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YOUR VIEW: A way to rein in town’s rising healthcare costs?

by Sam Cotter 01/14/202601/15/2026

The solution to Plymouth’s runaway healthcare costs is to get Mass-Care passed into law. What is Mass-Care? A very simple explanation – Mass-Care is state level single payer healthcare. The term “single payer” is either loved or despised. Whichever “camp” you fall into, it really is the path forward.     A huge benefit for municipalities is […]

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YOUR VIEW: Do stop-sign scofflaws hold the answer to town’s fiscal woes?

by Sam Cotter 12/21/202512/21/2025

Recently I read in the Plymouth Independent that the Town of Plymouth may have some upcoming fiscal challenges. Being a lifelong resident, naturally I want the town to be on solid monetary ground. I started to think about solving the town’s budding financial quandary. On a recent morning walk I watched the millionth vehicle speed […]

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Town needs more traffic circles to promote safer driving

by Sam Cotter 01/01/202501/02/2025

Driving around Plymouth, one only can wonder who is designing all these reworked intersections and what their intent is. The obvious intent is efficient and safe traffic flow, I think. The results all too often, fall terribly flat. The worst offender of this has to be the intersection of Halfway Pond Road and Bourne Road. […]

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