Opinion: How Long Does a Chelsea Ambulance Take? The City Should Tell Us
One private company has answered Chelsea's 911 ambulance calls for decades, and residents have never seen its response times. Revere and Medford…
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Opinion: It Is Time for Chelsea to Study Running Its Own Ambulance Service
Ambulance rides are billed, and right now a private company keeps that money. A city service could keep it in Chelsea and…
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Opinion: Chelsea Should Say No to Walmart’s Webster Avenue Depot
A warehouse that sells nothing to the city it sits in, about 350 trips a day on Webster Avenue, drivers no one…
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Opinion: Todd Taylor Is Right About Chelsea’s Low-Income Solar Deal
Every Eversource customer pays for it, the working poor are left out, and the council was asked to approve it with the…
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Opinion: Manuel Teshe Keeps Leaving Early. District 7 Deserves a Councillor Who Stays for the Vote
Twenty-two missed votes, six missed meetings, two nights of arriving late and leaving early, and no explanation. An editorial.
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Opinion: Chelsea Is Becoming a Landlord and a Land Bank, and It Has Exempted Itself From Every Rule It Writes for Everyone Else
The council raised the cost of owning rental housing by 8 percent, then filed orders about landlords raising rents. Both cannot be…
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