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Today’s Globe reports that soon-to-be former Senator Scott Brown took to the talk radio airways yesterday to swipe at Congressman Ed Markey, a likely opponent in the upcoming special election to fill the US Senate seat now held by John Kerry. Brown asked whether Markey, who has been a Congressman…
Read More »The Commonwealth’s Registers of Deeds, both those newly elected and those re-elected in this past November’s state election, gathered earlier this evening at the State House in Boston for an Administration of the Oath of Office Ceremony conducted by Secretary of State William Galvin (above). The ceremony was immediately followed…
Read More »Here are my Top Ten events and developments in Lowell in 2012. Please add your own using the comment feature: 1. Elizabeth Warren defeated Scott Brown for the United States Senate, 54% to 46%. Warren won Lowell by nearly 6,000 votes. Many of those who voted for Warren have not…
Read More »I don’t agree with the opinions in the regular essays by Ross Douthat in the NYTimes, but he makes a useful point in his new column when he encourages citizens to at least try to read or listen to political and policy views that come from way over on the other…
Read More »Back in 1986, the “Tax Simplification Act” drastically changed the way real estate transactions, among many other things, were taxed. That year’s December 31 was one of the busiest days in the history of the Middlesex North Registry of Deeds (so I am told since I was not yet there…
Read More »We took a ride around the Highlands tonight to look at how people decorated their homes for Christmas [youtube]dNMRzSCXLo8[/youtube]
Read More »John Edward, a resident of Chelmsford who earned his master’s degree at UMass Lowell and who teaches economics at Bentley University and UMass Lowell, contributes the following column. Some of my predictions for 2012 came true (President Obama re-elected); others did not (the Supreme Court upheld “Obamacare”). In my own…
Read More »Listening to some national commentators this morning, at first I thought they were discussing the Mayan prediction that the world would end today but it soon became clear they were discussing the so-called “Fiscal Cliff” that will be dominating political news over the next two weeks. Back in 2011 when…
Read More »Here’s Google’s excellent year in review video: [youtube]xY_MUB8adEQ[/youtube]
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