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Governor Deval Patrick has just proclaimed June 30th as Edith Nourse Rogers Day in Massachusetts. Rogers was the member of Congress who represented Greater Lowell from 1925 until her death in 1961. Though a Republican, she was a strong supporter of Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal but she is best known…
Read More »During my nearly ten years of practicing law, I repeatedly was reminded that every trial has its own dynamic and that someone not part of that trial, who was not present for the entire proceeding, was usually clueless in trying to predict the result. Today’s Supreme Court decision upholding the…
Read More »I just returned from a long weekend in New York City. Over the next few days I’ll do some blog posts about sites and stories from the trip. Today, the National 9/11 Memorial: The National 9/11 Memorial is a fitting tribute to those who perished on September 11, 2001. The…
Read More »Local author and sometimes blog contributor Steve O’Connor makes note of the evolution of critters in the neighborhood: As I drank my coffee on the deck this morning, I could hear the hawks calling to each other high in the pine trees near, appropriately enough, Pine Street. I don’t recall…
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Read More »President John F. Kennedy stands in an open car while a large crowd cheers as the President’s motorcade passes through Cork, Ireland. June 29, 1963 With today’s meeting of Queen Elizabeth and former IRA leader Martin McGuiness now part of history, it seems appropriate to remember another historic visit to Ireland that…
Read More »“River Board” by Richard Marion (c) 2012 The image was painted many years ago on a cabinet door found by the artist along the Merrimack River. See more artwork at www.richardmarion.net
Read More »Great finish at the Lowell Regatta…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. That whoosh you hear is the sound of money, gobs of it, flying from wellheeled donors to political candidates and “independent” committees on behalf of candidates. The roar is increasingly deafening especially when the money is coming from…
Read More »Photo by Tony Sampas.
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