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At a time when another Merrimack Valley hospital and health care system – Cartis Christi Holy Famly Hospital – is in the midst of a possible sale to a for-profit capital management entity, Lawrence General Hospital is forging a different kind of partnership. Articles in both the Boston Globe and the Eagle-Tribune…
Read More »Last month Lowell attorney Matt Donahue wrote about his plan to “shed his car.” Thirty days into the experiment he files this report: 30 Day Report: Lowell Environmental Attorney Tries to Declare Car Independence! Part 2 Well, the first reaction is of course the caliber of the Richard Howe Blog.…
Read More »Lowell’s own Roger Brunelle, who invented the guided tours of Kerouac’s literary sites in Lowell, will lead several tours during the Jack Kerouac Literary Festival, Sept. 30 – Oct. 3, including “Ghosts of the Pawtucketville Night” on Friday, Oct. 1, at 6.30 pm. Explore many of the locations written about…
Read More »James McKenna, the former prosecutor who accomplished the amazing feat of getting 27,000 write-in votes to win the Republican nomination for the office of Attorney General in last week’s state primary, seems to have violated the state’s campaign finance laws in doing so. The Globe reports that in his official…
Read More »Tony Sampas captured these photos of Lowell City Hall last evening. How many times through the history of that building has someone inside muttered “there must be a full moon tonight” – frequently, I suspect. If anyone said that today, you were right.
Read More »The local newspaper regularly prints a column by Peter Lucas, a retired press spokesman for the Massachusetts Department of Transportation. Lucas supplements his government pension by writing columns condemning government. His headlines are so repulsive that I never make it to the content, but one of our readers, Mike Luciano,…
Read More »Last night I watched the gubernatorial debate on WCVB TV and here are some of my impression… The Format and the Moderator: Truthfully, both moderator John King of CNN and the format of the debate stunk. For the first 30 minutes King asked candidates direct questions. OK, I don’t mind…
Read More »The editorial in today’s Boston Globe addresses the process for choosing the next President of the University of Massachusetts system. Charging that procedures of the past smack of at least the perception of manipulation, the editorial touts what purports to be a different approach to replacing retiring President Jack Wilson.…
Read More »Today’s Lowell Sun reports that former city manager Joe Tully and local real estate owner/WCAP Saturday morning show regular Tom Byrne have both received “target letters” from the US Attorney’s office as part of an ongoing Federal probe. The Sun story also reports that state representatives Dave Nangle and Kevin…
Read More »Tony Sampas share more photos of Lowell City Hall, these two of some of the fine architectural details most of us – OK, me – fail to notice despite passing by and through the building hundreds of times. Tony also passed along the following from the Lowell Cultural Resources Inventory…
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