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Fred Doyle takes to the radio
Here are last Saturday’s and this Saturday’s installments of city council candidate Fred Doyle’s radio campaign: [youtube]qm5yDcCqCIo[/youtube] [youtube]4Kv3iabTJk0[/youtube]
Read More »4,000 Peanut Butter Sandwiches
Talking with Roger at Cote’s Market on Salem Street this afternoon, I learned that Cote’s is a food supplier for the Bay State Marathon being run in Lowell tomorrow. He said he has a crew of 12 coming in around 2 a.m. to prepare enormous quantities of soup (chicken noodle…
Read More »Occupy World: Solidarity March in Berlin
October 15, 2011
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PaulM
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Occupy solidarity demonstration in Berlin, Germany, today (web photo by AP courtesy of nytimes.com) Read today’s report in the New York Times here and get the NYT on your porch or online if you want more.
Read More »Occupy, Simply ‘Occupy’
October 15, 2011
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PaulM
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“Occupy Wall Street” has changed from an advertised brand of public-action therapy in Manhattan to a generic social drug called “Occupy.” The new drug is being prescribed and administered in cities far and wide, in this country and now abroad, by self-licensed community healers who have decided that current public policy remedies are damaging their nations’…
Read More »BayState Marathon in Lowell on Sunday
Unless you’re a runner or a road race fan, stay clear of the Merrimack River and its crossings on Sunday morning. At 8 am, many of hundreds of runners participating in the BayState Marathon and Half Marathon will depart from the UML Tsongas Center and proceed along Pawtucket Street and…
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Pollard Memorial Library, Lowell Massachusetts. Photos by Tony Sampas
Read More »Number Nine, Number Nine, Number Nine
October 14, 2011
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PaulM
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NYTimes opinion writer Tim Egan unpacks the the pain sandwich that Herman Cain is trying to sell to GOP primary voters, the “999” tax plan that he claims would simplify the tax code and juice the economy. Read Egan here, and get the NYT if you want more. Also, in today’s Globe,…
Read More »Greater Lowell Area Democrats to Meet Tomorrow Saturday October 15, 2011
October 14, 2011
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Marie
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The next regular breakfast meeting of Greater Lowell Area Democrats is scheduled for tomorrow Saturday October 15, 20011 – at 8am SHARP at the Independence Grill at the Radisson Hotel in Chelmsford. Update: State Representative Tom Conroy and Marisa DeFranco – both candidates for the U. S. Senate – are…
Read More »Romney still on top after Republican GOP debate by Marjorie Arons-Barron
The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. No one really laid a glove on him in the New Hampshire roundtable “debate” Tuesday night. Mitt Romney looked Presidential. He had the right balance of certitude and affability. He was confident but not angry. After years of…
Read More »‘Jumping-Off Point’ by Richard Marion
“Jumping-Off Point” by Richard Marion (c) 2011 See more artwork at www.richardmarion.net
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