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The next regular breakfast meeting of Greater Lowell Area Democrats – the first in the New Year – will be held tomorrow – Saturday January 14, 2012 – at 8am SHARP at the Independence Grill at the Radisson Hotel in Chelmsford. The regular agenda will include updates and discussion on: ward/town caucuses for the…
Read More »A couple of things occurred over the past few days that got me thinking about the state of journalism in Lowell these days. Consider . . . Yesterday afternoon, the Sun’s political blog launched a post critical of Mayor Patrick Murphy’s subcommittee appointments. Within hours, Mayor Murphy posted a response…
Read More »The clock high above Lowell City Hall. Photo by Tony Sampas.
Read More »Read Rita Savard’s fine article about typewriters in our culture and, specifically, Jack Kerouac’s typewriter at the National Park’s Mogan Cultural Center museum exhibit about the immigrant history of Lowell. Filmmakers were in the city yesterday documenting the old Underwood typewriter on display with one of Kerouac’s backpacks on the…
Read More »In today’s Boston Globe in the GlobeNorth section, writer Katheleen Conti writes about the current state of reclaiming, rehabbing and reuse of the mill space in the downtowns of the Merrimack Valley’s historic mills cities – Lowell, Lawrence and Haverhill. She notes: Mill and factory buildings that supported gateway cities…
Read More »From truth-out.org, I picked up news that Bill Moyers has a new TV program. He keeps coming back, I think, because nobody else has figured out how to do the kinds of shows he is so well known for, mixing high-minded thinking, compassionate political ideas, and entertaining broadcast methods. Read…
Read More »Tony Sampas gives us a close up of the eagle that sits high atop Lowell City Hall
Read More »A post made this afternoon on the Lowell Sun political blog criticizes Mayor Patrick Murphy for some of his selections of chairpersons for various city council subcommittees. The post, “Murphy flexes Mayoral Muscle, begins with . . . Rookie Mayor Patrick Murphy left no doubt who’s in charge when he…
Read More »“Tan Mill” by Richard Marion (c) 2012 See more artwork at www.richardmarion.net
Read More »At lunchtime today I attended a gathering sponsored by the Center City Committee at the King Star Cafe at 201 Market Street. Wedged in between the Athenian Corner and the Dubliner, I’d never visited the King Star before. My only disappointment was that I had waited this long to do…
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