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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Political correctness run amuck: President Obama felt compelled to apologize to California Attorney General Kamela Harris for calling her “by far the best looking attorney general in the country.” Frankly, the only person who might legitimately feel slighted…

Grassroot video tour of the exterior of the Middlesex Community College building in Lowell. Posted on Youtube by Xenosproduction.

The entry below is being cross-posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. The Red Sox opening day victory……what could be better?  I posted the team’s first-place standing on my refrigerator, thinking it might all be downhill from there.  But I felt great. Never mind that the dreaded Yankees are broken old…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Yesterday North Korea announced it’s restarting its nuclear reactor so it can build its nuclear weapons arsenal.  This follows North Korea’s increasingly bellicose posturing over the last couple of months, including a nuclear bomb test in February.   The…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Sometimes it’s easy to categorize U.S. Senate candidates Ed Markey and Stephen Lynch.  Congressman Markey is the unreconstructed liberal, right?  His values on gun control, abortion, climate change, gay rights, and virtually everything else are unequivocally left of…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Check it our too. Congratulations to Boston’s longest serving mayor. In the 1970′s, as a young aide to state Senator Joe Timilty, he told a few Beacon Hill colleagues his goal was to be mayor of Boston. They…

GLRR Vice President Jessica Costa talks about the benefits of joining the Greater Lowell Road Runners. This video was originally posted by davecamire

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. Score Boston Mayor Tom Menino:1; Boston Globe:0  on the proposal to bring the Olympics to Boston in 2024.  Opined an editorial, a chance to host the Olympics is “too rare to pass up without further consideration.”  Really? As…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Check it out. The announcement yesterday that the Boston Phoenix is ceasing publication marks the end of an era, an era of substantive, long-form journalism.  Jim Barron and I wrote for the paper back in the 1970′s.  It was…