Councilor Coletta states “the rats are going to hate us” when realistically they will be laughing at the city council. Female rats start breeding at about 8-12 weeks and have about 20 pups each gestation period, and can become pregnant after giving birth, producing hundreds of pups each year. So hiring a rat czar is about as productive as a drug czar trying to stop drug trafficking. Czar is defined as a person having great power or authority. By definition a rat czar will have no power or authority over rats.
The city council has never been good at having common sense.
Councilman Arroyo believes a rat czar is what the city needs only validates his lack of common sense . Good luck in trying to control something that you (the city) has no control over, like Methadone Mile and drug trafficking.
Mark Howland
Weymouth
Joe Biden is the croupier at the gaming table our our politics. He is gambling that Donald Trump will not roll snake eyes and crap out before claiming the Republican nomination. By bruiting that he may not enter primary debates, Mr. Trump may be doing just that. He may be bluffing about debates, but without him on that stage there is no show and he and his fans know that. However, if the possibility of not debating is not a head fake, then many more serious Republican candidates may announce and one or more may catch fire and stall the nomination blitzkrieg he expects. He still has not figured out that his victory in 2016 was only because his opponent was the only one he could have defeated, as shown in 2020. Mr. Trump may be holding a losing hand, just what Democrats want.
Paul Bloustein
Cincinnati, Ohio
“Integrity in short supply” (Boston Herald, 4/25,) hits the nail squarely on the head by pointing out the fallacies of the cable news network in disseminating false narratives disguised as “news” to push their own agenda.
The editorial’s reminder that “the news media needs integrity now more than ever” is a timely one with the 2024 presidential election just around the corner. No one of sound mind wishes another 2020 election cycle.
The 2020 presidential election ended with several questionable issues, some do not merit any considerations but a few certainly tipped the scale unduly in favor of one candidate due to lack of proper coverage by trusted news outlets. Case in point is the suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop scandal which was dismissed as “Russian disinformation.”
It is disheartening to note that the tentacles of dishonesty have spread into government institutions such as the Department of Justice, FBI and Intel Committee. They have their fingerprints on this scandal. The 51 bureaucrats of the House Intel committee made the voting public believe that the “laptop saga” was Russian disinformation and the news media never took a step to challenge it.
It has become clear now that this is utterly false. Yet there were no apologies from any one of the top 51.
Truth always matters in both in our private life as well as in government circles for us to thrive as a proud nation.
Pichai Gopal
Braintree