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The window for holding the caucuses to elect delegates to the 2011 Democratic Convention on June 4th in Lowell opens this Saturday February 5th and closes on Saturday February 19th. Here is a list of the first group of local Greater Lowell/Merrimack Valley area caucuses: Saturday February 5th: Andover – Saturday,…
Read More »As the Sesqucentennnial of the Civil War is remembered, History.com reminds us that on this day January 31, 1865, the U. S. House of Representatives passed the Thirteenth Amendment – abolishing slavery in the United States. The U.S. House of Representatives passes the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, abolishing slavery…
Read More »Not to be confused with the play (“Our Town”) I wrote about yesterday, “The Town” is the 2010 Ben Affleck film about a gang of bank robbers from Charlestown. I ordered it from Netflix, mostly to try to discover why “The Fighter” was winning so many awards while “The Town”…
Read More »Over on the POLITICO blog, David Catanese writes “from the Campaign Trail” about what he sees as the 10 most competitive Senate races for 2012. This will be a posting updated monthly. He ranks the Virginia race (for now) at #1 – coming in at #6 most competitive: 6. MASSACHUSETTS…
Read More »Tony Sampas preserves views that are all too familiar to us these days.
Read More »See this nugget over at Cliff’s place in which Larry Summers takes on the Tiger Mom-mom Amy Chau on the topic of strict study-and-learning practices vs. creativity.
Read More »Big. Huge. Vast. Jumbo. Massive. A cornucopia of American art. My wife and I met two friends for Sunday brunch at the Museum of Fine Arts. We hadn’t been to the MFA since the opening of the new Art of the Americas Wing and Shapiro Family Courtyard last November. To…
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