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Earlier this week I attended a speech by Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Associate Justice Robert Cordy who spoke with great passion about the fiscal crisis now facing the state’s judiciary. After reviewing the extent of the funding cuts over the past five years, Cordy argued that the courts should not…
Read More »Here’s a poem from another November, from a weekend spent with friends in central Massachusetts. The poem first appeared in Jim Dyment’s VYU arts magazine that documented Lowell’s cultural scene at the turn of the new century and kept going. You can see back issues online at www.vyumagazine.com. Jim works at…
Read More »Who could ever forget this memorable scene from “Back to the Future” when Marty McFly (Michael J Fox) rocks his mother’s generation playing Chuck Berry’s Johnny B Goode Well, Michael J Fox is back and in the future will be at Middlesex Community College. Here is a glimpse of this…
Read More »Chelmsford HIgh School Marching Band performing “The Executioner”…posted by a proud mom.
Read More »On this day – November 15, 1969, a quarter of a million protesters staged a peaceful demonstration in Washington, D.C. – against the Vietnam War. The Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam was a large demonstration against the United States involvement in the Vietnam War – it took place across the United…
Read More »boston.com this morning has a report on the new president of Phillips Academy in Andover. John G. Palfrey Jr. was named 15th head of school, the board of trustees said in a statement. Palfrey is currently a professor and vice dean for library and information resources at Harvard Law. ……
Read More »Paul Krugman’s recent column on the successful approach to health care practiced by the Veterans Health Administration (V.H.A.) and candidate Mitt Romney’s “vouchers for veterans” proposal is worth a read. Calling the GOP “thing about vouchers” strictly about ideology… so “successful programs like veterans’ health, Social Security and Medicare are…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. The unidentified “they” have often said that Boston’s three favorite pastimes are sports, politics and revenge – and not necessarily in that order. Thursday night’s MassInc’s 15-year anniversary celebration at the Kennedy Library brought together media and pols…
Read More »Today in the New York Times, media columnist David Carr profiles John Paton, the new-since-September CEO of MediaNews Group which owns hundreds of newspapers in the US including the Lowell Sun. Carr singles out Paton as one of the few from within the newspaper industry who sincerely believes that the…
Read More »The first TV ad from the Elizabeth Warren campaign. She seeks to define herself before her opponents define her. [youtube]kE_wj6NHdEQ[/youtube]
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