The Thanksgiving holiday is upon us and we begin to wonder – where has the year gone and my, isn’t it flying by? What has it brought us and do we have anything to give thanks for? For those of…
Category: Editorials
Local Oil Industry in Big Trouble
The local oil heating industry is struggling to stay alive in a business climate set to ruin independent oil delivery companies as well as making it nearly impossible for consumers to pay to heat their homes with oil. The rampant…
Veterans Day 2011
The nation finds itself gradually winding down from a decade in Iraq and winding down as well our involvement in Afghanistan after just as many years. We have lost more than 4400 Americans to the insanity of war, and civil…
Does Weekend Storm Speak Volumes About Winter to Come?
Most of us heard the lament loudly and clearly over the weekend about the snow coming so early, preceding even this week’s Halloween celebration. In more ways than we care to conjure up, snow this early and so plentiful in…
The School Committee Race
The local campaigns for school committee are made up of those, for the most part, who attended Lynn public schools, whose kids attended or are attending Lynn public schools and whose grandchildren are attending Lynn’s public schools. Continuity is good.…
Halloween
Everyone in this city with kids will be out and about on Halloween. Huge throngs of kids and their parents or kids just by themselves come out to ask for candy throughout our major neighborhoods. This places an impossible task…
Shame on Tim Bassett
Everyone in Lynn in politics or in a position of responsibility over the past two decades has come to know Tim Bassett. He has been characterized in the Boston press as a former Lynn pol. Last week, he hit the…
When Headlines Are Worse Than Reality
Like many Lynners going about their last week, we heard the first report over the car radio: “Abduction attempt at Lynn Classical High School.” Immediately, most of us with kids cringed. After all, that could be our kid if we…
Steve Jobs
The death of Steve Jobs at 56 brings to an end the life of an extraordinary American inventor. Ironically, the I-Phones held by so many millions across the face of the earth announcing his death were designed by him. He…
Columbus Day 2011
At the time he lived and sailed during the 15th Century there was no man dead or alive who was more gifted at navigating the seas than Christopher Columbus. When speaking or writing about him, the same things have been…