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As we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the election of John F. Kennedy – native son of Massachusetts – to the position of 35th President of the United States, it is fitting that we recall his parting words to the citizens of the Commonwealth. On January 9, 1962, the President-elect…
Read More »Back on March 11, 2010, Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, one of today’s shooting victims, warns of the dangers that result when politicians use the rhetoric of violence. She was sadly and personally prophetic. [youtube]qs75zKxJxVY[/youtube]
Read More »Read the New York Times account of the shooting here. Congresswoman Niki Tsongas was attending her own “Congress On Your Corner” event in the Chelmsford Public Library today at 1:30 p.m. to hear questions and concerns from her constituents. Her colleague Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords had plans to hold a similar event…
Read More »Mike Luciano, a regular reader of and sometime contributor to this site, sent along the following post that takes issue with today’s Lowell Sun editorial: I imagine that reading a Lowell Sun editorial is like walking through a house where multiple homicides have just occurred. You wander through in a…
Read More »The ruined Spanish-Gothic interior of the United Artists Theater in Detroit. The cinema was built in 1928 by C Howard Crane, and finally closed in 1974. Something for everyone in Lowell to keep in mind as the struggle to save the city continues. Seeing the decaying theaters and churches it makes you think…
Read More »Paul Hudon, author of “An Illustrated History of the Lower Merrimack: The Valley and its Peoples“, has some observations on the state of national politics as we enter 2011: You have to wonder if ‘the happy warrior’ is trying to tell us something. Hubert Horatio Humphrey was laid to rest…
Read More »Pawtucket Dam on the Merrimack River, Lowell Massachusetts (Corey Sciuto, May 2006) In her article “Planning for the future to save pieces of history” – Globe correspondent Taryn Plumb features Lowell’s Pawtucket Dam on the Merrimack River. This historic dam was recently designated by Preservation Massachusetts as “endangered.” The Pawtucket Dam, meanwhile, faces…
Read More »In today’s Boston Globe Edward L. Glaeser – a professor of economics at Harvard and author of a soon to be published book “The Triumph of the City” – penned an op-ed piece well worth reading. DURING ECONOMIC downturns, we begin to fear that we are entering a permanent period…
Read More »In the videos below University of Mass Lowell Chancellor Marty Meehan talks with WBZ’s Jon Keller about the university presidency and the upcoming redistricting of Massachusetts’ congressional map.
Read More »A stereoscopic view: The Ladd and Whitney Monument and burial site in Lowell Massachusetts decorated in remembrance. As the nation is about to commemorate the Sesquicentennial of the start of the Civil War, E. J. Dionne, Jr. sounds a warning in his Washington Post column. Don’t spin the story –…
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