OPINION: TYING UP SOME LOOSE ENDS
Reflecting on the “Curtatone era” and Mayor Katjana Ballantyne’s time, so far While I realize that it’s possible that no one thought twice about something I wrote about Joe Curtatone in my last column, I regretted it immediately after seeing it in print on December 22. And I am not referring to an overly harsh […]
OPINION: SOME HOPES AND WISHES FOR 2022 AND BEYOND
Photo by Eric Kilby, Flickr “I hope and trust that our city will continue to thrive as it has for the last 18 years.” May the coming year (or two) be the last ones in which this damn pandemic hangs over the entire world like a never-ending plague. I hope that in the next few […]
OPINION: THE ‘TAKEOVER’ OF SOMERVILLE FALLS FLAT
“Vows to ‘takeover’ our city’s political agenda clearly backfired.” The Boston chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America had a rude awakening on election day. The city of Somerville wasn’t ready to be taken over by a Boston-based group that backed a slate of candidates who did their best to conceal their support for the […]
OPINION: WHO TO SUPPORT IN THE AT-LARGE RACES?
Ken Brociner offers his take on the candidates running for councilor-at-large
OPINION: A CLOSER LOOK AT THE SEPT 14 ELECTION RESULTS
“There is a whole other backstory to the races in Wards 5 and 7, as well as in the races for the At-Large seats on the City Council.”
OPINION: A LOOK AT THE RACES IN WARDS 5 AND 7
Ken Brociner weighs in on two candidates running for City Council.
OPINION: SOMERVILLE’S DSA CANDIDATES AND DEFUNDING THE POLICE
“The last thing we need in the fight against the far-right’s attacks against everything we hold dear is for our fellow progressives to use the kind of rhetoric (like “defund the police”) that reinforces negative stereotypes about Democrats and plays right into the hands of the Republican Party.”
SOMERVILLE WIRE: June 22, 2021 WEEKLY ROUNDUP
The eviction moratorium is prolonged, City Council candidate Stephenson Aman barred from an ORS forum, and the annual Fourth of July fireworks
Q & A ABOUT DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISM IN SOMERVILLE
Ken Brociner responds to Politico headline referring to “socialist takeover”
