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The Globe reports that former Lowell City Manager Joe Tully pleaded guilty yesterday in US District Court to one count of wire fraud in a case that arose out of the closing-then-relocation of the Registry of Motor Vehicles office in the city. While the maximum possible sentence could be up…
Read More »[youtube]rM9fp7B-Xec[/youtube] If you haven’t yet considered the question now being posed by many, “did the media overplay Hurricane Irene?”, just watch the above clip and your answer will have to be yes. That’s because this 4 minute, 26 second clip depicts a Fox news reporter perched on the ocean-front boardwalk…
Read More »Scenes from the 15th annual Southeast Asian Water Festival in Lowell. The event was very well attended.
Read More »As Irene was developing, landing, damaging the states and communities along the Eastern seaboard and inland as well, officialdom was full of praise for the “new FEMA” – for the planning, co-ordination and ongoing interaction, relief and support. Everyone was in the loop. In a Washington Post story by Ed…
Read More »9th Annual Kerouac Road Race Race proceeds go to the Jack Kerouac Scholarship awarded to a Lowell High School graduating senior planning a major in literature or the arts. Time is running out to get your micro-tec race t-shirt!!! Sunday, September 25th Be one of the first 400 registered and…
Read More »On my last post, there were a number of comments, but I wanted to highlight one thing Cliff wrote. I thought that this part of a comment he left was worth a full response. Quoted directly: “We can pound Gov Perry for pandering to those of his supporters who don’t…
Read More »“Hudzik’s Market, Palm Sunday” by Richard Marion (c) 2011 To see more artwork, visit www.richardmarion.net
Read More »My old schoolmate Bob Jette posted on FB about this short essay by Deepak Chopra on huffingtonpost.com about the issues that he believes will determine the outcome of the presidential election next year. Read the essay here.
Read More »This is interesting. I picked it up from the staunchly progressive news service truth-out.org.
Read More »NYTimes opinion writer Paul Krugman today sounds the alarm on the anti-science, anti-intellectual character of the leading contendors to be the Republican Party’s challenger to President Obama. Backing up his opinion with facts and candidate quotes, Krugman warns about the prospects of an “anti-knowledge” platform and subsequent legislative agenda. Maybe it’s…
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