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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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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Frequent contributor Jim Peters shares his thoughts on the University Ave Bridge, an issue on the city council agenda tomorrow night: The problem with following the meanderings of the mind is that the mind is relatively complex, although some of my friends say I do not have to worry about…
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A Globe story reporting that former Channel 5 anchor person Natalie Jacobson, retired from Boston TV since 2007, will be featured on a new Worcester-based local news site caught my eye this morning. The venture is not some shoestring operation cobbled together by a few local bloggers. Instead, it is…
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