Category: Community Voices

“We need School Committee members who can address the real needs of our students and the ways in which we can best support their development as happy, respectful, and successful individuals.”

The decision makers in New Bedford appear to be “missing the forest for the trees” by seeming to grovel for more state money for land that would be essentially without any significant value except for the rail project.

If any city councilor does not vote in support of this motion then they are telling the community that our voice and concerns do not matter. They will have shown that they are not concerned about our residents’ voices.

One reader writes: “Energy capturing devices kill wildlife and no amount of greenwashing can change that fact. Destroying the planet to save it makes no sense.” Another: “It is either stop burning carbon or render large areas of the planet uninhabitable. … We need to do this.”

Offshore wind offers many opportunities for the fishing industry to participate and many members of the fishing industry have already seized them. These industries can grow together. That is happening. And that important point was missed in this article.

Public weighs in on hot topics: “No one has the right to tell someone what they can and cannot read,” writes one reader.

Our Bodies Our Lives is concerned for maternal health care for low-income residents of the South Coast, who are strategically disadvantaged by limited resources and inattentive health systems.

New Bedford Economic Development Council: Despite some of the controversy surrounding input into MassDevelopment’s RFP for the site, we encourage the Healey administration to continue driving this initiative forward. We support the process MassDevelopment has followed, and we strongly endorse the project proposal.

Program works to address this critical lack of middle-income housing by using a tax incentive to make developing market-rate housing in New Bedford more financially viable.