Thomas Moakley will be a very effective Massachusetts state senator. He is one of three brothers who all earned the Eagle Scout achievement while I was the committee chairm…
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Recent Editorials, Letters, Guest Articles
A little over a month ago, a proposed resolution was filed with the Barnstable County Assembly of Delegates which sought to improperly shame and censure me for publicly cri…
I would like to respond to a letter in the November 29 edition of the Bourne Enterprise (“How Many ‘No’ Votes Needed?”) about Bourne’s recent revisiting of the recreational…
Virtual reality is big these days. Arguably, it’s been big in our culture for decades, spurred on by movies such as “The Matrix” (1999) and video games such as “Assassin’s …
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The Wednesday, November 20, vote by the Barnstable County Assembly of Delegates on whether or not to move forward with the proposal to eliminate the county commissioners fa…
I encourage the Bourne Board of Selectmen to reject the shortsighted proposal put before them recently to kill efforts to bring commuter rail to Buzzards Bay by pulling out…
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Five years ago, two hard-working, dedicated and savvy independent business people, Russ and Erin, opened the Gray Gables Market on Shore Road in Bourne. Those of us who liv…
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We continue to hear the “Impossible Dream” from Selectman Peter Meier and others on the board of selectmen as well as Mr. Tom Cahir of CCRTA.
This week’s freezing temperatures were a wake-up call.
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In Michael Rausch’s article on November 1 about the discussion about marijuana and allowing Mr. Taloumis to speak at the Bourne Town Meeting about a nonresident is a little…
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The Enterprise editorial of October 25, 2019, questioned “if residents of Bourne truly cared about combating an addiction that ruins lives and families,” it would be in fig…
Congratulations to Bourne residents who voted to limit the availability and social accessibility of commercialized marijuana. We have a community right and moral obligation…
Landmarks were set at the Bourne Town Meeting when the electronic vote was introduced and was, in my view, a huge plus in the conducting of the legislative process. Kudos t…
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