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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. It’s amazing that so much of the negotiation of a casino-and-slots bill has gone on behind closed doors. After proposals had sucked much of the oxygen out of the air last year, Governor Patrick and legislative leadership, especially…
Read More »This past weekend I created a “2011 Lowell City Council election” page where I would compile links to YouTube videos and other electronic material by and about the candidates. I invited the various campaigns and anyone else to forward to me (DickHoweJr[at]gmail.com) links to anything that I had missed. I…
Read More »Ten years ago tonight, just two days after the most devastating terrorist attack in American history, Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson identified the perpetrators: [youtube]H-CAcdta_8I[/youtube]
Read More »A recent edition of Bookmarks magazine (“For everyone who hasn’t read everything”) came into my possession. Motivated by the unexpected popularity in 2010 of Mark Twain’s “complete and unexpurgated autobiography”, released at Twain’s direction one hundred years after his death, Bookmarks suggests “some of the more interesting attempts by Americans…
Read More »[youtube]iNfgwNjrOio[/youtube] Here’s a creative take on the famous “Think Different” TV ad by Apple.
Read More »At Political Intelligence breakingnews over on Boston.com, veteran Globe reporter Frank Phillips has the story about Elizabeth Warren and her plan to announce her candidacy for the US Senate tomorrow – with an on-line video: After weeks of testing the political waters, Elizabeth Warren, a Harvard Law School professor and…
Read More »Photos by Tony Sampas.
Read More »As I watched the September 11th memorial ceremonies on Sunday morning, I couldn’t help thinking just how many people from the Merrimack Valley died that day. Tewksbury lost two residents on September 11, 2001, Peter Gay and Peter Hashem. A few years ago the town built a wonderful memorial to…
Read More »“Take-Out” by Richard Marion (c) 2022 See more artwork at www.richardmarion.net
Read More »Today, somebody said to me that this blog, with its various features and contributors, is Lowell’s version of the huffingtonpost. Thank you. I don’t think Dick will sell it to AOL, however.
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