Mayor Thomas Menino is again recovering from yet another operation. This time, it was to correct difficulties he was having with one of his knees. As the mayor said succinctly in a Boston Globe piece on his health over the…
Category: Editorials
Nightmare in Tuscon
It is being pieced together what exactly caused Jared Lee Loughner to kill six people and to wound 13 others at a public get-together for Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. We would like to think it was a simple insane act…
Ringing in 2011
New Year’s Eve was a big win for restaurant, café and shop owners of every kind in the North End. The North End was host to large and boisterous crowds as the New Year’s Eve partying got underway. Overall, North…
Resolutions
During this, the first week of the New Year, many of us will attempt to keep resolutions made in the heat of the moment shortly before the clock struck midnight over the weekend. Resolutions, as we have come to understand…
Out with the Old, in with the New
Another year of our lives is coming to a close. The year is ending not with a bang, but rather, with a whimper, as TS Eliot might have written of it. It was the best of years. It was the…
Christmas 2010
Christmas 2010 will go down in history as a great holiday celebration. Peace on earth. Good will to men. It is, indeed, all about that. If there was no Internet, evening news, radio talk shows or morning newspapers, and if…
Thirty days and counting
The Boston Police Department has noted that during the past 30 days, there were no major incidences in the North End. This comes as good news during the extremely busy Christmas shopping season when the North End is crowded with…
The Greenway in the spring
The Rose Kennedy Greenway will explode with new business in the spring, which is the result of the Conservancy running the Greenway putting RFP’s (Requests for Proposals) for high-quality food and beverage vendors wishing to do business on the Greenway.…
Robbing the church
The alleged robber who stole money and items of value from local churches, including two in this neighborhood, has been arrested by Boston police and is now living behind bars where he ought to be. It is believed by police…
Receiving what he deserved
The Boston City Council’s vote to expel their colleague Chuck Turner last week was the right thing to do. The 11-1 vote showed the resolve of the council, despite many of its members fretting that Turner was their friend and…