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I stepped away from my computer for a while this morning and just returned to the news that Congresswoman Niki Tsongas has decided that she will not run for reelection in 2018… she has had a strong ten years working for her constituents and for issues of importance for this…

  Kudos to our blog founder Dick Howe and blog co-writer extraordinaire Paul Marion for the superb job editing the newly released blog book “History as It Happens: Citizen Bloggers in Lowell, Mass”. It is a privilege to be part of the blog and of this very unusual book. A…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. This is Old Home Week in Freedom, New Hampshire, population 1500. The town was incorporated in 1832 after it seceded from next-door Effingham in a dispute over whose taxes would pay for a bridge between the two. Freedom…

Looking through the Arts & Leisure section of the New York Times today, I saw a full page ad for a book called “Footsteps: Literary Pilgrimages Around the World,” which is drawn from past travel columns in the Times. The Times is considered by many people as the paper of…

NYTimes web page has a lead story about how the Republican Party and its financiers first sold to the public and then politically embraced the view that the facts and forecasts for global warming or climate change are “fake science.” There’s a lot of criticism of how the Democratic Party…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. No, no, don’t click off. President Donald Trump is good for one thing. He is challenging me to expand my vocabulary. How many new ways can I find each day to say ignorant, childish, incurious, narcissistic, malignant, erratic,…

The Sun newspaper today reported that 13 Lowell residents, Asian American and Latino voters, will challenge the city’s at-large voting system for city council and school committee in court, charging that the current system discriminates against voters from ethnic and racial minority groups. Read the story by Amaris Castillo here.…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Fans’ racial slurs at Fenway Park this week led to national news stories about Boston as a racist city.  People are all too quick to believe that and damn the city, as did Saturday Night Live’s Michael Che several weeks ago.…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Speculation is stirring; the mentioners are mentionning.  Despair about the lack of a Democratic bench is giving way to thoughts of who may really be “out there” as potential contenders for opposition party candidates for President in 2020.…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. For Democrats hoping to unseat Republican Governor Charlie Baker in 2018, my advice is: hang onto your day job.  Would-be opponents will charge that Baker may be an okay manager, but he lacks  vision. Making the charge stick will be…