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Top Ten Lowell events of 2009
I couldn’t find my Lowell list from 2008 so we’ll just skip from yesterday’s 2007 Top Ten to the following inventory from 2009: (Originally posted on December 29, 2009) It was a busy year in Lowell politics, so I won’t limit myself to just ten items. Here is my list…
Read More »Happy Birthday to Richard P. Howe Sr.
Congratulations to my dad, Richard P. Howe Sr., who celebrates his 80th birthday today. Elected to the Lowell City Council in 1965 (photo above), he served twenty consecutive terms for a total of 40 years (January 1966 to January 2006). He did not seek re-election in 2005 so his final…
Read More »Top Ten Lowell events of 2007
We launched this website in March of 2007 and at the end of each year since then, I have posted my Top Ten Lowell Events of the year. On each of the remaining days of 2012, I’ll post one of these lists from year’s past beginning today with 2007: Top…
Read More »Early New Year’s Resolution: More videos for 2013
Any time a video that shows Lowell in a negative light appears online, the reaction is to find ways to suppress it. But that only gives it more attention. The best antidote to bad publicity is good publicity and, with so much good stuff – or at least “not bad”…
Read More »Christmas lights in the Highlands
We took a ride around the Highlands tonight to look at how people decorated their homes for Christmas [youtube]dNMRzSCXLo8[/youtube]
Read More »“Predictions for 2013” by John Edward
John Edward, a resident of Chelmsford who earned his master’s degree at UMass Lowell and who teaches economics at Bentley University and UMass Lowell, contributes the following column. Some of my predictions for 2012 came true (President Obama re-elected); others did not (the Supreme Court upheld “Obamacare”). In my own…
Read More »Downtown Lowell at Christmas
This morning I went Christmas shopping in downtown Lowell and took photos of some of the store windows decorated for Christmas. Here’s a video slideshow. [youtube]MPX73PrkX3I[/youtube]
Read More »John Kerry’s electoral history
With John Kerry being nominated today to serve as America’s next Secretary of State, his career in elective office is almost certainly at an end. Here is a Lowell-centric record of the eight general elections (and corresponding primaries) in which he appeared on the ballot: 1972 – Congress – 5th…
Read More »Fiscal cliff or fiscal scam?
Listening to some national commentators this morning, at first I thought they were discussing the Mayan prediction that the world would end today but it soon became clear they were discussing the so-called “Fiscal Cliff” that will be dominating political news over the next two weeks. Back in 2011 when…
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