High school graduation season is upon us, the time of year when communities across America celebrate the accomplishments of young people receiving their high school diplomas. Graduation is a bittersweet occasion, marking both an ending and a beginning. For the…
Category: Editorials
High Speed e-bikes must be Regulated like any Motor Vehicle
A bill proposed by Gov. Maura Healey, known as the Ride Safe Act, that would require an annual registration, liability insurance, and an official Massachusetts license plate for electric “bicycles” that are capable of exceeding 30 m.p.h. is long overdue.…
Enjoy the Weekend — Safely
Memorial Day weekend marks the traditional start of the summer season, bringing with it the anticipation of sunshine and warmth and of time spent with family and friends. But while we contemplate all of the good things that will occur…
Guest Op-Ed: Freedom is only step one: The best holiday you’ve never heard of
By The Boston Synagogue Staff If you happened to walk through Beacon Hill last month, you likely heard the echoes of Passover—a holiday celebrated with grand Seders/dinners and stories of a dramatic escape from slavery. But in the Jewish calendar,…
The dumping of raw sewage has to be fixed
The “plan” recently announced by the Mass. Water Resources Authority (MWRA) that would continue to allow for raw sewage to be dumped into our watersheds in the Greater Boston area during periods of heavy rainfall is, in a word, unacceptable.…
Housing, health, hunger: This is why America is failing
Americans’ optimism about their future has sunk to an all-time low, according to a recent Gallup Poll (which was conducted, we might add, before the war with Iran had begun). Why the malaise when we have record-low unemployment and a…
At last, common sense regarding marijuana, psychedelics
The recent actions by the Trump administration to reschedule marijuana and certain psychedelics has brought a measure of common-sense to the regulation of these substances. Federal policy for more than 50 years has classified marijuana and psychedelics as Schedule I…
Earth Day: Many battles won, but has the war been lost?
This week marks 56 years since the first Earth Day on April 22, 1970. The genesis of the first Earth Day had begun a few months earlier when the Cuyahoga River in Cleveland caught fire because of the flammable chemicals…
Letter to the Editor
Reader Expresses Concern With Proposed 155-159 Charles St. Project To the Editor, The proposed development at 155-159 Charles Street, where the CVS is now, would undermine the architectural harmony of Beacon Hill. This design is responsible for the inappropriate massing…
Proud of our local “Link” to the Artemis II space mission
After watching the dramatic re-entry into our atmosphere of the Artemis II’s Orion capsule Integrity, its subsequent splashdown, and the retrieval of the four astronauts in the Pacific Ocean last Friday evening, we were proud to learn that one of…