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Fuel Assistance Cuts a Problem for Massachusetts
David Wade of Boston’s WBZ-TV filed a report on what some are calling “a crisis in the making.” It’s all about fuel assistance. As the temperature falls and winter comes on, people face the likelihood of a reduced amount of money available for fuel assistance compared to this past year. …
Read More »A Lowell Connection: Watch Wahlberg on “60 Minutes” Come Sunday
November 19, 2010
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Marie
Posted in Culture, Current Events, Greater Lowell, History, Lowell
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Dorchester-native Mark Wahlberg is featured this Sunday night on “60 Minutes.” The segment runs just days before the Massachusetts premier of his movie “The Fighter” based on Lowell’s own Irish Micky Ward. While a Globe “Celebrity News” item puts the focus on his Dorchester roots, word has it that Lowell plays…
Read More »Rave: Get to the MFA’s New Wing of All-American Art
Read this NYT rave review of Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts’ new Art of the Americas Wing. Go there. Quickly now.
Read More »Economic Patriots and Not So Much
November 19, 2010
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PaulM
Posted in Culture, Current Events, Election 2010, History, Lowell, Politics
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So what’s really motivating the G.O.P. attack on the Fed? Mr. Bernanke and his colleagues were clearly caught by surprise, but the budget expert Stan Collender predicted it all. Back in August, he warned Mr. Bernanke that “with Republican policy makers seeing economic hardship as the path to election glory,”…
Read More »For Perspective: Earth from the Space Station
AOL Science has a link to stunning photographs being made by astronaut Douglas Wheelock on the International Space Station during his five-month stay. He sends them via Twitter. Here’s the link.
Read More »Mainers Snowe and Collins: Lilly Ledbedder “Yes” but Paycheck Fairness “No”
GOP members of the U. S. Senate Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins of Maine From the HuffingtonPost this afternoon: WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats were unable to overcome a Republican filibuster of the Paycheck Fairness Act on Tuesday, with the chamber falling two votes short of the 60 needed to end…
Read More »Lowell Charter Changes through history
There were some interesting comments on my Tuesday post on City Councilor Patrick Murphy’s successful motion to have the Rules Subcommittee “discuss Charter Changes to increase civic participation.” It might be helpful to review how the city’s charter has changed through the years. Lowell was organized as a town in…
Read More »UMass Lowell Architectural Symposium @ Whistler House
For details about the December 11 all-day symposium, “Artistic Manifestations in Architecture,” at the Whistler House Museum of Art, visit the Whistler House Museum’s website here. The line-up of speakers includes scholars and architects from Wellesley College, MIT, University of Lincoln in the UK, Roger Williams University, National Park Service, and…
Read More »Joe Quinlan’s Back Central Photographs
“Back Central in Black & White, Inside & Out” Photographs by Joe Quinlan Whistler House Museum of Art, 243 Worthen Street, Lowell On exhibit November 20 through December 30, 2010 Reception: Saturday, Nov. 20, 2 pm — 4 pm A year or so ago, I decided to trace the steps…
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