Frank Rich, illustration by Gary Bedard (web image courtesy of garybedard.blogspot.com) Read this New York magazine analysis of the election and national political culture by Frank Rich, former columnist at the NYTimes. His acute observations are refreshing compared to the misleading neutrality of so many mainstream media types. To give my Facebook friends…
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This has nothing to do with Lowell, but it’s an amazing video from last week’s rescue of survivors from the HMS Bounty, the tall ship replica of the nineteenth century British warship, which sank off the coast of North Carolina during Hurricane Sandy. This 11 minute long video was posted…
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While looking for something else on my computer, I came across this article I wrote back in January 2010 in the aftermath of Scott Brown’s election to the United States Senate. In the aftermath of Brown’s defeat this past Tuesday, I thought it might be worth a trip down memory…
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It was on this day, November 8, 1960, that John Fitzgerald Kennedy of Massachusetts was elected as the 35th President of the United States. He won against Republican candidate and then- Vice President Richard Nixon. Elected at the age of 43, Kennedy was the youngest man elected President; he was…
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In yesterday’s election, Democratic challenger Elizabeth Warren overwhelmingly defeated Republican incumbent Scott Brown by an eight percentage point margin. Statewide, Warren received 1,678,176 (54%) votes to Brown’s 1,449,039 (46%). Warren won Lowell by 5723 votes receiving 19,678 to 13,905. To put this in historical perspective, I compared those statistics to…
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John Francis “Honey-Fitz” Fitzgerald ( 1863 – 1950) Born in the North End in the shadow of the historic Old North Church, John Francis Fitzgerald – known as “Honey-Fitz” – was the founder of what became the historic Kennedy dynasty. He was bright, hardworking, determined and Irish-Catholic. He was the first of…
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On this Day November 5, 1818 – Benjamin F. Butler – a lawyer and politician who represented Massachusetts in the United States House of Representatives and later served as the 33rd Governor of Massachusetts and served as a major general in the Union Army during the Civil War – was…
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A while back I wrote about the perplexing “half-n-half” character of the American electorate. On Morning Joe today the hosts ran through the polls in battleground states and nationwide, showing a virtual tie between the President and his challenger. This, after two years of the Republicans making a case against…
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I picked this up from MoveOn.org
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Ernest Hebert: “How ‘The Great Gatsby’ Demeans Working People” Ernest Hebert’s most recent novel, NEVER BACK DOWN, tells the story of the life and loves of Jack Landry, a New England Franco-American working man. Hebert wrote his book as an answer to The GREAT GATSBY and DELIVERANCE, novels that…
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