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Today President Obama will be sworn into office for a second term as the 44th president of the United States. The first Presidential Inaugural I remember took place on January 20, 1961. I was ten years old. The new president was just 43 years old and had captured the country’s…
Read More »Lowell’s WinterFest is just around the corner. Here is an informational video posted by GreaterMV. For more information on WinterFest visit www.lowellwinterfest.org
Read More »The entry below is being cross-posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Lieutenant Governor Tim Murray has announced he won’t be a candidate for governor or any other statewide office in 2014. We’re thus spared the media obsession with his peculiar early morning driving accident in 2011, never explained to the…
Read More »The entry below is being cross-posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. How effective the President will be on gun safety remains to be seen, but today he took a first step in the right direction by laying out an agenda to minimize future gun violence. He sounded like a leader.…
Read More »Last week boston.com Political Editor Glen Johnson wrote and interesting article about the departure of Middlesex County District Attorney Gerry Leone. As we politicos speculate on the reason(s) for Leone’s unexpected decision not to run for reelection Johnson offers some interesting fodder… In…
Read More »A very generous anonymous donor saved the famine-era St. Brigid’s Church in New York City’s East Village from the wreakers ball. The Gothic-style church was designed by Patrick Keely – a Tipperary man – who moved to New York as a young man had a long and distinguished career as an architect. The work of…
Read More »The entry below is being cross-posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. A Boston Business Journal headline last week piqued my interest: “WGBH sending out strong signals.” This was very exciting. Was the station finally heeding the complaints of classical music lovers deprived of classical music when WCRB FM, which WGBH…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Wanted: Smart, courageous, savvy individual for temporary posting. Location: United States Senate. Experience: track record of experience in complicated political settings with record of success in achieving goals. Education: longtime immersion in complicated policy challenges with particular expertise…
Read More »Image: rjnagle via Flickr / The Journal.ie Little Christmas (Irish: Nollaig Bheag) is one of the traditional names in Ireland for January 6 – more commonly known in the rest of the world as the Feast of the Epiphany. It is so called because under the older Julian calendar, Christmas Day…
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