To the editor:
Once, you had to achieve something: For example –– Ted Williams enters Baseball’s Hall of Fame.
Now there are halls of fame for anything and anybody. For example –– soon there will be a Bat Boy Hall of Fame.
How about a Hall of Fame for custodians?
What is behind this impulse to commemorate blindly? It may be better not to ask.
But one does ask. And one may know. There is little really important in our society.
Malcolm Miller
Salem
Associated Press Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., chair of the Tea Party Caucus, center, speaks during a news conference with tea party leaders about the IRS targeting tea party groups on Capitol Hill Thursday.
You don't have to be a member of the tea party to be outraged over the Internal Revenue Service's special and unwarranted scrutiny of conservative groups. I'm not, and I am. For four decades liberals have nursed hurts over the Nixon administration's
Sociologists are damned with the burden of knowing all the troubles of the world. In his book "Culture Making," Andy Crouch describes journalists as the poor cousins of sociologists. Both study the mechanisms of culture, and both are damned. As a soc
To the editor: I wanted to take a moment to thank all of the voters who came out to vote in last Tuesday's election. While the results did not return me to the job, I appreciate the opportunity to have served this great town for the past nine years.
Distrust of government secrecy has been elevated to an exceptional level with the disclosure the Justice Department covertly examined two months of Associated Press phone records to determine who leaked details to the AP about a foiled terrorist plot
Here's hoping the Beverly City Council approves a proposal to allow a handful of restaurants to offer full-service sidewalk dining on a trial basis. If successful, it would be another boost for a blossoming downtown. Under current city rules, restaur
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