WINARC Successful Fundraiser To the Editor, The WINARC Board members would like to thank everyone who was involved in our successful 10th Annual Walk, Run, or Roll Fundraiser held at Deer Island on May 3rd. Generous support was given by…
Category: Editorials
The Dumping of Raw Sewage has to be Fixed
The “plan” recently announced by the Mass. Water Resources Authority (MWRA) that would continue to allow for raw sewage to be dumped into our watersheds in the Greater Boston area during periods of heavy rainfall is, in a word, unacceptable.…
Has Our National Debt Reached a Tipping Point?
Last week it was reported that our national debt officially has surpassed 100% of our GDP (gross domestic product). Our national debt (as of the report) now totals $31.27 trillion, while GDP stands at $31.22 trillion. This marks the first…
Housing, health, hunger: This is why America is failing
Americans’ optimism about their future has sunk to an all-time low, according to a recent Gallup Poll (which was conducted, we might add, before the war with Iran had begun). Why the malaise when we have record-low unemployment and a…
At Last, Common Sense Regarding Marijuana, Psychedelics
The recent actions by the Trump administration to reschedule marijuana and certain psychedelics has brought a measure of common-sense to the regulation of these substances. Federal policy for more than 50 years has classified marijuana and psychedelics as Schedule I…
Letter to the Editor
Treat them with respect and dignity To the Editor, Dear President Garber and Provost Manning, The undersigned political leaders of Massachusetts, call on the Harvard administration to bargain in good faith to come to fair agreements with the Harvard Academic…
Earth Day: Many Battles Won, but has the War been Lost?
This week marks 56 years since the first Earth Day on April 22, 1970. The genesis of the first Earth Day had begun a few months earlier when the Cuyahoga River in Cleveland caught fire because of the flammable chemicals…
Letter to the Editor
Growing Together: Keeping Eastie at the Center of Growth & Opportunity As we emerge from winter, East Boston Main Streets (EBMS) has been hard at work organizing, advocating, and investing in our neighborhood’s future. We recently wrapped up our first-ever…
Proud of Our Local “Link” to the Artemis II Space Mission
After watching the dramatic re-entry into our atmosphere of the Artemis II’s Orion capsule Integrity, its subsequent splashdown, and the retrieval of the four astronauts in the Pacific Ocean last Friday evening, we were proud to learn that one of…
AG Campbell Moves Forward vs. the Social Media Platforms
When Frances Haugen, a former data scientist with Facebook, disclosed thousands of internal documents to the Wall St. Journal in 2021 that revealed that Facebook’s own research showed the negative impacts of its Instagram algorithms on teen mental health, Americans…