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Nicholas Lazzaro: Education reform and anti-racism resolutions should be implemented Nicholas Lazzaro The American education system has been a long-standing form of institutional racism. It has been deeply rooted in systemic policies and protocols which disproportionately and negatively impacted Black students.  The only way we can stomp out racism is through corrective actions. Not all racism is individual. It is often embedded in outdated institutions and founded on the ideas of the systemic oppression of Black people. This affects various sectors of modern society and most prominently in ...

Your forum, your voice. Join the conversation in 2021! Telegram & Gazette Happy 2021! Welcome to a new year of The People’s Forum, the long-running, ever-engaging conversation — both in print on this page and online at telegram.com — among readers from throughout Central Massachusetts and Northeast Connecticut on issues that move them to write as part of an ongoing community conversation. The Telegram & Gazette’s People’s Forum, as with letters to the editor in newspapers across the land, was THE social media before there even was a “social media.” And once again we’re happy...

Roberta Schaefer: President Trump had flaws, but achieved remarkable record of success Roberta Schaefer, Telegram & Gazette © Provided by Worcester Telegram Roberta Schaefer While there is much to criticize about Donald Trump’s presidency (for instance, his incessant tweeting, his public shaming of his own appointees, his inability to graciously accept his defeat in the 2020 election), I will focus here on three major successes of his administration. Those successes are particularly remarkable in that they occurred amidst constant, unsubstantiated accusations of president...

Guest columnists: What is President Donald Trump's legacy?

happened in washington mutual, which was a huge trauma for the city, trauma that continues to reverberate, but much broader policy implications for what happened in the great recession and how the banking contributed to the meltdown. there were times when your book reads like a thriller. after one of those kind of thriller teases we don't start out any of the things that went with that. we start with a guy named lou pepper. why is that? >> well, lee pepper was one of the early ceo spot during the 1980's. i thought it was very important to start out with him because he represents the ...