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Elizabeth Warren in Lowell
When, at the end of her introduction of Elizabeth Warren at the Butler Middle School today in Lowell, Congresswoman Niki Tsongas said “They will rue the day they didn’t appoint her” to lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, she tapped into the enthusiasm of the overflow crowd and of the…
Read More »A resilient tree
The birch tree that I planted back in 2004 along the property line has grown tall with three distinct trunks. Last Sunday morning, with its leaves weighed down by heavy wet snow, each of the three trunks was bent over nearly touching the ground (photo above). While there were no…
Read More »“Meanderings” by Jim Peters
Frequent contributor Jim Peters shares his thoughts on national politics: I have been trying to make sense of Facebook, and I am getting nowhere. It says that I have something like 182 friends, but I do not even know that many people, let alone as friends. One friend I would…
Read More »Lessons from five days without electricity
A week ago tonight big clumps of heavy wet snow were falling from the sky, weakening tree limbs that would eventually fall onto electrical wires and leave us in cold and darkness for five days. I’ve already shared my opinion on why it took so long to restore power. Tonight…
Read More »“Translating Progress”
A new YouTube video by the Patrick Murphy campaign: [youtube]efF_nrOL72Y[/youtube] As was the case two years ago, Patrick Murphy is setting the standard in the use of video as a campaign tool in a local election. With the cost of display of $0 and the cost of production being a…
Read More »Electricity restored! Why did it take so long?
Somehow I thought the moment of power restoration would be more dramatic. Instead, I received a hurried phone call at work. “National Grid trucks are on our street now.” I hopped in my car with its “collision wrapped” rear window (see below) and zipped home, happy that all the traffic…
Read More »Storm Damage
Sorry for the gap in posts but all of our authors were hit pretty hard by the storm. Like so many other area residents, I’m still without power (Tuesday, November 1 at 2:30 pm) at home and there’s no sign it will be restored anytime soon. When keeping warm and…
Read More »Merrimack Canal
This is the third in a series of posts about Lowell’s canals. The first was on the Pawtucket Canal and the second on the Middlesex Canal. Links to all can be found on our “History” page (see link along upper right corner of your screen). Today’s topic is the Merrimack…
Read More »“Peter Lucas unfairly attacks Elizabeth Warren” by Mike Luciano
Regular reader and sometimes contributor Mike Luciano sent this post about a recent column in our local newspaper: The last time I wrote a critical post about a Peter Lucas column, I told myself I was going to leave the poor guy alone. After all, it’s not his fault that…
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