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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Very knowledgeable politicians speaking in Boston last Monday expressed qualified hopes that Congress could actually get something done. They pointed to the recent “doc fix,” a remedy for the unrealistic curtailment of Medicare payments to providers. The bill passed…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. There’s no doubt that Hillary Clinton will be the most experienced Presidential wannabe in either party – when she announces her candidacy. But the lead-up to her announcement has been dogged by missteps and reminders of why people don’t…
Read More »The Chair of Massachusetts Democratic Party came to Lowell last evening as part of a series of regional meetings with local and regional Democratic DSC members, local town/ward/city committee chairs and interested Democratic activists. Chairman Tom McGee had already spent a good part of his day with other Democrats…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. So Benjamin Netanyahu shamelessly and successfully pandered to Israeli right-wing voters in Tuesday’s election. A politician playing to base emotions and lying to get elected, then changing positions again. How unusual. The hard Right is pleased by his…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Former Governor Deval Patrick seems to have caught on that the optics of his $7500 per day pay (plus expenses) for serving as a globe-trotting ambassador for Boston2024’s summer Olympics proposal might not play in some future bid for the Presidency or even…
Read More »Greater Lowell Area Democrats (GLAD) will meet tomorrow – Saturday morning – March 21, 2015 at 8am in the Independence Grill of the Radisson Hotel in Chelmsford . Greater Lowell Area Democrats Regular Breakfast Meeting Saturday March 21, 2015 at 8:00 AM At the Independence Grill/ Radisson Hotel Rte.…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. photo PBS Viewed in isolation, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to Congress last week was masterful. It projected superficial respect for President Obama (if you overlook his trashing the negotiation process to date and speaking to Congress…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Forty years ago, Italian postal workers faced a backlog of 20 million pieces of mail following a series of strikes. Unlike London, which faced a similar problem and simply took a couple of weeks to eliminate the backlog,…
Read More »This blog has History in the subtitle. Lowell history is always part of the larger narrative nationwide and in the world. We all know that, but sometimes it’s preferable to push aside the misery and chaos and stupidity from beyond the Merrimack Valley that shows up in our news feeds.…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. The question during the 2014 gubernatorial campaign was often “Will the real Charlie Baker please stand up?” Today, Governor Baker stood before a meeting of the New England Council, the real Charlie Baker, the one I knew from…
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