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Gettysburg National Cemetery is the final resting place for more than 3,500 Union soldiers killed in the Battle of Gettysburg. On this blog we offer many posts about our historic Lowell cemeteries. Cemeteries are an important and intimate part of our lives and our ancestry. Stories abound there…
Read More »Massachusetts State Senator Barry Finegold (D-Andover), 2EM Last March – Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley and Alaska Senator Mark Begich launched a new non-profit group to highlight young Democratic elected officials with new ideas at the state and local level. The group, called The New DEAL (an acronym for Developing Exceptional American Leaders)…
Read More »History.com reminds us that on this day September 26, 1960, the first televised debate between presidential candidates took place in the city of Chicago. Presidential hopefuls Republican Richard M. Nixon and Democrat John F. Kennedy squared off in a television studio to discuss “domestic matters.” Kennedy emerged the apparent winner from…
Read More »In New York Magazine, political and cultural observer Frank Rich urges President Obama to fight hard for the America he envisions. Read the article here, which I picked up from huffingtonpost.
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. One reason I started writing columns was to respond to things I read in the newspapers. Informed people will come to different…
Read More »The Policy Policy Polling (PPP) firm – with a track record of being right – gives us a snapshot in time in the possible Elizabeth Warren versus Scott Brown match-up for U. S. Senate in 2012. Noting that the poll was taken over the weekend right after a week of…
Read More »When the Commonwealth’s fall 2011 “Unclaimed Property” pamphlet tumbled out of the Globe yesterday, I didn’t recognize it. For the first time in my memory, the cover of the pamphlet was not graced with the photo of the incumbent State Treasurer. Joe Malone, Shannon O’Brien, Tim Cahill, you name it,…
Read More »Ed Kilgore in The New Republic boils down the ingredients of national Republic Party policy positions. Is this what it has come to? Looks like a stark contrast for Nov. 2012. Read his short piece here, which I picked up from realclearpolitics.com
Read More »The Sesquicentennial of the Civil War. Remembrance of the Civil War and the role played by the city of Lowell and its citizenry continues as a theme as the Lowell Historical Society opens its 2011-2012 program season with a presentation entitled “J.C. Ayer & Company and the Civil War.” The…
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