Menu
Blogging is a bit like exercising – you take a week off and it’s hard to start up again, but once you resume, you remember why you enjoy doing it so much. Here’s my take on Lowell politics for the past week: 18th Middlesex District candidates With Kevin Murphy comfortably…
Read More »Lowell resident and blog contributor Nancy Pitkin traveled to Cambridge last night for a book talk by Senator Elizabeth Warren. Here’s Nancy’s report: On April 1, tickets for the Senator Elizabeth Warren book talk sponsored by the Harvard Bookstore went on “sale” for $5.00 and the event was to be…
Read More »The Greater Lowell Area Democrats held their monthly meeting at the Chelmsford Radisson yesterday morning and heard from a number of candidates who will be on the ballot for the September 9, 2014 Democratic primary. Here’s who was there and what they had to say: Martha Coakley, candidate for Governor…
Read More »Reminder ~ the next GLAD Meeting is tomorrow ~ SATURDAY! The next regular breakfast meeting of Greater Lowell Area Democrats (GLAD ) will be tomorrow Saturday April 19, 2014 at 8:00 AM SHARP! in our usual location in the Independence Grill at the Radisson Hotel Rte. 110 in Chelmsford. Five 2014 candidates are scheduled to attend, speak and take questions.…
Read More »If you think that the Congress of today has always been this way, well just remember Massachusetts Thomas P. “Tip” O’Neill – the way he served, his work ethic and the way he ran the House of Representatives when he was “Mr. Speaker.” A man of the 20th Century, he believed that government…
Read More »I just returned from a quick trip to Washington for Third District Day, an event hosted by Congresswomen Niki Tsongas which brought several hundred people from the Congressional District she represents here in Massachusetts to the US Capitol to hear from top elected officials and policy makers from Massachusetts and…
Read More »Three issues with long term implications arose at last Tuesday’s City Council meeting. The council repurposed an existing public safety grant to help fund five new police officers who will begin work at the end of June. The council ratified the School Committee’s proposal to the state school building assistance…
Read More »Judith Durant, a Lowell resident who was a top grass roots campaigner for the recent U.S. Senate campaigns of Elizabeth Warren and Ed Markey, decided to get involved in the Lowell Democratic City Committee and attended last night’s “reorganization meeting.” Here’s her report: I’ve been a registered Democrat living in…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Southie’s traditional St. Patrick’s Day breakfast was anything but traditional yesterday. A testament to the new Boston, a majority-minority city, the breakfast was hosted for the first time ever by a woman, a person of color, a Haitian-American,…
Read More »Screen and Twitter pics from the South Boston St. Patrick’s Day Breakfast ~ US Senator Elizabeth Warren greets hundreds at the breakfast ~ Head Table with State Senator/ candidate for Treasurer Barry Finegold at the far left, Senate President Therese Murray left of podium, Congressman Stephen Lynch seated to the…
Read More »