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Columnist Charles M. Blow in today’s NYTimes has it right when he points out how dishonest U.S. Rep. John Boehner’s comments are when talking about taxes and President Obama. In collaboration with the Congress, Republicans and Democrats, the President approved tax cuts for 82 percent of taxpayers at the end…
Read More »The Lowell Democratic Caucus will take place tomorrow (Saturday, February 23, 2013) at 10 am at the East End Club which is located at 15 West Fourth Street in Lowell. Coming from downtown, cross the Bridge Street Bridge into Centralville and continue on Bridge Street until you reach West Fourth.…
Read More »More than 70 supporters gathered Wednesday night in the second floor of The Old Court in downtown Lowell to meet and listen to Congressman Ed Markey who is now a candidate for US Senate. Many of the region’s most active volunteers in last year’s Elizabeth Warren campaign have already signed-on…
Read More »Congressman Ed Markey, Democrat for United States Senate, will meet supporters from Lowell and Greater Lowell at The Old Court Irish Pub and Restaurant 29 Central Street this Wednesday, February 20, 2013 at 6:00 PM. Everyone is invited. Please try to attend.
Read More »There seems to be lots of hoo-hah about President Obama’s quick trip to Florida to play golf on this Presidents’ Day weekend. The press didn’t like its photo access being cut-off, others harrumphed that the First Lady and the girls are out West skiing and some just think this President…
Read More »Here’s a hat tip to the climate-change demonstrators in Washington, D.C., who are speaking on behalf of the planet this holiday weekend. Lowelltown is as white tonight as the monuments in the capital city. I wrote this poem after a family trip to Washington in the summer of 2004. There…
Read More »Following is an excerpt of a 1994 interview (oral history) of M. Brendan Fleming, professor emeritus of UMass Lowell and former mayor and city councilor of Lowell. The interviewer was Maryrose Lane. The full transcription of the oral history is available on the website of the UMass Lowell Center for…
Read More »I’ve made no secret of my support of Ed Markey in the upcoming special election for the US Senate. I like his position on the major issues of the day and I don’t like the idea of adding another vote to the Republican caucus in the US Senate. But my…
Read More »Reminder for next GLAD Meeting This coming SATURDAY! Greater Lowell Area Democrats Regular Breakfast Meeting Members of 3MAD Will Join Us! Saturday February 16, 2013 8:00 AM Independence Grill at the Radisson Hotel Rte. 110 in Chelmsford Please join us at this meeting of area Democrats. Marie Sweeney, GLAD Chair…
Read More »MassMoments reminds us that on this day February 11, 1812 the infamous political creature known as the “Gerrymander” was born in the Massachusetts State House – conceived by then Governor Elbridge Gerry – a staunch Democrat-Republican. Caught in a nasty campaign for control of the government, Gerry sign a redistricting…
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