EDITORIAL

Jeopardizing the future

The collapse of the Massachusetts Educational Financing Authority (MEFA) has created a crisis for middle-class families that are ineligible for the financial aid available to families with lower incomes. The announcement came just days before fall tuition payments were due on Aug. 1. More »

Avoidable epidemic

The HIV virus has ravaged the developing world, but its impact has been just as severe among African Americans. According to a recent Black AIDS Institute report, if U.S. blacks were a separate nation, there would be 15 countries with lower rates of infection, including Botswana, Ethiopia, Guyana, Haiti, Namibia, Rwanda and Vietnam. More »

OPINION

G8 to poor women: Let them eat dirt

Leaders of the world's richest countries, the Group of Eight (G8), met last month to chart the course of the global economy at the luxurious Windsor Hotel Toya Resort and Spa in Toyako, Japan. While President Bush and his colleagues discussed world hunger over a six-course lunch, women in Haiti were preparing cakes of dirt for their children's dinner. More »

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Community answers must come from within

"Do not hold against us the sins of the fathers." More »

ROVING CAMERA

What should be done to make a college education affordable?

Offer more scholarships to students. Offer more opportunities for students to pay while they go. More »