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Last week the folks at the Red-Mass Group blog offered some suggestions on how to redistrict three Merrimack Valley/Northern Middlesex State Senate districts. Two of the districts – First Middlesex and Second Essex Middlesex rate a high “leaning Republican” rating from them based on the Brown Coakley race results while…
Read More »Two articles in today’s Lowell SUN are worth your attention. Longtime Sun sports writer Dave Pevear is a history buff at heart with a particular interest in the Civil War. Here’s a link to his interesting story about Ben Butler: http://www.lowellsun.com/todaysheadlines/ci_17969383. Correspondent Marie Donovan attended the community briefing on the…
Read More »John Edward, a resident of Chelmsford who earned his master’s degree at UMass Lowell and who teaches economics at Bentley University and UMass Lowell, contributes the following column. The City of Lowell has a $2.7 million snow removal deficit because of an unexpectedly harsh winter. Just do not pay the…
Read More »If case you really want to see and read President Obama’s birth certificate – here it is as released by the White House – courtesy of the HuffingtonPost.com site:
Read More »Ann McLane Kuster, Democrat from New Hampshire Emily’s List – a national political action committee – has announced its “round one” seal of approval for Democrat Ann McLane Kuster in her run for New Hampshire’s Second Congressional District in 2012. While not a full endorsement of Kuster and three others –…
Read More »Yesterday City Year founder Alan Khazei announced he will be a candidate for United States Senate in 2012. Khazei wasted no time getting his website up and running. The links to Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Flickr are sure indicators that the campaign intends to enlist young supporters in its attempt…
Read More »Alan Khazei has told us today on Twitter, Facebook and through the mainstream media that he is officially “in” the race for the Massachusetts United States Senate seat currently held by Scott Brown. While many others have declined to run including former Congressman Joe Kennedy, former Congressman Marty Meehan, Governor Deval Patrick,…
Read More »Charles Blow in today’s NYTimes and Fareed Zakaria on cnn.com both weigh in with truth squad reports on the antics of The Donald, who should be de-horsed in the GOP presidential stakes by that political party itself. The serious grown-ups on the Repub side should stand together and denounce once and…
Read More »All over the Merrimack Valley the towns are gearing up for Town Meeting. The town budget is probably the hottest issue issue faced by voters. But other issues also need consideration. The Eagle-Tribune’s Jonathan Phelps writes this morning about an overlay plan for the River Road/Route 93 district that could appease the complains of both…
Read More »What kind of nation are we living in when 47 percent of a sample of admitted Republicans respond to a NYTimes/CBS poll question by saying they don’t believe President Obama was born in the US? Opinion columnist Timothy Egan of the NYTimes lays out the dangers of demagogues like Donald…
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