Have We Learned Anything?

Ken O’Brien

Members of the Southbridge School Committee now have the results of the so-called Flick report regarding allegations made by school personnel against the Superintendent.

It is doubtful that the public will ever learn the results of this report.

Is it not time to ask whether this is appropriate?

After our miserable experience in this district with the administration of our school system the time has come to ask whether the results of such investigations should remain private. 

Zero-Tolerance Lemon Laws

Kenneth M. O’Brien

I have made no secret of the fact that I am an outright liberal (or, in today’s micro-parsing of a once comprehensible language, a progressive).

In that regard I have argued for the need to regulate corporate, individual and political behavior that destabilizes society.