Category: Your View

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 […]

The Town Hall meeting regarding ICE was overflowing with people and propaganda, with one key element missing – the voices of marginalized individuals, like myself, who were directly impacted by the meeting. During the long evening, I silently absorbed all the terrible things said, only to be further disrespected by the board members. When [they […]

“The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over expecting a different result. “Albert Einstein is often credited with this quote even though historians believe he probably never said the words. In my opinion it is the perfect summation of everything that both major parties have failed at in governing the state […]

Recently there was an article in the Independent about there not being enough commercial development in Plymouth and how that would help expand our tax base. I am in favor of commercial development and its benefits. The reality is that there are commercial locations in this town that have been developed and are vacant not […]

After witnessing the Select Board meeting Tuesday night, I was struck by the inclusion of speakers who were not Plymouth residents being given time to speak over voting residents regarding the involvement of the Plymouth Police Dept. with ICE raids.  Several speakers, native and “wash ashore” residents of Plymouth were waiting to speak out against […]

We think it is unfortunate that the Select Board did not pass an ICE policy for all officials and employees of the Town of Plymouth as Select Board member [Kevin] Canty initially had proposed Tuesday night. This proposal is well within the purview of the elected Select Board members, and it is a shame that […]

Her name was Renee Nicole Good. She was 37 years old with a six-year-old child. She was murdered Wednesday by a federal ICE agent, one of some 2,000 that have descended upon Minnesota in a profoundly unnecessary and performative show of force. If they can kill a U.S. citizen in broad daylight who was exercising […]

I am writing regarding the Dec. 4 and 11 Airport Commission and the Plymouth Airport Community Advisory Committee meeting. A letter was submitted to the commissioners from Alpha One Flight School. Was it an offer/proposal to begin working together to meet the needs of the public?  Clearly, we don’t know because Transparency is not the […]

Years ago, health officials said cigarettes caused cancer. Then industry’s “tobacco scientists” claimed otherwise. The Harvard School of Public Health found proximity to nuclear plants, including Pilgrim, increases cancer risk. O’Brien, Holtec’s very own “tobacco scientist” denied the real scientists’ study. Do you believe the salesman or the scientists? Take a look at the Massachusetts […]

Some who are worried about the pollution and climate impact of burning fossil fuels are now supporting nuclear power because nuclear plants don’t spew CO2 into our air. But new Harvard School of Public Health research shows that people living within three miles of a nuclear power plant have a higher risk of getting cancer. […]