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Fred Faust shares his reasons for why the Pawtucket Dam shall be preserved: The current conflict between preserving the historic dam at the Pawtucket Falls versus topping it off with a concrete and rubber bladder dam really comes down to this – our nation’s history as opposed to greater profits…
Read More »“A television ad, you’re buying all the fat, lazy people who are too stupid to change the channel or mute the television set during commercials.” Opinion of video producer hired by Congressional candidate Sean Bielat to produce his commercial Sean Bielat, the Republican challenger to Barney Frank in the Fourth…
Read More »Two views of “Spaghettiville” by Tony Sampas
Read More »Niki Tsongas and Jon Golnik participated in a debate tonight at the Nashoba Valley Technical High School in Westford. While the debate format, questions and management left much to be desired, the event made abundantly clear that the candidates have two very different philosophies of government and society. I’ll reiterate…
Read More »Boston.com is reporting that a Massachusetts-based limited liability corporation called “2100 Trust” has made an offer to purchase the Boston Globe from its present owner, the New York Times Company.
Read More »Some street signs from around Lowell, by Tony Sampas
Read More »A reader sent the following to me via email: Not sure if this is something you’d post on your blog but I thought it was honorable and gutsy for a City Councilor to speak up and speak out about teen bullying and suicide. It’s a topic I don’t think is…
Read More »John Edward, a resident of Chelmsford who earned his master’s degree at UMass Lowell and is an adjunct professor of economics at Bentley University, recently urged readers to vote NO on Question 1 in the upcoming state election. Today he tackles Question 2 concerning the state’s 40B affordable housing law.…
Read More »Mike Luciano, a regular reader of and sometime contributor to this site also attended the lecture by Boston Fed president Eric Rosengren yesterday which I wrote about earlier. Mike comments on Rosengren’s remarks follow: On Monday, Boston Federal Reserve President, Eric Rosengren gave a talk at the UMass Lowell Inn…
Read More »One of his former co-workers in the US Customs service has produced an excellent and moving video and a slide show of Medal of Honor recipient David McNerney’s funeral from this past Saturday: [youtube]MMjoz8abBtE[/youtube] [youtube]CLG0ZWUczgY[/youtube]
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