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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Check it out. In the early days following the Marathon bombings, the media made plenty of mistakes as reporters rushed to tell the story. Reports surfaced that the two suspects were under arrest when they were not. The…
Read More »Earlier this evening there was a showing of “Lost Child: Sayon’s Journey” at Middlesex Community College. Two weeks ago I attended the Lowell premiere and wrote a short post about that event. Afterwards I wrote a more thorough review of the film which I’ve reproduced below: On Thursday, April 4,…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. It’s hard not to be shaken to the core by the horrific attacks at today’s marathon. The deaths, the mutilation, scores of injuries, and fear. The assault on what can only be described as an iconic (yes, I…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. We left the Calderwood Pavillion in the South End tonight thinking that Ryan Landry’s “M” could be by far the worse play we’ve ever seen, at the Huntington or anywhere else. My husband and I, who love theater and…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Newark’s charismatic mayor, Cory Booker, took the stage Sunday at Salem State University’s Speaker Series. A man on the move politically (he’s planning a run for retiring Frank Lautenberg’s U.S. Senate seat in 2014), he’s on the move…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Political correctness run amuck: President Obama felt compelled to apologize to California Attorney General Kamela Harris for calling her “by far the best looking attorney general in the country.” Frankly, the only person who might legitimately feel slighted…
Read More »Grassroot video tour of the exterior of the Middlesex Community College building in Lowell. Posted on Youtube by Xenosproduction.
Read More »The entry below is being cross-posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. The Red Sox opening day victory……what could be better? I posted the team’s first-place standing on my refrigerator, thinking it might all be downhill from there. But I felt great. Never mind that the dreaded Yankees are broken old…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Yesterday North Korea announced it’s restarting its nuclear reactor so it can build its nuclear weapons arsenal. This follows North Korea’s increasingly bellicose posturing over the last couple of months, including a nuclear bomb test in February. The…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Sometimes it’s easy to categorize U.S. Senate candidates Ed Markey and Stephen Lynch. Congressman Markey is the unreconstructed liberal, right? His values on gun control, abortion, climate change, gay rights, and virtually everything else are unequivocally left of…
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