The musical explores the courage, conviction, and personal sacrifice of leaders and extraordinary “ordinary” Americans who put everything on the line to attain freedom.
Will we again be looking at the concept of separate “equals,” or will we stand with the idea that we are all equal, that walking down the street with my neighbor, I will be able to look him in the eye and say we are the same whether he lives here all of the time or only some of the time?
While no two eras are identical, historians and political scientists have noted striking parallels between the MAGA movement and the rise of right-wing populism in pre-war Germany.
It’s a horrible idea. It’s undemocratic, unsound, and bound to have repercussions to which the strident voices pushing the tax increase are blind, perhaps purposely because it is to their benefit.
I’m not writing this out of anger alone, but out of concern and exhaustion. Families like mine are doing everything we can to stay, work, and contribute to this community. But we cannot do it without support.
School Committee members are elected officials. They cannot be removed from their position unless they are convicted of a criminal offense. Their term is generally four years. Resignation requires the filing of an official letter.
If Art Batacchi and Kim Alcantara cannot work constructively with the current leadership and the rest of the committee, then they should be replaced by individuals who will work together in a positive way for every student, employee, and resident of the SBRSD.
Sanger’s use of the phrase “But all wars end sometime” implies an unsupportable faith that this one (or the one in Ukraine) will not be ended by a civilization-destroying nuclear war.
In the age of Trump, instead of people of quality, honesty, conviction, and skill, we have clowns, adolescents, warmed-over fascists, and incompetents.
Massachusetts is the only blue state that has the 287(g) contract on the books. Gov. Maura Healey could stop this with a stroke of the pen rather than let the clock tick by for legislation to be enacted while ICE is taking people away.
