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DNC Tribute to Ted Kennedy
Last night Democrats paid tribute to the later Massachusetts Senator Edward (Ted) Kennedy.
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Lowell Sprouts @ UML
This video was originally posted by umasslowell Mary Beth Skelley, a recent graduate of UMass Lowell, created Lowell Sprouts. Lowell Sprouts is a school garden that teaches children about growing vegetables, composting and components of composting. She would love to be a teacher and is very invested in food security.…
Read More »Looking ahead to Red Sox 2013 by Marjorie Arons-Barron
The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Baron’s own blog. Trudging up to Yawkey Way from the Kenmore Square T stop last Friday, I tasted bile in contemplating the horrors of the 2012 team, a performance that defies description by all but the Globe’s Dan Shaughnessey. I consoled myself that it was…
Read More »Ann Romney pitch to women: polished and poll-driven by Marjorie Arons-Barron
The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Check it out. Mitt Romney quoted Popeye Sunday on Fox News, saying, “I am what I am, and that’s all what I am.” (As hinted at by Scott Lehigh in today’s Globe, we don’t know if that’s Mitt 1.0, 2.0…
Read More »Exhibit @ Brush Gallery
An exhibit of some of the finest Quilt Art in the US and Canada is currently running at the Brush Art Gallery and Studios in Lowell. The exhibit ends on September 15. Be sure to check it out. This video was originally posted by CopleyMedia.
Read More »Senate hopeful Todd Akin’s gift of gaffe by Marjorie Arons-Barron
The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. You can find it by following this link. A gaffe has been defined as when a politician accidentally tells the truth. Not that the content of Rep. Todd Akin’s statement about rape is the truth, but that what he said…
Read More »Murdoch, Bloomberg call for GOP to have courage on immigration by Marjorie Arons Barron
The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s on blog. News Corp chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg came to Boston Tuesday to hail immigrants’ contributions to our economic vitality. Touting the findings of a report by the Partnership for a New American…
Read More »Public opinion polls: take with grain of salt by Marjorie Arons-Barron
The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Follow this link to find it. Last week I was surveyed by the Gallup organization, confirming two things: first, that the venerable public opinion survey actually talks to real people, and second, that the results of questions they…
Read More »Texas Jack, Peerless Morlacchi and the Lowell Connection
Here is another one to place in the category, “there is a Lowell Connection”. I’m almost through reading a book about Buffalo Bill Cody titled The Colonel and Little Missie written by Larry McCurtry, author of the Pulitzer Prize winning novel Lonesome Dove. In one of the later chapters McCurtry…
Read More »Lowell Canal Tour
Here is a great video of a tour through the Lowell Canals originally posted on YouTube by thisdogblogs.
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