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NYT Live Blogging on Arizona Shootings
The New York Times has been blogging live all day on its website with updates and various information related to the shootings in Tucson, AZ. Keep up with the blog posts here.
Read More »Congresswoman Tsongas Comments on Congresswoman Giffords
The Eagle-Tribune has posted these comments from Congresswoman Niki Tsongas – a close colleague of Congreswoman Gabrielle Giffords: Massachusetts Congresswoman Niki Tsongas issued a statement just moments ago on the shooting of her colleague, Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords this morning. In the statement, Tsongas said it was with “great sadness…
Read More »Something is missing from the internet
Strange. The above map with 20 Congressmen identified by the crosshairs of a gunsight is no longer available on Sarah Palin’s website today. I wonder why. Lucky for her I have a screen shot of her site before the map went away. Also missing is the Tweet shown below in…
Read More »AZ Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords Shot at “Congress on Your Corner” Event
Read the New York Times account of the shooting here. Congresswoman Niki Tsongas was attending her own “Congress On Your Corner” event in the Chelmsford Public Library today at 1:30 p.m. to hear questions and concerns from her constituents. Her colleague Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords had plans to hold a similar event…
Read More »Lowell’s Smith Baker Center
Tony Sampas helps us appreciate the beauty of the brickwork of the Smith Baker Center (formerly the First Congregationalist Church), highlighted by the setting sun.
Read More »Jack Wilson to UMASS Lowell
Jack Wilson, the late Senator Ted Kennedy, Marty Meehan at UML student event. Jack Wilson, president of the University of Massachusetts, announced yesterday that he will accept a senior faculty position at UMass Lowell when he leaves his current post at the end of June. Wilson served for eight-years as the…
Read More »Bob Herbert & the War on Poverty
Bob Herbert of the NYTimes today uses his column inches in the nation’s newspaper of record to pound the President, Democrats, and Republicans for neglecting their responsibility to help Americans who are most needy. The late Peter Stamas of Lowell (Lowell High Headmaster, President of Human Services Corp. of Lowell,…
Read More »Neighbors Urged to Attend Public Safety Subcte. Meeting, 1/11
I picked up this message from the Lowell Highlands Neighborhood Group at Gerry Nutter’s place: “Urging you to attend – City Council Public Safety Subcommitte – Tuesday 1/11/11 – 5:00 – 6:30PM “Lower Highlands Friends, “We continue to mourn the loss of Corinna Ouer, a young woman who called the…
Read More »US Bank v Ibanez: More chaos in housing
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court issued a much anticipated decision today that, while properly decided, will result in further damage to our country’s already injured housing market. Here are the facts of US Bank v Ibanez: In December 2005, Antonio Ibanez borrowed $103,000 from Rose Mortgage Company to finance the…
Read More »The Sun’s “Death Panel” distortion
Mike Luciano, a regular reader of and sometime contributor to this site, sent along the following post that takes issue with today’s Lowell Sun editorial: I imagine that reading a Lowell Sun editorial is like walking through a house where multiple homicides have just occurred. You wander through in a…
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