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On the front of boston.com and on the first page of the Globe’s Metro section today, there’s a story about efforts by the city of Lowell to counteract the gun violence that burst into the public eye with the New Year’s Eve party shootings on Grand Street, the theft of…
Read More »Here’s the local forecast for tomorrow night and Wednesday from the National Weather Service: Tuesday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 30. Light north wind. Tuesday Night: Snow, mainly after 2am. Patchy fog after 1am. Low around 23. Calm wind becoming north between 7 and 10 mph. Chance of precipitation…
Read More »Mickey O’Keefe, Mark Wahlberg and Christian Bale in a scene from “The Fighter” Another review of “The Fighter” has surfaced – this time on WickedLocal.com/provincetown. Writer/reviewer Loren King has an interesting take on the movie, the family and on the city of Lowell. …Wahlberg, who’s owned the rights to this…
Read More »Arizona Republic columnist Linda Valdez today writes about the shooting of the homegrown Congresswoman. I picked up this link from realclearpolitics.com
Read More »The New York Times has been blogging live all day on its website with updates and various information related to the shootings in Tucson, AZ. Keep up with the blog posts here.
Read More »The Eagle-Tribune has posted these comments from Congresswoman Niki Tsongas – a close colleague of Congreswoman Gabrielle Giffords: Massachusetts Congresswoman Niki Tsongas issued a statement just moments ago on the shooting of her colleague, Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords this morning. In the statement, Tsongas said it was with “great sadness…
Read More »Read the New York Times account of the shooting here. Congresswoman Niki Tsongas was attending her own “Congress On Your Corner” event in the Chelmsford Public Library today at 1:30 p.m. to hear questions and concerns from her constituents. Her colleague Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords had plans to hold a similar event…
Read More »Bob Herbert of the NYTimes today uses his column inches in the nation’s newspaper of record to pound the President, Democrats, and Republicans for neglecting their responsibility to help Americans who are most needy. The late Peter Stamas of Lowell (Lowell High Headmaster, President of Human Services Corp. of Lowell,…
Read More »The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court issued a much anticipated decision today that, while properly decided, will result in further damage to our country’s already injured housing market. Here are the facts of US Bank v Ibanez: In December 2005, Antonio Ibanez borrowed $103,000 from Rose Mortgage Company to finance the…
Read More »Mike Luciano, a regular reader of and sometime contributor to this site, sent along the following post that takes issue with today’s Lowell Sun editorial: I imagine that reading a Lowell Sun editorial is like walking through a house where multiple homicides have just occurred. You wander through in a…
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