh pavement and restored sidewalks along Broadway and parts of Lynnfield Street. But where the city’s work stops…
The tragic War in Vietnam ended 50 years ago this week
It was 50 years ago this week on April 30, 1975, that the U.S. involvement in the War in Vietnam officially came to an end when the last U.S. military helicopter flew ignominiously from the roof of the U.S. Embassy…
Plastics: It’s Even Worse Than We Thought
We recently wrote about the pervasiveness of plastics not only in our environment, but also in our bodies. However, as ominous as we thought things were at the time we wrote those words, more-recent revelations by scientists across the globe…
Guest Op-Ed: “En Es-pa-ñol:” Trump’s Executive Order on English undermines Civil Rights
By Adilson González Morales Whenever I talk to friends and colleagues about their experiences learning Spanish, French, or another language, you’d think they all went to the same school. Most people know the story – your bladder is about to…
March is the Cruelest Month
According to meteorologists, “meteorological spring’” arrived last week on March 1. For those who prefer to mark the seasons astronomically, spring officially will arrive in two weeks on March 20 (at 5:01 AM), marking the vernal equinox. But regardless of…
The Real Reasons Our Natural Gas Heating Bills are So High
Everybody is complaining about the high cost of heating our homes with natural gas this winter, but this year’s spike in our bills, which has been exacerbated by the colder-than-usual winter, has been completely predictable. Massachusetts has had the 5th-highest…
10 years ago, we were amidst Snowmageddon
Yes, time does fly, and for those of us who lived through the Snowmageddon, it’s hard to believe that 10 years have passed since we were in the middle of that epic winter season of 2015. Major snowstorms just kept rolling in,…
Jimmy Carter Practiced What He Preached
The passing of former President Jimmy Carter at the age of 100 brings to an end the extraordinary life of a man who ascended from the small town of Plains, Georgia (population 552) to the highest office in the world.…