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In these times when immigration is still a hot button issue, the tea party movement and protests have emerged and questions continue about the rights, agenda and activism of unions, it is important to pay attention to this reminder from Mass Moments that on this day – August 3 – in 1923 upon…
Read More »For months now I’ve checking the daily postings on the “Vast Public Indifference” blog – here. It’s a blog where Caitlin GD Hopkins indulges her fascination with history and old graveyard tombstones by posting a photo and description of her “Gravestone of the Day” with an emphasis on the names of the…
Read More »The Roll Call of voting in the House and Senate on the Casino bill reported out by the conference committee makes for very interesting reading. My bold for legislators from the Greater Lowell/Merrimack Valley area. This is from the AP and found on the WCVB-TV web-site: “Here’s how members of…
Read More »Strolling Through Canobie Lake Park Don’t miss the story in today’s Lowell SUN about the surviving “trolley parks.” Oue regional and well-used Canobie Lake Park in neaby Salem, NH is featured. I’ve written before about these parks built by the trolley companies as a way to extend their business into the…
Read More »For all those alums and devotees of Boston College, Holy Cross, Fordham, Canisius, Georgetown, St. Mary’s of Halifax, Wheeling Jesuit University (to which Fr. Jim Fleming, S.J. of Lowell has just been assigned) and the many other Jesuit colleges and universities – a reminder that today July 31st is the feast day of…
Read More »Because one of the Caritas Christi hospitals – Holy Family Hospital in Methuen – serves a good portion of the Merrimack Valley population I have posted a number of times about the impending take-over of this non-profit by the equity firm – Cerebus. On the blog Health Care for All –…
Read More »Senator Steven Panagiotakos (D-Lowell) one of the Casino Bill conferees – Photo from BostonHerald.com Just in from the Globe MetroDesk: House and Senate leaders have just announced an agreement on a bill to expand gaming in Massachusetts that would authorize three resort casinos and a pair of slot parlors at…
Read More »The embargo broken, Noah Bombard is reporting on the Eagle Tribune blog that fired former Methuen Police Chief Joseph Solomon has won his case with the Massachusetts Civil Service Commission. Solomon was fired over two years ago. This finding must come as a bombshell to Methuen Mayor Bill Manzi. Staff…
Read More »The New York Times is reporting that Massachusetts is one of the states that made it into the group of finalists in a national competition for $3.4 billion in federal financing to support an overhaul of education policies. The Commonwealth joins seventeen other states – Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois,…
Read More »The Annie E. Casey Foundation* whose focus is on “helping vulnerable kids and families succeed” has just released its National KIDS COUNT program report. The report evaluates the status of “kids” using 10 indicators: Percent low birth weight babies Infant mortality rate Child death rate Teen death rate Teen birth rate…
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