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In the immortal white-board handwriting of the late Tim Russert, “Florida Florida Florida.” I hope the Sunshine state folks push to the hilt their attempt to get the earliest primary election date possible in 2012. I am so sick of New Hampshire and Iowa being at the front of the…
Read More »According to Mark E. Vogler’s article in today’s Eagle Tribune – the state Department of Elementary & Secondary Education presented their “District Review” to the Lawrence School Committee last week. The review is apparently replete with findings that members of the Lawrence School Committee and the committee Chair – Mayor…
Read More »Corey Sciuto is a denizen of the downtown – an urban dweller – a smart, young and tuned-in observer of the Lowell scene. His wonderful and powerful photographs of downtown and Lowell’s neighborhoods brought him to my radar screen. He and I now serve together on the Lowell Historical Society…
Read More »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…
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