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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. Boston’s mayors have influenced my life since I was four years old. A May baby, I had missed eligibility for kindergarten by a few days. Early on the first day of school, my mother learned that Mayor…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. Friday’s job numbers and dip in unemployment to 4.6 percent might have made it easier for Democrats running in Tuesday’s elections in Virginia and New Jersey.  So, too, might earlier passage of the infrastructure bill and tentative…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. The good news for Democrats is that the mid-term elections are still a year away. More troubling is how they will  respond to Tuesday’s wake-up call. Early signs are that the moderates and progressives in Congress, organized…

Here’s a press release about statewide recognition of two great Lowell-based organizations, Angkor Dance Troupe and Free Soil Arts Collective.  Angkor Dance Troupe and Free Soil Arts Collective Selected for Statewide Initiative Supporting Community-Rooted Arts Free Soil Arts Collective (www.freesoilarts.org) and Angkor Dance Troupe (www.angkordance.org) were selected to participate in…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Baron’s own blog. If you’re feeling down, don’t read today’s blog.  After 35 years in journalism and still longer as an inveterate news junkie, I can barely read or watch the news these days.  I delayed posting, hoping for a shred…

Boarding School Blues: Chapter 22 By Louise Peloquin Ch. 22 The Inner Sanctum Sister Theophile’s office door was open when Blanche and Andy arrived. The headmistress’s inner sanctum was usually off limits. Rarely did anyone cross its threshold. The girls had noticed that Sister Gerald entered only when she was…

  Pierre Comtois is one of Lowell’s most prolific authors, past and present. He burst on the scene in 2015 with Marvel Comics in the 1960s: An Issue-by-Issue Field Guide to a Pop Culture Phenomenon which emerged from the author’s lifelong interest in comic books. His subsequent works include science…

On Saturday, September 18, 2021, I co-led a walk of the Hamilton Canal Innovation District with Yovani Baez-Rose, the city’s Economic Development Director, and with Camilo Espitia, the city’s Chief Design Planner. Yovani and Camilo spoke about the ongoing activity in and future plans for the district while I spoke…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. Congressional Democrats appear to be circling the wagons and shooting inward. Their recent behavior is outrageous, worthy only of a schoolyard brawl, the result of which is far less tasty than a well-made legislative sausage. Many newly…