Trump's impact on Science

 Opinion | US can’t isolate itself from the world of science

In Boston Globe, Feb 2, 2026

Basic Research

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Opinion | Trump’s cuts threaten to rip research up by the roots

Trump's cruelty

 Opinion | Trump stokes anger and fear. What are editors to do?

In Boston Globe, April 23, 2025

Deadlines for Legislators

 Letter in Cambridge Day

At the end of a disappointing legislative session - Cambridge Day

Also in Boston Globe on August 31st.

Bumbling at the MBTA

 Bumbling at the T

Trump. the 14th Amendment and the Congress

 https://www.cambridgeday.com/2023/09/17/trump-the-14th-amendment-and-the-congress/

Published in Cambridge Day

Shared appreciation Mortgages

 Scroll down for my letter:

Controversial mortgage program has served a vital need - The Boston Globe

see also, Post: Edit (blogger.com)

Images of Gun Violence

 Scroll down this link for my letter on grisly images of gun violence:

No need for pictures to understand carnage of gun violence - The Boston Globe

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Vaccination

 Scroll down for my Boston Glone  lettter:

For those outides the firewall. This is what I said. They edited out the material in brackets.

Some 70 years ago when I was ten or eleven years old, I suffered from sinusitis. It was severe enough that I was in hospital for a few weeks in the winter at the Bristol (UK) Children’s Hospital. All I remember about the treatment was that at night, they bundled us up warmly and trundled our hospital beds on to an open balcony so we could get fresh air while we slept. [I do remember that the patients were cared for by rotating shifts of nurses from the West Indies; part of the Windrush diaspora that saved the expanding British National Health Service in its early years.]

During the day we were free to sit in bed, walk around our ward, and venture a little into nearby wards as long as they were not filled with infectious children.

Our ward was adjacent to the polio ward. Several kids were usually swinging around on their crutches making good time going from friend to friend. They were the lucky ones. Others, sicker, were propped up in their beds reading or listening to headphones. The sickest were cocooned in their iron lungs that wheezed while squeezing air into these critically ill kids to help them stay alive.

I always remember that the kids on crutches were awed that I could walk around without any help.

Within ten years, polio vaccinations eliminated this devastating disease from our lives.

Right now the COVID-19 vaccines are keeping this disease from further ravaging our society. They will only do so if all of us who can get vaccinated do get vaccinated. Any adverse reactions to the vaccine are miniscule compared with the suffering that one might experience if COVID-19 struck.

I will never forget how as a child, I saw polio stricken youngsters my age facing a life on crutches or in iron lungs, just like COVID-19 sufferers on ventilators are immobilized. That haunting memory made me set aside vaccination hesitation.

DOJ u-turn

 Letter in Boston Globe on DOJ

Layoffs

Scroll down for my letter on layoffs

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/03/14/opinion/preparing-bumps-ahead/

Automatic voter registration

Letter in Boston Globe
March 30 2018

President's Parade

check my letter in today's (Feb 10, 2018) Boston Globe:

https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/letters/2018/02/10/trump-peacock-president-puffs-his-feathers/VH7whSH5jnXYH5Q2w3iI1I/story.html Scroll down to "Um, Mr. President, our troops are, well, kind of busy"

Deduct Mortgage Interest

Letter in the Cambridge Chronicle

Support Dreamers

First letter in this sequence:

https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/letters/2017/09/06/trump-order-injects-urgency-into-calls-for-immigration-reform/4DLTTMRHZw1HbacvBQGBgO/story.html


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Miscue over North Korea

Letter in New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/19/opinion/miscue-over-north-korea.html

Letter in Cambridge Chronicle

http://cambridge.wickedlocal.com/news/20170321/letter-reject-judge-gorsuchs-nomination

Early Voting

Thanks to City of Cambridge

Cambridge Chronicle

SCOTUS

SCOTUS: Consult the senate

Markets and GMO

There is one overarching argument in favor of labeling.

Markets work best when buyers and sellers both have full information.

We believe in markets; we must therefore label products accurately.

Published in Boston Globe