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Robert F. Kennedy: The Mindless Menace of Violence
RFK on April 5, 1968.
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George Stephanopoulos should know better by Marjorie Arons-Barron
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…
Read More »Normalizing U.S./Cuban relations a mix of nitty-gritty and key principles by Marjorie Arons-Barron
The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. I just returned from State Department briefings for editorialists from across the country and posted the following to the website of the Association of Opinion Journalists, just one of several key issues covered in Monday’s day-long sessions. The announcement…
Read More »Bishop’s Legacy a Downtown Lowell Hit!
I posted this commentary on my Facebook page just now. It might be helpful to our blog readers to know what a great experience we had at the new and much anticipated Bishop’s Legacy restaurant in Downtown Lowell. There is truly a Bishop’s legacy in the Merrimack Valley and many…
Read More »Happy Spring!
The angle of the sun, the budding of the trees and shrubs, the pollen count, the coming of colors over the landscape ~ all tell us that it’s Spring!
Read More »“Cool Science” ~ UML/GSE and Commonwealth’s students educate LRTA commuters about climate change
“Cool Science” is a program at UMass Lowell in the Graduate School of Education. The program allowed students across the Commonwealth to participate in a project whereby they could teach others about the science of climate change through art. For this competition, David Lustick and Jill Hendrickson Lohmeier – both Associate Professors at…
Read More »New Downtown Report, Parking Woes, Business Mix, Etc.
Lowell Live Feed on Facebook has a discussion thread about a new report on Lowell’s downtown and the related issues of parking, business mix, etc. I began to comment on the thread, but my comment got long so I decided to post it here on the blog. I think Yogi…
Read More »A modest proposal for the House Speaker by Marjorie Arons-Barron
The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Three Massachusetts Speakers indicted, the most recent, Sal De Masi, sent to the slammer for eight years. With Massachusetts reeling from the scandalous pattern, Representative Bob DeLeo became the man of the hour in 2009 when, on becoming…
Read More »My Memories of the Blizzard of “78 ~ North Tewksbury and Lowell
My colleagues Dick and Paul have shared their memories of those days in early February of 1978 known now as the Blizzard of 1978. Checking the archive I found this narrative of my own experiences. I remember the Blizzard of ’78 as a challenge to dig out and feel reconnected…
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