Opinion

This year for Grandparents’ Day (Sept. 13), I want Governor Baker and state legislators to support low-income grandparents who provide child care.

Horse racing has been called “the sport of kings” because it was once the activity of nobles and royalty. While Oliver Lewis, a Black jockey, won the first Kentucky Derby in 1875, Black riders were later banned from the sport by the Jockey Club.

Thoughtful Americans will now have to be worried about a commander in chief who has no patriotic attachment to the country whose citizens he is obligated to protect against enemies, foreign and domestic.

We are still facing uncertainty from coronavirus, but the values that guide us are unchanged. Our plans for the upcoming school year put health, safety and the needs of our most vulnerable students at the center of our plans.

You could have mailed this one in. The “this” is the cynical, calculated, cold hearted, factually challenged assertion that Jacob Blake was really the bad guy. The bad guy that Kenosha police officer Rusten Sheskey had almost no choice but to use deadly force to protect himself against. The picture painted of Blake as the villain in the deadly encounter follows almost to the letter the template that is pro forma dragged out every time a Blake or a George Floyd is victimized by police bullets or a police knee to the throat.

Although it was originally supposed to provide an opportunity for workers to meet and develop their political power, Labor Day has become little more than a paid vacation. However, on Labor Day this year, voters who work for a living, even those whose employment has been interrupted by Covid-19, would do well to ponder the classic Election Day question: “Will you be better off with a Democratic or a Republican president?”

It is unfathomable that people who have regularly paid taxes would be shut out of relief when it’s most needed. This isn’t charity. It’s about doing right by our neighbors

Citizens will soon decide whether the United States of America is to survive as a democratic republic.

A recent Boston Globe article shows that Black and Latinx riders on the subway account for almost two-thirds of fare-evasion citations from police — despite being just one-third of subway riders.

How does one explain with clarity the political confrontation between Joe Kennedy and Ed Markey? They are both Democrats who are considered to be progressive and they say that there are no substantial disputes of political issues between them.

My generation is the future, but we cannot act “woke” and blast Women’s Equality Day on our Instagram stories without actually doing the work that the women before us paved the way for us to do.

The brutal political fact of life is that Biden won’t get Trump out of the White House by non-stop screaming what a petty, racist, corrupt, misogynist screw-up he is. These epithets and more have been hurled at Trump every second he has been in the White House. Yet, he still has an unshakable base and probably a lot more backers who are too scared to say they back him but do and will in November.