By Cardinal Seán P. O’Malley As a people, community, and as a nation we are being forced into a stance of social distancing to ward off a potential health disaster. Even as we embrace a methodology of physical isolation, we must…
Category: Editorials
March Is Weather Purgatory
With the promise of winter coming to an end and spring just around the corner, we have high hopes for March. The crocuses start to pop through the ground and the sun is noticeably stronger and warmer. There also is a…
Make Your Voice Heard — Vote in the Presidential Primary
The revelation last week by members of our intelligence agencies to Congress that the Russians once again are, and will be, interfering in our electoral process is an ominous portent for the national election in November. The recent experience of…
Letter to the Editor
Lesley R. Phillips Announces for Re-election to Dem. State Committee Dear [Editor], I am pleased to announce my candidacy for re-election to the female “ballot seat,” which I have held since 2008, representing the Middlesex and Suffolk State Senate District (currently…
The Miracle on Ice Was More than Just a Game
Guest Op-ed Stop Big Game Trophy Hunting For those who either were not around or were very young on Feb. 22, 1980, it is hard to imagine how low the American psyche had plummeted during the decade of the 1970s.…
Guest Op-ed: Stop Big Game Trophy Hunting
By Melissa Martin, Ph.D. “International trophy hunting is a multinational, multimillion-dollar industry practiced throughout the world. Trophy hunting is broadly defined as the killing of animals for recreation with the purpose of collecting trophies such as horns, antlers, skulls, skins,…
The (Climate) News Is All Bad
At the start of World War II, President Franklin Roosevelt reportedly said to his aides, “So far, the news is all bad,” referring to the reports from the front in the immediate aftermath of Pearl Harbor when the Japanese were taking…
Thanks for the Memories, Mookie,
It is inconceivable to lifelong Red Sox fans such as ourselves that the Sox’ management decided to trade away Mookie Betts to the Los Angeles Dodgers in exchange for a few random players. Mookie not only was an amazing talent…
Guest Op-Ed: Valentine Day Befuddling
By Dr. Glenn Mollette Valentine’s Day is a befuddling time – bewildering, confusing. Flowers that you would buy to give to someone are probably already tripled in price. Our local grocery store sometimes sells a dozen roses for under $30,…
Have We Turned a Corner?
For the first time since 2014, life expectancy in the United States has risen after four years of decline, according to a report released this past Thursday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Overall life expectancy rose…