A wider variety of housing strengthens a community by allowing residents to remain through different stages of life while attracting new households.
Category: Community Voices
Opinion: Civility has never meant avoiding conflict
It means remembering that the person across from us deserves to be treated with dignity, even when we are convinced they are wrong.
Letter: Nursing home staffing investigation deserves praise
It demonstrates convincingly that without strict enforcement and meaningful financial deterrents, regulatory thresholds exist only on paper while residents pay the price.
Opinion: A once-in-a-generation opportunity: Getting Fall River’s waterfront right for everyone
A waterfront built with extraordinary public investment should reflect the needs of everyone in Fall River — not just the well-off.
Opinion: It’s time to address mental health, suicide in heavy industry
Key recommendations include peer support training, increased mental health resources, and postvention services after a critical incident or loss.
Essay: The regatta on Buzzards Bay is a sailor’s dream
The New Bedford Junior Regatta on Buzzards Bay encourages kids to fall in love with sailing — as a way to race against the winds, or just as a hobby.
Opinion: SAVE America Act – When election security becomes voter suppression
Americans should not have to overcome new bureaucratic hurdles to exercise one of our most fundamental constitutional rights.
Opinion: Keeping the lights on with offshore wind
Offshore wind farms maintain energy affordability and pull in the direction of local reinvestment.
Essay: Bristol Community College training first generation of offshore wind workers
New director of the National Offshore Wind Institute at BCC: “Offshore wind is more than an energy source. It is an opportunity.”
Opinion: Increased pipeline capacity won’t solve our problems
But it will increase profit margins for energy companies while making us more dependent on their product.

