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Today UMass Lowell kicked-off its new Author Series with U. S. Senator Elizabeth Warren. Before a crowd in the lobby, along the rails up to the fourth floor and on the sweeping stairway of the newly opened University Crossing, the Senator talked about her early life and then read excerpts…
Read More »Reverend Seamus Finn, OMI We’ve profiled and highlighted the work of Lowell-connected Oblate – Seamus Finn, OMI in past blog posts like this one: https://www.richardhowe.com/2013/01/02/fr-seamus-finn-omi-new-years-resolutions-and-corporate-social-responsibility/. Today we note a Letter-to-the Editor at the Lowell Sun where Father Finn has taken issue with the Sun editorial criticism of Elizabeth Warren’s “obsession with Wall…
Read More »Here’s a hat tip to the climate-change demonstrators in Washington, D.C., who are speaking on behalf of the planet this holiday weekend. Lowelltown is as white tonight as the monuments in the capital city. I wrote this poem after a family trip to Washington in the summer of 2004. There…
Read More »I haven’t dragged David “Uncle Dave” Brooks over here for a long time. He was irritating during the presidential election, trying to find ways to stay on Mitt Romney’s side—every once in a while he gave it up for the President, but I think Uncle Dave was always pulling for…
Read More »Senator-elect Elizabeth Warren visited Hookslide Kelly’s in Lowell last night to thank the supporters who helped propel her to an eight point victory statewide (54% to 46%) and an even bigger win in Lowell (59% to 41%). Lynne at Left in Lowell recorded Warren’s remarks and has the video available…
Read More »Senator-elect Elizabeth Warren visited Lowell very early-on in her campaign. Here she speaks to a packed auditorium in Lowell’s Butler School in 2011. From Roger Lau: “The campaign may be over, but Elizabeth’s real work of helping working families across Massachusetts is just getting started. Senator-elect Elizabeth Warren (doesn’t it…
Read More »For some unknown reason our copy of the Sun Sunday “Focus – Opinion & Commentary” continues to hit the driveway on Fridays in a early arrival. So here’s a heads-up! The Lowell Sun joins the GOP with an editorial “swift-boating” of U. N. Ambassador Susan Rice this coming Sunday. She…
Read More »Frequent contributor Jim Peters shares his thoughts on the recent election: It has been a good few weeks. In the first place, we (Democrats, or the American People, or some group), won. Three weeks before the election, I walked into the Tsongas Headquarters and told a few of the people…
Read More »Renae Lias Claffey, familiar to many in the Lowell community, has an Op-Ed piece in today’s Nashua Telegraph in which she analyzes the presidential election just past. Read her thoughts here.
Read More »In the film “Lincoln,” during the scene in which the roll is being called for votes for and against the adoption of a Constitutional amendment to ban slavery, I couldn’t help wondering who was representing Lowell in the US Congress at that moment. According to the ever-useful “Cotton Was King”…
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