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Lowell City Council Meeting: May 9, 2017
(Mayor Kennedy and Councilor Leahy are absent tonight). 2018 Capital Plan presentation by City Manager Murphy. Based priorities on motions that were filed by councilors during the past year. Total is $15mil including $3.2mil for lighting which includes replacing thousands of lights with LED bulbs. This should yield a 65…
Read More »Fenway: the past is now? by Marjorie Arons-Barron
The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Fans’ racial slurs at Fenway Park this week led to national news stories about Boston as a racist city. People are all too quick to believe that and damn the city, as did Saturday Night Live’s Michael Che several weeks ago.…
Read More »Lowell in World War One: May 7 – May 12, 1917
This is the sixth 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 this week: May 7, 1917 – Monday – Victories for French and British.…
Read More »Lowell Week in Review: May 7, 2017
Jim Milinazzo opts out The announcement by Jim Milinazzo that he would not seek reelection to the Lowell City Council brings local politics to the forefront this week. With all eight of his council colleagues apparently running again, having a “vacancy” in the incumbent lineup changes the dynamics of the…
Read More »Talking Politics: Frames, Values, Reason, Emotion, & More
Picked this up from Charlotte Mandell on Facebook. On Berkeleyside.com, George Lakoff talks about the way we talk about politics in the USA. Web photo by Daphne White courtesy of Berkeleyside.com
Read More »Caesar in Jack’s Corner
Farewell, Uncle Tommy
One of my uncles passed away yesterday at 97 years old. In my family he was always “Uncle Tommy,” Thomas C. Brady of Lowell, raised along the Concord River and longtime resident of Centralville. He was in the US Navy in WWII, serving in the Atlantic and Pacific on ships…
Read More »Why the Harsh Parties Are Competitive in France, U.K., & U.S.
These complaints are not going away, and in the U.S. the Democratic Party must address the grievances of those who are being run over by economic and social changes driven by powerful interests. From today’s paper, here’s a NY Times opinion piece by a writer in France. Why Marine Le…
Read More »Lowell Walk this Saturday
This week’s Lowell Walk will begin at 10 am on Saturday (May 6) at Lowell National Park Visitor Center. The topic is Lowell Labor History and the walk will be led by UMass Lowell History Professor Bob Forrant, and by history graduate student Rachel Arnason. The walk will visit the…
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