The weekend snowfall was, obviously, magnificent. Whenever this old industrial city is turned perfectly white, there is always room for a sigh and a special look around us – for the snow changes the landscape and the atmosphere we live in whenever it happens. Now to the high tide Friday and Saturday. It was...
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Happy New Year
There is no way to know what awaits us before it happens – and so – we watch the coming of 2010 with great interest and hope. The hope is for a healthy, prosperous New Year. The interest is in having a positive year of gains and success in both our personal lives and...
Get out and vote
Everyone running for the late Senator Edward Kennedy’s senate seat will find out exactly where they stand on Tuesday. The important thing is to get out and vote. Tell your friends to vote. Make this a contest, not a giveaway. Make it a contest, not a hollow, unfulfilling exercise in democracy at its worst....
The USS JFK
Discussion is underway to make an attempt to bring the decommissioned USS John F. Kennedy to Boston. The aircraft carrier, as tall as the Empire State Building and displacing 100,000 tons, would be a wonderful tourist venue capable of generating millions of dollars while at the same time bringing tens of thousands of tourists...
Thanksgiving 2009
This time last year, the national economy was preparing for collapse. The economy’s beginning of the end, or as Churchill once said, the end of the beginning, came into full force in and around Thanksgiving 2008. Yet we all sat down with our families and friends last year for a hearty Thanksgiving dinner. One...
Front page photograph says it better than words
The smiling mayor elect Judith Flanagan-Kennedy shown side by side on our front page with the smiling Governor Deval Patrick in his Beacon Hill office last week proves the old adage that a picture is worth 10,000 words. In this instance, it is worth more like 100,000 words and tells the modern version of...
Lynnfield Street repairs
It is gratifying to learn that Lynnfield Street is up for some technical changes that will alter the situation where Lynnfield meets the Lynn border. Councillor Wayne Lozzi is the point man for most of the upcoming changes, which will not be taking place for two years. These changes are all about opportunity. Let...
Mayor-elect Judith Flanagan-Kennedy
Judith Flanagan-Kennedy’s election last week marks a new era in Lynn politics. Her candidacy by write-in defied all odds and her final victory, although by 27 votes, also defied all odds. Her two victories leading to the mayor’s office is the stuff of legend – and many, many years from now people will talk...
Get out and vote
You want Mayor Edward Chip Clancy to be returned for another four years, then you’ve got to get out and vote. You’d prefer his opponent, Councillor at Large Judith Flanagan Kennedy, well, you’ve got to get out and vote. You think you’ve got the answers to a better run Lynn, then you’ve got to...
A few last thoughts on Clancy versus Flanagan-Kennedy
It is very obvious that there is no love lost between Mayor Clancy and his opponent, Councilor at Large Judith Flanagan Kennedy. At a number of debates recently held they have repeatedly made every effort to outdo one another in every way they can. Flanagan-Kennedy, we believe, does not know they way but has...