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Tony Sampas gives us a nighttime view of the stacks at the Pollard Memorial Library
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The Globe covers crime in Lowell
On the front of boston.com and on the first page of the Globe’s Metro section today, there’s a story about efforts by the city of Lowell to counteract the gun violence that burst into the public eye with the New Year’s Eve party shootings on Grand Street, the theft of…
Read More »Snow on the way
Here’s the local forecast for tomorrow night and Wednesday from the National Weather Service: Tuesday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 30. Light north wind. Tuesday Night: Snow, mainly after 2am. Patchy fog after 1am. Low around 23. Calm wind becoming north between 7 and 10 mph. Chance of precipitation…
Read More »Dimming of the Day
Tony Sampas captures the west side of a Walker Street tenement at dusk.
Read More »“The Pawtucketville Bibliophile” by Steve O’Connor
Steve O’Connor discovered a room full of books and an incredible story in Pawtucketville: A few years ago, while browsing through The Lowell Sun, I came across a small announcement in the classified section under Free Offers. “Sherlock Holmes Books Free to Interested Party.” I was intrigued by the announcement,…
Read More »Congresswoman Giffords on the rhetoric of violence
Back on March 11, 2010, Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, one of today’s shooting victims, warns of the dangers that result when politicians use the rhetoric of violence. She was sadly and personally prophetic. [youtube]qs75zKxJxVY[/youtube]
Read More »Something is missing from the internet
Strange. The above map with 20 Congressmen identified by the crosshairs of a gunsight is no longer available on Sarah Palin’s website today. I wonder why. Lucky for her I have a screen shot of her site before the map went away. Also missing is the Tweet shown below in…
Read More »Lowell’s Smith Baker Center
Tony Sampas helps us appreciate the beauty of the brickwork of the Smith Baker Center (formerly the First Congregationalist Church), highlighted by the setting sun.
Read More »US Bank v Ibanez: More chaos in housing
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court issued a much anticipated decision today that, while properly decided, will result in further damage to our country’s already injured housing market. Here are the facts of US Bank v Ibanez: In December 2005, Antonio Ibanez borrowed $103,000 from Rose Mortgage Company to finance the…
Read More »The Sun’s “Death Panel” distortion
Mike Luciano, a regular reader of and sometime contributor to this site, sent along the following post that takes issue with today’s Lowell Sun editorial: I imagine that reading a Lowell Sun editorial is like walking through a house where multiple homicides have just occurred. You wander through in a…
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