Reader: They don’t belong here, have no rights and need to be on a plane back to Mexico or Venezuela. What part of illegal don’t you understand?
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Essay: Wampanoag Experience Project highlights Native history in the South Coast area
Wampanoags still love this land, its woods, its rivers, its bays. We love to fish in her waters and to walk in her woods, through the swamps. We still honor the bounty of the land, turkey and deer, medicine plants and wild blueberries.
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Letters to The Light: No room for Bernier’s bitterness
“This is no time to let hurt feelings stand in the way of long overdue changes needed in our county corrections system. There is just too much at stake.”
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Letters to The Light: Less drill to the test and more teach to the moment!
Readers voice their opinion on raising MCAS standards and delays in clean energy
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Opinion: Drone killing of Al Qaeda leader vindicates Biden’s ‘over the horizon’ strategy
The fact that the CIA was able to track down a wanted terrorist in a remote land and kill him from afar is testimony to its remarkable ability to maintain and project its counter-terrorism capabilities.
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Opinion: Civil injustice, or how not to keep a republic
In all, the justices cast aside precedent, conflict of interest and all other principles of judicial restraint in a scheme to align the law with their political and religious preferences.
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Letters to The Light: An enlightening Chat and more reaction to fishing investigation
Reader: “Highlighting the fact that votes are being cast based upon the like or dislike of a candidate’s demeanor … was eye opening.”
Posted inCommunity Voices / Fishing Crisis
Opinion: It’s time to end the era of billion-dollar ‘sealords’ and heed the fishermen
Congress must listen to the voices that for nearly 30 years have consistently sounded the alarm about management schemes that privatize fishing rights, industrialize the ocean, and undermine our public commons.
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Letters to The Light: Spillane’s column honors Montigny’s important contribution
Bringing the College of Visual and Performing Arts into a renovated Star Store was the critical piece of the downtown puzzle. Keeping it here preserves downtown’s important anchor.
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Public reaction to New Bedford fishing industry investigation: ‘This is a disgrace’
“What hurts them and their families, hurts me … I think putting the squeeze on the very people who do the backbreaking work is unconscionable. Corporate greed at its best.”