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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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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Four candidates came forward to compete to replace Mike Lenzi on the Greater Lowell Technical High School Committee. They were Ray Boutin, Cliff Krieger, Dave Laferriere and Fru Nkimbeng. Each candidate gave a five minute opening statement, answered a handful of questions from the joint committee of the city council…
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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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[youtube]5IjtDlEbzfw[/youtube] “I love to come to Lowell” were the words Elizabeth Warren used to open her remarks last night at an enthusiastic get-out-the-vote rally at Arthur Ramalho’s West End Gym on Lawrence Street. The room was packed and the podium inside the ring and the boxing paraphernalia covering the walls…
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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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The Class of 2012 Lowell High School Distinguished Alums on stage after the program. Tim Sweeney, Class of 1983; Ron Boisjoly retired LHS teacher representing his brother Roger Boisjoly, Class of 1955; Fr. George McLean, OMI, Class of 1946; Judith McMurray an educator in Kittery, ME representing her great grandfather…
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A group of current and former elected officials from the city of Lowell gathered in front of City Hall recently to endorse Elizabeth Warren for the U.S. Senate. Pictured above from left are Register of Deeds Richard Howe, Jr. (me), Former Mayors Brian Martin and Richard Howe, Sr., current Lowell…
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