In today’s edition, the Globe editorial urges Attorney General Martha Coakley to withhold her support for the Caritas Christi Health Care sale to the for-profit private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management unless Cerberus agrees to a continued financial oversight by the Commonwealth after completion of the sale. From the editorial…
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Here are the answers to this week’s Tuesday Trivia questions: 6) What Lowell boxer represented the United States at the 1924 Olympic Games? * Al Mello a.k.a. Al Tavares 7) Which country’s national anthem was written by a person who lived in Lowell? * Canada – the song is “O…
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Today’s SUN includes an eloquently written article by Rita Savard about Jack Kerouac’s roots in Centralville, specifically St. Louis de France parish. She accompanied a group of people on a Sunday morning walking tour that was guided by the orginator of the tours of Kerouac literary sites, Roger Brunelle. He led four tours at this year’s Kerouac…
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Another installment of our Lowell trivia questions. The answers will be posted tomorrow. 6) What Lowell boxer represented the United States at the 1924 Olympic Games? 7) Which country’s national anthem was written by a person who lived in Lowell? 8) How many Roman Catholic churches in Lowell were originally…
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The Globe is reporting in today’s edition that after some stormy weeks of negotiations, changes in funding, greater deficit and shortfall discoveries – that Caritas Christi Health Care buy out by the for-profit Cerberus Capital Management firm has been salvaged. The buy-out agreement is subject to a review and conditions imposed…
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AOL.COM News reports on the “first ocean life census,” which revealed “6,000 new species.” Who says there’s nothing new under the sun? Read the news here. This is also International Space Week. Here are some suggestions for celebrating from 944.com. To learn more about Space Week, visit the home on the web.…
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We like the Lowell Folk Festival, which is a big event for our mid-sized city. San Francisco this past weekend hosted its annual Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival, which drew about 600,000 people to Golden Gate Park. Some of the performers who were in S.F. have played stages in Lowell, including…
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From truth-out.org, I picked up the following five-step plan by filmmaker Michael Moore, who still prefers Democrats over Republicans any day. Read it here.
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Here’s Paul Marion reading his poem, “Dylan Sings to Kerouac”, at Kerouac Park during this past weekend’s Jack Kerouac Literary Festival in Lowell, Massachusetts. (Video posted on YouTube by “spannedy”) [youtube]uuSfWNu9gMY[/youtube]
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It will take me some time to process the multitude of impressions and facts of this past weekend’s Kerouac Festival, but I want to share some initial observations: 1) We accomplished the goal of drawing a larger and more varied literary audience to the city with a broader menu of…
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