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The entry below is being cross posted fromMarjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. If Boston Mayor Marty Walsh can avoid giving away the store in the next rounds of union negotiations, he’ll save some money to help fund some of his promised initiatives. He avoided discussion of the challenge of union money demands this morning when he laid out his…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Women have always played an important role in service to the community and to the Catholic Church. They are at the helm in various Catholic hospital systems, universities and foundations. The great unanswered question for many women is whether they…
Read More »On January 29, 1963, Robert Frost, my favorite poet died. Many years ago, in a 9th grade Literature class, a football coach/English Teacher “forced” me to memorize one of his poems ….I thank that man even today, since the poem has been my favorites ever since. I hope you enjoy…
Read More »The enter below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. The media have taken the measure of the man: Chet Curtis was a prince. Smart, caring, funny, calm and comfortable. No argument there. Chet had many “princely” trappings – a huge salary for the time, what seemed to…
Read More »OK, so every time I mention this to someone, he/she thinks I’m crazy…but, what the heck, I going to say it again. I find Netflix’s release of its video “Mitt” showing a more human side of Mitt Romney to be conveniently timed. Timed with what? Why Bridgegate, of course…the presidential…
Read More »Below is the WCVB Channel 5 News coverage of the Beach Boys appearance at Cawley Stadium in Lowell on September 7, 1987. This video was originally posted on YouTube by a member who posts under the name “Ultimate Beach Boys Video Collection”.
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. WBUR cognoscenti contributor Joanne Barker got it right: Eleanor McCullen, anti-abortion plaintiff in the Supreme Court case challenging the 35-foot buffer zone around clinics offering abortions, isn’t typical of the individuals trying to deter patients from entering such…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Four Americans dead in Benghazi, Libya, on 9/11/12, and they didn’t have to be. Yesterday’s Senate Intelligence Committee Report makes it pretty clear: the tragedy at Benghazi could have been avoided. For months, Ambassador Chris Stevens had been requesting additional…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s on blog. If Chris Christie runs for president, do we agree that “I’ll get the country moving again” won’t be his campaign slogan? But such a campaign, if it ever happens, is a political lifetime away. A more immediate concern…
Read More »I found this video on YouTube. It was originally posted by ARLBOSTONRESCUE. Below is the video description as written by the poster. The Animal Rescue League of Boston received a call for assistance from the Lowell animal control, fro a gull that was stuck to the ice on the Merrimack…
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