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For today’s paper, Sun reporters Andrea Gregory and John Collins wrote a moving account of the last hours of Lowell resident Judyann Lamothe’s life and gave readers a sense of her short life, including the brights spots and challenges. She was from my neighborhood, someone who lived at Bishop Markham…
Read More »A few hundred generous donors and friends of the American Textile History Museum last night gathered to recognize the extraordinary community service and leadership contributions of Brenda Costello. At the same time, the museum marked its first 50 years in the Merrimack Valley. A good measure of the success of a…
Read More »Columnist E. J. Dionne (from Southeastern Mass.) writes today that US Rep. Nancy Pelosi of California deserves the opportunity to be minority leader in the US House of Rep’s. E. J. makes the case that the woman who is still Speaker of the House can still lead the Democrats. I…
Read More »The incredibly interest rates available these days seem to be benefiting some homeowners. The number of mortgages recorded at the Middlesex North Registry of Deeds during October 2010 was 37% percent higher than the number recorded in October 2009 (1508 vs. 1101). This refinancing surge disproportionately is benefiting homeowners in…
Read More »From the Boston Globe: Chief Justice-designee Roderick I. Ireland is shown in 2009 photo sitting next to two of his current colleagues on the Supreme Judicial Court, Justices Margot Botsford and Robert J. Cordy. Both the Boston Globe and the Boston Herald are reporting that Governor Deval Patrick has nominated…
Read More »Read columnist E. J. Dionne’s take on the mid-term elections. He warns Dems/Progressives/Liberals/Sensible People about letting themselves be defined by the other side.
Read More »Since we referenced the San Francisco Chronicle yesterday about the Giants’ World Series win, I thought we’d check it out for the Jerry Brown win. It’s a walk down memory lane for some of us. Former Gov. Jerry Brown – defying both a crushing conservative wave sweeping the nation and…
Read More »There’s a lot of good commentary out there on the web today. Here’s an opinion piece that’s worth a read. Timothy Egan of the NYTimes says the Obama Administration and Congressional Democrats “saved capitalism” in 2009-10, but got no thanks for it from the private sector that benefited from the…
Read More »Not only because Lowell historian Mehmed Ali and others from the city, the Merrimack Valley, and beyond are on duty in Iraq, but also because the death and destruction goes on every day in that world turned upside down, we must remember there’s a war there. Each day in November,…
Read More »Read columnist Eugene Robinson’s opinion piece in today’s Washington Post. He wonders what’s really got the anti-Democrat, anti-federal government crowd so worked up, and concludes that it is because President Obama is “different.”
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