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The attack on Charles Sumner by Preston Brooks (1856) MassMoments reminds us that on this day May 22, 1856, Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts was viciously attacked on the floor of the United States Senate – beaten with a cane by Preston Brooks, a Congressman from South Carolina. The issue…
Read More »On July 12, 1862, Harper’s Weekly featured this “before and after” cartoon about General Benjamin Butler’s controversial May 1862 General Order # 28 known as the “Woman Order” in Union-occupied New Orleans. In yesterday’s New York Times Opinionator Column, writer Terry Jones takes on Ben Butler in “The Beast in…
Read More »Massachusetts State Auditor Suzanne Bump was the keynote speaker at last Tuesday’s Greater Lowell Chamber of Commerce Legislative Breakfast which was held at the Tewksbury Country Club. Here is some of what Auditor Bump had to say: She began by quoting Barney Frank’s definition of “government” – it’s the “things…
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: I purchase luncheon meat once or twice a month. A quarter of a pound makes the sandwich a little too thick. I…
Read More »The news that Curt Schilling’s Rhode Island based computer gaming company defaulted on a payment on its loan and quite possibly has squandered $75 million of borrowed money that the taxpayers of the Ocean State guaranteed is unsurprising. Twenty-two months ago in this blog post (reproduced below in its entirety…
Read More »Reminder for next GLAD Meeting Greater Lowell Area Democrats Regular Breakfast Meeting This Saturday May 19, 2012 8:00 AM SHARP Independence Grill at the Radisson Hotel Rte. 110 in Chelmsford Special guests: Candidates for Governor’s Council in 5th and 6th Districts Former State Rep Barbara L’Italien Candidate in the new 18th…
Read More »Given the recent spate of good news about the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the GOP nominee for President and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney should be embracing his Bay State association instead of running away from it or re-characterizing it. Although it’s not a new stance for Mr. Mitt. During the last part of…
Read More »This past Saturday the Wilmington Democratic Town Committee held its annual Scholarship Breakfast to raise money for scholarships for the town’s young people. Speakers at the event included Congressman John Tierney, State Senator Ken Donnelly (who spoke on behalf of US Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren), State Representatives Jim Miceli and…
Read More »With President Obama’s historic declaration that he now favors same sex marriage, it’s good to remember that this all began here in Massachusetts nearly ten years ago with the Supreme Judicial Court’s decision in Goodridge v Department of Public Health in November 2003. Up until that time, I was of…
Read More »“The Worker” fountain sculpture by Elliot Schwartz and is located in downtown Lowell, Massachusetts. NEA Arts is the quarterly magazine of the National Endowment for the Arts. Lowell is featured in the current edition in an article entitled – “Building on the Past: The Creative Rebirth of Lowell, Massachusetts.” Author…
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