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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 »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.…
Read More »A big thanks to the Vermont National Guard troops who worked like heck on Highland Street all day yesterday with front-end loaders and huge dump trucks to bash out the vast snow piles that had narrowed the street severely. They had a Humvee at the Thorndike intersection with a Guardsman…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. The question during the 2014 gubernatorial campaign was often “Will the real Charlie Baker please stand up?” Today, Governor Baker stood before a meeting of the New England Council, the real Charlie Baker, the one I knew from…
Read More »Two important Lowell annual events get a change of date and a change of face! The 2015 Lowell Winterfest event is postponed from this coming weekend to the weekend of March 13-14. Too much snow has caused the City Manager and organizers to reschedule since the DPW workers are just…
Read More »Greater Lowell Area Democrats (GLAD) will meet this coming Saturday morning February 21, 2015 at 8am in the Independence Grill of the Radisson Hotel in Chelmsford . Greater Lowell Area Democrats Regular Breakfast Meeting Saturday February 21, 2015 at 8:00 AM At the Independence Grill/ Radisson Hotel Rte. 110…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Bob Simon was the kind of journalist whom Brian Williams could only dream of being. There was no finer writer or story teller, no more courageous correspondent, no better example of the highest achievements of reporting, than Simon, described by…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. In Mumbai, train service was once so slow passengers rioted and burned train stations. In Bangkok, a one-way commute can take four hours. Manila’s public transport relies on Jeepneys, modeled on WW II jeeps and hazardous to passenger comfort and safety. But…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. That shame came to NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams only recently is probably the most surprising news of all. He is the ultimate expression of the celebrity newsperson, overpaid, overdressed, overexposed, over-inclined to be an entertainer all the while asserting a claim…
Read More »People are discussing what’s going to happen with transportation improvements on the Thorndike-Dutton streets corridor because of what they will mean for access to and from the Gallagher transit terminal, around South Common, over to Cambodia Town and Western Avenue Studios, through the Hamilton Canal District, and into the core…
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