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There was lots of activity in Democratic circles across the Commonwealth this past Saturday as caucuses were held to elect delegates to the 2012 Democratic National Convention scheduled to open on Labor Day in Charlotte, NC. The Massachusetts 135-member delegation will be filled out by vote at the DSC meeting…
Read More »John Edward, a resident of Chelmsford who earned his master’s degree at UMass Lowell and who teaches economics at Bentley University and UMass Lowell, contributes the following column: Last month I explained why Reaganomics was a dismal failure. Now I will focus on lessons that Clintonomics have to offer. President…
Read More »Salt Pond Visitor Center – Cape Cod National Seashore If he were still with us Congressman and Speaker of the House Tip O’Neill would be celebratintg his 100th birthday on December 9, 2012! To celebrate this milestone, the Massachusetts delegation wants the Salt Pond Visitor’s Center at the Cape Cod National Seashore…
Read More »The scent of vulnerabilty surrounds the position of Northern Essex Register of Deed . Until yesterday, Register Robert Kelley was the target of former Methuen Mayor Bill Manzi. With Manzi now focused on the First Essex State Senate race, two other Democrats are now taking aim at Kelley. In recent months…
Read More »Former Mayor of Methuen Bill Manzi (from the files of the Eagle Tribune) Since former State Senator Steve Baddour resigned from his seat on April 1 to join a prestigious Boston law firm, rumors have been running around the Valley about a possible successor. Would former State Senator and Baddour-mentor Jim Jajuga…
Read More »Mass Moments reminds us that on this day April 16, 1952 Thomas P. “Tip” O’Neill announced his run for the 8th Congressional District seat about to be vacated by John F. Kennedy. Kennedy was elected to the U. S. Senate later in the year. The affable, lovable, Irish gentleman from Cambridge had already served as…
Read More »Results of today’s Tewksbury Town elections: (* winner) Number Voting: 4433 Percentage voting: 21.4% Selectman: *Gay (I): 2600 * Wilson (I): 2195 Marcin: 1155 Miano: 1572 Planning Board: *Reed (I): 2548 Sullivan: 1455 Board of Health: Fernald (I): 1993 * Sheehan (I): 2243 *Brother: 2368 Shawsheen School Committee: Downing (I): 1536 * Kelley: 2345 Question 1: DEFEATED Yes: 1465 * No: 2914 Notes…
Read More »Abraham Lincoln Memorial On this day April 14 in 1865, John Wilkes Booth, an actor and Confederate sympathizer, fatally shot the 16th President of the United States Abraham Lincoln while he was attending a play at Ford’s Theater in Washington, D.C. The attack came only five days after Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered…
Read More »My recent article in the local history section of Howl in Lowell (Andrew Jackson, Charles Dickens and Lowell) told the story of visits to Lowell by President Andrew Jackson in 1833 and English novelist Charles Dickens in 1842. My story prompted Eileen Loucraft to compile a list of all US…
Read More »Young Abigail Adams (1766) Portrait by Benjamin Blythe We are reminded that on this day March 31, 1776, Abigail Adams wrote to her husband John Adams – future President of the United States – as he and other members of the Continental Congress were gathered as the governing body of the Thirteen Colonies.…
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