Play a positive role Dear Editor: In America today, approximately 45-47 million, or 1 out of 5 Americans, is suffering with a mental health issue; and approximately 1 in 25 adults is currently experiencing a serious mental illness that substantially interferes with…
Category: Editorials
Anti-Vaccine Hysteria Puts All of Us at Risk
The recent outbreak of measles in the United States is cause for concern for every Amercian. First and foremost, measles is a highly-contagious disease that places at risk anyone who is in the vicinity of someone who is infected with…
Big Tobacco: The Empire Strikes Back Or: Is Your Child a Nicotine Addict?
In the mid-1990s, our newspaper group was honored in consecutive years by the Massachusetts branch of the American Cancer Society for our reporting and editorials regarding the regulation of tobacco products in our local communities. We wrote about every aspect…
Guest Op-ed Our May Day Message: We Will Not Be Divided
By Antonio Amaya, Gladys Vega and Milagros Barreto Just a few days ago, we saw the power of workers standing together. Stop & Shop employees represented by UFCW Local 1445 went on strike to protect their income and push back…
Spring Cleaning
By: Mayor Carlo DeMaria Spring-cleaning is a rite of passage for many of us every year and cities are no different. We feel a sense of accomplishment and feel better about our surroundings. Now as we have begun our spring-cleaning…
Support Sen. Markey’s Effort to Ban Robocalls
Robocalls are the new plague of the digital and cell phone era. According to some estimates, Americans received 48 billion robocalls last year, up from 30 billion in 2017. It used to be that only a person’s land line would…
Will April Showers Bring May Flowers?
As Bob Dylan noted, ‘you don’t need a weatherman to tell you which way the wind is blowing.’ Similarly, we have not needed a weatherman to tell us that this has been a particularly rainy April. However, we learned this…
Guest Op-ed: Fighting the Opioid Epidemic with Care and Data
By Alexander Acosta A little more than a year ago, I had the opportunity to visit Maryhaven treatment facility in Columbus, Ohio, to hear from those recovering from the effects of addiction. The visit was an impactful one. I met…
The Curse of Social Media and the Internet
In the aftermath of the terrible coordinated attacks by suicide bombers on Easter Sunday in Sri Lanka that killed more than 300 people and wounded about 500 in churches and hotels across the small nation, the Sri Lankan government took…
Guest Op-ed: Grassley-Klobuchar Ushers in Dangerous Counterfeit Drugs
By Sally C. Pipes Congress is poised to consider a bill that would allow Americans to import prescription drugs from Canada. The bill’s authors — Sens. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and Chuck Grassley (R-IA) — label their effort as a bipartisan…