As of this month we have been married 50 years. I don’t view it as a great achievement; all you have to do is stay married and live long enough. It was June 16, 1962, just before the sexual revolution. Probably just as well, otherwise I may have been... Read more
Community Comment
... The downtown office building at 178 Tremont Street across from Boston Common that is home to Action for Boston Community Development will be dedicated today in the memory of Robert M. Coard, the longtime leader of ABCD, Boston’s official... Read more
Gerard M. O’Neill’s new book, Rogues and Redeemers: When Politics Was King in Irish Boston, tells two interesting anecdotes that were fateful for Kevin White, Thomas Menino, and our city. O’Neill is the former head of the Boston Globe’s Spotlight... Read more
Childhood memories of playing hockey with my three younger brothers at a local rink in Worcester flashed through my mind recently as I entered the Emmons Horrigan O’Neil Memorial Rink in Charlestown. Whether it was after school or on the weekends,... Read more
Commencement orations at all scholastic levels contain the same basic ingredients: praise for what the student congregants have done to get to that point in their lives; thanks to teachers and parents; a woe-is-us contemplation of the present; and... Read more
The following benediction was given by Rev. James Savage, BC High Class of 1962, as he and his classmates lifted their arms in prayer and salutation to the newly minted graduates of the Class of 2012 at the school’s commencement exercises on May 20:... Read more
The following was submitted to the Reporter by state Sen. Sal DiDomenico of Everett and state Rep. Linda Dorcena Forry of Dorchester, co-chairs of the Joint Committee on Community Development and Small Business
What makes Massachusetts... Read more
The following presentation was delivered to the State House News Service by Massachusetts House Speaker Robert DeLeo and Rep. Brian Dempsey, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee.
Last month, the House voted 152-4 for a budget... Read more
Forays into political realm raise questions for both parties as the campaign goes on
Worcester Bishop Robert McManus recently told Victoria Kennedy, the widow of Senator Edward M. Kennedy, that she was “disinvited” from... Read more
With all of the hoopla surrounding the Trayvon Martin case in Florida, it is difficult to determine what likely happened. This is my take based on a lot of years of observing human nature and trying to find the truth.
A misguided law set the... Read more
On April 26, 2012, the Dorchester Reporter published an editorial titled, “New president, ominous signs at Carney Hospital” questioning Steward Health Care’s... Read more
To the Editor:
Another Dorchester Youth Hockey season has come to a close. The league’s girls teams had an incredible season with the Under 14’s winning the Mayor’s Cup and Districts. They represented DYH in Division 1 four straight years in the... Read more
Senator Scott Brown had it real rough growing up. Last Saturday, he met at a Dorchester church with mothers whose kids have been murdered. It was an hour where stories hung very heavy as the senator addressed the meeting of Mothers of Justice and... Read more
Many years ago while sitting in the old Dorchester District Court I had a confrontation with a young law student who went on to become one of the best criminal defense lawyers in the state.
I was presiding in a busy session trying to overcome... Read more
