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Viral Video, Homeless Man with Golden Voice
This is a wild story. Listen to the voice. Stay with the clip to the end or push the progress bar to the last ten seconds.
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The right to keep and bear arms
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed. Second Amendment to the US Constitution I realize that the US Supreme Court ruled in 2008 that the Second Amendment guarantees the right…
Read More »Jan 4, 2011 Solar Eclipse
Pictures of this morning’s solar eclipse from various parts of the world, taken by Citizen Journalists and brought to us by the BBC.
Read More »Images from Grand Street Peace Walk
Greg at The New Englander posted pictures from yesterday’s “peace walk” and remembrance of victims on Grand Street in the Lower Highlands. See his photos here. I don’t have any information about contributions or donations in memory of Corinna Oeur. If one of our readers has information, please share it in…
Read More »Time to Dump the Telephone Book?
Every year Verizon delivers about forty of fifty telephone books to the Middlesex North Registry of Deeds where I work. Sixteen years ago when I first started working at the courthouse these books were gobbled up by both court and registry employees the day they arrived. Now they sit in…
Read More »‘It’s time we made lemonade’ by Paul Hudon
Paul Hudon, author of “An Illustrated History of the Lower Merrimack: The Valley and its Peoples“, has some observations on the state of national politics as we enter 2011: You have to wonder if ‘the happy warrior’ is trying to tell us something. Hubert Horatio Humphrey was laid to rest…
Read More »Here’s My Review of ‘The Fighter’
Tonight, with my wife and two friends I saw “the movie” at the Showcase Cinemas, just a slapshot away from Micky Ward Circle. The film ended two hours ago and I’m still in a kind of shock from the hyper-realism on screen. Lowell appeared to be under a colossal magnifying glass.…
Read More »Who owns the sidewalk?
A story in today’s Globe follows a couple of Boston code enforcement police around as they issue citations to folks who shovel/plow/blow snow into the already plowed street. The story mentions that unnamed “legal experts” say the city is liable for injuries that occur on sidewalks so it’s in the…
Read More »Obama’s end-of life planning is all about “The Conversation” by Marjorie Arons-Barron
The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Be sure to visit it also. President Obama’s “end-of-life plan” is all about The Conversation, but, for it to make sense, he has to shape the dialogue. What’s important is the language. What’s regrettable is that the NY…
Read More »Snow stories from the Blizzard of 2010
The snow began in Lowell yesterday at 3:30 pm. By 8 pm, about 4 inches had fallen. Throughout the night the wind was howling. At 5 am today, it looks like another 6 inches fell overnight. I’m heading out soon to clear the cars and the driveway and will report…
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