Jesse Merrell News Today

OPINION: Column: A social justice servant Arthur Wellington Conquest III Two weeks ago, readers of this column and citizens throughout the Greater Boston region read that the Massachusetts’ Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) handed down an embarrassingly scorching decision concerning the hideous disease of racism that’s poisoning Brookline. The SJC ruling made clear that Brookline Town Government back in 2010 had violated Black firefighter Gerald Alston’s Civil Rights – that the town, represe...

Jesse Merrell knows trucking.  His dad was a trucker, his dad before him and his dad before him. Its safe to say it runs in the family.  That’s why it made sense when he was named Chief Operating Officer (COO) of trucking company Medallion Transport Holdings in October. Hes been working out of one of Medallions hub offices, located in Kokomo, for five years now. But it took decades of work to get there.  When Merrell graduated from Tipton High School and went to Purdue Universi...