Guest Commentary

Voices from our Salisbury community about the housing we need for a healthy, vibrant future

If you think about aging in place or finding a place for your parents or grandparents to be nearby, we have a number of good local options.

The horrific shooting at Robb Elementary in Uvalde has already been obscured by the January 6 hearings, the frightening drop in the stock market, the Russian capture of most of the Donbas and all the other bad news that crowds my inbox.

Years back the great Russell Baker in The New York Times said, What’s wrong with being Number 17? Why do we have to be Numero Uno?

In March of 2020, as panic struck the nation, people from all walks of life began sheltering in place to “flatten the curve,” in hopes that life would soon return to normal. What followed over the past two years has been anything but normal.

The name is so close to Busha , which is so close to about every Slavic word for Gramma. Gramma, whose teared-images in Ukraine have ripped us apart.

A Russian soldier approached a Ukrainian and said “We are liberating you!”

The Ukrainian said, “From what?” 

What makes evil? Wrong question. Always existed.

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which is not only ongoing but with every passing day is revealing further and worse atrocities by the invaders, is a torment for most Americans, who feel the unjustness of the invasion and the horrors that Ukrainians are going through.  Few things have united Americans, these past few years, as much as the current d

An old Ukrainian was being interviewed by cable and said his name, which apparently in Russian is like John Doe. He said he was hungry. The cable people gave him food.

After tapping the chimes at the Lakeville Post Office (gently, once!) I often admire the mural above the postmaster’s office door, painted in a style popular the last time the world was beset by a madman.