Stories in Friday’s Boston Globe, Lowell Sun and Eagle-Tribune cover the final plaudits and and farewell speeches of eight retiring members of the Masachusetts State Senate – two represent the Merrimack Valley and one has connections … State Senator Steven Panagiotakos of Lowell, State Senator Sue Tucker of Andover and State Senator…
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NYTimes op-ed contributor Timothy Egan sizes up the memoirs of author/political commentator Christopher Hitchens and musician Keith Richards. Read his column here, and get the NYT if you want more.
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This item by reporter Robert Burns is published on today’s HuffingtonPost.com: MANAMA, Bahrain — Hillary Rodham Clinton says her work as U.S. secretary of state will be her final public position. She told an interviewer in the Persian Gulf nation of Bahrain that she does not plan to run for…
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I am sure we’ll see this skit many more times. It will surely make the best of Saturday Night Live shows in coming years.
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Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor of The Nation, this week wrote about wealthy Americans who are saying they are more than willing to pay their fair share of taxes, and a little more if needed. Read her column in The Washington Post here, and get The Nation if you want more. I picked…
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John Edward, a resident of Chelmsford who earned his master’s degree at UMass Lowell and is an adjunct professor of economics at Bentley University, contributes the following column which deserves to be read by everyone. ————————————- Where ignorance is bliss, ‘Tis folly to be wise Thomas Gray If ignorance is…
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Lowell’s John Schneider has played a key role in advancing the Gateway Cities initiative at the MassINC think tank. Read more about the work here and scroll down on the page to see the link to Sunday’s Globe editorial about Gateway Cities. This is the first in a series about Gateway Cities. Lowell is mentioned…
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On the GOP side – State Representative-elect Paul Adams is also under the scrutiny of the Eagle-Tribune. As noted in today’s Keith Eddings article – there’s a question as to the source of his campaign funds: None of the 338 candidates who ran for the Massachusetts House of Representatives this…
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The taking of the 17th Essex House of Representatives seat from the Democratic column into the GOP column in the November election is still causing a stir in the Merrimack Valley. The seat came “open” when current Rep Barry Finegold chose to run in the Democratic primary for the Second…
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The news that Middlesex County Sheriff James DiPaola died suddenly today was stunning and saddening. I’ll leave it to others to report on the circumstances of his passing but perhaps a short summary of his political career might be appropriate. Motivated by last week’s news of DiPaola’s retirement, I wrote…
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