“Time and tide wait for no man,” wrote the poet. The summer of 2020 is entering its final week as we approach the traditional Labor Day weekend and once again the summer season has flown by much faster than any…
Category: Editorials
A Summer of Chaos And Tragedy
As America approached the Memorial Day weekend of 2020, the death toll from COVID-19 in the United States stood at just under 100,000 of our fellow Americans. But now, three months later, that number soon will have doubled, as our…
Be Sure to Vote in the Primary
This Tuesday, September 1, is primary election day in Massachusetts for both national and state legislative offices. Primary elections in Massachusetts typically are of little or no consequence because of the overwhelming Democratic voting enrollment and because most Democrats run…
Politicizing the Pandemic
This past Sunday evening, President Donald Trump held a news conference to announce that the use of blood plasma in treating patients who have contracted Covid-19 has been shown to reduce the death rate from Covid-19 by 35% — a…
Guest Op-Ed: Everett’s New-Found Waterfront Is a Great Place to Spend a Day
By Patrick Herron I can attest to the Malden River being a great place to spend an afternoon. Just this past week, I kayaked up the river, spotted an osprey and several great blue herons, bumped into the committed volunteers…
Guest Op-Ed: Setting the Record Straight
By Michael McLaughlin I would like to set the matter straight on my voting record on the following issues: On Affordable Housing at Pope John Site I voted against the taking of a “Friendly Eminent Domain..” I voted against “the…
Save the U.S. Post Office
The unprecedented efforts to undermine the operations of the U.S. Postal Service by President Donald Trump and the Republicans are not even a thinly-veiled attempt to make sure that mail-in voting in the November election during this unprecedented pandemic will…
New Stimulus Bill Is Desperately Needed
As we all have learned by now, the so-called Executive Order (if any of it is even legal) recently issued by President Donald Trump two weeks ago amounts to all talk and no action. It does not stop any evictions…
Guest Op-Ed: School Reopening Plans
By Thomas Scott and Robert N. Baldwin, Massachusetts Association of School Superintendents (MASS) Across the Commonwealth, school districts are beginning to announce their plans for the start of the 2020-2021 school year. Some communities are choosing not to reopen school…
Guest Op-Ed: Remembrance of an Atypical Black American Boyhood
By Walter C. Carrington (Editor’s Note: The Following Op-ed Is by the Late Ambassador Walter Carrington and Was Printed in the Boston Globe, and Later in the Everett Independent in 2017. It Was about His Unique Coming of Age in…