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From Deb Forgione of the PCC: “The Pawtucketville Citizens Council is joining ” National Night Out” on August 3, 6-9 pm, at Father McGuire Park. On site will be a Lowell Police k-9 demonstration, and for or the kids ( adults, too), demonstrations and viewing of a Lowell Police Dept.…
Read More »Our blogging colleagues at leftinlowell.com have this link up also, but the Globe story is important enough for broad coverage. Economic analysts at UMass are reporting that the Massachusetts economy is growing at a healthy pace, more than twice as fast as the national economy. This is data from MassBenchmarks,…
Read More »Somehow in my household I get the walk-the-dog-duty about 90 percent of the time. Half of that is the by-product of being an early riser; the other half is being a slow evader at suppertime. It’s been so hot this summer that the grass crisped up early on the South…
Read More »From today’s Wall Street Journal’s “On Wine” column, there’s a snapshot of toney Long Island leisure-time with a cameo appearance by Sir Paul McCartney and his woman friend, Nancy Shevell, at one of the preferred eating spots. A little window onto how the other half lives, I suppose. But Lowell…
Read More »Rob Gavin from the Globe’s business pages writes today that the Federal Reserve’s recent regional economy report states that the New England economy is growing, but the pace is slow. Read his article here, and consider subscribing to the Globe if you appreciate the writing. The Sun recently reported that…
Read More »The NYT’s Maureen Dowd nails the situation in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, and Yemen in today’s column. How come they’re only good at fighting us? she asks about the vaunted warrior types of those nations who seem maddeningly slow to form up into national armies charged with fighting the insurgents in…
Read More »On his blog, which I picked up from truth-out.org, economist Robert Reich dissects the issue of a jobless recovery. He explains why corporate profits are rising in some cases, but still not leading to fresh hiring. Read his blog post here.
Read More »E. J. Dionne says the Shirley Sherrod civic car wreck should be enough to wake up the liberals and progressives to the in-your-face tactics of political extremists who are bent on bringing down the Obama administration. No more fake news, no more unfair and unbalanced, no more manufactured conflicts. And if…
Read More »Here’s my recap of the 1996 State Election. I’ve added this to our Elections Page for ease of retrieval in the future. Bill Clinton’s reelection led the ballot in 1996. His Republican opponent, Bob Dole, had won his party’s nomination despite finishing second in the Massachusetts Republican Primary that March.…
Read More »The Visit . When I saw her gnarled fingers, shaved head, eyes like knots of wood, I didn’t say anything. He waved her out of the room, asked us to sit down, served iced drinks. He talked about ’75 when he worked security at the embassy in Phnom Penh and…
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