Senator Warren is on an important mission for our students who travel by bus. She is out to reduce the carbon pollution of our fleet of school buses. Sen. Warren wants schools to apply for electric school bus grants
Jane Burston, Director and Founder of the Clean Air Fund, said that according to the World Health Organization, pollution is the cause of 7 million deaths worldwide. She says that children breathe faster and so take in more dirty air. Very small children are even more vulnerable because they are closer to the ground.
Air pollution coming from tailpipes and smokestacks is the primary reason the weather is getting weird and the planet is heating up. Arnold Schwarzenegger, in a recent TV interview, agreed but said we should be calling this crisis what it is – pollution!
Electric school buses will have an immediate health benefit to students and will send a strong message to them that the adults in their lives care about their future.
Jan Kubiac
Hyannis
The Herald said Maura Healey’s Ireland trip was expensive (“How spendy is Healey’s trip,” 6/29/23). The answer is, it does not matter.
When it is not your money, then money is no object. Another question about this trip, what does it do for the state where we (not me by the way) elected you governor?
Once again the answer is the same, it does not matter as long as we, the taxpayers foot the bill.
Keep electing these reckless spenders and then nothing will ever change!
Michael Westen
Malden
Kudos to the Boston Herald for its June 27 editorial (“Back off Mayor Wu.”) Why is the mayor clearly trying to politicize public safety? Why is the mayor also calling the response to a South Boston project overdose tainted by “conspiracy theories” and “rumors?” This kind of talk only makes what happened following the arrival of Boston Fire apparatus arriving at the Mary Ellen McCormack housing project all that more confusing. Why are we seeing different reports of this incident? One from Boston Fire which was first on the scene and a second report from Boston PD who arrived with EMS reportedly a half hour later. If the fire department noticed evidence of drug use, I would tend to believe what they saw.
Howie Carr, in his Boston Herald June 23 commentary, spoke truth to power that cannot be ignored. What is causing all this confusion about what happened in that project apartment? Is there something more to this news story but surely we know that can’t be true because the mayor called such thinking “conspiracy theories.”
Kudos to Boston Fire for filing a 51A neglect report with DCF for the four minors inside that apartment. Meanwhile, politicians and BHA officials take tours around this housing development. For what reason? Perhaps, the Mary Ellen McCormack project got lost in the bureaucracy of the system. However, the citizens of Boston, especially those within BHA housing need to know what happened in that project apartment on that Saturday morning that has seemingly caused so much chaos between fire, police and city hall officials.
Sal Giarratani
East Boston