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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…
Read More »Mimi Parseghian shares her observations on Lowell and national politics this week: On Tuesday, the City Council entertained a motion on the “Dangerous Flow of Traffic at the Intersection of First Street, Bradley Street and Route 110.” If you are not familiar with those streets, this is the route that…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Taegan Goddard’s Political Wire is one of our best portals to reliable news sources, with postings throughout the day. One of today’s posts reflects my own Trump/news fatigue, and Goddard’s short-term solution to it. In a note to his…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. When we mourn the passing of former President George H. W. Bush, we are mourning the passing of an era, a time when public service was an honor, military service was an important component, when politicians would reverse…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Majorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Her emails are coming more frequently, especially in the wake of the midterm election. She is doing more interviews and being coy about whether there is another Presidential bid in her life. And before 2018 ballot counts were…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. For two years, those turned off by Donald Trump and Republicans’ acquiescence to him have strategized to take back the House of Representatives and even, against great odds, the Senate. A great many worked to make that happen,…
Read More »Thanks to everyone who voted for me for Middlesex North Register of Deeds. With nine of the ten towns reporting their results, I am winning by a margin of 72% to 28%. Here are the town-by-town results: Billerica Howe – 10,765 (71%) Cassella – 4,347 (29%) Carlisle [UPDATED] Howe –…
Read More »The Lowell Sun endorsed my re-election as Register of Deeds in today’s edition: Howe for Register of Deeds Between Richard P. Howe, who has headed the North Middlesex Registry of Deeds since 1994, and Karen Cassella, a documents clerk who’s worked there since 1992, this pair of rivals for the…
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