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Looking through the Arts & Leisure section of the New York Times today, I saw a full page ad for a book called “Footsteps: Literary Pilgrimages Around the World,” which is drawn from past travel columns in the Times. The Times is considered by many people as the paper of…

NYTimes web page has a lead story about how the Republican Party and its financiers first sold to the public and then politically embraced the view that the facts and forecasts for global warming or climate change are “fake science.” There’s a lot of criticism of how the Democratic Party…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. No, no, don’t click off. President Donald Trump is good for one thing. He is challenging me to expand my vocabulary. How many new ways can I find each day to say ignorant, childish, incurious, narcissistic, malignant, erratic,…

The Sun newspaper today reported that 13 Lowell residents, Asian American and Latino voters, will challenge the city’s at-large voting system for city council and school committee in court, charging that the current system discriminates against voters from ethnic and racial minority groups. Read the story by Amaris Castillo here.…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Fans’ racial slurs at Fenway Park this week led to national news stories about Boston as a racist city.  People are all too quick to believe that and damn the city, as did Saturday Night Live’s Michael Che several weeks ago.…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Speculation is stirring; the mentioners are mentionning.  Despair about the lack of a Democratic bench is giving way to thoughts of who may really be “out there” as potential contenders for opposition party candidates for President in 2020.…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. For Democrats hoping to unseat Republican Governor Charlie Baker in 2018, my advice is: hang onto your day job.  Would-be opponents will charge that Baker may be an okay manager, but he lacks  vision. Making the charge stick will be…

Work crews were on site early this morning to start the landscape improvements, upgrades of courts, and more at the South Common. This is the long-anticipated renewal project funded by the City of Lowell and state government. Within a few hours there were signs of major progress, from orange construction…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Once upon a time, when students learned civics  in high school, we were taught that one of the  inspired decisions of  our Founding Fathers was the creation of a bicameral Congress with different yet complementary roles.   The House…