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…
Category: Editorials
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: Much More is Involved
By Alison Barnet How things have changed and not for the better! I recently picked up a 2004 Access guide book and read an entry on the Harriet Tubman House. “This iconoclastic complex greets the street with a sense of…
Guest Op-Ed: We Must Work Together On Long-Term Solutions
By Lyndia Downie, President and Executive Director, Pine Street Inn and David W. Manzo, South End Resident and Member of Pine Street Inn’s Board of Directors The concerns expressed regarding the use of 891 Massachusetts Avenue as a bridge site…
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: Pine Street Out!
By George Stergios and Bob Minnocci, Worcester Square Area Neighborhood Association Three weeks ago, Pine Street Inn leased the Roundhouse Suites and added another 180 homeless people to the Mass & Cass area, where there are hundreds already living in…
Letter to the Editor
A Thank You to Our Supporters We at United South End Settlements (USES) and New Boston Ventures want to take this opportunity to thank the hundreds of supporters who live, work and represent the South End neighborhood who helped ensure…
America Is Circling The Drain
On January 30 — what seems like a lifetime ago — the World Health Organization declared that COVID-19 was a world-wide pandemic. On that same fateful date, the United States’ Centers for Disease Control issued a press release that stated…
Car Repossessions are on the Rise
Although most of the attention of the financial crisis brought about by the coronavirus pandemic has focused on the evictions and foreclosures facing millions of out-of-work Americans, the number of repossessions of motor vehicles because of loan defaults is starting…