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What about that Gingrich win? Read this from the Red State blog, courtesy of realclearpolitics.com. And don’t you think it’s strange that the national GOP got tagged with the “red” label, given all the anti-socialist talk coming from those megaphones? Which art director at which national TV network first decided to color code…
Read More »Check out Lowell Resident, the latest addition to the city’s always-active blogosphere. I’ve added a link to the site in our Blog Roll in the right hand sidebar. Let me also invite others to jump in. The mechanics are pretty easy. Just create a Google account (or log in if…
Read More »The editorial in today’s Nashua Telegraph poses an interesting question – “Has the grand tradition of the New Hampshire primary come to an end?” Noting that the three candidates – Jon Huntsman, who bragged about holding 150 events in the state, Rick Santorum and Buddy Roemer (Buddy who?) – who campaigned in…
Read More »With the Costa Concordia disaster fresh in everyone’s minds, I suppose you could get a pretty good deal booking a Mediterranean cruise these days, if the companies that run these ships survive the big hit to their stock, that is. I’ve never been on a cruise (and the chances of…
Read More »While going through an accumulated pile of newspapers (both paper and electronic) this weekend, I read a couple of stories about a $2 fee Verizon was charging customers who paid bills by debit or credit cards and the resulting anger among effected customers. A front-page story by Todd Wallack in…
Read More »John Edward, a resident of Chelmsford who earned his master’s degree at UMass Lowell and who teaches economics at Bentley University and UMass Lowell, contributes the following column. Many Greater Lowell legislators made a big mistake in 2011. My State Representative, James Arciero, was one of them. In this column,…
Read More »James Whistler “Nocturne, Blue and Silver: Battersea Reach” – Whistler’s emphasis on sensation and atmosphere over detailed description has been compared by some to the philosophy underpinning Gardner’s whole museum. “I see the entire museum as a correlative to these shadowy tone poems,’’ wrote the poet and critic Wayne Koestenbaum…
Read More »A couple of things occurred over the past few days that got me thinking about the state of journalism in Lowell these days. Consider . . . Yesterday afternoon, the Sun’s political blog launched a post critical of Mayor Patrick Murphy’s subcommittee appointments. Within hours, Mayor Murphy posted a response…
Read More »For about a year I’ve been working with a tech-savy young man named Sam Antonaccio to find a way to use the latest communications and gaming technology to bring Lowell’s history to life for a new generation. As we wrapped up a meeting this past Saturday, Sam mentioned that he…
Read More »Nashua, New Hampshire* It wasn’t only about the upcoming, first-in-the-nation primary and Presidential candidate debates and events in New Hampshire this past weekend. Staff writer Dean Shalhoup writes in the Nashua Telegraph of the 106th Inaugural and Swearing-In ceremonies held yesterday in the city of Nashua. Nashua’s first female Mayor – Donnalee Lozeau – was…
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