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Fuel Assistance Cuts a Problem for Massachusetts
David Wade of Boston’s WBZ-TV filed a report on what some are calling “a crisis in the making.” It’s all about fuel assistance. As the temperature falls and winter comes on, people face the likelihood of a reduced amount of money available for fuel assistance compared to this past year. …
Read More »A Lowell Connection: Watch Wahlberg on “60 Minutes” Come Sunday
November 19, 2010
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Marie
Posted in Culture, Current Events, Greater Lowell, History, Lowell
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Dorchester-native Mark Wahlberg is featured this Sunday night on “60 Minutes.” The segment runs just days before the Massachusetts premier of his movie “The Fighter” based on Lowell’s own Irish Micky Ward. While a Globe “Celebrity News” item puts the focus on his Dorchester roots, word has it that Lowell plays…
Read More »Under the Moody Street Bridge
Tony Sampas found an open gate and some stairs leading downward at the Moody Street Bridge, now known as the University Avenue Bridge, and snapped these photos:
Read More »Rave: Get to the MFA’s New Wing of All-American Art
Read this NYT rave review of Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts’ new Art of the Americas Wing. Go there. Quickly now.
Read More »Economic Patriots and Not So Much
November 19, 2010
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PaulM
Posted in Current Events, Election 2010, History, Lowell, Politics, Culture
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So what’s really motivating the G.O.P. attack on the Fed? Mr. Bernanke and his colleagues were clearly caught by surprise, but the budget expert Stan Collender predicted it all. Back in August, he warned Mr. Bernanke that “with Republican policy makers seeing economic hardship as the path to election glory,”…
Read More »For Perspective: Earth from the Space Station
AOL Science has a link to stunning photographs being made by astronaut Douglas Wheelock on the International Space Station during his five-month stay. He sends them via Twitter. Here’s the link.
Read More »The Lowell High tube
Tony Sampas photographs the “tunnels” – pedestrian walkways over the canal – that connect Lowell High School’s buildings.
Read More »Lowell Charter Changes through history
There were some interesting comments on my Tuesday post on City Councilor Patrick Murphy’s successful motion to have the Rules Subcommittee “discuss Charter Changes to increase civic participation.” It might be helpful to review how the city’s charter has changed through the years. Lowell was organized as a town in…
Read More »Windows of Lowell
Tony Sampas looks at some windows in Lowell: Off Middle Street (above) and in the John Street Garage (below)
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