Like the North End/Waterfront Residents’ Association (NEWRA), we agree that the street parking savers situation needs to be banned or at least it needs to be refined. Just because someone, shovels their vehicle out for whatever reason, it is still…
Category: Editorials
Do We Have Any Privacy?
The notion of privacy has received much attention recently. I’m still waiting for someone to draw a reasonable line about how far to go in collecting information on the world’s population. The new handringing about privacy began when Edward Snowden,…
Opinion
Downtown School
The announcement on last Friday by Mayor Thomas Menino of the pending purchase of the building at 585 Commercial Street in the North End for a new K-8 school with an opening in 2016 certainly comes as good news to…
Downtown School Meeting
Over the last six months, the Boston Public Schools and the School Choice plans have emerged to the forefront in local politics especially for parents whose children are or could be attending public schools in Boston. The decisions being made…
Student Jobs Are Important
Thousands of Boston students will be seeking jobs this summer and it appears that there will not be enough jobs to go around. Apparently the city’s budget cannot provide all the jobs needed for the number of students expected to…
Thank You
In our neighborhood, there is nothing more scarce than open, safe and appealing public spaces. For too long, we have seen how municipal and recent state budget cuts have had a negative impact on our parks with necessary repairs often…
Federal Sequestration
The deadline passed last Friday when mandated cuts to the federal programs started to take place. While many entitlements that are the budget busters were spared, the across the board budget cuts hit programs in public schools, transportation, the military…
Street Sweeping Starts This Friday
Well, we dodged another snow bullet over the weekend. And if the weatherman is accurate then we will be getting some rain on Wednesday. This is exactly what we need to get rid of those snow piles that take away…
A Time to Take Stock
The three- alarm fire that happend last week on Commonwealth Avenue should make all residents just stop and think for a minute. The fire did not occur in a builing that needed rehabbing, but happened in a high end renovation. …