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Merrimack Place, Lowell, Massachusetts. Photos by Tony Sampas.
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Mass AG sues big banks over mortgages
Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley filed suit yesterday against a number of national lenders seeking civil penalties and restitution for unfair and deceptive business practices related to home mortgages (PDF of Suffolk Superior Court complaint HERE). By my reading of the complaint, the improper conduct alleged can be divided into…
Read More »Another Housing Authority Conflict
Housing authorities have been much in the news lately, whether it’s in Chelsea, Dracut or Lowell, but that’s not necessarily a new phenomenon. I recently came across a 1973 Lowell Sun column by Carolyn Miegel that touched upon an alleged housing authority controversy and then provided a glimpse into ethnic…
Read More »Lowell by Night
Two images, each a bit different, of the same scene – by Tony Sampas
Read More »The political power of Lowell’s Mayor
Forty years ago in the aftermath of a disruptive city election that saw three incumbents defeated, the Lowell Sun’s Frank Phillips, now a long-time senior political writer for the Boston Globe, gave his analysis of the political power and the potential political power of the office of mayor in the…
Read More »UML Health and Social Sciences Building
The new Health and Social Sciences Building under construction on the UMass Lowell South Campus. Photos by Tony Sampas.
Read More »“Flat Red Herrings” 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. How long does it take you to figure out how much federal tax you owe on your income? If your answer is…
Read More »Electing Lowell’s Mayor – 1970
Even before the final vote was counted a few weeks ago, speculation as it always does had turned to who will be the city’s next mayor. Talk is that Patrick Murphy and Rodney Elliot each have three committed votes with one or more others being noncommittal in the hopes that…
Read More »Bicentennial of the War of 1812
As we approach the start of 2012, remember that the coming year, besides bringing a presidential election and continued recognition of the 150th anniversary of the American Civil War, willmalso be the Bicentennial of the War of 1812. I don’t expect many commemorative activities locally since mostmof New England vehemently…
Read More »Northern Canal, Textile Memorial Bridge & the Merrimack River
Northern Canal, Textile Memorial Bridge and the Merrimack River. Photos by Tony Sampas.
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