Since the evacuation of the HMS Birkenhead in 1852, “women and children first” has been the code of conduct to protect the most helpless among us from impending disaster. Today we look to them not only to save themselves but to save the rest of us as well. Last year, women were marching. Today, they …
Category: Politics
Trump infrastructure proposal another administration fraud
Every day, as I either skirt around or clunk into and out of potholes, I’m reminded of our crumbling infrastructure and of the lame political promises of the Trump administration to fix our roads, bridges, airports, water and sewer pipes and more. Just before the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre in Parkland Florida, Donald …
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School shooting tragedy by the numbers
Every time I have written about gun violence and mass shootings, one reader or another (you know who you are) will charge me with being a bleeding heart liberal. So, let's take the emotion out of the equation. After all, we've been through this scenario multiple times. The horror has become part of our national …
Trump trumpets economic performance: questions remain
The stock market is up “very, very big today” and the “tax cuts are really kicking in far beyond what anyone thought,” President Trump said last week, making an illogical cause-and-effect connection between the two. He also touted the latest jobs report. During the week, he claimed the gain in market value was due to …
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Headlines I’m looking for in 2018
My New Year's gift to you is a list of headlines. I have precious little expectation that we will see them atop newspapers, magazines, newscasts or on social media in 2018. Please send your own in the comments section below. I won't do something snide like: President receives heart transplant, develops empathy and humility. Perhaps the …
Marty Walsh sounds right tone
The last inauguration I listened to was a little less than a year ago when the worst President of my lifetime was sworn in. This morning, with former Vice President Joe Biden by his side, Marty Walsh took the oath of office for a second term as mayor of Boston, a stirring reminder of what …
Oh, what a year it has been!
Queen Elizabeth had nothing on us when she declared 1992 an annus horribilis. All she had to endure were the respective marital difficulties of son Andrew and daughter Anne, a tell-all book by Princess Di about Charles and Camilla, and a fire at Windsor Castle. We, on the other hand, in 2017 have had to …
Doug Jones victory just Step One
It was a lot easier getting up this morning knowing the headline out of Alabama read: first Democrat elected to the U.S. Senate in a quarter of a century from the state known as “the Heart of Dixie.” Was there finally a candidate so loathsome that voter interest in integrity prevailed over tribal instinct, country over …
Sexual transgressors: the beat goes on
Dr. Seuss asked the right question: "Could this go on all day and night? It could you know, and it just might." Every day, another high-visibility man named as having behaved inappropriately toward women. Every day, another sexual creep forced out of a position of power. Every day, another media revelation pulling back the curtain …
Senate President Rosenberg should step down
Massachusetts' Senate President is in trouble. The Boston Globe reports on four unnamed men subjected to sexual harassment by Bryon Hefner, the husband of Senate President Stan Rosenberg. MassLive reports this morning on a possible fifth case. Three of the alleged victims said Hefner grabbed their genitals while making clear that he could influence the outcome of …
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Marjorie Arons-Barron 