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Today’s Globe reminds us that the statewide ban on texting while driving goes into effect in just ten days. While there are many questions about how this is to be enforced, it’s at least a start. While I confess to occasionally talking on my phone while driving, I do try…
Read More »There is yet another story in today’s Globe – this by staffer Robert Weisman – about the Caritas Christi sale. A coalition organized by consumer advocacy group Health Care for All including twenty community groups, health care providers, and lawmakers is asking Attorney General Martha Coakley and Public Health Commissioner John…
Read More »I was in Boston yesterday for the fall meeting of the Governor’s Creative Economy Council. I’ll report on that in a later post, but want to mention that I passed by the Museum of Fine Arts and saw the red cloths covering the newly inscribed stones on either side of…
Read More »This video was originally posted by CopleyMedia Here is the YouTube description… “Artist Vassilios “Bill” Giavis of Brush Art Gallery & Studios in Lowell, MA discusses a painting of his “Wife at the Piano” with Mike Flynn. Painting was displayed at the Whistler House Museum of Art, also in Lowell”.…
Read More »Tony Sampas climbed to the top floor of the Saints Memorial Medical Center parking garage to capture this picture of City Hall as part of this Lowell cityscape.
Read More »Nancy Tuttle writes about the start of school and Merrimack Valley-Hollywood connections in the following post which originally appeared on Nancye’s World: It’s been several weeks since I’ve posted, but it isn’t because I’m lazy, just particularly busy as school got underway. Right now, I’m enjoying the sunshine and bright…
Read More »Senator Everett Dirksen and Presdient John F. Kennedy circa 1963. Writer and commentator James Warren of the Chicago News Cooperative has an interesting take on a taped conversation with GOP Senate Minority Leader – the late Everett Dirksen – and President Kennedy in the Oval Office. The tape and transcript…
Read More »With all the news about the rediscovery of invaluable artifacts and documents in the attic of Lowell City Hall, Tony Sampas shared some photos of the building.
Read More »Another in our series on past election results – see the “Elections” link in the upper right corner for more statistics. The Massachusetts Presidential primary was held on March 2, 1976. The Republicans had a two man race: Incumbent Gerald Ford and former California Governor Ronald Reagan. In the Massachusetts…
Read More »No, this is not Brew’d Awakening on Market Street on a Thursday night. It’s Syria. The NTimes online today has a lead story on a literary freedom outpost in Damascas, where poets and writers stand up and speak freely at the House of Poetry, where the posters on the wall…
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