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From the Pacific Rim and the richardhowe.com western desk comes a new poem by Tom Sexton, occupier of poetry precincts on both coasts of America and distinguished alumnus of Lowell High School. — PM . Leaving Lowell, Mass. for San Francisco, 1915, a Postcard Standing beside Mayor Murphy on the…
Read More »Congratulations to everyone who participated in the successful civic-engagement action at the Lowell City Council last night, encouraging the councilors to study further refinements of the current design of Father Morissette Boulevard as opposed to removing bike lanes and parking meters. Kudos to the council as a whole for showing…
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Read More »Here are two interesting videos of the Lowell Mills originally posted on YouTube by muehog99. Video Description: Lowell, MA was one of the great industrial towns during the American Industrial Revolution. The great mills in the town were water powered. The mills in large part were run by young girls…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. On May 5, the state’s Supreme Judicial Court will take up the question of Attorney General Martha Coakley’s rejection of a ballot referendum to repeal the Massachusetts casino law. She concluded in December, 2011 that the referendum should be a…
Read More »[This is not a verbatim transcript, but as close to it as I can produce while watching the meeting[ ABOLISH BIKE LANES After some citations at the start of the meeting, the motion by Rita Mercier and Rodney Elliott to abolish the bike lanes on Fr. Morisette Blvd is taken…
Read More »Thanks to Jack Moynihan for sending the following summary of last night’s meeting of the LDNA (Lowell Downtown Neighborhood Association): The Lowell Downtown Neighborhood Association met Tuesday, April 28 at LTC on Market Street. Co-Chair Susan Purdy called the meeting to order at approximately 7:07 p.m. The first speaker of…
Read More »Thanks to the UMass Lowell Honors Ambassadors program, the first TEDx Lowell event was held yesterday at UTEC on Warren Street. It was a great event, well-organized and interesting and all because of the great effort of the UMass Lowell students who ran the entire show. I was privileged to…
Read More »Attorney General and Gubernatorial candidate Martha Coakley visited Lowell tonight for a fund raiser at La Boniche hosted by Eileen Donoghue, Steve Panagiotakos, Bill Martin and Michael Gallagher. In her brief remarks, Coakley reminisced about all that she learned about the law and about people during her time as an…
Read More »John Edward teaches economics at Bentley and UMass Lowell. He’s a frequent contributor of columns on economic issues. Here is his latest: Forgive me for noting that conservatives seem to believe that the rich will work harder if we give them more, and the poor will work harder if we…
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