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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. I ask you: do I look like an enemy of the people? Given my 30+ years in journalism (including Boston Phoenix, WGBH-TV, WCVB-TV) and nearly a decade more as a blogger, Donald Trump would probably say yes. Journalism…
Read More »First Middlesex State Senate Race One of the contested races to be decided by the September 4, 2018, state primary will be for the Democratic nominee for the First Middlesex State Senate seat. That office has been vacant since Eileen Donoghue resigned the seat after being elected Lowell’s city manager.…
Read More »Still getting caught up on my weekly Lowell in World War One posts. This is the 63rd installment of my Lowell in World War One series which commemorates the centennial of the entry of the United States into World War One. Here are the headlines from one hundred years ago:…
Read More »Today I was interviewed by Steve Brogan of Tyngsborough cable TV about my Register of Deeds reelection campaign. It’s 30 minutes; please watch. Here’s a link to the video.
Read More »Lowell Walks resumes this Saturday, August 11, 2018, at 10am from the Lowell National Park Visitor Center with a “Downtown Art Galleries” walk led by Liz Stewart of COOL. The walk will visit The Brush Art Gallery and Studios, the Arts League of Lowell, the Whistler House, the New England…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. The following are suggestions from when I wasn’t fleeing the daily news into real fiction, as noted in my previous blog. I Was Told to Come Alone: My Journey behind the Lines of Jihad, a memoir by Washington Post…
Read More »After a short break, I’m resuming my Lowell in World War One posts. This is the 62nd installment of my Lowell in World War One series which commemorates the centennial of the entry of the United States into World War One. Here are the headlines from one hundred years ago:…
Read More »New Suburbanism This past Wednesday I attended a Middlesex 3 Coalition conference called “Real Estate 2020: Building for the Future.” Middlesex 3 is a coalition of government and private sector stake holders located in nine towns located along Route 3. These communities are, from north to south, Tyngsborough, Westford, Chelmsford,…
Read More »This is cross-posted from my personal blog at paulmarion.com. I’m happy to see the landscape and public art improvements at Lucy Larcom Park, where artist Ellen Rothenberg in her artwork titled Industry, Not Servitude made permanent or at least pretty indestructible selected words, lines, and phrases by women writers of…
Read More »Mimi Parseghian reviews this week in Lowell politics: Lowell Round-Up: August 3, 2018 By Mimi Parseghian With the City taking a break to celebrate and host the Folk Festival, it was relatively quiet week for local politics. But that was not the case on Beacon Hill, where the legislature finally…
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