Recent statistics indicate that the single-biggest cause of motor vehicle accidents these days can be attributed generally to what is known as “distracted driving.†According to some reports, more Americans now are killed on our roads because of distracted driving…
Category: Editorials
Robert L. Driscoll Sr.
The passing this week of Robert L. Driscoll Sr. removes from our midst one of the truly great public servants in the history of the Town of Winthrop. Bob served for many years on the Planning Board, not merely with…
Letters to the Editor
35 birch road has not been sold Dear Editor, Due to a processing error at real estate data analytics firm The Warren Group, from which the Winthrop Sun sources its real estate sales, a recent sale at 33-35 Billows St,…
March: In like a Lion
Just when all of us were counting the days to the beginning of spring — known as the vernal equinox, which this year falls on Wednesday, March 20, at 5:58 p.m. — Ol’ Man Winter struck with a vengeance, bringing…
Let’s Close the Loophole in State Law to End Human Trafficking
The recent national news stories concerning a massage parlor in Jupiter, Fla., have brought to light what is nothing less than a national abomination: The trafficking of women that reaches into every corner of the United States. The news stories…
Massachusetts Greenworks Is an Investment in Our Present — And Future
The announcement last week by House Speaker Robert A. DeLeo that the state will be investing $1 billion over the next decade to help communities across Massachusetts adopt technologies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and fortify infrastructure is welcome news…
LETTERS to the Editor
REINSTATE FRIDAY BUSINESS HOURS AT TOWN HALL Dear Editor, The following was submitted to Town Councilors and Town Manager Austin Faison. I urge you to reopen Town Hall on Friday mornings, which was town policy forever until the former town…
Letter to the Editor
First Year on the School Committee Dear Editor, While it seems like only yesterday that I was fortunate enough to be selected to fill a vacancy on the Winthrop School Committee, it is in fact one year since my appointment. …
Traffic, Traffic Everywhere
A recent national report confirmed what those of us in the Greater Boston area have known all-too-well for all-too-long: That by some measures, traffic congestion on our metropolitan roadways is the worst in the entire nation and among the worst…
Green New Deal Is a Good Deal
The growing movement for the federal government to take the lead in effecting policies that will negate the effects of both economic inequality and climate change has been incorporated into what is being referred to as the Green New Deal.…