President Obama at the Lincoln Memorial (Web photo courtesy of NYTimes) This image of President Obama on Saturday greeting people who were able to visit the Lincoln Memorial because the federal government did not shut down prompted me to post the following prose poem written seven years ago when my family visited Washington,…
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CARL RUSSO/Staff photo – The sign on the Lawton’s building at Canal Street and Broadway in Lawrence has been redone as “Lawrence Famous Franks” in a style similar to the original. Bedeviled by an ever-weakening embankment, constant canal-related shut-downs, proposed plans of Enel and a kerfuffle over stand ownership, Joanne Curley…
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There may be a slow down in building elsewhere but in North Tewksbury there’s a boomlet of building. A new home is under construction on North Street just beyond the light at Route 133. Beyond the light on Andover Street/Route 133 – a complex of twenty luxury condos set on…
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“Just wondering if you’d be interested in tagging along to the statehouse on April 13th to attend he Joint Committee on Election Laws’ public hearing on the teen-led initiative to Lower the Voting Age to 17 in Lowell’s muni elections.” Above is a message I received from a proponent of…
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The Globe is reporting on BusinessUpdates that Steward Health Care Systems announced this morning that they have a letter of intent to purchase yet another hospital in the Merrimack Valley. Saints Medical Center in Lowell seems to find Steward “a good fit” for the hospital’s “mission, vision and values” according…
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Tony – ever efficient – got the Tewksbury and Billerica results up very quickly. These results are unofficial as posted on the Tewksbury Patch website but are sure to be confirmed. In Tewksbury, there were a few glitches with the ballot boxes in precincts 2, 2A and 4 at different times…
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The Eagle-Tribue is reporting today that Lawrence Mayor William Lantigua and his aide Patrick Blanchette were nearly run down yesterday as they stood outside City Hall. Lantigua – who filed a report with the Police Department – noticed a car circling around as he and Blanchette talked about a possible…
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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. If Ronald Reagan was the great communicator, Barack Obama is the great synthesizer. In an artfully designed presentation, he pulled together all the disparate themes that have been raised in the last three weeks regarding our Libyan involvement…
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First Lady Abigail Adams (1744-1818) On this last day of March – Women’s History Month – it is fitting to note that on this day – March 31, 1776 – in a personal letter – Abigail Adams urged her husband John Adams “to remember the ladies.” As the Continental…
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Posting that photo this morning reminded me that former Congressman/former Massachusetts Attorney General Jim Shannon wrote a thoughtful op-ed piece in the Globe back in September 2010 about the Cerberus/Steward take-over of the six-hospital Caritas Health Care System. The situation with Saints Medical Center and a quite likely buy-out by Steward makes…
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