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Donald Trump has begun in earnest to make a mockery out of the electoral process that will ultimately lead to the election of a president. In Trump’s never ending pursuit to increase his own celebrity status, he has released a copy of his birth certificate as a sign of his…
Read More »As the month of March – Women’s History Month winds down – MassMoments reminds us that on this day March 29, 1880, twenty women voted for the first time at the Concord Town Meeting. This new voter group was led by renown writer Louisa May Alcott who “campaigned” door-to-door urging women…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. I listen to Cong. Michael Capuano and Niki Tsongas criticize President Obama for not taking the Libyan military action to Congress and, as an old anti-Vietnam War activist, I applaud their stance. It’s hard not to be concerned…
Read More »While at the reception following the funeral for former Lowell National Historical Park Supt. Sandy Walter today, someone at my table received a message via Blackberry that Geraldine Ferraro had died. One of Sandy Walter’s first public events in Lowell was the dedication of the “Homage to Women” sculpture by Mico Kaufman…
Read More »Current Congressional Legislative Districts from the Special Joint Committee Website In the continued effort to get local citizen input, the Special Joint Committee on Redistricting has posted additional hearing dates and sites on the SJCR website. This is a list of the hearings schedule to date: — Saturday, March 26, 10…
Read More »Don’t miss Boston Globe Politics Editor Glen Johnson’ s piece on the “Political Intelligence” page today. The Lowell references and the flurry of local town and city elections should pique our Merrimack Valley interest. Glen Johnson spent some years toiling at the Lowell SUN – so he knows only too well of which…
Read More »We’re going down a bad road when politicians like the Maine governor start removing images of labor history like the mural in the Maine state Department of Labor office in Augusta that he ordered to be removed. Read the article from the Lewiston, Me., newspaper, the Sun Journal here. The Governor’s office spokesman said unnamed…
Read More »Massachusetts Militia Passing Through Baltimore, an 1861 engraving of the Baltimore riot. Lowell Historical Society Presents a Series on Lowell’s Sixth Regiment in the Civil War and Beyond Richard P. Howe Jr., the Middlesex North Register of Deeds and a former President of the Lowell Historical Society, will present a two…
Read More »From the CBS Boston.com (WBZ TV) website State Senator Eileen Donoghue was seated prominently yesterday – to see and be seen – at the Annual St. Patrick’s Day Breafast in South Boston – hosted by her colleague State Senator Jack Hart. This is quite a coup for a freshman senator. While…
Read More »The next regular breakfast meeting of Greater Lowell Area Democrats will be held tomorrow – Saturday March 19, 20011 at 8am at the Independence Grill at the Radisson Hotel in Chelmsford. The regular agenda will include: the 5th District and the legislative redistricting plans and Joint Redistricting Committee hearing schedule and website; and…
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