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 and NO on Question 2 in the upcoming state election. Today he tackles Question 3 concerning the…
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Tony Sampas shares some photos of old signs in Lowell. Above is the Thorndike Factory Outlet building just across from the train station; below is the Fairburn Building.
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Ten days ago I traveled to Houston to attend the funeral of Medal of Honor recipient and Lowell native David McNerney. There’s a hotly contested race for governor down there between Republican incumbent Rick Perry and Democratic challenger Bill White, so during my 48 hours in the Lone Star State,…
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The Associated Press has come into possession (in the person of former Lowell Sun reporter Glen Johnson according to Blue Mass Group) of a memo written while Baker was the state’s Secretary of Administration and Finance that documented for his then boss, Governor Paul Cellucci, the runaway spending of the…
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The Greater Lowell Area Democrats honored State Senator Steve Panagiotakos with the group’s “Distinguished Democrat Award” today. Three Democrat candidates, all on the ballot a week from Tuesday and all veterans of the 2007 special election to fill the Fifth Congressional seat, began the succinct speaking program. First up was…
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Today’s mail brought a flier from the Massachusetts Democratic Party attacking Republican Congressional candidate Jon Golnik for voting in only one election in nine years. The front of the piece (shown above) has a picture of a solitary player on an otherwise empty baseball diamond with the caption “One out…
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Haffner’s Gasoline, by Tony Sampas
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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…
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“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…
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Two views of “Spaghettiville” by Tony Sampas
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