The Winter of 2012 is almost history and there has been virtually no snow, no freezing cold for weeks at a time, no parked cars buried in the drifts nor are their mounds of trash buried in the ice that…
Category: Editorials
Sal in Rhode Island
Former Speaker of the House Sal DiMasi has requested the court to consider his request to make his recent transfer to a federal facility in Rhode Island a permanent thing. Why not, we wonder? What would be the problem with…
Is He Running?
Well known and popular North End advocate and lifelong resident – former owner of Dello Russo’s Funeral Home – Robert Dello Russo is apparently set to make the announcement that he is running for the Suffolk County Clerk of Courts…
Thank you, Sal
The North End’s Boston City Councillor Sal LaMattina has been earning big points lately with a variety of initiatives that impact the residents of this neighborhood and the other neighborhoods he represents. Earlier this week the Boston Globe’s lead editorial…
Fares are Rising
The MBTA is telling all of us that services will remain intact, entirely without cuts, if fares can go up by 25%. At first blush, this sounds much better than Draconian cuts that would have affected all public transit users…
The US Postal Service
Many of you who use the post office, heard last week that the US Postal Service is suggesting a .50 cent stamp as the standard cost for mailing a letter. We don’t suppose this shocks anyone as the US Postal…
Highest Paid in Hub an Upside Down Mish Mash
The wages earned and paid to some city employees is an outrage to other city employees and to many residents and taxpayers unable to fathom how a police Lt. can earn $259,000 while Police Commissioner Ed Davis earned only $177,000.…
Combining Important Resources
If you are a businessman here or are seeking to come to this neighborhood with a plan you presently can expect to wait many, many months before anything meaningful will come of your request. The present structure of early non-binding…
The Patriots
There is no way to describe the sense of loss we all feel having watched the Patriots go down in the Super Bowl. Were the Giants really better than us? We don’t think so. There is no crime in being…
In Memoriam
Mayor Kevin White’s death is a moment for all of us to remember him and the days when he managed this city with an iron fist. He was above all, a real Bostonian with his early roots in West Roxbury…