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Statue of “The Worker”    Public Art in Lowell, Massachusetts

After spilling nearly 127 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico BP Global claims its renegade well is plugged.  This morning for the first time I logged into BP’s website and viewed the numerous webcams providing live video feeds of the well. If you haven’t checked this out,…

The entry below is crossed posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Eighty-seven years ago yesterday, then-Vice President Calvin Coolidge was visiting his father, Colonel John Coolidge, in the tiny Vermont village of Plymouth Notch when word arrived that President Warren Harding had died. By the light of a kerosene lamp,…

Tonight on Larry King Live rapper Wyclef Jean will announce his candidacy for the Presidency of Haiti If I can’t take five years out to serve my country as president, then everything I’ve been singing about, like equal rights, doesn’t mean anything (Wyclef Jean). Jean was born in Haiti in…

Middlesex Community College is working to help small businesses grow and succeed. Throughout the months of August and September the college is offering four inexpensive courses designed specifically to help the small business owner and his/her employees. And I mean inexpensive… course cost only $29 or $39 and will be…

Maybe this isn’t any of my business, but I just don’t understand why President Obama has not been invited to attend Chelsea Clinton’s wedding tomorrow. Give me a break, Hillary is the Secretary of State for crying out loud! Deep down I’ll bet he’s hurt. And Michelle, she’s probably pissed.…

The entry below is crossed posted from local playwright Jack Neary’s own blog, Shards. Jack wrote this post on July 23 and decided to title it, well…July 23. He’ll tell you why. So I believe I’ve determined that I don’t know enough about any one thing to ever put together…

Yesterday US District Judge Susan Bolton made an historic and courageous decision in blocking the major parts of Arizona’ controversial new immigration law. But the fight is not over, as proven by this statement released on the state’s official website by Governor Jan Brewer. In my opinion we can not…

The entry below was crossed posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Scott Brown drew a huge crowd to a New England Council breakfast this week. His speech was a reminder of the regular-guy appeal that won him the seat last January and the power he is currently relishing as the…

Local playwright Jack Neary is blogging again…the entry below was cross posted from Jack’s own blog, “Shards”. So until I can construct one extended, cohesive thought, I’m gonna have to keep the “Shards” thing going. I’m trying to remember the last extended, cohesive thought, I had. Let me see…uh… On…