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By mid-afternoon today I started peeking at the Twitter app on my smartphone to catch Tweets coming from Kevin Paul Dupont, Fluto Shinzawa, and the other members of the Boston press covering the ceremony in which the Stanley Cup champion Bruins were being honored at the White House, just as…
Read More »Don’t miss this important update from the Small Business Assistance Center from Stacie Hargis the Director: Something just happened to the Center! As the New Year unfolds, the Center is looking forward to a bright 2012 as we have had much success to build on from last year.2011 meant results that made…
Read More »Truthfully, I’m as excited as the next person to see the New England Patriots returning to the Super Bowl…but honestly, I can’t help feeling bad for Ravens’ kicker Billy Cundiff. Perhaps he should have remembered some of the advise he is giving to a group of students shown below.
Read More »Town Library – Precincts 4 & 4A (photo from Town of Tewksbury website) In a move announced by mail by the Town Clerk and sanctioned by the Board of Selectmen, some Tewksbury voters will again be moving to a new location to cast their ballots. The former Town Clerk had…
Read More »Please welcome Paul Belley and his new blog, Captains Log, to the Lowell blogosphere. Paul has long been active in community affairs in the city and in his neighborhood, and will add a great new voice to the city’s online conversation. Please visit his site, read his posts, and make…
Read More »Today’s front-page Boston Globe story, McLaughlin raised money for Murray, employees say. Fund-raising may have been illegal; worries kept lieutenant governor awake on night of crash, contains some fascinating revelations. For instance, Lt Governor Tim Murray’s worry/anger-induced sleeplessness in response to the revelations about McLaughlin may have contributed to the…
Read More »Earlier this week I wrote about the amazing similarities between a January 7th Lowell Sun editorial and a January 5th Boston Globe article (which Gerry Nutter investigated further HERE). In a comment to my post, Mike Luciano alluded to a piece he had written several years ago in which he…
Read More »What about that Gingrich win? Read this from the Red State blog, courtesy of realclearpolitics.com. And don’t you think it’s strange that the national GOP got tagged with the “red” label, given all the anti-socialist talk coming from those megaphones? Which art director at which national TV network first decided to color code…
Read More »Check out Lowell Resident, the latest addition to the city’s always-active blogosphere. I’ve added a link to the site in our Blog Roll in the right hand sidebar. Let me also invite others to jump in. The mechanics are pretty easy. Just create a Google account (or log in if…
Read More »With the currrent talk about city charter change in the air, I am copying and sharing here my comment on Gerry Nutter’s blog from a few days ago for the rh.com readers who are following the developing community conversation around this topic: Lowell is the envy of many cities of its size.…
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