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Candidates for City Council and School Committee This past week the Election Commission finalized the list of candidates for City Council and School Committee (listed below). The city election will be held this year on Tuesday, November, 3, 2015. Each voter may vote for up to nine candidates for council…
Read More »Yesterday Bill and I were pleased to be a part of the celebratory reception for newly-elected UMass Lowell Chancellor Jacquie Moloney. Despite the severe weather alerts, wind and downpours, a few hundred people, most from UMass Lowell family with some community partners joining them, gathered at University Crossing in Ed and…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. In 1990, my husband and I visited Prague, including the old Jewish section – the synagogue, the cemetery, and the tiny adjacent museum displaying drawings done by Prague children during their imprisonment in Terezin, the Nazi concentration…
Read More »photo Boston Globe The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Boston Mayor Marty Walsh, who has long seemed in thrall to the Boston 2024 Olympic bid, said at a press conference this morning that he refuses “to mortgage the future of the city away.”…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. A serious debate over the bid to bring the 2024 Olympics to Boston was a good idea. What took place Thursday night wasn’t. Promising a no-rules, informal format, the two moderators (the Boston Globe’s Sasha Pfeiffer and…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Jeb Bush put his foot in it last week when explaining his aspirations for improving the economy. His assertion that “people need to work longer hours” continues to prompt outrage. Even looking at it in context doesn’t help…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. The July Fourth holiday heightens an appreciation of the remarkable events of last week, events that validate our forebears’ notion “that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that…
Read More »On South Street today, I saw a guy about 25 years old with a shaved head, tattoos, earring, shirt with no collar, pants that were three-quarter length, no socks, and sneakers. He was talking on his phone. Walking toward the South Common. And I realized what I was seeing. The…
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Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Many bemoan the revolving door in government/media circles. For a while you’re a politician; then you get a job as a lobbyist, retaining your politicians’ access; then you’re a candidate again. One day you’re a journalist; the next…
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