By Councilor Annissa Essaibi George Right now, Boston’s residents are struggling to pay rent, our families can’t find or afford stable housing, and too many individuals are experiencing chronic homelessness. The past year has only emphasized these realities and the…
Category: Editorials
Congratulations to the Class of 2021
Graduation Day is one of the few occasions that brings a smile to the faces of everyone in a community, regardless of whether they have a personal connection to a graduate. It is an occasion when all of us share in…
Guest Op-Ed: Commemorating Memorial Day and Honoring Those Who Made the Supreme Sacrifice for Our Country
By Councilor Ed Flynn Monday, May 31st, was Memorial Day. This is a day to honor those that made the supreme sacrifice for our nation while serving in the U.S. military. The origin of Memorial Day began when after the…
A Memorial Day To Look Back and Ahead
If Memorial Day of 2020 was unlike any other, Memorial Day of 2021 will represent almost a 180 degree turnabout from the dark days of a year ago. Thanks to the miraculous production of vaccines and plummeting infection and hospitalizations…
Guest Op-Ed: As Our City Reopens and the Weather Gets Warmer, I Encourage Everyone Who Can Support Our Small Businesses
By Acting Mayor Kim Janey Warmer weather has brought good news in Boston’s fight against the pandemic. Across our city, COVID-19 cases have dropped to their lowest levels in more than a year. And, from Roxbury to Roslindale, East Boston…
We Deserve This Great Weather
With Massachusetts entering the reopening phase after 14 months of lockdowns, the arrival of the magnificent weather this week could not have been better-timed. All of us have had to make sacrifices to varying degrees during the pandemic. Many of…
Liz Cheney Is a Profile In Courage
We disagree with Liz Cheney on just about everything, politically-speaking. We suspect that most of our readers also have felt the same way over the years. But there is no denying that her principled stand in opposition to her party…
Get That Shot!
The idea of “vaccine hesitancy” is a relatively new phenomenon in our country. For those of the Baby Boom generation, there never was any question about getting shots for all kinds of childhood and adult communicable diseases. Vaccines, along with antibiotics,…
The Biden Deal Is Long Overdue
The ambitious proposal set forth by President Joe Biden last week in his speech to a joint session of Congress has elicited the usual negative response from the usual suspects. However, those who oppose Biden’s $2 trillion plan to invest in America…
Guest Op-Ed: Customer Service?
By Alison Barnet, Special to the Sun “I can’t help you with that, miss. I can’t help you with that, miss.” And indeed he didn’t. Why did I bother calling? Customer service isn’t what it used to be. As one…