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The Joint Legislative Committee on Redistricting came to Lawrence High School tonight for a public hearing. Present were Senators Stanley Rosenberg (co-chair), Barry Finegold, Daniel Wolf, Sonia Chang-Diaz, and Bruce Tarr; and Representatives Michael Moran (co-chair), Sean Garballey, Bradford Hill, Alice Hanlon Peisch, Marcos Devers, John Keenan, Byron Rushing and…
Read More »The current crop of GOP Presidential candidates will be in our own back yard up in New Hampshire tonight from 8 to 10 p.m. at St. Anselm College’s Sullivan Arena. The debate is sponsored by the New Hampshire Union Leader, CNN and local television station WMUR. Across the stage you…
Read More »Back in 2003, the Lowell City Council endorsed the city’s first Master Plan in 30 years. Since then, the Hamilton Canal project has become a reality, the housing bubble burst, and “sustainability” – of natural resources, history, culture, and people – has become more important. The process of updating the…
Read More »John Edward, a resident of Chelmsford who earned his master’s degree at UMass Lowell and who teaches economics at Bentley University and UMass Lowell, contributes the following column. When I used to play pickup basketball there was a rule called “winners stay.” Our economy works a lot like that and…
Read More »For almost twenty years I’ve lived on Highland Street, not far from McDonough Funeral Home, which, like the nearby courthouse, churches, school building, green common, old mill and small businesses, train station, and other houses, represents a piece of the architecture of daily life. If we had a hospital, an art…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Sleazy. Sordid. Tacky. Now, sick. In the wake of the revelation that Congressman Anthony Weiner had sexted a 17-year-old from Delaware, he announced he would take a leave of absence “to focus on becoming a better husband and…
Read More »On this day – June 12, 1944 – John F. Kennedy received the Navy and Marine Corps Medal. The Navy and Marine Corps Medal was first bestowed during the Second World War, although the first recipient is unknown. Perhaps the most famous recipient of the Navy and Marine Corps Medal…
Read More »We have a park on Middlesex Street that is one of the most actively used parks in the city: Clemente Park—Roberto Clemente Park, named for the Hall of Fame outfielder of the Pittsburgh Pirates, one of the most revered Latino sports figures. In today’s NYTimes, Clemente is remembered in contrast…
Read More »“The findings are significant as we will have to change our view on how the Sun interacts with particles, fields and gases from other stars, and this has consequences that reach down to Earth,” commented Arik Posner, Nasa’s Voyager programme scientist. Bbc.com reports that NASA’s Voyager spacecrafts launched in 1977 are…
Read More »The Greater Lowell Community Foundation announced their choice for Exceutive Director in this press release: Press Release for Immediate Distribution Greater Lowell Community Foundation Names New Executive Director Lowell, June 10, 2011 – Raymond E. Riddick, an accomplished business and community leader in the Merrimack Valley, has been appointed executive…
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