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With apologies to other cartoon favorites, “Garfield” and his weather reaction is right-on this morning! from ArcaMax
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Dirty little secret about hopes for Israel/ Palestine peace by Marjorie Arons-Barron
The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. So Benjamin Netanyahu shamelessly and successfully pandered to Israeli right-wing voters in Tuesday’s election. A politician playing to base emotions and lying to get elected, then changing positions again. How unusual. The hard Right is pleased by his…
Read More »Lowell St. Patrick’s Day Dinner
Congratulations to State Senator Eileen Donoghue and City Manager Kevin Murphy for successfully transitioning the 30-something year old Lowell St. Patrick’s Day Breakfast to an evening dinner. The UMass Lowell Inn and Conference Center was packed with all the usual Lowell and Greater Lowell political suspects. The high point for…
Read More »President Obama in Selma: “The Single Most Powerful Word in Our Democracy Is ‘We’.”
If a speech can make a difference, this is one. President Obama did well in Selma, Alabama, yesterday. “Our march is not over.” “Moral imagination.” “The single most powerful word in our democracy is ‘we’.” “What has not changed is the imperative of citizenship.” “Give voice to the voiceless.” This…
Read More »Community Meeting on 2024 Olympics
The following is from State Senator Eileen Donoghue: Dear Friends & Colleagues: Boston 2024 has launched a series of 20 statewide community meetings over 20 weeks to give the public across Massachusetts an opportunity to ask questions, offer ideas, and help shape the bid to host the 2024 Summer Olympic…
Read More »Celebrating Civil & Voting Rights at UMass Lowell
Professor Bob Forrant sent the following: University of Massachusetts Lowell Spring 2015 COMMEMORATION OF THE 1964 CIVIL RIGHTS ACT AND THE 1965 VOTING RIGHTS ACT “ In 1964, President Johnson put pen to paper and signed the Civil Rights Act into law. Fifty years later, few pieces of legislation have…
Read More »“Sun file photo” or my Flickr account?
When I saw the front page of today’s print edition of the Lowell Sun, the photo of the Rialto Building used to illustrate the story on Middlesex Community College looked surprisingly familiar. That’s probably because I’m the one who took it. Below is the photo that appears in today’s Lowell…
Read More »“Mass Senate Listening Session” by Nancy Pitkin
Nancy Pitkin is a regular contributor to richardhowe.com. She attended the Massachusetts State Senate’s “Listening Session” in Lawrence recently and submitted the following report: On Monday, February 23, 2015 we attended the Massachusetts State Senators “Listening Session” in Lawrence. It was the fourth of eight state wide forums being held…
Read More »Backlog of complaints? Hit the delete button! by Marjorie Arons-Barron
The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Forty years ago, Italian postal workers faced a backlog of 20 million pieces of mail following a series of strikes. Unlike London, which faced a similar problem and simply took a couple of weeks to eliminate the backlog,…
Read More »M. Dowd in NYT Says Don’t Repeat History With Jeb
This blog has History in the subtitle. Lowell history is always part of the larger narrative nationwide and in the world. We all know that, but sometimes it’s preferable to push aside the misery and chaos and stupidity from beyond the Merrimack Valley that shows up in our news feeds.…
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