By Joe Robbat This year’s election is important. We need to reelect Rick Rundell and Lynn DeLisi to the Planning Board because, like their current board colleagues, they are committed to town planning — the board’s most important contribution to the town, in my view. Thoughtful, prescient land use recommendations to town meetings from Planning…
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My Turn: Many are disenfranchised at Town Meeting
By Carol DiGianni Since the pandemic is still clearly a hazard for those of us who are seniors, or otherwise incapacitated, it seems like an oversight not to have options for some form of remote voting on Town Meeting warrant articles. There is remote voting in the upcoming election — why not for those of…
My Turn: BLM movement must extend to prison reform
By Laura Berland Nowhere are racial disparities more starkly on display than in our nation’s prison system. African-Americans are incarcerated in state prisons across the country at more than five times the rate of whites, and at least ten times the rate in five states. If you think Massachusetts is an exception to this terrible…
My Turn: DeLisi makes her case for reelection to Planning Board
(Editor’s note: DeLisi is one of three residents running for two seats on the Planning Board. The Lincoln Squirrel published statements by all three candidates in March and new statements from Rick Rundell and Bob Domnitz earlier this week. There will be an online forum for the candidates on June 11.) Dear neighbors, I am…
My Turn: Feinberg endorses Domnitz for Planning Board
Dear Lincolnites, It’s been a while since you heard from me. Some of you may remember me as the guy who wrote that weekly column in the Lincoln Journal about life and politics in Lincoln. Well, I’m ba-ack! At least for this one time, to wholeheartedly endorse Bob Domnitz for the Planning Board. Bob is…
“My Turn” replaces “Letters to the Editor”
To our readers: Starting today, the Lincoln Squirrel will run opinion pieces and letters under the banner of “My Turn.” This is more in line with how other newspapers and websites handle their “op ed” sections (opposite the editorial page, though the Squirrel does not feature editorials by editor/publisher Alice Waugh). In the past, we’ve…
Planning Board candidate forum on June 11
Lincoln resident Sharon Antia will host a forum on Zoom with the three Planning Board candidates running for two openings in the June 15 election on Thursday, June 11 at 7 p.m. If you have a question you’d like to ask one or more of the candidates, please email it to sharon.antia@gmail.com and she will compile…
My Turn: Robert Domnitz on why he’s running for Planning Board again
(Editor’s note: Following is a statement submitted to the Lincoln Squirrel by Robert Domnitz, who is running in the only contested race in this year’s local election. He was included in a roundup of Planning Board candidates published on March 5. In 2015, he narrowly lost a race for reelection to Gary Taylor.) By Robert…
My Turn: Minneapolis police conduct is offensive to the values of our department
(Editor’s note: This statement was published on the Lincoln Police Department’s Facebook page on May 29, 2020 and is reprinted here with permission.) By Kevin Kennedy To the Lincoln community: Today, I join my fellow Massachusetts Police Chiefs and law enforcement across the country in condemning the actions and inactions of the four Minneapolis police…