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About a month ago I opened the Sunday Boston Globe and saw an ad for an event that would feature Globe political reporter Glen Johnson (who used to work at the Lowell Sun) interviewing outgoing Congressman Barney Frank. While attending would require traveling to Morrissey Boulevard and the Globe’s headquarters,…
Read More »I’m not sure that bringing a dog to the Folk Festival is such a good idea (for the dog), but some people do. Here are a few who spent some time near my hangout in the Free Speech area:
Read More »Frequent contributor Jim Peters shares this essay: I was watching television this evening, the news on ABC to be exact, and Michael Bloomberg, the Mayor of the City of New York was featured for a new program in the city. Bloomberg has, apparently, dictated that new mothers be given a…
Read More »Elizabeth Warren visited the Lowell Folk Festival today, spending 90 minutes walking around town, shaking hands with Festival goers. Here are a few pictures.
Read More »From the NYTimes: Meanwhile, back at the stadium, the Olympic flag was carried along the track by eight humanitarians, including Ban Ki-moon, the United Nations secretary general, and Leymah Gbowee, who shared the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize. Once they made a half-circuit of the stadium, they met a frail-looking Muhammad…
Read More »“Where’s the outrage” cried US Sen. Bob Dole in 1996, asking voters to repudiate President Clinton. In today’s NYT, opinion writer Charles Blow asks, What’s the matter with Democrats in this election cycle? He cites polls that suggest that Republican voters are ready to run to the voting booth while…
Read More »Scenes from City Hall before and during the Ethnic Parade that kicked off the 2012 Lowell Folk Festival
Read More »Greg Page and Jennifer Myers, the outgoing and the incoming aides to Lowell Mayor Patrick Murphy, leaving City Hall for the opening parade of the Folk Festival
Read More »Head down to Lowell City Hall this evening for the 6:40 pm Ethnic Parade that is the opening ceremony of this year’s Lowell Folk Festival. The procession of costumed residents bearing the flags of their native countries and the native countries of their ancestors will leave JFK Plaza, proceed down…
Read More »Mitt Romney’s foreign policy field trip got off to an interesting start when in an NBC interview he questioned the preparedness of the London Olympics. The Brits were not impressed. Whether out of a sense of defensiveness or national pride or some combination, they responded vigorously. Here’s a sampling from…
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