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When I began contributing to this blog many years ago, I often would post links to opinion pieces in national media that I believed were worth sharing locally. I shared a lot of David Brooks’ columns, which may have surprised people. He’s on the NY Times commentary list as a…
Read More »This week’s City Council agenda is dominated by a series of votes required in preparation for the vote on the FY 2020 budget. MOTION RESPONSES No Left Turn Gorham: Motion (5/14/19) by Councilor Karen Cirillo “Request 5/14 City Manager have the proper department replace the ‘No Left Turn’ sign for…
Read More »If You See Something, Say Something It’s Memorial Day weekend. My father, Marcel Marion (1919-1982), born in Lowell, fought the Nazis on the ground in Germany with the US Army in the brutal winter of 1945, the final months of the war in Europe. He knew a fascist when he…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. First, it was the slurs against Mexicans; then the attempted ban on Muslims and the attack on all immigrants. Now it’s war against women. The latest salvo came in Alabama, with a virtual ban on abortions. Other red…
Read More »After reading today’s New York Times article about Ohio supporters of President Trump who are staying the course with him despite all the chaos associated with his presidency, I’m re-posting my thoughts about his victory that appeared on this blog on Nov. 16, 2016. It would be a mistake for…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Baron’s own blog. Some of Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar’s comments are disconcerting at best, damaging and divisive at worst. Equally troubling, she is allowing herself to be used as a tool by Donald Trump to drive a wedge in the Democratic…
Read More »I am still pitch hitting for Dick! The City Council is not meeting this week. It has become standard practice to cancel the Spring School Vacation Week meeting. Last week’s meeting featured major information on construction projects throughout the City There was an update on the City’s Construction Projects. The…
Read More »On this beautiful Saturday Election Day, 17.6% or 3949 of the voters in Tewksbury turned out to decide two strongly challenged races – a 3-way race for Board of Selectman with the Town Moderator Jayne Wellman Miller challenging two incumbent Selectmen – longtime member Todd Johnson and well-regarded member Anne…
Read More »Today’s NYTimes has an important opinion piece by Margaret Renkl today in which she describes how the state legislature in Tennessee is working hard to make the lives of their constituents more difficult, more desperate—all in service of a harsh view of how government should function in America. And this…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. A scorpion asks a frog to take it across the river. The frog fears the scorpion will sting him. The scorpion talks a good line, saying that, if he did sting the frog, they’d both drown. So, in…
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