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The City of Lawrence continues to struggle with leadership issues. In today’s Eagle-Tribune, Mark Vogler writes of Mayor William Lantigua’s letter to Mitchell Chester, the state’s elementary and secondary education commissioner, requesting the “appointment of a Receiver, pursuant to all applicable laws within the Commissioner’s authority to assist Lawrence Public…
Read More »On this day – November 15, 1969, a quarter of a million protesters staged a peaceful demonstration in Washington, D.C. – against the Vietnam War. The Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam was a large demonstration against the United States involvement in the Vietnam War – it took place across the United…
Read More »Paul Krugman’s recent column on the successful approach to health care practiced by the Veterans Health Administration (V.H.A.) and candidate Mitt Romney’s “vouchers for veterans” proposal is worth a read. Calling the GOP “thing about vouchers” strictly about ideology… so “successful programs like veterans’ health, Social Security and Medicare are…
Read More »There are many images of nuns out there – from the movies, from the media and from our own experiences in school or CCD. While the flowing robes of habit and confines of a wimple have given way to simple skirts or suits and a no-nonsense hair cut, few realize…
Read More »Co-author Dick Howe did a post several days ago on US Senate Candidate Elizabeth Warren’s meeting of volunteers that took place at the Butler School in Lowell. Below is the first of six videos containing Warren’s entire speech which you can view on YouTube. This video was originally post by…
Read More »As I noted in a previous post – former Massachusetts State Senate Minority Leader and candidate for Lt. Governor in 2010 Richard Tisei of Wakefield has already decided to jump into the race in the 6th Congressional District currently represented by John Tierney. He’s expected to make it official next week.…
Read More »To say this election yielded interesting results in an understatement. For the council, at least, it wasn’t a wholesale dismissal of incumbents as was the case in 1993. The same cannot be said for the school committee. In fact, I would call this an anti-school committee election. Two challengers, Kim…
Read More »Yesterday I attended the UMass Lowell – Parker Lecture at the UML Inn & Conference Center forum on the 2012 Presidential election . Chancellor Marty Meehan moderated a panel that consisted of former Republican gubernatorial candidate Charlie Baker, the Boston Herald’s Joe Battenfeld, the Lowell Sun’s Jennifer Myers, and the…
Read More »In today’s Globe – veteran writer Frank Phillips and colleague Noah Bierman cover the fall-out from yesterday’s announcement of the new Congressional District Map for Massachusetts. Phillips had written over the weekend about the House plan to carve Lawrence out of the 5th District into the 6th – which many…
Read More »The joint committee on redistricting released its proposed Congressional redistricting map today. Contrary to what was reported in the Globe last week, Lawrence stayed in the same district as Lowell, only it’s no longer the Fifth, it’s now the Third. Lost were two Greater Lowell communities, Billerica and Tewksbury, which…
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