A recent environmental report given to the City of Boston clearly indicates waterfront high tides will consistently rise creating some serious damage to the North End/Waterfront neighborhood. One city employee told a community organization that eventually water could extend out…
Category: Editorials
Enforcement Key to Reduce The City’s Speed Limit
Obviously, the new City of Boston ordinance regarding the speed limit on city streets from 30 mph to 25 mph will prevent more accidents, injuries and deaths but only if there is adequate enforcement on a regular basis. Public safety…
Adios Man on the Moon, None of Us Have Known Ya’
By Phineas J. Stone This week, there is one less man left alive who has walked on the moon. Former astronaut Gene Cernan passed away, and left this Earth as one of the last men living to have set foot…
Closing the Gender Wage Gap
By Mayor Martin J. Walsh When I first took office in 2014 I pledged to listen, learn and lead. It quickly became clear that leading on gender equity was essential to our City’s success. Not only is it the right…
Letter to the Editor
Opposed to Winthrop Square project height as proposed Dear Editor: We are writing to express our opposition to the Winthrop Square project, as currently proposed, as well as any amendment to the State Shadow Laws to facilitate such a project.…
Attention Democrats:Grow Up
Donald Trump is set to be inaugurated on Friday. Certainly, that is a day and an event that no serious person on any side of the political spectrum ever thought might be possible. However, that is the reality that we…
Framingham Underground: Broadcasting from the Bunker on a Snow Day
By Phineas J. Stone I guess I don’t always remember menial things like how politicians used to handle snowstorms and blizzards, but for the life of me, I can’t recall some of the City’s old-time mayors and the state’s previous…
What Would Martin Luther King Jr. Think?
When one considers that it has been almost 49 years since Martin Luther King was assassinated, it is easy to understand why so many of our fellow Americans today have so little understanding of who he was and what he…
Let’s Face It, Boston Is A Winter City, So Let’s Enjoy It
By Phineas J. Stone That’s the feeling I had when I went to the new Boston Winter village on City Hall Plaza over the Christmas and New Year’s break. Boston is a winter city; let’s face it. Yet somehow we’ve…
Keeping Our Water Supply Safe
In 2014, the American Waterworks Association declared MWRA’s water to be the best in the nation. (In fact, it won both first and second place both for the City of Boston’s and the MWRA’s own sample.) This was not a…