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FYI: Nov 6 US Senate Candidate Forum POSTPONED Due to Technical Difficulties WALTHAM, MA – The Third Middlesex Area Democrats are sad to postpone their US Democratic Senate Candidate Forum originally slated for Sunday, November 6, 2011. “We were just informed that there are audio and visual feed technical issues…
Read More »There are two things that caught my eye in today’s personal post from Arianna Huffington on HuffingtonPost.com. The first a remembered line that Larry Summers often spoke – “that the important thing is just to be caught trying.” She then goes on to question the seriousness of the Obama economic…
Read More »In the category of “The More Things Change”—While cleaning in the home office last weekend, I found a batch of old news clippings, including one from the Christian Science Monitor of August 3, 2006. In his first big speech, Bush administration Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson listed growing income inequality as one…
Read More »This is a cross-post from the Lowell Historical Society blog. Original Old Residents’ Association Book Cabinet The Lowell Historical Society maintains numerous collections of writings, documents and photographs which are open for public research. The collections are comprised of the Society’s original archives as well as those of the Lowell…
Read More »Adam Goodheart in the NYTimes wrote about the Fort Monroe designation as a new National Park. Read his article here, and get the NYT if you want more. Fort Monroe, the president said as he prepared to sign the order, “was the site of the first slave ships to land…
Read More »Lowell National Historical Park Supt. Michael Creasey and Asst. Supt. Peter Aucella have both called attention to the President Obama’s announcement of the newest National Park at Fort Monroe in Virginia, which mentions the historic decision by Lowell’s own General Benjamin F. Butler to declare Southern slaves as contraband of war…
Read More »I walked our family’s Boston Terrier in the leftover dark this morning before the sun edged over Wamesit Hill and the far treeline that loosely follows the path of the Concord River. The hem of the sky showed lighter blue, but above the night held. Heading toward Gorham Street I passed the backs of…
Read More »Electrical power service was restored at about 3.30 pm on Highland Street after being out since last Saturday at about 8 p.m. I’m watching the TV news with one eye while writing this, and can see that lots of folks are still in the cold and dark. Jack Harper on…
Read More »Helpful storm clean-up information from the Lowell City Manager’s blog site:
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