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Massachusetts State Senator Barry Finegold (D-Andover), 2EM Last March – Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley and Alaska Senator Mark Begich launched a new non-profit group to highlight young Democratic elected officials with new ideas at the state and local level. The group, called The New DEAL (an acronym for Developing Exceptional American Leaders)…
Read More »In New York Magazine, political and cultural observer Frank Rich urges President Obama to fight hard for the America he envisions. Read the article here, which I picked up from huffingtonpost.
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. One reason I started writing columns was to respond to things I read in the newspapers. Informed people will come to different…
Read More »Here’s the latest on today’s stock market dive from NYTimes. Could investors be signalling that it is time for action and that doing nothing is not an option? I heard one analyst on the radio saying that experts and politicians claimed they were caught by surprise in 2008 when Wall…
Read More »Earlier this summer, the Veterans Administration released a plan that would merge the administrative functions of the Bedford VA hospital into the Boston VA without closing or curtailing services in nearby Bedford. The Globe reported on the proposal and the VA has posted details of the plan on its website.…
Read More »The Sesquicentennial of the Civil War. Remembrance of the Civil War and the role played by the city of Lowell and its citizenry continues as a theme as the Lowell Historical Society opens its 2011-2012 program season with a presentation entitled “J.C. Ayer & Company and the Civil War.” The…
Read More »The City of Lowell Hunger/ Homeless Commission once again celebrates Hunger/Homeless Awareness Month October is Hunger Homeless Awareness month and every year our community comes together to provide a range of activities to raise funds and awareness of hunger and homelessness in our community 19th Annual Awards Breakfast honoring those…
Read More »Frequent contributor Jim Peters sends along his thoughts on the upcoming city election, the national economy, and much else: There has not really been alot of time to meander over the past few months, between my father dying and my business being very busy. But, I have had the opportunity…
Read More »I almost can’t believe we have to read this kind of commentary, but it would not be responsible to let it go as if politics is some kind of harmless joke. Maureen Dowd spells it out in her latest opinion column when warning about the worst of what the Republican…
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