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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Queen Elizabeth had nothing on us when she declared 1992 an annus horribilis. All she had to endure were the respective marital difficulties of son Andrew and daughter Anne, a tell-all book by Princess Di about Charles and…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog Getty images It was a lot easier getting up this morning knowing the headline out of Alabama read: first Democrat elected to the U.S. Senate in a quarter of a century from the state known as “the Heart of…
Read More »Here’s another entry about politics from my 1992 personal journal. I had been volunteering in Paul Tsongas’s presidential campaign for about a year when he suspended his campaign for the Democratic nomination on March 19 for lack of capacity to keep battling Gov. Bill Clinton of Arkansas. Paul had won…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Massachusetts’ Senate President is in trouble. The Boston Globe reports on four unnamed men subjected to sexual harassment by Bryon Hefner, the husband of Senate President Stan Rosenberg. MassLive reports this morning on a possible fifth case. Three of the…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Just because Donald Trump didn’t vomit on the Japanese Prime Minister the way George H. W. Bush did in 1992, didn’t make the President’s 12- day Asia trip a resounding success. Announcing billion dollar business deals negotiated prior…
Read More »MAJOR GRANT & AWARD FOR WATERWAYS VITALITY PROJECT The Lowell Heritage Partnership’s Waterways Vitality Initiative surged forward this month with several milestone achievements. The initiative’s recent successes include receipt of a $100,000 grant from the Theodore Edson Parker Foundation of Boston; a MassINC Innovation Award to be presented on November…
Read More »NBC News national political correspondent Steve Kornacki will speak at UMass Lowell’s University Crossing (220 Pawtucket St) this Friday, November 17, 2017 at 3pm. The topic of his speech will be “The Trump Election One Year In: Did It Change Everything?” Besides regular appearances on NBC News and MSNBC, Kornaki’s…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. It’s hard not to feel good about last Tuesday’s election results. Winning beats losing. Trying to tout losing by special congressional elections by ever-narrower margins doesn’t cut it. Never mind that Virginia trends blue anyway and voted Democratic…
Read More »After the blizzard of campaign lit that we’ve seen in our mailboxes for the past week or so, it was refreshing to get the fall newsletter from the Lowell Parks & Conservation Trust (LP&CT), one of the powerhouses in the nonprofit community. The last time I heard a figure for…
Read More »The entry blow is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Late tonight (aka Sunday morning) is the start of the deep blue funk. Clocks are set back one hour at two a.m. Soon sunset will be a little after four o’clock. (In Maine, it’s before four p.m.) Vitamin…
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