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From TIME magazine comes an article about the advanced thinking on urban transportation in the ultra-green city of Curitiba, Brazil, which was featured at last June’s Innovative Cities Conference in Lowell. Read the article here, and get TIME if you want more. Web photo by Carlos Cazalis/Corbis courtesy of TIME.com
Read More »From Tony Sampas: Cardinal O’Connell Parkway Makeover. There will be a layer of bricks around the edges, a fence put in and new plantings added. The trees, which were diseased, will be replaced
Read More »The New York Times yesterday reported that a company from Nevada, Righthaven LLC, has entered into an arrangement with Media News Group (the owner of the Lowell Sun and many other newspapers) whereby Righthaven scours the internet for people using copyrighted articles and photographs from Media News Group papers and,…
Read More »This is the first time I’ve seem this…looking for leads to solve an armed robbery on Shawhsheen Street, the Tewksbury Police Department posted the video below on YouTube. It shows a man robbing the Tewksbury Convenience Store . On April 29, 2011, at approximately 10:00pm, members of the Tewksbury Police…
Read More »The entry below is being corss posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. A fresh Washington Post/Pew Research Center poll shows that while Americans feel really good about the demise of Osama bin Laden, few think we’re home free when it comes to the threat of terrorism. Seven in ten believe…
Read More »As suggested by a former First Lady to “Remember the Ladies” – on this day May 3, 1940 President Franklin Delano Roosevelt invited a group of Democratic women to meet with him at the White House. These woman were to be in Washington, DC to attend a meeting of the “women’s division” of…
Read More »Tony Sampas finds poetry in the geometry of Lowell’s mills.
Read More »Here is a video taken by a Citizen Journalist of the compound in which Osama Bin Laden was killed by American forces.
Read More »An IT contractor named Sohaib Athar unknowingly tweeted the American assault on Osama Bin Laden’s compound in Pakistan. Below is Athar’s tweet thread from the night of the attack. In order to make the text easier to understand, I reverse ordered the posts so they read from earliest to latest…
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