By: Cindy Annis – Dec. 2017 Connie Francis was born Concetta Rosa Maria on December 12, 1938. She grew up in Newark, New Jersey with her mother Ida and father, George. Since her father didn’t want children, he didn’t start to build a relationship with his daughter until she turned three. Concetta wanted to learn […]
By: Billy Cushing – Dec. 2017 When Bates Motel ended its 5-season run in April, it didn’t take long for its star, Freddie Highmore, to get another gig. Now he is starring on ABC’s excellent new series, The Good Doctor. The Good Doctor comes from creator David Shore, the same person who created the long […]
By: Bharani Padmanabhan – Dec. 2017 In the U.S. the government shall not favor one competitor over another within the marketplace. Charlie Baker’s Board of Registration in Medicine does this routinely. The state medical board, statutorily required to be neutral, in fact is on sale to the higher bidder and routinely rents its powers out […]
By: Senator Kathleen O’Connor Ives – Dec. 2017 I recently testified in front of the Joint Committee on Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture on a bill I co-sponsored, S448 An Act Promoting Awareness of Safe Recreation in Public Waterways requesting that it be given a favorable recommendation. This bill will institute a statewide sewage discharge […]
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: Shawn Hansen – Dec. 2017 For Dorothy “Dot” Hayes of the Jason Hayes Foundation, her week ended being honored in center court at the Boston Celtics/Orlando Magic game on November 24, 2017. Establishing the aforementioned foundation in 2005 in memory of her late son, Jason Hayes, Dot and other members of the foundation’s […]
Representative Frank A. Moran (D-Lawrence, Andover, Methuen) joined his colleagues in the Massachusetts Legislature to pass bipartisan legislation that updates the existing statute relative to English language education in the Commonwealth’s public schools. An Act relative to language opportunity for our kids, also known as the LOOK bill, promotes research-based best practices for programs serving […]
VALLEY PATRIOT EDITORIAL December, 2017 Last month this editorial page highlighted the problem of corporate social media tech-giants (like Facebook and Twitter) censoring political messages their employees don’t agree with. We were inundated by reader emails telling us that this was a manufactured crisis, claiming that Facebook and Twitter don’t censor messages based on the […]
Welcome to November which marks the last month of hurricane season. The last day of hurricane season is November 30th. During November the days continue to get shorter and the nights longer. We will have to go through early sunsets. The sun angle continues to get lower in the sky. As this occurs we will […]
By: Dr. Bharani Padmanabhan – Nov. 2017 Caring doctors are an easy mark. They come into medicine because they are softies and spend their lives staying soft. This endears them to their patients but makes them easy targets for the corrupt sociopaths who run certain state medical boards these days. Consider 84 year old Dr. […]
© 2017 by Heather Glidewell Published by: Inkitt Advanced Reader Copy: 175 pages (eBook). Genre: Fiction, Fantasy 4.8 out of 5 Bookmarkers I was hooked by the middle of the Prologue. I could not put this book down! Spent all day Sunday reading, eyes bloodshot, food to be cooked still in the frig. It’s been […]
By: Cindy Annis – Nov. 2017 The Byrds were a rock group from Los Angeles California. They started recording in the middle of 1964 with members Roger McGuinn, Gene Clark, and David Crosby. In 1957, Roger McGuinn went to ‘The Old Time School of Folk Music’ in Chicago. There, he learned how to play the […]
By: Alex Talcot – Nov.2017 If you are a Medicare enrollee, you should know that open enrollment takes place from October 15 through December 7, 2017. Any changes you make to your coverage will take effect on January 1, 2018. Since your health care priorities are likely to change over time, you might find it […]
By: Robin Desmet – Nov. 2017 Because I trap and rescue cats, people will often tell me that they can nolonger keep their own cat(s) and ask if I can rehome them. Well, the short answer is, “No. I cannot.” Believe it or not, everyone I know already has a cat or three. I always […]
By: Bill Cushing – Nov. 2017 “How do we get ahead of crazy, if we don’t know how crazy thinks?” That is the question posed by FBI Agent Bill Tench in the riveting new Netflix series Mindhunter. Tench (Holt McCallany) presents that question to his boss, a hardened bureau man who considers psychiatry as […]