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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…
Read More »Maxine Farkas shares the following update from Western Avenue Studios: Ever encounter one of those ideas that seems like a throw away but blossoms into something far, far more than you imagined? Back in February Susan Halter from COOL/CASE forwarded information about ArtWeek Boston, they were interested in expanding the…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. The latest bad news from the Middle East is that the Palestinian Authority (the Fatah faction) has entered a “unity pact” with militant group Hamas, which has pledged never to recognize the right of Israel to exist. The…
Read More »Blogging is a bit like exercising – you take a week off and it’s hard to start up again, but once you resume, you remember why you enjoy doing it so much. Here’s my take on Lowell politics for the past week: 18th Middlesex District candidates With Kevin Murphy comfortably…
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