Municipal elections are the building blocks of politics. They are where issues surface and policies emerge, and where nearly all state and federal leaders get their start in politics. But held “off-cycle” in odd-numbered years and separate from state and federal elections, municipal elections have experienced declining participation for decades. It’s time to change that in Massachusetts.
It has been a year since DPH allowed the closure of the Carney Hospital, which had served Boston and nearby suburbs since 1863.
We do not yet know the fate of the “big, beautiful bill” (BBB) that President Trump is pushing in Congress, but we know what the effect will be if it is passed, and it will be devastating to Massachusetts.
On Sunday, all of the Daily Table stores will close, a decision made by the board of directors. It’s a heartbreaking call.
It was September 1972. I had just arrived in Boston as a freshman at Boston University. As a Catholic, I attended Mass at BU’s Newman Center, where I heard about the lettuce boycott in support of Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers.
The death and destruction of the Los Angeles fires has caused me to think about what devastation our region of the country needs to fear, and whether we’re prepared. If the Achilles heel of southern California is the Santa Ana winds, ours is a major hurricane at high tide.