Apparently football fans and NFL owners are ecstatic that wife-beater Ray Rice has won his appeal of the indefinite NFL suspension and can now be hired as a free agent. In a world that I want to live in, Mr. Rice would be a pariah that … [Read more...]

In my view, genuine support for those people and communities devastated by the collapse of the fishery takes a very different form from the proposals and speechifying currently in circulation. I would like to see us investing in … [Read more...]

The world, and Boston, has lost a spiritual giant. Thomas Shaw, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts for 20 years until his retirement earlier this year, died of brain cancer yesterday. In my view, he epitomized the sometimes … [Read more...]

More than SEVEN HUNDRED of our most needy residents were put on the street Wednesday after government officials were no longer willing to ignore the safety issues of the ONLY bridge linking the city's largest homeless shelter to the … [Read more...]

Whether intentional or not, today's Boston Globe offers a revealing micro-example of why voters stay home, and why even well-intentioned voters make bad decisions because they are given awful and misleading information. On the front page … [Read more...]

I understand that with ownership comes privilege. I understand that John Henry owns both the Red Sox and the Boston Globe. I know that summer Sundays are slow in this town. But seriously, "How many bleeping dents are in the Green Monster?" … [Read more...]

Updated with memorial service information From the rector of All Saint's, Brookline: [The leadership] here at All Saints, and musicians with whom he had deep and lasting relationships, [have] decided that the most reasonable and … [Read more...]

There has been much discussion about how "marvelous" Arthur T. DeMoulas is. Some have questioned why I am so "cynical" about the accolades being given him. I have repeatedly insisted that the first step towards actually improving life for … [Read more...]

The Boston Globe this morning reports that Attorney General and gubernatorial candidate Martha Coakley yesterday publicly excoriated WEEI talk-show hosts for their offensive attacks on Erin Andrews: Stomping onto the dangerous turf of … [Read more...]

At least here on my firefox browser, I don't get the "Discuss" button underneath the "Recommend" button for the recent Women's Leadership Council Responds... post. I notice the same about the previous post from them, Candidate for State … [Read more...]