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This video shows some interesting memorabilia from the Harvard Brewery in Lowell. captainbirch originally posted this video.

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. You can find it here. Congress returns to work tomorrow, and there are a few reasons to be hopeful that the two parties may be able to negotiate a solution to the fiscal crisis, the so-called fiscal cliff that…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Just as the Boston Herald was unable to sway voters with  obsessively demeaning Elizabeth Warren as an affirmative action princess “Fauxcohontas,”  so too did the Boston Globe fail to run John Tierney out of office, using barrels and barrels…

The entry below is being cross-posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Massachusetts finally did it!  It elected a woman to the U.S. Senate.  And what a woman she is!  After a miserable campaign start, in which she turned off even her supporters by appearing too prim, preachy, professorial and sometimes suffocatingly earnest,…

The following entry is being cross-posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. It was originally post on November 7, the day after the election. Last night’s outcome was clearcut and gratifying, but the future is as complicated as ever. President Obama performed beyond many expectations in the electoral votes, garnering nearly 100…

Presidential voting started last night in Dixville Notch, NH. The video below shows the first voting tie ever for this small community (five votes for Obama and five for Romney). I wonder if this is a harbinger of a long, long night to come. This video was originally posted by…

Democratic US Senate Candidate Elizabeth Warren at Ramalho’s West End Gym Lowell Ma., home of “The Fighter”. This video was originally posted by JBoutselis1

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. I agree with this four-year-old child in Colorado, driven to tears by the election. Politico made public that National Public Radio apologized to this adorable child whose pain I share. I find I’m repeating to myself the NPR…

These three videos were first posted by Len Lochrie. Taken from the same vantage point in Lowell, they show the increase in intensity of Hurricane Sandy.

Halloween has always interested me – not just for the trick-or-treating or the costumes or parties, but for its beginnings as “All Hallows Eve.” While Halloween might be celebrated all around the world, it is steeped in Irish tradition, culture and in its both pagan and Christian heritage. Long before Christianity arrived in Ireland, Halloween…