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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. A scorpion asks a frog to take it across the river. The frog fears the scorpion will sting him. The scorpion talks a good line, saying that, if he did sting the frog, they’d both drown. So, in…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. If you want to hear everything our national government now is not, listen to Boston Mayor Marty Walsh’s state-of-the-city address. In a rousing half-hour speech at Symphony Hall, he credibly held out Boston as a model to be…
Read More »Live Poetry in Lowell by Janet Egan and Paul Marion Lowell has been long-famous for Golden Gloves boxing matches at the Memorial Auditorium, but there’s a different competition for which the city has become well known. Every first and third Tuesday of the month, writers and their audience get together…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. You’re probably as sick of the daily news cycle as I am, despite the satisfaction of seeing the progress of the Mueller investigation. Still, I highly recommend House of Trump, House of Putin, by former Boston Magazine editor Craig…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. When we mourn the passing of former President George H. W. Bush, we are mourning the passing of an era, a time when public service was an honor, military service was an important component, when politicians would reverse…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. For two years, those turned off by Donald Trump and Republicans’ acquiescence to him have strategized to take back the House of Representatives and even, against great odds, the Senate. A great many worked to make that happen,…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi is a lightning rod for antipathy to the Democratic Party. And she’s a great fundraising opportunity for Republicans, who are using her possible restoration as Speaker to rally the GOP to keep the…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. John McCain died on August 25th, the same day Ted Kennedy died nine years ago, from the same lethal disease. Two old warriors, who disagreed on much but fought for their principles in the national interest and became…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. I ask you: do I look like an enemy of the people? Given my 30+ years in journalism (including Boston Phoenix, WGBH-TV, WCVB-TV) and nearly a decade more as a blogger, Donald Trump would probably say yes. Journalism…
Read More »The agenda for this week City Council meeting indicates that the Council will hold an Executive Session at the conclusion of the regular agenda to discuss “matters of litigation” including the Huot et al v. City of Lowell. That is the municipal election lawsuit. MOTION RESPONSES Beautifying the City: Motion…
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