On Beacon Hill, storm clouds are forming as the state is about to come up $900 million short on tax collections. The only way the legislature will balance its budget is by cutting money to the cities and towns, by…
Category: Editorials
Eastern Bank television advertisement coup
As advertisements go, the Eastern Bank’s television masterpiece using Everett scenes, Everett cheerleaders and football players to move the narrative of the advertisement is absolutely outstanding. If you watch television, and most of us do, then you’ve seen the bank’s…
A tragic homicide
The brutal murder of a young woman living in Everett on Main Street serves as an example to all with families and children that great care must always be exercised in the paths that we follow. She was an exotic…
Hazing compliance important
The School Committee reported last week that it is in compliance with Chapter 269: Section 17 of the state laws. This is the law against hazing and or organizing or participating in hazing and it defines hazing as well. Hazing…
Bouncing back
Everett has become used to a high school football team that does not lose – and then, of course, there are the New England Patriots about whom we share the same feelings. When the Crimson Tide lost two weeks ago,…
Terrorism still a possibility
Local officials should take a much closer look at the recent arrests the FBI made in foiling a terrorist group from planting bombs on subway cars and buses in New York. If this kind of thing can be gestating in…
The new high school
Repeated visits lately to the new Everett High School (EHS) reveal a structure of almost unsurpassable beauty and utility. If, for instance, you sit in the upstairs library, you have one of the finest views of the Boston skyline anywhere,…
The mayor’s winning ways
By all accounts, Mayor Carlo DeMaria has been able to reduce the perpetual Everett political riddle into something of strength and coherence. His leadership has established him as the least controversial of Everett’s previous five mayors. The divided city is…
Labor Day 2009
Labor Day has come and gone, finishing off the half-summer during this, the fall of our discontent. The government estimates that 14 million Americans are out of work. The unemployment rate is 9.7 percent and rising, although the numbers of…