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City Councilor Dan Rourke shared the following message about the new Lowell High School: Everyone Benefits from a New High School By Dan Rourke The past few months have been the most engaging, debatable, sometimes frustrating, and by far and away is becoming the most contentious time during my short…
Read More »We get two great alumni magazines regularly – one from UMass Lowell and the other from Boston College… the Winter 2017 BC magazine just arrived with a terrific article about an old Lowell friend… Seamus Connolly. in The Legacy – folklorist and musician Mick Moloney tells us of the great…
Read More »One of the challenges about the real estate that forms the Cawley Stadium complex is that it’s a patchwork of parcels that have been compiled by the city over more than one hundred years. In this post, I try to trace the ownership chains of the various parcels to provide…
Read More »Mimi Parseghian shares her observations on how the Lowell High debate is changing the political process in Lowell. Political Consequences of the Lowell High Debate By Mimi Parseghian The “high school decision” is going to make or break some political lives. The City of Lowell has not seen this kind…
Read More »New Lowell High School Talk of the new Lowell High project dominated the city this past week. There was Tuesday’s council meeting, the “committee of the whole” council gathering on Thursday that included 16 public speakers, a blizzard of comments on Facebook, and the bombshell news that the intended footprint…
Read More »Author and scholar Jedediah Purdy writes about an extended campaign of political resistance in North Carolina that has lessons for people in other towns, cities, and states. This is from “The New Yorker” magazine.
Read More »Andrew Sullivan was the best known blogger in the country for many years until he burned out from the constant posting. He has a new gig at New York Magazine with a format somewhere between blogging and a regular opinion column. I think this is his second piece in the…
Read More »The Greater Lowell Area Democrats (GLAD) Regular Breakfast Meeting will take place tomorrow – Saturday February 18, 2017 at 8:00 AM at the Independence Grill/ Radisson Hotel Rte. 110 in Chelmsford. The Regular Agenda will include: the President’s Report; guest introductions; report from the recent DSC meeting; Local/DTC/City Committee updates; local…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. The news media aren’t perfect, to be sure, but now, as never before, they’re the living embodiment of Thomas Jefferson’s opinion that “were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or…
Read More »I’m thinking this morning, What’s wrong with this picture? President Trump, less than a month in office, has everyone talking about him and his White House crew. He continues to suck all the media oxygen out of the air. The mainstream media, including cable TV political reporters, have gone back…
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