Politics

Week in Review: February 9, 2014

Special City Council Meeting On Monday night the city council held a special meeting for the purpose of selecting an acting city manager from the date Bernie Lynch’s resignation takes effect until a new city manager takes office. The council voted unanimously to appoint current city clerk Michael Geary to…

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Marty Walsh paints the big picture by Marjorie Arons-Barron

The entry below is being cross posted fromMarjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. If Boston Mayor Marty Walsh can avoid giving away the store in the next rounds of union negotiations,  he’ll save some money to help fund some of his promised initiatives. He avoided discussion of the challenge of union money demands this morning when he laid out his…

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Vote 17 update

Geoff Foster of UTEC, who’s coordinating the local effort to lower the voting age in Lowell’s city election to 17 years old, sent the following update on the bill’s progress: On January 16, 2014, under the leadership of Senator Eileen Donoghue, the Massachusetts State Senate voted 30-7 to add the…

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“Mitt”, the Candidate… You’re Crazy!

OK, so every time I mention this to someone, he/she thinks I’m crazy…but, what the heck, I going to say it again. I find Netflix’s release of its video “Mitt” showing a more human side of Mitt Romney to be conveniently timed. Timed with what? Why Bridgegate, of course…the presidential…

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Lowell’s Benjamin F. Butler, MC executing a DC “downhill”

Interesting Tweet from the U.S. House of Representatives document collection – of course there’s a Lowell connection. I guess that Member of Congress and former Civil War General – never a favorite with cartoonist and illustrators – didn’t need a box – he seems to be wearing skates! U.S. House HistoryVerified account‏@USHouseHistory                                Jan 21…

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Intelligence Committee report confirms blot on Hillary’s record by Marjorie Arons-Barron

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Four Americans dead in Benghazi, Libya, on 9/11/12, and they didn’t have to be. Yesterday’s Senate Intelligence Committee Report makes it pretty clear: the tragedy at Benghazi could have been avoided.  For months, Ambassador Chris Stevens had been requesting additional…

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