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Rave: Get to the MFA’s New Wing of All-American Art
Read this NYT rave review of Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts’ new Art of the Americas Wing. Go there. Quickly now.
Read More »Economic Patriots and Not So Much
November 19, 2010
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PaulM
Posted in Culture, Current Events, Election 2010, History, Lowell, Politics
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So what’s really motivating the G.O.P. attack on the Fed? Mr. Bernanke and his colleagues were clearly caught by surprise, but the budget expert Stan Collender predicted it all. Back in August, he warned Mr. Bernanke that “with Republican policy makers seeing economic hardship as the path to election glory,”…
Read More »For Perspective: Earth from the Space Station
AOL Science has a link to stunning photographs being made by astronaut Douglas Wheelock on the International Space Station during his five-month stay. He sends them via Twitter. Here’s the link.
Read More »Major changes in Massachusetts Homestead Law
By filing a Declaration of Homestead at the Registry of Deeds, a Massachusetts homeowner is able to protect the equity in his home from the laws of debt collection. The Homestead has been available for more than a century and there’s really no downside – it’s purpose is to prevent…
Read More »Mainers Snowe and Collins: Lilly Ledbedder “Yes” but Paycheck Fairness “No”
GOP members of the U. S. Senate Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins of Maine From the HuffingtonPost this afternoon: WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats were unable to overcome a Republican filibuster of the Paycheck Fairness Act on Tuesday, with the chamber falling two votes short of the 60 needed to end…
Read More »Independent Review Finds “Systemic Abuse” in Probation Hirings
The Independent Counsel/Ware Report of the Massachusetts Probation Department ordered by the State Supreme Judicial Court has been completed. The findings include: *The Hiring and Promotion Process in the Probation Departmentis Corrupt and Has Disproportionately Favored Politically-Connected Candidates *The Fraud is Systemic and Not Episodic *Commissioner O’Brien and Certain Others…
Read More »Rep Lynch Enjoys NPR
We knew it was coming. Over on HuffingtonPost there’s a report that the “the first GOP-ordered House vote since the election” – to wit – to take away all federal funding from National Public Radio (NPR) was on tap today. The thing is according to HuffPo – “it was over before it…
Read More »Betty White’s Girlhood Dream Realized
We all had dreams of what we want to be when we grew-up. A teacher… a firefighter… a doctor… Well, Betty White of Life with Elizabeth, Mary Tyler Moore, Golden Girls, Password and Saturday Night Live fame – seven-time emmy winner, iconic Senior Citizen, animal advocate extraordinaire and for some a national treasure…
Read More »The Lowell High tube
Tony Sampas photographs the “tunnels” – pedestrian walkways over the canal – that connect Lowell High School’s buildings.
Read More »Lowell Charter Changes through history
There were some interesting comments on my Tuesday post on City Councilor Patrick Murphy’s successful motion to have the Rules Subcommittee “discuss Charter Changes to increase civic participation.” It might be helpful to review how the city’s charter has changed through the years. Lowell was organized as a town in…
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