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Dropkick Murphys @ Umass Tsongas Center
Performing at the Tsongas Center at Umass Lowell Saturday night the Dropkick Murphys end the show with Shipping Up To Boston. This video was originally posted by r2baar
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Tewksbury’s “FivePack Live” Parody
I first read about the Tewksbury parody band FivePack Live in the Tewksbury Patch (thanks). The band features Tewksbury residents JJ Heider, Mike Daley, Amanda Kozik and Joe Vitale. FivePack Live has posted four parody music videos on YouTube and is catching. Most of the bands videos are racking up…
Read More »Judging today’s college students by yesterday’s standards by Marjorie Arons-Barron
The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Today’s college students are reading less and partying more. So says New York Times columnist Bob Herbert, based on a new book entitled “Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses.” Authors Richard Arum of New York University and…
Read More »Middlesex Community College Setting Up Tsunami Support Centers for Student, Staff and Community Members
Middlesex Community College is responding to the natural disaster in Japan by setting up support and information centers for students, staff, faculty and community members on both the Lowell and Bedford Campus. This morning the college posted details on its blog in the following post. Tsunami Information Center The devastating…
Read More »Newt Gingrich’s Patriotism Leads to Infidelity
Lately, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich talks more and more about a possible run for president in 2012. Early on, one of the major issues candidate Gingrich will need to address is his past infidelities. Recently, Gingrich sat down with David Brody of the Christian Broadcasting Network and…
Read More »Union counter-proposal on health insurance falls woefully short by Marjorie Arons-Barron
The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Check it out. It’s hard not to think “fox in the chicken coop” in response to the public workers union proposal that, if the union were to agree to receiving its health insurance coverage through the state’s Group…
Read More »Washington Captivates Obama
This painting fascinated President Barack Obama yesterday during his visit to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Thomas Sully of Philadelphia painted this scene of George Washington preparing his men to cross the Delaware River on a frigid December 25, 1776 night. The original painting measures 17X12 and weighs…
Read More »Concord River Rising
Here is a view of the Concord River in Lowell as melting snow begins to have an effect. video originally posted by leftbankofthecharles
Read More »Cozy relationships lead to Blue Cross/Blue Shield excesses by Marjorie Arons-Barron
The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. The process for deciding and ratifying former Blue Cross/Blue Shield CEO Cleve Killingsworth’s exorbitant severance package seems to reflect what happens when movers and shakers in any sector get too comfortable with each other. We saw it on…
Read More »Romney Health Care Issue
Fox’s Chris Wallace did the interview below almost exactly one year ago (March 2010. Here he questions former Governor Mitt Romney on Massachusetts Health Care reform…considering Romney was in NH over the weekend (March 2011) and still feels the need to address health care is a sure sign the presidential…
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