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As original sponsor of an outright gift ban on the pharmaceutical industry over five years ago, I urge the governor to sign the health care cost containment bill in its current form. This bill contains much less restrictive requirements on corporations...

There are many things I want independence from — incoming e-mail, the section of my wedding vows about monogamy, this bogus corporation I created to lower my taxes but now takes up all of my time, Sam Zell — but foreign oil is not one of...

Trio of school leaders support positive change

The Standard-Times Editorial Board invites you to a public forum on perhaps the most pressing national political issue to hit the city in recent years: immigration.

No doubt many readers will chuckle at the idea of Massachusetts voting to eliminate the state income tax. After all, the proposal would slash state revenue by 40 percent, instantly crippling funding for, well, everything.

I wish to address Claude Ledoux's recent letters. I have been called intolerant and uncivil because of one comment I made at a recent joint meeting of the Board of Selectmen and school board.

When a country undergoes fast and unexpected change or feels under threat, its people are subject to commit outrages. By now the list of offenses and crimes committed against immigrants that violate our own moral codes in the Unites States are worthy of...

New Bedford embraced the power of imagination 50 years ago, Aug. 9-10, 1958. During that golden weekend, the first Scallop Festival was launched. It was also the opening of Storybook Land in Brooklawn Park.

Sometimes you just need an old board about this long...

In response to your Aug. 5 online report, "Poll shows 86 percent want civilian flaggers," flaggers seem like a greater waste of taxpayers' money.

Sean Gonsalves' July 30 column demonstrates once again that he lives in a bubble and writes in a vacuum.

I am a Vietnam veteran, and not only was I against that waste of lives before, during and after the fact, I'm also in opposition to the equally asinine waste of lives perpetrated by the moronic administration in power now.

Although different insurance plans have different copays, my plan has a $25 copay for any procedure performed in a doctor's office. If, however, I have the same outpatient work performed in a hospital, my copay jumps tenfold, to $250.

Two weeks ago, I looked closely at photo manipulation and the effect photo editing software has had on photojournalism. But there is much more to newspaper photography than that topic.

The following open letter from the Barnstable County Human Rights Commission was signed by Jacqueline P.