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Lawyers will give their closing arguments today in Suffolk Superior Court in the case of the Commonwealth v Tim Cahill. The former state treasurer is charged with using state funds to run TV ads intended to boost his 2010 campaign for governor. While it may have been wrong to pay…
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Read More »2012 has been quite a year remembering Charles Dickens – celebrating the 200th anniversary of his birth. This repost remembers Charles Dickens on his second and final American Tour: by Marie Mass Moments remind us that on this day December 2, 1867, the iconic author Charles Dickens began his Second American…
Read More »Senator-elect Elizabeth Warren visited Lowell very early-on in her campaign. Here she speaks to a packed auditorium in Lowell’s Butler School in 2011. From Roger Lau: “The campaign may be over, but Elizabeth’s real work of helping working families across Massachusetts is just getting started. Senator-elect Elizabeth Warren (doesn’t it…
Read More »From the office of Lowell Mayor Patrick O. Murphy: Starting on Monday December 3, every pound of non-perishable food you bring to the Mayor’s Office (Room 50 on the 2ndFloor of City Hall) will earn you a raffle ticket entering you into a drawing for two tickets to the New…
Read More »Some of the readers of this blog know that for the past year I have been writing a book about the origin and impact of Lowell’s national park. Below is a “sidebar” piece that will appear in the “Making the Park” chapter. The manuscript is nearly complete, and Lowell National Historical Park will…
Read More »For some unknown reason our copy of the Sun Sunday “Focus – Opinion & Commentary” continues to hit the driveway on Fridays in a early arrival. So here’s a heads-up! The Lowell Sun joins the GOP with an editorial “swift-boating” of U. N. Ambassador Susan Rice this coming Sunday. She…
Read More »Last evening I joined more than 30 others at the LRTA Maintenance Facility conference room at 100 Hale Street to hear the latest thinking from the city’s Planning Department and the various urban planners (Crosby, Schlessinger & Smallridge) and EPA officials who have been working on a master plan for…
Read More »“Cake and Tea” by Richard Marion, (c) 2012 See more artwork at www.richardmarion.net
Read More »If you’ve ever driven through Worcester while heading west on Rte 290, you may have noticed the two white towers of the city’s train station just to the right of the highway. Union Station was constructed in 1911 and abandoned in 1975. In 2000, however, the city poured $32 million…
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