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Monday, January 5, 2009

Stella taught us all about grace, dignity

By Rachelle Cohen

We lost Stella on New Year’s Eve. Even as the city prepared to usher out this year that nearly everyone agrees...

2 Comments

State can’t afford to short higher ed

By Edward Moscovitch

Applications to Massachusetts state colleges are up dramatically this year. But with state revenues in free fall, Gov. Deval...

2 Comments

The numbers game

By Boston Herald Editorial Staff

For the second year in a row the murder rate in Boston has dropped, and while hardly cause for celebration it is news at...

3 Comments

Don’t drive to extremes

By Boston Herald Editorial Staff

Former Gov. Mitt Romney was fond of deriding our old auto insurance system for being designed in the “Soviet style.”...

1 Comment

Dumbing terror down

By Jonah Goldberg

If you’re old enough to have been around in the 1980s, and possibly even if you aren’t, you probably know the...

5 Comments

Tap beer tax

By Regina Cameron

My mother called it the “sin tax” - the extra coins tacked on to a cigarette or a bottle of beer (the Lottery...

13 Comments

Cross at own risk

By Ed Jupin

One of the few places in Boston where I’ve never been completely comfortable is Downtown Crossing (Dec. 29). I have seen what appeared to be drug...

Media double standard

By Scott Fay

It’s one thing to run the Kennedy family fan club, which Wayne Woodlief apparently does. But to suggest that Caroline...

3 Comments

Remember Pine Street

By Bill Deignan

Congress has acted to avoid an economic catastrophe on Wall Street, now it needs to act on behalf of those on Pine Street....

2 Comments

Israel under fire

By Amy Goebel

I am apoplectic after reading one of the quotes (“Mom with Mass. ties caught in bombings,” Dec. 31). Nate Goldshlag...

4 Comments

Sunday, January 4, 2009

Change we need is more of same

By Michael Graham

Welcome to 2009, the Year Of Change! It will be a year like you’ve never seen before. Banks and brokers in crisis,...

26 Comments

A real stimulus bill

By Boston Herald Editorial Staff

What President-elect Barack Obama will propose to stimulate the economy after he takes office isn’t known, but it will be a large sum, perhaps $1...

Beating the competition

By Boston Herald Editorial Staff

Massachusetts again ranks first in a quadrennial survey of the states’ assets in science and technology. As pleasant as this is to contemplate, the survey...

Good intentions not always best

By George F. Will

WASHINGTON - Like pebbles tossed into ponds, important Supreme Court rulings radiate ripples of consequences. Consider a...

1 Comment

Lessons from ’08: Don’t trust feds, media

By Bill O’Reilly

Tough year, 2008. Many Americans got badly hurt by the economic chaos, which hit them like a back-alley mugger. What a disgrace....

8 Comments

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