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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Former Senator Alan Simspon, a Wyoming Republican, just about summed up my reaction to the debt ceiling impasse. He said that the extent to which pettiness has overcome patriotism is nothing short of disgusting. Despite Republican longstanding charges…
Read More »Wayne Peters came to Lowell to serve as Superintendent of Schools. Later he was elected to the Lowell School Committee and then to the City Council. His son, Jim Peters, a frequent contributor to this site, informs us that his dad passed away this morning in Florida and offers the…
Read More »The US Women’s Soccer team advanced to the World Cup final game with today’s 3-1 victory over France. The US team will play Japan this coming Sunday (2:45 PM ET) for the title. [youtube]ES7wOXUlj44[/youtube]
Read More »From History.com: On this day – July 13, 1960: In Los Angeles, California, Senator John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts was nominated for the presidency by the Democratic Party Convention, defeating Senator Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas. The next day, Johnson was named Kennedy’s running mate by a unanimous vote of…
Read More »The Sun Building on Merrimack Street, by Tony Sampas
Read More »Noted at WickedLocal Tewksbury: As part of series of public events in July, the Tewksbury Public Library presents “Boston on Fire” – dramatic tales about the history of fires and fire fighting in Boston Wednesday night – July 13th – at 6:30pm. On Wednesday, July 13 at 6:30 p.m., join…
Read More »It’s been a while since I dragged Tom Friedman over to rh.com, but today’s opinion essay in the NYTimes is worth reading twice, particularly to note how many times the Pandora radio inventor pitched his idea to venture capitalists. I remember reading somewhere about the dozens of times that William…
Read More »I’m not an economist, but the more I try to learn about economics by reading the work of those who are, the more I realize it is a field with wildly different interpretations of the facts and prescriptions for solving the country’s problems. When I read that a failure by…
Read More »You have to be of a certain age to truly understand the passion that disco music incited – both for and against – back in the late 1970s. On this night in 1979, a disc jockey named Steve Dahl, of WLUP-FM, teamed up with the Chicago White Sox to hold…
Read More »Saturday the Stanley Cup came to Tewksbury and over fifteen hundred people showed up to see it. Below is a super video of the event originally posted by TheSharkSurvivor.
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