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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. It was always going to be a tough mid-term election, based on history. Only in 1934 and 2002 did a first-term President’s party not suffer Congressional losses. In those two cases, the public rallied to an existential crisis,…
Read More »What bugs me By Jack McDonough Years ago, a Boston morning radio personality by the name of Jess Kane had a segment called “What bugs you?” Kane didn’t actually take calls from listeners but if he returned today and made that a call-in part of the show, I’d probably contribute…
Read More »On October 6, 2022, the Coalition for a Better Acre celebrated its 40th anniversary with a gala event at the Lowell Memorial Auditorium. The CBA started as a grassroots organization determined to save the neighborhood from an urban renewal plan that would have displaced hundreds. The CBA succeeded and has…
Read More »John Wooding shared the following: First Annual Recognition and Awards Ceremony Lowell City of Learning Please join us on November 10, 2022, at 5pm at the Richard & Nancy Donahue Academic Arts Centre at MCC, 240 Central Street in Lowell, for the presentation of the first Patrick J. Mogan Learning…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. The critically important Pennsylvania Senate race between Lt. Governor John Fetterman and TV celebrity Mehmet Oz – whom Oprah Winfrey used to call “America’s Doctor – is too close to call. Winfrey gave Oz his big break. He…
Read More »Forgot Your Password? By Jack McDonough Some questions can be very annoying. “Are you really going to wear that shirt? Are we going to have those same meatballs again tonight? Do you mind not drumming on the table like that?” But there’s nothing more annoying, infuriating, outrageously maddening than the…
Read More »Mike McCormick of Alaska by way of Haverhill, Massachusetts, is a fan of the Seatle Mariners baseball club. The Mariners’ trip to the playoffs this year brought to mind for Mike his youthful experience as a fan of the Boston Red Sox. Remembering the Red Sox During the Mariners’ 2022…
Read More »This essay originally appeared in the Boston Globe Ideas section on Sunday, October 23, 2022, and on bostonglobe.com on October 19. October Dreaming By David Daniel October is a month of mystic meanings. Of marigolds and wild asters and the ripe honey scent of Concord grapes on the…
Read More »In 2006 I wrote the following WUML Sunrise essay. It was inspired by a Cold War relic discovered while browsing through a salvage/antique shop. The nuclear survival guide, “Protection in the Nuclear Age”, struck me as quaint and out-of-date given that we were in a relatively warmer era with no…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Several years back, I was driving west on Route 9 in Wellesley. While stopped in the passing lane at a red light, my car was hit from behind. Since the light was still red, I got out to…
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