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With UN Ambassador Susan Rice withdrawing her name for consideration as Hillary Clinton’s successor as Secretary of State, the odds that our own US Senator, John Kerry, will be named to that post by the President have increased substantially. Republican Senators quoted in this Globe article and elsewhere seem giddy…
Read More »Friday night at the Old Court (29-31 Central Street, Lowell) good friend Dee Tension will be hosting the 2nd Annual WCAP Comedy Night Fund Raiser. The event’s Facebook page carries the following details: 980 WCAP Presents The 2nd Annual WCAP Comedy Holiday Party. A benefit for Toys For Tots and…
Read More »The Mayor’s Reception Room in Lowell City Hall was packed with people earlier this evening for the annual Mayor’s Christmas Party. An excellent buffet was provided by UTEC Catering; music came from a Lowell High band combo; and entertainment was provided by The Magnificent Henri, a mesmerizing magician who moonlights…
Read More »Last week I wrote about Tim Cahill’s decision to testify in his own defense in his on-going political corruption trial in Suffolk Superior Court. After days of deliberations, the jury found Cahill’s co-defendant Not Guilty and failed to reach a verdict on Cahill. As a result, the judge declared a…
Read More »Grab your video camera and fire up your imagination. The City of Lowell is sponsoring a “Promotional Spot Contest.” Your 15 second video should tell viewers why Lowell is a great place “to live, work and play.” The submission deadline is Jan. 18th, 2013, 5 pm and the winning entry…
Read More »A friend on a lunch break captured the above photo of today’s fire at a Lowell Housing Authority apartment complex at the Bishop Markham complex. The site of the fire faced the South Common and was in the vicinity of the South and Summer Street intersection. A large amount of…
Read More »Catie Bisson was a 2008 graduate of Lowell High School who succumbed to a chronic heart ailment in 2010 while a sophomore at Bridgewater State College. I got to know Catie a bit while she was at Lowell High: She and my son Andrew were both in the band and…
Read More »PLEASE READ this very important column on the consequences of income inequality. It’s by 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. The fiscal cliff is approaching fast. Everyone knows…
Read More »I had to go into Boston during the day yesterday and took my preferred means of transport, the MBTA commuter rail from the Gallagher Terminal to North Station. While I’ve made that journey many times, this was the first chance I had to use the new MBTA “m Ticket” cell…
Read More »This has nothing to do with Lowell other than that we are consumers of the pop culture like everyone else. One of my favorite films of recent years is “The International” (2009), starring Clive Owen as Interpol investigator Louis Salinger and Naomi Watts as New York City Assistant District Attorney Eleanor…
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