Editor’s note: This is one in a continuing series of guest opinions about fostering environmental stewardship with an appreciation for our surroundings and the well-being of future generations. The series is coordinated by ACES, the Alliance of Climate and Environmental Stewards.
When you sit down to your Thanksgiving dinner, I hope you will consider saying a big thank-you to the farmers and ranchers responsible for your meal.
In my last column, I wrote about the fear of the American soldiers crossing the English Channel and that huge river, the Rhine, in Germany, was something else.
Once again, PBS exposed an injustice that I thought I knew a great deal about.
Picture Greater Newburyport: beautiful places and historic buildings that attract and inspire artists, naturalists and all of us.
When the lawmakers Massachusetts voters entrusted to represent their best interests went home Wednesday, they left billions of dollars on the table.
After months of debate and negotiation, Congress has passed a sweeping measure to upgrade many parts of the nation’s infrastructure.
It’s a cliché to say that everything’s connected. But we live in a world where this is clearly true.
Dear grandchild,
Last year, COVID was the big story eclipsing other important news, including the uptick in mental health issues and deaths caused by drug overdoses.
We are living in a COVID world as we approach the start of the third year of the pandemic.
Throughout our lives, we make many new friends and there are some who become family.
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I write today with a tremendous amount of gratitude.
Editor’s note: This is one in a continuing series of guest opinions about fostering environmental stewardship coordinated by ACES, the Alliance of Climate and Environmental Stewards.
It was just Pride Month here at Salem State, but you wouldn’t know it.
There’s an old saying about pizza, that, like a certain adult activity, even when it’s not that great, it’s still pretty good.
Trade dynamics and policies are intricate and complicated as our world becomes more interconnected.
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Route 1 through Newburyport is a relic of the 1930s. It was configured as a freeway, long before the city was split by I-95, in the 1950s.
Tonight, I’ll be rooting for a team with a Native American name to win baseball’s World Series, if only because the Red Sox are out, and the team that beat them has a rule-breaking reputation.
This goes beyond all my comprehension.
If Mark Zuckerberg seems irritable, he has good reason. His Facebook Empire is facing a digital scandal provoked by a former employee turned whistleblower.
Editor’s note: This is one in a continuing series of guest opinions about fostering environmental stewardship with an appreciation for our surroundings and the well-being of future generations. The series is coordinated by ACES, the Alliance of Climate and Environmental Stewards.
I’ve been thinking a lot recently about what it means to be an American, to have a shared stake in this country and its fortunes.
With Veterans Day soon approaching, I’ve been thinking about my experiences as a soldier in Europe during World War II.
As the days turn cooler, and nights become crisp, we in Massachusetts often turn to the outdoors as a place to seek refuge.
The celebrated grammarian of American English, E. B. White, once wrote an essay on dealing with the personality of the Ford Model T.
Every fall, Massachusetts DCR releases farm-raised ring-necked pheasants in the Martin Burns Wildlife Management Area in Newbury.
As the Baker-Polito administration celebrates Climate Week in Massachusetts, we recognize that extreme weather events throughout the country this past year demonstrate the need for action on resiliency to protect public health.
Memento mori: Latin for “Be mindful of death,” or more colloquially, “Remember that you have to die.”
The Vietnam Moving Wall has come and gone from Plum Island Airport over the Labor Day weekend, acknowledging the mobility in its name. But even more moving was the emotion that it stirred up.
A navigator/explorer sets out with royal backing to find a passage to India, and comes nowhere near it.
The Founding Fathers may have declared independence from Britain in 1776, but the real work of putting together the new government did not take place until the Constitutional Convention met between May and September of 1787 in the Pennsylvania State House (Independence Hall) in Philadelphia.
For reasons I'd rather not reveal, I am now an occasional refugee in downtown Newburyport.
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On Dec. 6, 1941, all was quiet at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. On Sept. 10, 2001, people went about their business in New York City. On Jan. 5, 2021, preparations for presidential succession were underway at the Capitol.
Most Americans alive 20 years ago remember where they were on Sept. 11, 2001. They remember the airplane hijackings, the attacks, and the collapse of the Twin Towers. They remember the nearly 3,000 who perished.
When World War II ended in Europe all soldiers thoughts were about getting home. We really didn’t realize what an enormous task that was to be. It took months to get millions of us home. Meanwhile, what was the government to do with us all? The government came up with a grand idea – have th…
For the past year I have been a member of our volunteer court advocate team with the Jeanne Geiger Crisis Center, our local organization dedicated to ending domestic violence.
It’s been a tough week for America.
After a rocky start, Massachusetts has scored some significant victories in the battle against COVID-19, most notably the success of our vaccination efforts. Today, Massachusetts is one of the most highly vaccinated states in the country, and efforts targeted at the most difficult to reach p…
Pardon me, but the Good Book needs to be invoked here of late, occasioned by a necessary correction that has become instead a kerfuffle. I speak of a neighborhood in which people live called my neighbors.
Editor’s note: This is one in a continuing series of guest opinions about fostering environmental stewardship with an appreciation for our surroundings and the well-being of future generations. The series is coordinated by ACES, the Alliance of Climate and Environmental Stewards.
I’ve never been a fan of big-time sports. Back in my coaching years, I was into them more, but now they seem to have gotten too big.
“I just want my kids to be happy.”
The odds were astronomical, yet it happened.
Chaotic scenes in Kabul accompanied the return to power of the Taliban in Afghanistan. The fundamentalist Islamic group was able to retake power after President Joe Biden’s decision to withdraw the remaining U.S. troops from the country.
The woman describes herself as a spiritual consultant, an intuitive energy healer for the soul, mind and body.
Over my years in public life, I conducted many hearings that included comments from members of the public. I remember well that people often said when asserting a claim: “It’s my right as an American citizen.”
Everything I need is at Market Basket, from my favorite yogurt to real Greek feta to chia seeds.
Once a week, my two grandkids and I make up stories about imaginary places with improbable names: Planet Zobo, Planet Orcupine and Planet Pickwick.
We had grown gray in the muzzle together, he and I.
COVID-19 is a nightmare that has left more than 600,000 people dead in the United States alone.
There is a developing thin line in mainstream journalism ethics between what’s acceptable and what’s not in defining impartial, independent news coverage.
The peak of the summer season is upon us, and along the Merrimack River, there’s a sudden burst of activity — thousands of boats of every kind, and tens of thousands of people swimming, wading and fishing all along the river.
You try to use your credit card, but it doesn’t work. In fact, no one’s credit card works.
There’s a strong case that Congress should give legal status to millions of immigrants who are here illegally, at least under certain conditions. There’s a case, reasonable though not as strong, that we ought to have legislative rules that allow a bare majority of Congress to make that chan…
As the residents of this great city soon choose a new mayor, I think of the awesome opportunity this offers a person with new energy and different perspectives. There are five things that I encourage our mayoral candidates to focus on:
COVID-19 stay-at-home orders surely saved many lives, but a growing number of studies document that lockdowns led to more reports of domestic violence.
The hint of an education on race and racism I received in medical school involved a historical overview of the Tuskegee syphilis experiment and retired eugenics practices. As I rotated on the wards, race came up again as a vague tool to help narrow a diagnosis. New Black patient with severe …
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