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Back in the spring of 1996 I didn’t spend much time in my office at the Middlesex North Registry of Deeds within the Superior Courthouse on Gorham Street in Lowell. It was too noisy and dusty. Contractors were demolishing the once-stately St Peter’s Church which had been located directly across…
Read More »From Bob Forrant: More than 60 people, including three Lawrence city councilors and two representatives from US Rep. Niki Tsongas’s office, yesterday gathered in Lawrence to start planning in earnest the 2012 Bread & Roses Strike Centennial Project. For more information, contact robert_forrant@uml.edu Read the Eagle-Tribune’s report on the January 15…
Read More »Bob Massie – Candidate for the US Senate in Massachusetts Democratic activists and political junkies of a certain age (like me) will have little trouble remembering Bob Massie – the Democratic nominee for Lt. Governor in 1994 – others not-so-much! Seeing a notice that Bob Massie was the guest speaker at…
Read More »In today’s edition – the Boston Globe continues its series on the reviatlization of mid-sized cities in the Commonwealth. The focus of today’s article is “reclaiming the center – midsize cities rediscover the allure of downtowns, attracting millions to transform them into 24-hour neighborhoods of businesses and homes.” It’s no surprise…
Read More »I joined the 500 million member club called Facebook after delaying for a long time because it looked to me like another form of media to keep up with. When I was a kid, my family was late getting a color TV, so maybe there’s a pattern. However, my first…
Read More »For perspective, here’s an essay by Columbia University physics scholar Brian Greene about what we know and don’t know about our largest neighborhood, the universe. Read his commentary here, and get the NYT if you want more.
Read More »Award-winning author Jane Brox, who grew up and lived in Dracut until recently, will be among the featured faculty at the prestigious annual Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference at Middlebury College in Vermont, August 10 to 20, 2011. For details, visit www.middlebury.edu/blwc Her faculty colleagues will include Chang-rae Lee, Philip Levine, and…
Read More »The Critics Choice Awards were held yesterday in Los Angeles – Best Supporting Actor: Christian Bale (The Fighter) – (From the UK”s Daily Mail) Actor Christian Bale won The Best Supporting Actor gong for his intense performance as former boxer Dicky Ekland in The Fighter. The star famously lost a substantial…
Read More »With the 7 am temperature only 3 degrees, not a lot of the 20 inches of snow that fell on Wednesday will be melting today. I have a couple of post-storm observations to share: During my two mile drive home from work last night, at two different spots I saw…
Read More »Writing in the Wall Street Journal, columnist Peggy Noonan praises President Obama’s speech in Tucson.
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