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Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley filed suit yesterday against a number of national lenders seeking civil penalties and restitution for unfair and deceptive business practices related to home mortgages (PDF of Suffolk Superior Court complaint HERE). By my reading of the complaint, the improper conduct alleged can be divided into…
Read More »St. Francis Xavier, S.J. (1506-1552) With all the Lowell connections, it’s important to note that today December 3 is the Feast Day of St. Francis Xavier. Francis Xavier was a pioneering Roman Catholic missionary, born in Navarre – one of the seven founders of the Society of Jesus along with teacher and…
Read More »On Dec. 1, the NYTimes carried an article about young writers and scholars in NY who have created their own means of distributing their creative and intellectual work. Thanks to Dick for spotting this. I misread the headline as “Literary Clubs,” and in a nanosecond decided to skip that on…
Read More »“Pigeons” by Richard Marion (c) 2011 See more artwork at www.richardmarion.net
Read More »Housing authorities have been much in the news lately, whether it’s in Chelsea, Dracut or Lowell, but that’s not necessarily a new phenomenon. I recently came across a 1973 Lowell Sun column by Carolyn Miegel that touched upon an alleged housing authority controversy and then provided a glimpse into ethnic…
Read More »Two images, each a bit different, of the same scene – by Tony Sampas
Read More »Mass Moments remind us that on this day December 2, 1867, the iconic author Charles Dickens began his Second American tour heer in Massachusetts – opening in Boston and reading at Tremont Temple. Not in the best of health, Dickens arrived a few weeks early and spent some time recuperating…
Read More »Another twist on the Kerouac thing. Read about this designer, Gary Joseph Cieradkowski, and what he writes about Kerouac and baseball.
Read More »The Lowell Sun and other media outlets are reporting on breakingnews that State Senator Susan Fargo will face a primary challenge in 2012 from Democrat Michael Barrett. Fargo represents the Third Middlesex District with includes the communities of Bedford, Carlisle, Chelmsford, Concord, Lincoln, Waltham, Weston and parts of Sudbury and Lexington. Michael-Barrett…
Read More »This version is small, but you get the picture for the new issue of The New Yorker, Dec. 5, whose cover illustration titled “Black Friday” by Daniel Clowes depicts an an average-looking man entering a shop selling books and literary paraphernalia, including in the lower left section a row of four…
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