Architectural Details
Architectural details at the Pollard Memorial Library. Photos by Tony Sampas.
Read More »Architectural details at the Pollard Memorial Library. Photos by Tony Sampas.
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Read More »On Saturday I traveled to Boston College for a Mass Humanities program called “Cyberspace & Civic Space: The Influence of the Internet on Our Democracy.” Among the panelists Eli Pariser, the former executive director of MoveOn.org, and Charles Steelfisher who was Deval Patrick’s new media director in the 2006 campaign…
Read More »Tom Sexton is a Distinguished Alumni of Lowell High School and the former Poet Laureate of Alaska where he lives in the winter. He’s a regular reader of this site and has sometimes shared his poems and comments with us in the past. Today he shared the following essay about…
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Read More »The City of Lowell hosted a “downtown summit” yesterday at the Lowell Memorial Auditorium. In attendance were business owners, downtown residents, non-profit representatives and government officials. After introductory remarks by City Manager Bernie Lynch, participants gathered in four breakout groups to discuss various issues facing the downtown. The observations and…
Read More »One morning last week I attended the Greater Merrimack Valley Convention and Visitors Bureau’s annual Tourism Industry Breakfast at the Courtyard by Marriott in Billerica. State Representative Tom Golden kept things moving as the Master of Ceremonies of the event. State Senator Eileen Donoghue, the co-chair of the legislature’s committee…
Read More »Earlier this week I attended a speech by Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Associate Justice Robert Cordy who spoke with great passion about the fiscal crisis now facing the state’s judiciary. After reviewing the extent of the funding cuts over the past five years, Cordy argued that the courts should not…
Read More »Today in the New York Times, media columnist David Carr profiles John Paton, the new-since-September CEO of MediaNews Group which owns hundreds of newspapers in the US including the Lowell Sun. Carr singles out Paton as one of the few from within the newspaper industry who sincerely believes that the…
Read More »The first TV ad from the Elizabeth Warren campaign. She seeks to define herself before her opponents define her. [youtube]kE_wj6NHdEQ[/youtube]
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