Menu
Boston Mayor Thomas Menino was the featured guest at today’s Lunchtime Lecture at the UMass Lowell Inn & Conference Center, presented by the Parker Lectures and UMass Lowell. Menino, who has been mayor of Boston for 20 years and has just 77 days left in office, was questioned by former…
Read More »I recently learned that my friend Nancy Pitkin cancelled her cable TV service and is making due without. Curious about what that’s like, I asked her to share her experience with our readers and she sent the following: On September 26 we cut the cord – I cancelled our Comcast…
Read More »Photo by Tony Sampas
Read More »City Council candidate Stacie Hargis just sent the following statement and asked that I post it. Here it is: “I’m personally disgusted. No women should be spoken about in that way, even in this one incident of misjudgment. As far as being qualified to ensure the process of democracy as…
Read More »With just two weeks to go before the election it is the appointment of Gerry Nutter to the city’s Election Commission that is dominating local news. I just did a separate post that sets out my thoughts on this issue and right after the vote on Tuesday night, I published…
Read More »The big story this week was the controversy that arose over the appointment of Gerry Nutter to the Election Commission. Seven city councilors said “yes” to the appointment. The two who said “no”, Rodney Elliott and Ed Kennedy, cited things Gerry had written on his blog as the reason for…
Read More »Thanks to Nancy Greene, a resident of the Highlands who shared this account of the HIghlands Neighborhood Meeting that was held this past Monday. I hope to post similar reports from other neighborhood group meetings. If you’d like to become a contributor, just email me your notes at DickHoweJr@gmail.com and…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Boston mayoral candidates Marty Walsh and John Connolly met in their first debate Tuesday and discussed issues to a draw. No surprise. There’s little that separates them on matters of policy. Rep. Walsh did what he had to…
Read More »The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum on Columbia Point, Boston, Massachusetts On this day, October 20, in 1979 the John F Kennedy library opened in an I.M. Pei–designed building at the Harbor Campus of the University of Massachusetts Boston. Kennedy’s memorial stands on the tip of the Columbia…
Read More »Photo by Tony Sampas.
Read More »