The horrific shooting of 19 innocents in Arizona by a lunatic over the weekend with 6 deaths resulting, including that of a 9 year-old girl and a Federal judge proves again that this is a violent society where the availability of guns is leading us down a path of no return. Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords...
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President Mike Marchese
The Everett Board of Aldermen elected longtime member Mike Marchese as its president. It is a good choice. Mike Marchese is perhaps the best known political name in Everett and for many, many years. One thing is for sure, Marchese will call it as he sees it when it comes to the city’s business....
Common Council President
Sergio Cornelio It is especially pleasing to note the election of Sergio Cornelio by his colleagues to be the president of the Everett Common Council. The vote was unanimous – as in all the other votes for the leadership positions – but points to how much Cornelio is respected for his leadership qualities more...
Chairman Robert Carreiro
The Everett School Committee has elected Robert Carreiro to be chairman. This, too, is a good choice. Carreiro knows of what he speaks. He’s had a long period of service as a school committeeman and he was a teacher in the Everett Public Schools before that. In addition, he served as President of the...
About Your Resolutions
Most of us have already managed to break the resolutions we made on New Year’s Eve. If that is the case, you have to make sure you do some damage control and try to keep to half of what you resolved to do. That is, if you had a problem eating half gallons of...
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 worst of years as Charles Dickens might have put it. Mark Twain wrote that...
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 we paid closer attention to our own psychic lives, Christmas 2010 would be pristine....
Meeting the challenge
Unbeknownst to most Everett residents, the Everett Police Department’s “Swat Team” or “Special Unit” is a small, well trained, swift response, special operations unit capable of responding to acts of terrorism, hostage taking situations or events that have the capacity to go out of control. Training for this team is ongoing. The team itself...
Aldermen say no
We believe it is disappointing that the Board of Alderman failed to endorse the Common Council’s motion giving the city’s commercial and residential property owners a badly needed break. By failing to approve the transfer of $4 million of city cash as ordered by the Common Council, reductions of $2000 and $300 respectively for...
Carlo DeMaria’s Everett
Mayor Carlo DeMaria has performed a bit of magic during his terms in office. The contentiousness at city hall that was so much a part of the city’s political persona in years past appears to have vanished. Perhaps this is due to DeMaria’s affability or is it his ability to make friends instead of...