The Valley Patriot BASH Committee has announced the nominees for the 2018 Valley Patriot Editor’s Choice Awards. Winners will be announced on March 23rd at the Firefighters Relief’s In at 7pm. 2018 NoGet your tickets or make a donation HERE:minees: Forest Rain, From Israel to The Valley Patriot Robin Desmet, Robin’s Kitty Corner Freddie! Peter […]
By: Aliana B. E. von Richthofen – -May, 2021 Elli had stopped at the hospital, before returning home from February break looking happier than all week away from his patients. He had been hired the previous year, barely 31 years old, as co-director of Intensive Care and director of Respiratory Therapy at the New England Deaconess […]
By: Aliana Brodmann E. von Richthofen -July, 2020 America’s identity since her inception was defined by the fundamental principles of democracy that encompass the inalienable right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for all citizens. Despite of this obligation the height of disregard for these inalienable rights was broadcast last month world-wide when […]
By: Aliana Brodmann E. von Richthofen, Feb. 2019 Whoever held out hope that Massachusetts would ultimately come through as a constitutional state had to finally give in. After a three year effort to create better accessibility to and transparency in the handling of public records, the proposed expansion of the public records law to cover the […]
WELLESLEY’S TRASH By: Aliana Brodmann E. von Richthofen A 2016 posting in the “The Swellesley Report” lamented the moral demise at the Wellesley Dump, otherwise known as the Take & Leave area within the town’s Recycling & Disposal Facility. Apparently certain volunteers on site had turned this genteel Wellesley institution into a contentious environment by looting […]
HOW LONG UNTIL BOOKS ARE BURNED HERE? Aliana Brodmann von Richthofen George Orwell: “Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations. In our times of phony communication overdrive, increased divisiveness and contentious discourse amid interest driven media and reports favoring powerful corporations disguised as news, writers like myself, […]
By: Aliana Brodmann von Richthofen – July, 2018 After having been around the so-called bush, otherwise known as the system of favoritism and corruption in Massachusetts, many times over, I should not be surprised that it engulfs the most feeble and vulnerable. But I was, nevertheless, shocked that there is neither mercy nor justice even for […]
By: Aliana Brodmann E. von Richthofen On the first day of my job at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute I came across a woman clearing out her cubicle in observable humiliation as her co-workers stood by, straining to avoid eye-contact with her. A newcomer and unfamiliar with hostile work environments until my employment at the Cancer Institute, […]
By: Aliana Brodmann E. von Richthofen – Feb. 2018 After decades of being begged by hundreds, if not thousands, of workplace abuse victims to report on this escalating crime, The Boston Globe finally published a superficial article on 12/30/17: “Still in the Shadows, bullying at work takes a huge toll.” For starters, it’s not in the […]
By: Aliana Brodmann E. von Richthofen, Dec. 2017 Not since the McCarthy era has one segment of society been hunted on the kind of threadbare allegations with the unconscionable sort of zealousness today’s men of influence are. Ever since Harvey Weinstein, pursued by tons of women for greater fame and fortune, or even just a bit […]
By: Aliana Brodmann E. von Richthofen – Sept. 2017 My, my, my – what a difference two decades and a president make, who is hated by the mainstream media to the point of insanity. So much so, that even the most jealously harbored taboos are now flung around like fishing nets to catch ever more […]