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South Common Improvements In-Progress
Some of what’s coming: 1,500 ft. of new multi-use trails for walking and biking; 23 new trees; 28 new lights.
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South Common Renewal Starts
Work crews were on site early this morning to start the landscape improvements, upgrades of courts, and more at the South Common. This is the long-anticipated renewal project funded by the City of Lowell and state government. Within a few hours there were signs of major progress, from orange construction…
Read More »Will the Senate nuke itself? by Marjorie Arons-Barron
The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Once upon a time, when students learned civics in high school, we were taught that one of the inspired decisions of our Founding Fathers was the creation of a bicameral Congress with different yet complementary roles. The House…
Read More »Elizabeth Warren: be in this fight! by Marjorie Arons Barron
The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Life under Donald Trump resembles what I would imagine a bad LSD trip to be. Psychedelically shocking news one day. Excruciating news the next. Today we awoke to an executive order ending a regulation that officials consider climate change when…
Read More »Trump budget: keeping his promises? by Marjorie Arons-Barron
The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. colorbox.com graphic They say it’s DOA – that all Presidents’ budgets are dead on arrival. We might want to think this is just the opening gambit from the central player in The Art of the Deal, in this…
Read More »Florida escape warm but no political respite by Marjorie Arons-Barron
The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Twelve days in Florida were a therapeutic escape from grey snow and brutal cold in Massachusetts, but even in the Sunshine State one couldn’t escape the maladies of the political environment. A tour boat along the inland waterway near…
Read More »Immigration issue overwhelms by Marjorie Arons-Barron
The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Getty Images Immigration advocates called President Barack Obama the “Deporter in Chief.” His administration deported record numbers of immigrants while Republican critics insist he was soft on illegals. Now comes Trump, with his vastly expanded list of immigrants who…
Read More »Greater Lowell Area Democrats meet – Saturday February 18, 2017
The Greater Lowell Area Democrats (GLAD) Regular Breakfast Meeting will take place tomorrow – Saturday February 18, 2017 at 8:00 AM at the Independence Grill/ Radisson Hotel Rte. 110 in Chelmsford. The Regular Agenda will include: the President’s Report; guest introductions; report from the recent DSC meeting; Local/DTC/City Committee updates; local…
Read More »News media a bulwark nationally and locally by Marjorie Arons-Barron
The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. The news media aren’t perfect, to be sure, but now, as never before, they’re the living embodiment of Thomas Jefferson’s opinion that “were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or…
Read More »Elizabeth Warren speaks truth to power by Marjorie Arons-Barron
The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. So, let me get this straight. It’s okay if Senator Ted Cruz calls Majority Leader Mitch McConnell a liar on the floor of the Senate. But it’s not okay if Senator Elizabeth Warren reads letters critical of Attorney…
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