Editorials
Even the luckiest nations can lose their way when loyalty drifts from shared ideals to personalities and camps.
Some countries are born lucky.
The United States and Argentina both drew winning hands—wide rivers, deep soil, and more flat, fertile land than they knew what to do with. Nature all...
Show me your budget, and I’ll show you your values.” One public official said it years ago, but it remains just as true today—financial decisions are never value-neutral. They reflect what a community cares about most. That’s why Groton’s budget process is already open, visible, and accountable...
Groton has few opportunities left to shape its future, and the 23-acre Chapter 61 parcel on Common Street is one of them. Much of the land appears to be high and well-drained — exactly the kind of centrally located acreage the town will need for municipal purposes in the decades ahead. Parcels...
When the news first broke that UMass Memorial would be opening a satellite emergency facility in Groton, many of us felt the sting of loss. With Nashoba Valley Medical Center closing, the word “satellite” sounded like a consolation prize — a scaled-down substitute for a real hospital.
But the...
This is the final piece in a five-part series on the chronic underfunding of regional school districts in Massachusetts — and what must be done to change it.
By now, the pattern is painfully clear:
• Regional school districts are underfunded.
• The cost of education has risen dramatically.
• ...
This is the fourth in a five-part series on why Massachusetts continues to underfund regional school districts and why the system is built to delay reform.
By now, the pattern is clear: the problem is known, the damage is ongoing, the Legislature promises to study it — and little changes. If...
This is the second in a five-part series on why Massachusetts has failed to fix the chronic underfunding of regional school districts — and who holds the power to change it.
In Massachusetts, power doesn’t work the way most people think it does.
We have a Legislature with 160 elected members....
When dozens of Groton families learned their wells were contaminated with PFAS, the stress was immediate and personal: bottled water, health worries, and uncertainty about the future. Then came the town’s plan for connecting those households to safe municipal water — but with a catch. Families were...
Now it came to pass in the days of continual tempests, that Patriot dwelt in a town by the sea, whose people had grown weary of their charge. For atop the Hill of Vigilance there stood a Lantern, set there by the Elders in ancient days, to give light unto the mariner and warn of peril. But the path...
A printed weekly is to a community what a vinyl record is to music lovers. A digital song might be more convenient, but the exquisite experience of dropping the needle and listening with intention is something else entirely. It requires presence. So does a printed newspaper.
At the national...