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Read More »Billerica Democratic Town Committee outing
The Billerica Democratic Town Committee held its fourth annual family outing yesterday at the Billerica Lodge of Elks. Originally scheduled for August 28, the affair was rescheduled because of Hurricane Irene. Weather-wise, yesterday was a much nicer day. Three of the Democatic candidates for US Senate – Alan Khazei (above),…
Read More »Kevin Landrigan’s View – 2012 NH Primary Landscape
Former Lowell Sun scribe and longtime political writer for the Nashua Telegraph, Kevin Landrigan has covered many a New Hampshire Presidential Primary Race cycle – for Democrats as well as Republicans. In his column today Landrigan sees the current GOP race as a “hurry up and wait” season. He describes…
Read More »E. J. Dionne on Warren and Will – “in full, if awkward, agreement”
My favorite Washington Post opinion writer – Massachusetts native E. J. Dionne, Jr – writes today of Elizabeth Warren’s succinctly stated case for liberalism and George Will’s skilled attempt to knock it down. An admirer of both people – both by the way reputedly skilled debaters – Dionne notes that…
Read More »Sunday’s Sports
On TV yesterday, I watched parts of various games, and gave the Patriots quite a bit of time. Beating the Jets is always a good thing. I haven’t felt good about that team since Joe Namath stopped playing. Although the Jets got close a few times, the contest was a…
Read More »High Line: New York City’s ‘Park in the Sky’
See bbc.com for a report on a popular and innovative adaptive reuse of an abandoned elevated subway track in New York City. Is this an option for rethinking the Textile Memorial Bridge/University Ave. Bridge if the bridge is not demolished?
Read More »‘The Ides of March’
If you are cynical about politicians and politicking, you may want to skip this movie. Not one of the main characters in this story fares well. You definitely do not want to be these people on screen. The story reinforces citizens’ worst assumptions about politics. But politics is only the…
Read More »Sunday morning sports review
High School Friday: Dracut at Lowell: MyFoxBOSTON.com Congratulations to Lowell High School for being featured on Fox News Boston’s “High School Friday”. Lowell beat Dracut, 35-20, and got some excellent statewide exposure from this Boston TV feature. Check out the Fox News Boston website for more video, photos, and stories.…
Read More »Creative Economy and Steve Jobs: NYT Business Day
Mr. Jobs’s legacy will be ‘the blending of technology and poetry. It’s not about design per se; it’s the poetic aspect of the entire enterprise.’ James B. Stewart today writes about Steve Jobs’s passion for great design in a long article in the Business Day section of the NYTimes. If…
Read More »In the Merrimack Valley: Media Empire Building to Our North?
October 8, 2011
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The Nashua Telegraph has an interesting article this morning about a former GOP Senate candidate’s plan to build a new media empire across the New Hampshire landscape – even dipping down into the Massachusetts end of the Merrimack Valley. The hot times of a New Hampshire presidential primary season may…
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