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Former FBI director James Comey speaks out on the GOP attacks on the agency.   We are at a very weird stage of our democracy,” former FBI counterterrorism special agent Ali Soufan told The Daily Beast on Thursday. “It’s not just about the FBI. It’s about loyalty to the president, or loyalty…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. The last inauguration I listened to was a little less than a year ago when the worst President of my lifetime was sworn in. This morning, with former Vice President Joe Biden by his side,  Marty Walsh took…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Reading, especially fiction. Listening to music.  Attending theater and concerts.  Taking courses.  Working. Gardening. Connecting with friends and family. All worthy efforts to distract from the havoc that Donald Trump is wreaking upon us.  All effective, if temporary,…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. So, the consoler-in-chief has visited Las Vegas in the wake of a mass slaughter at a concert there, and, unlike yesterday’s shameful performance in Puerto Rico, he stayed on script.  He called the gunman “sick and demented,…

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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. “What Happened?” It’s a question many have been asking at least daily for the last ten months. So it’s an apt title for Hillary Clinton’s new book, a reasonably clear-eyed analysis of the 2016 presidential election debacle.  While…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. After three harrowing days, our cousins and their dog, Harry (see photo from drier days), were rescued Monday from their home in the Meyerland section of Houston. They live but a stone’s throw from a bayou in a gracious…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Donald Trump has left the White House. For 17 days. For a vacation in New Jersey. Is it safe to come out? Initially, I thought so.  After Senators John McCain, Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski stood tall to…

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…