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Lowell City Council Meeting: April 21, 2015
I visited Nashville, Tennessee this week (I’ll have a post about that later today) so I had to step away from the rhythms of Lowell and its politics. Last night I did watch a replay of Tuesday night’s council meeting and have posted my notes below: Lowell City Council Meeting:…
Read More »Lowell Real Estate: week of April 20, 2015
April 20, 2015 – Monday Patriots Day – no recordings April 21, 2015 – Tuesday 157 Smith St unit $230,000. Prior sale in 2008 for $185,000 49 Cambridge St Unit 6 for $70,000. Prior sale in 2011 for $65,000 49-51 Cambridge St Unit 5 for $85,000. Prior sale 2011 foreclosure…
Read More »‘Guernica Transplant’
From the Zinn Education Project on Facebook: “On April 26, 1937, during the Spanish Civil War, the Nazis tested their new air force on the Basque town of Gernika in northern Spain. One-third of Gernika’s 5,000 inhabitants were killed or wounded. Pablo Picasso exposed the horror of the bombing in…
Read More »Bishop’s Legacy a Downtown Lowell Hit!
I posted this commentary on my Facebook page just now. It might be helpful to our blog readers to know what a great experience we had at the new and much anticipated Bishop’s Legacy restaurant in Downtown Lowell. There is truly a Bishop’s legacy in the Merrimack Valley and many…
Read More »Newt Gingrich made me weep by Marjorie Arons-Barron
The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Back in the 1990’s, new House Speaker Newt Gingrich made me furious with his Contract with America, which critics dubbed the Contract on America. It was an era of slash-and-burn, anti-government GOP ascendancy, when in 1995 the Republican Party took over…
Read More »Happy Spring!
The angle of the sun, the budding of the trees and shrubs, the pollen count, the coming of colors over the landscape ~ all tell us that it’s Spring!
Read More »Jeb Bush – for now, more appealing than appalling by Marjorie Arons-Barron
The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Years ago, Barbara Bush is said to have commented that son Jeb was the best politician in the family. That’s the side of the former Florida governor that I saw in New Hampshire on Friday morning at the…
Read More »‘The Lowell Monument’
Lowell Week in Review: April 19, 2015
Lord Overpass Discussion It was a quiet city council meeting this week. During the “motion response” phase, Councilor Belanger pressed the administration for details on (1) the public input process for the redesign of the Lord Overpass; and (2) just what will be done to make that area more walkable. …
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