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Tim Cahill video
Here’s the ad Tim Cahill just launched in an effort to revive his sagging gubernatorial campaign: [youtube]7rdjw6oDYFI[/youtube]
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Chelmsford 4th of July Parade
This year’s Independence Day Parade in Chelmsford will begin at 10 am this coming Monday, July 5, from the McCarthy Junior High School and will proceed down Route 4 to the town center. An estimated 15,000 spectators will watch the parade; consider becoming one of them. Here are some scenes…
Read More »Random Observations – June 30, 2010
At a city parking garage I recently received a handful of golden colored $1 coins as change from the payment kiosk and was amazed to discover they all bore the image of —- Franklin Pierce. The logic was inescapable: an obscure president on an obscure coin. Later I mentioned it…
Read More »Russian spies (and their Lowell connections)
[youtube]hHUiCYAE2DY[/youtube] For those of us old enough to have grown up watching Rocky and Bullwinkle constantly clash with (and always prevail over) Russian spies Boris and Natasha (shown above), news that a Russian spy ring was rolled up comes as no surprise. While the accents and trench coats remain as…
Read More »“The Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the Ante-Bellum South”
As an outgrowth of my study of Abraham Lincoln for this spring’s “Lowell Reads Lincoln” event at the Pollard Memorial Library, I’ve sought out some additional Civil War-era books for summer reading. One is a yellowing paperback copy of “The Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the Ante-Bellum South” written in 1956…
Read More »The New Politics: Avoiding the Media
The New York Times today profiles Nevada US Senate candidate Sharron Angle’s apparent strategy of avoiding contact with the mainstream media at all cost. Angle is the Tea Party candidate who went from longshot to Republican nominee despite gaining national attention for suggesting the people should pay for their health…
Read More »The Supreme Court and gun control
Today’s decision of the United States Supreme Court in McDonald v Chicago came as no surprise. This case involved a citizen’s challenge of what he considered an overly restrictive gun control law in the city of Chicago. Two years ago, the US Supreme Court clarified the long-ambiguous 2nd Amendment to…
Read More »Boston Globe poll on state of Mass politics
Under the headline “Brown outpolls Kerry, Obama” a front page story in today’s Boston Globe by Frank Phillips and Matt Viser presents the findings of a recent poll conducted for the Globe by the University of New Hampshire Survey Center. Read the full story here to get the Globe’s spin,…
Read More »Charles Cowley – Week 3
In 1868, Lowell resident Charles Cowley wrote the “Illustrated History of Lowell”, a book filled with fascinating facts about our city. Here’s my third weekly compilation of “tweeting” from Cowley’s book: June 19 – In 1686 Col Tyng, Maj Henchman et al purchased from Wannalancet all land in region, leaving…
Read More »Big week in real estate
The coming week should be one of the busiest of the year in the real estate world. Buyers seeking to claim the Federal first time home buyer tax credit of $8000 must complete their closing by June 30 to qualify (they had to have the property under agreement by April…
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