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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…
Read More »Motions taken out of order COUNCILOR Rourke – (heard earlier in the meeting) Request City Council approve the naming of the wiffle ball field at Mulligan Park in honor of Calvin Riley. Calvin was a young man who was a random victim of a fatal shooting in San Francisco last…
Read More »Former Mayor Patrick Murphy now lives elsewhere in the Commonwealth, but he still follows events in Lowell. This morning he sent me this essay that shares his thoughts about the benefits of a trust ordinance for Lowell. Thoughts on a Trust Ordinance for Lowell By Patrick Ó. Murphy For Christmas…
Read More »The following is from Mimi Parseghian More on Immigration Enforcement in Lowell By Mimi Parseghian In his report of the City Council meeting as well as his Sunday review, Dick has given a good recap of what occurred. I fully understand that under this highly charged political atmosphere the issue…
Read More »Web photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons (Credit: Bear Golden Retriever) My co-bloggers may pick up on this post, this thread, as the storm goes on. But my in the moment report is that here in The Flats (named for the many tenements in this borderland of Back Central, according to…
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