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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Philosopher George Santayana famously said in 1905 that “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” Winston Churchill liked the lesson so well that 43 years later he intoned, “Those who cannot learn from history…
Read More »On Monday, October 7, 2019, City Manager Eileen Donoghue and the city’s Law Department convened a panel discussion on the two new election system options that will appear on the November 5, 2019, municipal election ballot. The moderator was Lisa Handley, Ph.D., a national expert in voter data analysis and…
Read More »Like Finding Money By David Daniel David Daniel, a frequent contributor to this site, a prolific novelist and writer, and a former teacher, shares the following story. The jackpot kept growing. Each Wednesday and Saturday evening at six the lottery commission would tumble the little numbered balls, but the ticketholders…
Read More »What: Ben Butler Walking Tour When: Saturday, October 12, 2019 at 1pm Where: Lowell National Park Visitor Center, 246 Market Street, Lowell Lowell’s Benjamin Butler was a pivotal figure in American history. Best known as a controversial general in the American Civil War, Butler’s story has many other chapters with…
Read More »Do-It-Yourself Lowell held its fourth annual Community Idea Summit on September 26, 2019 at which the group announced its four community-selected projects for 2020. Each project has its own action team that will work at its own pace and on its own schedule. Below are descriptions of the four projects…
Read More »Bob Hodge is an occasional contributor to this blog. Readers look forward to his posts. Bob grew up in Lowell and established himself as one of the top runners of his generation. He finished third in the Boston Marathon in 1979 and won the 1982 Beppu-Oita Marathon in Japan, among…
Read More »George Packer of the ATLANTIC magazine checks in with today’s bulletin on political bottom-feeders with their eyes on the top and hands grabbing for the prize. They win sometimes, but it doesn’t last forever.
Read More »TIME magazine is no far-out political rag. Nancy Gibbs is a serious American writer and observer of its civic culture. We are far down the line of political trouble when Nancy Gibbs in TIME offers this analysis of the current White House occupant. What Donald Trump “knows” derives from the…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Since becoming president Donald Trump has given members of Congress ample reasons to deem him unfit for office. Time and again his behavior has clearly met the Constitutional standard of high crimes and misdemeanors worthy of an impeachment…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. photo Jonathan Brady Photos and videos of about four million people around the world rallying last week to urge action on climate change were inspiring. Thankfully, global warming is no longer a marginal issue. From a quarter of…
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