Current Events

Lowell Benefit: Lura Smith in a Gospel Concert of Thanksgiving ~ November 19, 2011

  Ms Lura Smith  local gospel singer, activist and philanthropist     Community Teamwork, Inc. & the Merrimack Valley Regional Network to End Homelessness Present: Lura Smith in a Gospel Concert of Thanksgiving November 19, 2911 from 12:00 – 2:00PM Eliot Presbyterian Church 273 Summer Street Lowell MA Special Guest…

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Frazier/Ali Knockdown

Former Heavy Weigh Champion Joe Frazier passed away last Monday from Liver Cancer. We will all remember Frazier for his epic battles with Muhammad Ali…In this, the 15th round of the first fight between them, Frazier knocks Ali to the canvas for the first time in his career. This is…

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Moving Tewksbury into the 6th CD Good for the GOP?

In today’s Globe – veteran writer Frank Phillips and colleague Noah Bierman cover the fall-out from yesterday’s announcement of the new Congressional District Map  for Massachusetts. Phillips had written over the weekend about the House plan to carve Lawrence out of the 5th District into the 6th – which many…

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Glen Johnson and Colleagues on UMass Lowell Panel Today

In today’s Boston Globe –  Glen Johnson  Politics Editor at boston.com and lead blogger for “Political Intelligence” notes that by this time next year that presidential race and our local Massachusetts U. S. Senate race will be history – already decide by the voters.  While Election Day isn’t until  November 6,…

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‘My Back Pages’: Paulson on Income Inequality

In the category of “The More Things Change”—While cleaning in the home office last weekend, I found a batch of old news clippings, including one from the Christian Science Monitor of August 3, 2006. In his first big speech, Bush administration Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson listed growing income inequality as one…

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Pres. Obama Announces New National Park at Fort Monroe, Praises Civil War Gen. Benjamin Butler of Lowell

Lowell National Historical Park Supt. Michael Creasey and Asst. Supt. Peter Aucella have both called attention to the President Obama’s announcement of the newest National Park at Fort Monroe in Virginia, which mentions the historic decision by Lowell’s own General Benjamin F.  Butler to declare Southern slaves as contraband of war…

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City Rhythm

I walked our family’s Boston Terrier in the leftover dark this morning before the sun edged over Wamesit Hill and the far treeline that loosely follows the path of the Concord River. The hem of the sky showed lighter blue, but above the night held. Heading toward Gorham Street I passed the backs of…

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