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Van Pech for City Council video
Here’s a video from Van Pech who is a candidate for Lowell City Council. HERE is a link to his website. [youtube]CrUg40Cs9Pw[/youtube]
Read More »Warren unfairly under fire on affordable housing by Marjorie Arons-Barron
The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Newton Mayor Setti Warren is catching flak from some Garden City liberals for withholding $1.4 million in city-controlled federal money for a ten-unit building in a former fire station in the Waban section of Newton. The so-called Engine 6 project…
Read More »Dan Rourke for City Council video
Here’s a video from Dan Rourke, a candidate for Lowell City Council: [youtube]lWfkkgO4YwY[/youtube]
Read More »Books for summer nights by Marjorie Arons-Barron
The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. My family’s return from a glorious week in London shows how salutary it is for a political junkie to purge herself- albeit temporarily – of politics. So before I get sucked back into the nearly unspeakable frustration of focusing on…
Read More »Squirrels Under the Hood
OK, after 21 years living in the same house with the same yard and the same tall trees, a new scourge has appeared: squirrels getting under the hood of our cars and chewing the electrical wires that make the engine start and the car go forward. Twice in a week…
Read More »2013 Senate v. 2011 City Council Elections: Who voted?
As soon as the Lowell tally in the US Senate special election was announced back on June 25, 2013, most political observers were struck first by the scale of Ed Markey’s victory over Gabriel Gomez in the city (58% to 42%). Then came the intriguing observation that almost the exact…
Read More »The Boston Pops on Independence Day
For a decade now, my routine on the 4th of July has been consistent: a family cookout late in the afternoon and then in front of the TV to see the Boston Pops perform at the Esplanade. For several years, I’d been slowly growing disenchanted by the evolution of that…
Read More »“Minimum Wage” by John Edward
John Edward, a resident of Chelmsford who earned his master’s degree at UMass Lowell and who teaches economics at Bentley University and UMass Lowell, contributed the following column. Legend has it that President Truman asked his staff to bring him a one-armed economist. He was tired of economic advisors saying…
Read More »Independence Day Essay by John Wooding
Web photo courtesy of dailykos.com . Holding On to Those Self-Evident Truths By John Wooding . It’s Independence Day. A few weeks ago I became an American citizen. No big deal, really. Thousands of people do this every year. But I have been here for over thirty years, hanging on…
Read More »Lowell reads Micky Ward
Check out (literally) “Warrior’s Heart” at Lowell’s Pollard Memorial Library. Photos (and text) by Tony Sampas.
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