Father John Unni delivered a homily of historic proportion for a Catholic church in Boston at Sunday’s Mass at St. Cecilia’s Church in the Back Bay, The homily supported St. Cecilia’s gay and lesbian churchgoers as members of the much…
Category: Editorials
Congressman Anthony Weiner
New York Congressman Weiner has apparently checked himself into a rehab of some kind to give him counseling on how to better control himself from doing the kinds of things he has been doing. He has basically ruined his life…
A Great Weekend and Now, Much to Look Forward To
It was an America at peace with itself this long Memorial Day weekend. The kick-off to the Summer of 2011 went smoothly in New England and here in the Greater Boston area where the weather finally, fully, wonderfully cooperated, sending…
The Weather
Cab drivers share cab stories. Cops trade cop stories. New Englanders talk about the weather. For the past ten days we have experienced nothing but rain, cold, dreariness and more dreariness. This spate of bad weather at a time when…
Arnold Schwartzenegger
A great deal of media has been generated because the former governor of California and one of Hollywood’s great movie stars has admitted to fathering a son out of wedlock. By doing so, this has caused his wife Maria Shriver…
A Week of Rain is Forecast
The weekend was about gray skies and rain. Monday came up gray and rainy. The weathermen and women on Boston’s major television stations are all predicting a week of gray and rain at a time when all of us want…
Long Wharf Restaurant Opposition ill advised
Ten residents including prominent members of the North End Waterfront Residents’ Association should take a much closer look at the Doc’s Long Wharf restaurant development proposal. Being against it for the sake of being against it doesn’t satisfy the type…
A Sunday to Remember
By all accounts, Sunday was a lovely spring day. A bit cool with a sea breeze all day – but a fabulous day to be alive and, it turns out, to be an American. Boston was resonant with colors bursting…
Moving On and Up
The North End’s state representative Aaron Michlewitz has shown himself to be a heads up young man on Beacon Hill for this neighborhood. During his time in the House, he has solidified his membership and place in that body by…
The Trial of Sal DiMasi
Former House Speaker Sal DiMasi’s trial in Federal Court begins this week. He has already been tried in the court of public opinion where nearly everyone who supported him has left him and where he finds himself almost a man…