The Occupy Boston protesters have moved into Jamaica Plain and into Davis Square in Somerville. Why haven’t they come to Lynn? They could encamp on Lynn Common although we’d bet hardly anyone in this city would understand what the heck they were doing encamping in Lynn Common during the winter and nearly freezing to...
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Remembering the Past
This week marks the 70th anniversary of the Pearl Harbor surprise attack by the Japanese on December 7, 1941. Most Americans alive today cannot recall that day and year. They can’t even recall what the surprise attack was about nor is there the sense that this one attack galvanized a sleeping giant – the...
Thanksgiving 2011
The Thanksgiving holiday is upon us and we begin to wonder – where has the year gone and my, isn’t it flying by? What has it brought us and do we have anything to give thanks for? For those of you reading this, you should be grateful for having been given another year of...
Local Oil Industry in Big Trouble
The local oil heating industry is struggling to stay alive in a business climate set to ruin independent oil delivery companies as well as making it nearly impossible for consumers to pay to heat their homes with oil. The rampant commodities market speculation for oil has pushed a barrel of oil to nearly $100...
Veterans Day 2011
The nation finds itself gradually winding down from a decade in Iraq and winding down as well our involvement in Afghanistan after just as many years. We have lost more than 4400 Americans to the insanity of war, and civil war among the modern people of these two places who run their nations as...
Does Weekend Storm Speak Volumes About Winter to Come?
Most of us heard the lament loudly and clearly over the weekend about the snow coming so early, preceding even this week’s Halloween celebration. In more ways than we care to conjure up, snow this early and so plentiful in nearly all of Massachusetts except for Boston and the coastal area, is a bad...
The School Committee Race
The local campaigns for school committee are made up of those, for the most part, who attended Lynn public schools, whose kids attended or are attending Lynn public schools and whose grandchildren are attending Lynn’s public schools. Continuity is good. Pride is good. Unreality, however, should not be part of the agenda for the...
Halloween
Everyone in this city with kids will be out and about on Halloween. Huge throngs of kids and their parents or kids just by themselves come out to ask for candy throughout our major neighborhoods. This places an impossible task on our local police so we are urging parents and kids alike to exercise...
Shame on Tim Bassett
Everyone in Lynn in politics or in a position of responsibility over the past two decades has come to know Tim Bassett. He has been characterized in the Boston press as a former Lynn pol. Last week, he hit the jackpot – but not the jackpot former Lynn pols want to score on. He...
When Headlines Are Worse Than Reality
Like many Lynners going about their last week, we heard the first report over the car radio: “Abduction attempt at Lynn Classical High School.” Immediately, most of us with kids cringed. After all, that could be our kid if we live in this city. Then the reports start coming over the radio with greater...