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A Good Day for Dems?
Bachmann and Paul top Iowa Straw Poll. Big Texan Rick Perry jumps in. I’d say yesterday was a good day for the President. Stay tuned, as the announcer recommends.
Read More »The Boott Mill Bridge
Tony Sampas shares a photo of the bridge connecting the Cotton Warehouse and the Boott Mill
Read More »“Escape from politics into books” by Marjorie Arons-Barron
The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. News that a huge (4’ deep and 190’ long) sinkhole has opened up under the I-90 Big Dig Tunnel seems to be a metaphor for how our political leaders continue letting us down. Summer hasn’t provided much respite…
Read More »Lincoln & Concord
This has been a “sta-cation” summer for my wife and me for various reasons, but there’s nothing to complain about when you live in a region that is a visitor destination and one of the most fascinating areas of the United States. One day this week we took the “back…
Read More »Historian Doug Brinkley on John Kerry – Best Chance for Super Committee Success
Historian Douglas Brinkley is professor of history at Rice University and author of “Tour of Duty: John Kerry and the Vietnam War.’’ Brinkley has penned an op-ed piece for today’s Boston Globe giving his view that the appointment of Senator John Kerry to the so-called “super committee” on deficit reduction…
Read More »In the Merrimack Valley: Lantigua Recall Status Update – 900 Short!
From breaking news at the Eagle Tribune: LAWRENCE – An effort to ouster Mayor William Lantigua fell about 900 signatures short of the 5,232 it needed to prompt a recall of the state’s first Hispanic mayor. The City Clerk’s office was able to verify 4,366 of the 5,483 signatures as…
Read More »In the Merrimack Valley: Recall Leader Thinks Numbers Could Be Short… But
August 12, 2011
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The Eagle Tribune is reporting that Wayne Hayes – a leader in the effort to recall Lawrence Mayor William Lantigua – has e-mailed supporters that not enough signature on the recall petition will be certified. Hayes, however, is confident that the group can challenge these rejections and win. LAWRENCE —…
Read More »Remembering the Ursuline Convent in Charlestown Sacked and Burned ~ August 12, 1834
Mass Moments reminds us today that on August 12, 1834 the Catholic convent housing the Ursuline order of nuns in Charlestown, Massachusetts was sacked by a Protestant mob – then burned to the ground. Catholics were not welcome in the early days of Massachusetts – in fact they were banned…
Read More »1999 City Council Election Results
The last time there was a primary election for the Lowell City Council was in 1999. The results of both the primary and the general election follow, with incumbents in italics and the order of finish in the corresponding election in brackets: Primary Election – October 5, 1999 Rita Mercier…
Read More »‘Still Life with Lemons’ by Richard Marion
“Still Life with Lemons” by Richard Marion (c) 2011. See more artwork at www.richardmarion.net
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