EDITORIAL
Just a careless remark?Americans were horrified to hear Hillary Clinton refer to the June 1968 assassination of Robert F. Kennedy while discussing her reasons for staying in the presidential race. More » |
OPINION
Why I'm planning to speak out against the Safe Homes InitiativeFor the past 40 years, I have worked for public safety, with a quarter-century spent on the beat as a police officer in Washington, D.C. This is the experience I will bring with me when I travel to Boston next week to talk about a misguided program that police are introducing in Boston and in Washington. In both cities, it goes by the name of the Safe Homes Initiative. More » |
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Looking to create jobs, politicians? Revisit the gaming issueHoward Manly's recent one-on-one with Deval Patrick ("Gov. Patrick eyes the future, one line item at a time," May 8, 2008) refers to the creation of jobs in bioscience and new energy generation, which are very critical to reduce the brain drain that occurs, as our brightest graduates from Harvard, MIT and UMass leave the state for positions elsewhere. But Massachusetts also needs to find decent jobs for those previous employees of the textile industry whose factories closed because of low-wage competition in various Asian countries. More » |
