Selection of letters and online comments from readers show a community engaged, involved, and demanding better
Category: Community Voices
Opinion: ‘Strategy’ to protect right whales from offshore wind development is recipe for extinction
“The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management’s ‘strategy’ is cover-your-behind political chicanery in service of the offshore wind industry’s furious rush toward cashing in on enormous amounts of public monies.”
Differing reactions to the Z renovation: ‘Money well spent’ … ‘What a money pit’
Community weighs in on $31 million renovation plans to overhaul the Performing Arts Center.
Reader reactions to State Pier plans are as mixed as city is diverse
Congratulations, skepticism, excitement, criticism … Readers had a wide variety of reactions and thoughtful commentary.
Essay: Faithful friend brings New Year’s message to The Ancient Scribe
No doubt something really big will happen here, sooner or later. Maybe it will be the wind industry but maybe it’ll be nuclear fusion, sooner or later. We’ll see. Foreign investment is big in our fishery. Let’s see how much capital gets invested in wind.
Opinion: Condemn hate speech, don’t give it a platform
The argument in the Old Rochester School District that all voices need to be heard — no matter how bigoted, homophobic, outlandish, or lacking in factual basis — is extremely damaging.
Letters to the Light: Offshore wind concerns, the future of women’s reproductive rights, and one reader catches a squirrel in the act
A call for transparency to address wind delays; and how about a regional approach to protecting wildlife?
Essay: ‘Guy from the newspaper’ offers opinion on housing crisis — ‘No doubling and tripling’ rent
Joseph Quigley, a tenant featured in The Light’s housing crisis series, also suggests “No blind buyers. People should know who their landlords are.”
New Bedford fisherman’s essay unleashes flood of comments
“My skipper friend whose family had fished for generations said, simply, that oversight is necessary because the fishermen wouldn’t self-limit their take and were taking everything that they hauled.” — Reader Stephen Mello
Commentary: Fishing rules are strangling honest, hard-working, blue-collar fishermen
I’m not a fortune teller; I’m just a fisherman. I have no vested interest, other than it’s a job. My job employs thousands, and that keeps those lives turning. When the last fish is landed, it’s all over.