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Boston Catholic Church officials announced Thursday that the archdiocese’s weekly newspaper is now available through Amazon’s Kindle e-reader and via an Apple iPhone application.The 181 year old The Pilot – America’s oldest Catholic newspaper and the official newspaper of the Archdiocese of Boston – is the first Catholic newspaper to…
Read More »Here’s the seventh installment of my Twitter “tweets” of Charles Cowley’s “Illustrated History of Lowell.” We’ve almost reached the city’s incorporation in 1826 (as a town). Much happened here before Lowell even existed. 1st steamboat traveled from Boston to Concord NH in 1819 via Middlesex Canal & Merrimack River By…
Read More »Writing for TIME, Joe Klein offered up a sober assessment of President Obama’s speech to the disabled vets a few days ago that marked the end of “major combat operations” in Iraq by our country. You can read the August 2 blog post here. It’s not unusual for a writer to…
Read More »“Dear Friends, “Massachusetts became the first state in the nation to adopt the Creative Challenge Index proposal – an initiative to raise the priority of creative work in our schools – when Governor Deval Patrick signed the Economic Development Reorganization bill into law this morning. We thank Governor Patrick for…
Read More »One of the most important after effects of the 2010 Census is the redistricting process – the changing of political borders of Congressional districts as well as the House and Senate legislative districts. As Secretary of the Commonweath Bill Galvin reminded us constantly in preparation for the Census – getting…
Read More »With his latest essay, Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne, a native of southeastern Mass., hums a brush-back pitch at Republicans who are leaning in to take a whack at the 14th amendment in the midst of the mid-term election frenzy. E.J. reminds the GOP that the so-called “Civil War or…
Read More »The Wall Street Journal is reporting a significant legislative win for Democrats in the U.S. Senate, made possible by the support of the two Republican Senators from Maine. Speaker Pelosi will call the House members back from the break to vote next week. The President is expected to sign the bill,…
Read More »The NYT today has an update on the Bill and Melinda Gates/Warren Buffet trolling-for-billionaires initiative. They are having a great deal of success in getting people to pledge to give at least half of their riches to charity. Read the article here, and consider buying a copy of the NYT if…
Read More »Here’s another installment in our State Election database – 2004. The real excitement that year was at the top of the ticket as Senator John Kerry attempted unsuccessfully to replace George W Bush as President. For this and all other annual election results, please visit our ELECTIONS page. The big…
Read More »Why are we starting to talk about a Kerouac Center for Creativity in Lowell? Aside from the facts that Lowell was founded by inventors and entrepreneurs, that the city is a contemporary hub of the creative economy, and that higher education institutions like UMass Lowell and Middlesex Community College demonstrate the positive results…
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