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The top story in the NYTimes online at this hour is the loss of six more US soldiers in Afghanistan, killed when a van loaded with explosives blew up at an outpost manned by US/NATO and Afghan troops. Many Afghan and US soldiers were wounded in the attack, for which the…
Read More »MassMoments reminds us that on this day – December 11, 19995 – fire destroyed three buildings at Malden Mills in Lawrence. This company produced the well-known Polartec fabric. The loss of 3,000 jobs was a catastrophe in the making for the communities of Lawrence and Methuen. The compassionate promise of the mill…
Read More »Brian McGrory of the Globe and boston.com must have seen the premiere of the Micky Ward film story, “The Fighter,” because he comes out swinging on the side of UMass Lowell Chancellor Meehan and Lowell in his latest column. Read it here, and get the Globe if you want more.
Read More »I pulled this from www.huffingtonpost.com — a commentary by George Lakoff of UC Berkeley, who for years has been talking/writing about “framing” public statements from a liberal or progressive (I detest these labels now) viewpoint. Read what he thinks about the communications problem that’s damaging President Obama’s policy prospects. What he…
Read More »web photo courtesy of gerrynutterslowell.com I worked closely with Pat on Matt Donahue’s two winning City Council races in 1993 and 1995 and was always interested in his political “take” when we’d bump into each other on Market or Central streets, where he always seemed to be coming or going.…
Read More »According to the Associated Press as reported on WBUR.org – Robert Manning – Chairman of the University of Massachusetts Board of Trustees resigned his position today. The chairman of the University of Massachusetts board of trustees has resigned after Gov. Deval Patrick weighed in on the search for a new system president.…
Read More »In a FOX News interview posted at HuffingtonPost.com, Massachusetts Congressman Michael Capuano (D) expressed his frustration with President Obama: In an interview with Fox News in which he compared the recent negotiations process to a car sale, with Republicans being the salesmen and Obama the hapless buyer unwilling to get tough…
Read More »Perhaps it’s the fact that this is the 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s election as President of the United States in November of 1960 and it’s the nostaliga factor or maybe not, but John F. Kennedy, the thirty-fifth President of the United States – remains – according to a Gallup Poll…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. People who knew Jim DiPaola say he was a nice guy, very gregarious. It’s hard to succeed in politics if you’re not. Others say he cared about other people, was loyal to his employees and committed to providing…
Read More »Visitors to the Boott Cotton Mills Museum at the Lowell National Historical Park become fully acquainted with the struggle by workers a century ago to win the rights and protections that culminated in the thriving and dominant middle class of the post World War Two era. Beginning in 1980, however,…
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