The mayor and his staff are showing great vision by ordering 40 Big Belly containers to be used in the mayor’s ongoing fight for a cleaner Everett. Big Belly containers are revolutionizing trash containment in the downtowns of dozens of…
Category: Editorials
The Patriots
This is a football city so there is no way to mark just how disappointed a large part of the Everett football following has been made by the poor showing of the Patriots last Sunday against the Ravens. Everett football…
Mayor DeMaria has a plan
The City of Everett’s elected leaders will be facing a tough year ahead as the economic downturn will continue to affect the local economy and the city budget. Every elected official has acknowledged that the 2011 budget that takes effect…
Happy New Year
There is no way to know what awaits us before it happens – and so – we watch the coming of 2010 with great interest and hope. The hope is for a healthy, prosperous New Year. The interest is in…
The future is here and for some it doesn’t look promising
A meeting in neighboring Chelsea earlier this week at City Hall drew hundreds of retired city employees and current city employees. The matter at hand was the city’s need to double the amount retired employees pay towards their city financed…
CORI reports make sense for Everett public officials
The Everett School Committee has voted to require all of its elected members to submit CORI reports in January – a move intended to keep school committee members’ criminal histories public and transparent. Those refusing to submit a CORI will…
And speaking of football…
Everett is a football city and football city is experiencing a downward, tugging feeling that the New England Patriots are in trouble. Are they in trouble or can they pull it out? Can they win another Superbowl? Will they even…
The Crimson Tide
When you’ve made it to the mountaintop, it is not the end of the world if you are tossed from it or fall off. The preference, of course, is that one remains atop the mountain, with no one else able…
Thanksgiving 2009
This time last year, the national economy was preparing for collapse. The economy’s beginning of the end, or as Churchill once said, the end of the beginning, came into full force in and around Thanksgiving 2008. Yet we all sat…
Absentee ballots
The city of Everett has a problem with absentee ballots. There are presently 800 absentee ballots on the books here and before the last election, they were all sent out. Something like 610 came back – the largest number percentage…