It's the same con game: impose a new tax on the distributor, who then passes it on to you in the form of higher prices. The state collects at both ends.
Market Basket freezer cases, normally brimming with frozen turkeys this time of year, are not and the store has yet to begin taking orders for holiday birds.
This is not the time to raise taxes while so many are hurting. Voters already made it abundantly clear they do not favor an increase in the state's gas tax.
Massachusetts cannot continue to fund the pop-up vaccination clinics in New Bedford forever. It's time people began taking responsibility for themselves.
How many administrations will it take to understand that people do not want to park in the Elm Street Garage and walk uphill into downtown New Bedford?
While renaming a New Bedford park for civil rights hero Dr. Jibreel Khazan of 'Greensboro Four' was a great step, the city should erect a statue in his honor.