Politics

Intelligence Committee report confirms blot on Hillary’s record by Marjorie Arons-Barron

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Four Americans dead in Benghazi, Libya, on 9/11/12, and they didn’t have to be. Yesterday’s Senate Intelligence Committee Report makes it pretty clear: the tragedy at Benghazi could have been avoided.  For months, Ambassador Chris Stevens had been requesting additional…

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Lowell Week in Review: January 12, 2014

The week began with the inaugural ceremonies for the city council and the school committee. Rodney Elliott was elected mayor unanimously. Tuesday brought the new council’s first regular meeting although much of the agenda was set back in December when three consecutive meetings were missed due to a snowstorm, Christmas…

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Greater Lowell Area Democrats (GLAD) To Meet ~ Saturday January 11, 2014

Reminder ~ the next GLAD Meeting this coming  SATURDAY! Greater Lowell Area Democrats (GLAD )Regular Breakfast meetings resume for 2014 on Saturday January 11, 2014 at 8:00 AM SHARP! in the PARKHURST ROOM at the Radisson Hotel Rte. 110 in Chelmsford. (The Parkhurst Room is nearby the Grill – we are moving to allow 62 young…

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Lowell Politics: January 5, 2014

It’s been nearly a month since there’s been a city council meeting, we’ve just emerged from a major blizzard and arctic temperatures, and a new council gets sworn in on Monday morning and meets for the first time on Tuesday night. Depending on one’s perspective, Monday will be the birth…

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Some Mayoral History

These early days of January 2014  are days of mayoral inaugurations. Yesterday – after winning a squeaker over the former controversial mayor – it was Dan Rivera  in Lawrence and there’s the upcoming  swearing-in of Marty Walsh – the first new mayor of Boston in twenty years. Monday will see a new…

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