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Primary Predictions

August 7, 2013 by DickH Posted in Uncategorized, Election 2013 4 Comments

Sorry but I’m not going to make any order-of-finish predictions for the city council primary. The headline was just a cheap trick to get you to read this post. I do have some thoughts on the fact that there will be a primary, assuming a few of the 21 individuals…

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Larry Summers for the Fed? Spare us by Marjorie Arons-Barron

August 7, 2013 by Tony Posted in Uncategorized 1 Comment

The entry below is cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. The Federal Reserve may not be the center of the solar system, but it is a key inflection point in American politics and, through its interest rate policies, can have a profound impact on the nation’s economy. The Fed…

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from John McPhee’s introduction to Thoreau’s ‘A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers’

August 7, 2013 by PaulM Posted in Lowell, Culture, Greater Lowell, History Leave a Comment

“… Just as he describes it, the Concord narrows dramatically and shallows out over a ‘yellow pebbly bottom’ as it approaches the falls in Billerica, where the Thoreaus went off on the Middlesex Canal and where Kaz and I were to rendezvous with my wife, Yolanda Whitman, in her Odyssey.…

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‘Smokestack Chair’ by Richard Marion

August 7, 2013 by PaulM Posted in Culture Leave a Comment

“Smokestack Chair” by Richard Marion (c) 2013 See more artwork at www.richardmarion.net    

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Steve Gendron for School Committee website

August 6, 2013 by DickH Posted in Election 2013 2 Comments

Above is a screen shot of the new Steve Gendron for Lowell School Committee website. You can find the actual website is here. Steve’s Twitter account (which is here), announces that he will be a guest on WCAP radio tomorrow morning at 8:15. Below is a portion of the “About…

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Health and Social Sciences Building UMass Lowell, South Campus

August 6, 2013 by DickH Posted in Lowell Leave a Comment

Photo by Tony Sampas

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Learn More about Gaming and Gambling as allowed in Massachusetts

August 6, 2013 by Marie Posted in Politics 2 Comments

  A row of “Wheel of Fortune” slot machines in a casino in Las Vegas. This specific slot machine is themed to the TV game show Wheel of Fortune. With the Legislature allowing the licensing of three casinos and one Slots/casino for Massachusetts, you might want to learn more about…

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‘Red Swirls’ by Richard Marion

August 6, 2013 by PaulM Posted in Culture Leave a Comment

  “Red Swirls” by Richard Marion (c) 2013 See more artwork at www.richardmarion.net  

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John Henry gets new toy: Globe future still in question by Marjorie Arons-Barron

August 4, 2013 by Tony Posted in Uncategorized Leave a Comment

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. I don’t know John Henry.  We’ve been introduced at fundraising events a couple of times; there was no extended conversation.  He seems very nice, if shy.  I have no reason to think he’ll ruin the Boston Globe, which he…

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The Buddy System: Blues Legend at Boarding House

August 4, 2013 by PaulM Posted in Culture, History, Lowell 1 Comment

Buddy Guy drove his musical Mack truck right through the center of a packed Boarding House Park this past Saturday night and left everybody staggering from the blues wallop that he put on us. We go to the pavilion on these nights like lowly moths drawn to lamps, hoping to…

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