Category: Editorials

Letter to the Editor

Flynn Organizes Trainings on Ethics, Civility, Professionalism To the Editor, During his term in leadership at the Council over the last twenty months, Boston City Council President Ed Flynn has organized a series of training sessions with colleagues and staff…

Clarification

The following clarification is for the story that appeared in last week’s edition on Low Vision Group meeting story. • “John Oliveira, Acting Commissioner for the Massachusetts Commission for the Blind (MCB), Brookline, attended the August 16 Winthrop Low Vision…

Our Age of Anxiety

The Wall St. Journal this past week featured a front page story entitled, “The Booming Business of American Anxiety.” The issue of New York Magazine two weeks ago touched on the same subject with the cover story, “Trauma: America’s Favorite…

Letter to the Editor

Protect Our Planet To the Editor, We have all felt the horrendous weather this summer.  Heat, humidity, rain, thunderstorms, floods, and tornadoes have wreaked havoc on our country. The Southwest has gotten clobbered.  The heated ocean waters off the coast…

Did you like Barbie?

Barbie, the blockbuster movie that is this year’s mass culture phenomenon, has drawn a mixed reaction from critics and the public alike. Some love it — they’re the ones who have gone multiple times to see the movie — while…