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#MeToo, responsibility and common sense

#MeToo, responsibility and common sense

Okay, ladies and gentlemen, I am taking a stand. I will continue reading Eric Francis’ horoscopes. His horoscopes have always been the best and actually say something tangible and relevant and not vague. The whole me-too movement has turned into something akin to the Salem witch hunts, and it is fascinating and terrible to watch.

Port in a storm

Port in a storm

The wickeder the world gets, the more militant I get about keeping the doors of my big old Victorian open. I am forever telling friends: please come, please stay. No, really, we mean it.

Back to school

Back to school

What is being done is nowhere near what is needed. The local public schools are not using to the full extent the skills and the knowledge and the resources of the amazing communities they serve. Busing more kids around may help, but it’s not going to the heart of the problem.

The alms house surprise

The alms house surprise

Recalling the stunned silence that greeted the planning board’s 3-2 vote Monday to reject the site plan for Rupco’s Landmark Place project for the old city alms house, I feel pretty safe in saying that no one in the room, maybe not even those who voted against it, expected it to fail.

A dump by any other name

A dump by any other name

Trash, when fresh, is disgusting. But with the patina of a few decades on them, those old Moxie bottles and medicine tins begin to take on something of the dignity of old Pompeii.