After about 20 years of social media platforms operating without any legal or moral constraints, the evidence is overwhelmingly clear that social media is toxic for our children. Much like the tobacco companies 75 years ago (Big Tobacco was fully…
Category: Editorials
Ramadan begins this week
Ramadan, which will begin this week following the sighting of the crescent moon, is the holiest month of the year for members of the Muslim faith. For 2026, Ramadan is projected to start as early as Tuesday, February 17, and…
Letter to the Editor
Go Passengers Dear Editor, How can the MBTA afford to put GO PATRIOTS and GO PATS signs on its buses when it doesn’t GO PASSENGERS? There I am waiting 20 minutes in the cold and snow, and, when the bus…
Guest Op-Ed: Mayor Michelle Wu shares progress updates on White Stadium
By the Mayor’s Office of Neighborhood Services, City of Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, in partnership with Boston Legacy Football Club (“Boston Legacy FC”), shared a progress update on the White Stadium renovation project, where construction is well underway. “Our Boston…
Our legislature should not stand in the way of Waymo
The two bills that are circulating in the state legislature that effectively would ban autonomous, self-driving vehicles in the state not only are short-sighted, but they also will serve to perpetuate the carnage on our dangerous and deadly roads. It…
The Pitt Demonstrates a Healthcare System on Life Support
The Pitt, the critically-acclaimed hit series on HBO about an emergency room in a big-city hospital in Pittsburgh that has just begun its second season, is far more than just good entertainment. The critically-acclaimed show also accurately portrays the critical…
This is the SAD-dest Time of the Year — So get Outside
With the oppressiveness of a New England winter fully upon us, for many this can be the saddest time of the year — quite literally. The medical community has long-recognized that the shortened days of winter affect all of us…
Op-Ed: Charitable Charities
By Alison Barnet The other day as I was researching charities in the New York Streets neighborhood—a South End project I’ll tell you about as the Feb. 25 opening comes closer–I was struck by how institutions of years ago seemed…
Let’s Go Patriots!
For those of us who are longtime fans of the New England Patriots, it seems like it was only yesterday that the Pats of Brady and Belichick were the dominant team in the NFL. We were around in the early…
As we’re Shivering Next Week, Remember, We’re Halfway through Winter
When the National Weather Service issued its long-range forecast for this winter last fall, it was a good news/bad news scenario. They were predicting warmer-than-normal temperatures for our region, which was the good news (after all, who likes cold weather?),…