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Read More »1990 was a big year in state politics. The voters elected a new Governor and Lt Governor, Treasurer and Attorney General. The following post has been added to our “Elections” section (see link at upper right) for future reference: In 1990, John Kerry was elected to his second term in…
Read More »By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April’s breeze unfurled; Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world. We took advantage of today’s beautiful weather and took an excursion to Minute Man National Park in nearby Concord, Lincoln and Lexington.…
Read More »A few days ago the local newspaper published an article which framed the stepped-up traffic enforcement by the Lowell Police as a revenue raising measure. On the police department’s blog, Superintendent Ken Lavallee responds to the revenue raising implications by documenting the public safety and law enforcement rationale for the…
Read More »Here are the members of the Lowell City Council on Inauguration Day in January 2002. If the councilors look especially happy, it’s because all nine incumbents from the previous term’s council were reelected in the November 2001 election. Seated from left: Rita Mercier, Eileen Donoghue, Armand Mercier Standing from left:…
Read More »Here’s the seventh installment of my Twitter “tweets” of Charles Cowley’s “Illustrated History of Lowell.” We’ve almost reached the city’s incorporation in 1826 (as a town). Much happened here before Lowell even existed. 1st steamboat traveled from Boston to Concord NH in 1819 via Middlesex Canal & Merrimack River By…
Read More »The much awaited decision in Perry v Schwarzenegger was issued today. The full decision may be found here. I just finished reading it (which at 138 pages took me a while). Here’s how the judge’s reasoning went with a couple of excerpts mixed in. The judge spent some time discussing…
Read More »Here’s another installment in our State Election database – 2004. The real excitement that year was at the top of the ticket as Senator John Kerry attempted unsuccessfully to replace George W Bush as President. For this and all other annual election results, please visit our ELECTIONS page. The big…
Read More »I’m not a big fan of the Obama Administration’s financial team. Too many are the products of Wall Street and have twisted the old “What’s good for GM is good for America” phrase into “what’s good for Wall Street is good for America.” Back in the early 1990s when banks…
Read More »I’ve been documenting the results of recent state elections on our “Elections” page (see the upper right corner of this page for the link). Here’s what happened in 2002: After twelve years of Republican governors, Democrats were anxious to win the state’s highest office in 2002. Paul Cellucci had resigned…
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