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This is great video of Lowell Generals 2012 Team Walk
Read More »Are Harry Reid’s questionable tactics working? by Marjorie Arons-Barron
The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s most recent foray into presidential politics – claiming someone had told him that Mitt Romney had paid no taxes for ten years but refusing to corroborate the accuser’s name or the charge has the stench of…
Read More »Fair Treatment
One thing all of us want is to be treated fairly. Monkeys want to be treated fairly too as is evident from the experiment depicted in the following video: [youtube]HK8Mp3OJYjk[/youtube] The above is actually a short portion of a TED talk given by Frans de Waal, an expert on primate…
Read More »Surrogate Fail
At 7:15 am, I’m bouncing between Iceland-Hungary playing team handball and watching President Obama’s surrogate Robert Gibbs on Morning Joe trying to explain the Obama plan for getting the country back on track—and Gibbs is talking like somebody put a nickel in his back to get a print-out answer. Fail. The…
Read More »City Manager meets the media on LTC
On the occasion of the sixth anniversary of his hiring as Lowell City Manager, Bernie Lynch invited members of the media, mainstream and new, to appear with him for 90 minutes on Lowell Telecommunications last evening and discuss the issues of the day. Joining the manager from City Hall were…
Read More »Busy Day for Bloggers
Today starts and ends with some of my fellow bloggers. At 6am on City Life on Lowell cable TV channel 8, a bunch of Lowell bloggers will gather to discuss the issues of the day with co-hosts George Anthes and John McDonough. That show will be replayed at 4pm on…
Read More »Chick-Fil A & KFC
As the Chick-Fil A controversy intensifies this spoof featuring John Goodman as Colonel Sanders was inevitable. From Funny or Die KFC Loves Gays with John Goodman from John Goodman
Read More »Detail of City Hall & Market Mills smokestack
Photo by Tony Sampas
Read More »‘Massachusetts Mills’ by Richard Marion
“Massachusetts Mills” by Richard Marion (c) 2012. This is purple loosestrife season in the valley. See more artwork at www.richardmarion.net
Read More »Governor to sign Health Care Cost Containment bill
Boston.com is reporting the Governor Deval Patrick today will sign the first-in-the-nation Health Care Cost Containment bill that was passed by the legislature at the end of July. The Act, Senate Bill 2526, is complex and far reaching and attempts to transform the way health care providers are paid, switching…
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