Economist, teacher, and blogger Robert Reich analyzes the political strategy of Sarah Palin in his latest opinion piece. Between the lines, Reich is telling the Democratic Party leaders and members to do more about the economic suffering in the country. Read it here, as aggregated by huffingtonpost.com
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More stained glass from Tony Sampas. Today, the Pawtucket Congregational Church on Mammoth Road. “He shall gather the lambs with his arm and carry them in his bosom.”
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The city of Lowell is home to an incredible blogosphere that becomes more active with each passing day. Life on-line can be greatly enhanced, however, when its participants get together on the ground and so we invite all area bloggers, commenters, readers, social media-users and anyone else interested to gather…
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More images of stained glass windows at the Pollard Memorial Library. Photos by Tony Sampas.
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I just watched a wonderful documentary on PBS about the offical photographer of President Obama, Pete Souza, whose work was captured by a National Geographic Society team for about a year, culminating in the passage of the health care reform bill last spring. The program offers a look inside the…
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Regular reader and contributor Patty Coffey sent this from the Sun’s breaking news site. Get the Sun if you value the reporting: http://www.lowellsun.com/breakingnews/ci_16702259 LOWELL — Roll out the red carpet. After weeks of negotiations, Lowell has landed a premiere showing of the highly anticipated Micky Ward biopic The Fighter on…
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The Globe and boston.com are running a series that’s a lot of fun. Chad Finn is presenting his favorite Topps baseball cards a five-pack at a time in synch with Topps’ 60th anniversary effort to identify its top 60 cards since 1952. See installment two today, and click the first…
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I was out with our family’s Boston Terrier this morning, kicking through the leaves on the South Common, and thought of this poem. Here’s an exerpt from New Hampshire poet Donald Hall’s poem “Kicking the Leaves.” Click here to read the entire poem.—PM Kicking the Leaves (an excerpt) . .…
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Tony Sampas shows us two of the incredible stained glass windows in our city’s Pollard Memorial Library UPDATE: Tony sent along the following information about these two windows From the Pollard’ website: “Altogether a creditable building” boasted a local newspaper when Lowell’s Memorial Building opened in 1893… A disastrous fire…
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While I am a supporter of the Governor and at the risk of being reminded that I’m also a Marty Meehan supporter – let me say that I’m not happy about the Governor waving-off Marty Meehan as a candidate for the University of Massachusetts Presidency because he served as an…
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