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The first regular breakfast meeting of Greater Lowell Area Democrats for the New Year will be held this Saturday January 15, 20011 at 8am at the Independence Grill at the Radisson Hotel in Chelmsford. The regular agenda will include: discussion of the upcoming Democratic Convention caucuses (February 5th- 19th); the 5th District…
Read More »The New Yorker’s David Remnick comments on President Obama’s speech in Tucson on Wednesday.
Read More »George Condo is one of America’s most important painters of our time. He’s from Chelmsford. These days he lives in Manhattan. The January 17 issue of The New Yorker includes a ten-page profile of Condo by Calvin Tomkins, a staff writer for the magazine since 1960. Tomkins gives Condo the…
Read More »Today in the Boston Globe’s “The Source” – correspondent Carli Velocchi reports that “Watson” – the IBM supercomputer that will take on two high-powered former Jeopardy champions in a February contest – won a test round! Humans have often speculated about computers: What exactly can we make them do? How…
Read More »The Boston Globe and the Herald are both reporting that Robert Caret – president of Towson University in suburban Baltimore – has been chosen unanimously by the Board of Trustees as the new President of the five-campus University of Massachusetts system. Caret has New England connections – he received degrees at…
Read More »This message and comment on the late Mary Boutselis Sampas was written by our friend Mehmed Ali. With his permission it is reprinted here: Brother Tony, I heard that our own Gal Friday Mary Boutselis Sampas passed away yesterday. Last time I was home in October we had a chance to…
Read More »Tony Sampas ventured up Lewis Street after the snow had stopped
Read More »Massachusetts State Senator Barry Finegold (D-Andover) / Second Essex Middlesex District Merrimack Valley State Senator Barry Finegold (D-Andover) who represents the Second Essex Middlesex District wrote a column for today’s Eagle-Tribune. In the face of the Tuscon tragedy of last weekend he urges all of us to “to take a step back…
Read More »The boston.com headline reads “JFK Archives Open to the World.” Read the article here describing how the Kennedy Library in Boston did it. UMass Lowell wants to do the same with the Martin T. Meehan Papers, Paul E. Tsongas Papers, and other documents and materials associated with the members of Congress who…
Read More »See this new feature from www.aol.com with Sarah Brady’s message about improving the nation’s gun laws.
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