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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. Facing 2024 elections, GOP strategists have come to understand the widespread anger spurred by their opposition to letting women control their own bodies. The issue is galvanizing voters, so Republicans want to seek a new name for the pro-life…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. Going Back to T-Town: The Ernie Fields Territory Big Band by Boston journalist Carmen Fields is a memoir of her father, trombonist, pianist, music arranger and band leader of the Ernie Fields Big Band. The saga covers many of…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. He wasn’t there in person, but Donald Trump was the big winner at the GOP’s 2024 primary debate. In a display of cowardice and moral corruption, six of the eight candidates said that they would vote for…

The following was distributed earlier today as my weekly Substack newsletter on Lowell politics. If you’d like to receive this weekly update by email in the future, sign up here.  **** Although not on the agenda for Tuesday’s Lowell City Council meeting, the possibility that migrants in need of emergency shelter…

The entry below ia being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. met Benjamin Netanyahu some 40 years ago at a small dinner at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. I saw him again at a larger event, an impassioned speech on terrorism. It was just after he founded an…

Living Madly: Hello? By Emilie-Noelle Provost I’ve read several articles lately that discuss the problem of loneliness and what can be done about it. Over the past several years, it seems, the lack of human connection has become a problem for people of all ages. Even if loneliness doesn’t affect…

Song lyrics by Charles Gargiulo: BAG LADY This was originally published by the New Lowell Offering in 1977.  She drifts from the depots and bus stops To still the chill in her bones. She has to keep moving constantly To hide the fact she’s alone. When she stops to rest…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog.   This week marks the 50th anniversary of hip hop music, and many platforms, including National Public Radio and the New York Times, are celebrating the phenomenon. For those of us immersed in or more comfortable with Beethoven, the…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Trump and his acolytes are whining across media platforms that Tuesday’s grand jury indictment of Donald Trump is a violation of his First Amendment rights. The villains, they complain, are the weaponization of the Department of Justice and…

The following was distributed earlier today as my weekly Substack newsletter on Lowell politics. If you’d like to receive this weekly update by email in the future, sign up here.  **** With no Lowell City Council meeting last Tuesday due to the every-other-week summer schedule, there’s not much new to report…