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Once you get out of the tourist areas in Germany and into the smaller cities and towns, every gasthaus (a small, local restaurant that also serves prodigious amounts of beer) has a stammtisch. A stammtisch is a table, usually round, that is positioned near the entrance that is occupied by…
Read More »Martha Coakley visited the Owl Diner in Lowell yesterday as part of the multi-city kickoff tour of her gubernatorial campaign. I wasn’t able to be there, but this photo, which I pulled from the Coakley for Governor Twitter feed, shows Attorney General Coakley, accompanied by State Senator Eileen Donoghue, listening…
Read More »Carl Sciortino is a state representative from Medford who is running for the Congressional seat left vacant when Ed Markey was elected to the US Senate. A Sciortino video is getting some attention these days. Here it is: [youtube]Z3S1zcbWkoM[/youtube]
Read More »In our democracy one of the revered institutions is the New England town meeting, the equivalent of a political common where voters gather to make decisions together under the one person-one vote rule. In the state houses, city and town halls, and our national congress representatives who are elected by…
Read More »Mike Lake, a candidate for the Democratic nomination for Lt Governor in 2014 was in Lowell this evening to meet supporters and interested voters at Babylon Restaurant at 25 Merrimack Street. I wanted to hear what Mike had to say so I dropped in. He spent a lot of time…
Read More »There was an interesting juxtaposition of stories on the pages of the Boston Globe this morning. On the front page was the news that Larry Summers, former Secretary of the Treasury under Bill Clinton, former president of Harvard, and former chief economic adviser to President Obama, had withdrawn his name…
Read More »Sixty years ago ~ on this day September 12, 1953, Congresssman John Fitzgerald Kennedy married Jacqueline Lee Bouvier at a ceremony held in St. Mary’s Church in Newport, Rhode Island. We visited St. Mary’s Church last year, walked through the garden and the church interior. It’s a beautiful, traditional Catholic Church. For that Lowell…
Read More »From the archive: After serving for 35 years as a Member of Congress representing the Massachusetts Fifth Congressional District, Edith Nourse Rogers died on this day September 10, 1960 – in the midst of her nineteenth Congressional campaign, three days before the primary. Mrs. Rogers – at the urging of…
Read More »President Obama and his administration believe Syrian government officials ordered the use of chemical weapons on opposition fighters and civilians (children, women, and men) in the Syrian civil war. Hundreds, if not more than 1,000, people died. United Nations’ inspectors are analyzing evidence taken from the attack site. The weapons…
Read More »This is the second in a series of posts showing some historical data from the 2011 city election. Each post shows how one candidate on the ballot in the 2013 city election performed in the 2011 election. The information presented below is organized as follows: Column 1 – Ward and…
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