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In the New York Times, scholar and activist Bill McKibben calls Trump’s decision to cancel U.S. participation in the Paris Climate Accord “stupid and reckless.” It’s looking more and more as if Pres. Trump is doing things, making decisions, and appointing people just because he can—not because the purpose is…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Hillary Clinton’s return on Friday to her alma mater (and mine), Wellesley College, was triumphant. Her speech was powerful. She was warm and down to earth, funny and inspirational. Except for a dozen or so (“lock her up”)…
Read More »Tonight from 6 to 8 pm at the Pollard Memorial Library is the Local Author Book Fair. I will be there with all three of my books for sale, including Lowell Municipal Elections: 1965-2015. The following is from the Library’s press release about the event: Local Author Book Fair LOWELL—Support…
Read More »Dick Howe asked me to be the guest host for this important weekly ritual.—PM Garrison Keillor was known to start his regular report about local doings on his radio show A Prairie Home Companion by saying, “Well, it’s been a quiet week in Lake Wobegon . . .” I can’t remember…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Finally, some good news out of Washington. The Department of Justice has appointed former FBI Director Bob Mueller to be Independent Counsel to investigate all issues related to Russian intervention in the American election. Mueller has the latitude…
Read More »Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey is coming to Lowell for a Town Hall meeting on Monday, May 22, 2017 at 7 pm at the Wang Middle School, 365 West Meadow Road. The Attorney General will be discussing the litigation she has initiated against President Trump’s immigration ban and the efforts…
Read More »On Thursday, June 1, 2017 at 7:30 pm at UMass Lowell’s Durgin Hall, the International Institute of New England-Lowell will honor the contributions of refugees and immigrants at a live storytelling event that will also serve as a fund raiser for the International Institute. The event, which was recently featured…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. If you tuned in late, you might think you were watching The Apprentice, just another episode of Donald Trump’s “You’re fired.” Or you might think a time machine had catapulted us back to the infamous “Saturday night massacre,” when embattled…
Read More »Picked this up from Charlotte Mandell on Facebook. On Berkeleyside.com, George Lakoff talks about the way we talk about politics in the USA. Web photo by Daphne White courtesy of Berkeleyside.com
Read More »These complaints are not going away, and in the U.S. the Democratic Party must address the grievances of those who are being run over by economic and social changes driven by powerful interests. From today’s paper, here’s a NY Times opinion piece by a writer in France. Why Marine Le…
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