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One year ago today Senator Ted Kennedy lost his battle with brain cancer. Many believe (including me) that his greatest moment was the concession speech he gave at the 1980 Democratic Convention. I remember watching it at the time, thinking…here is a great talent marred by personal flaws. Click HERE…
Read More »Republican candidate for Governor, Charlie Baker released this new campaign Advertisement this morning.
Read More »Another Chris Doherty flyer arrived in today’s mail – the sixth in the past three weeks. On one side is the “hole in the shoe” photo telling us to “Vote Cheap” and on the other he says, among other things, that “For too long on Beacon Hill, they’ve acted like…
Read More »Don’t miss Lowell’s own Shakespeare in the Park experience this Sunday, Aug. 29, at 4 p.m., when the New England Shakespeare Festival brings its populist brand of the Bard’s work to Boarding House Park on French Street. The play is “Twelfth Night,” originally titled “Twelfe Night or What You Will,” a “madcap comedy…
Read More »Can an Environmental Attorney in Lowell, Massachusetts, Live and Work without a Car in the New Economy? By Matthew C. Donahue In early August of this year, the Donahue household was beset with a series of car crises. It was our own doing or undoing I should say. My office…
Read More »“The Westford Rotary holds its 2010 Blues ‘n Brews Festival on Saturday, August 21st at the Nashoba Ski Area in Westford, Massachusetts. Learn more at www.bluesnbrews.com” Originally posted by mbeek6 Smokehouse Lightning
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Sorting out my feelings about the so-called “Mosque” near Ground Zero has been an odyssey of heart, gut and head. The journey has not been easy. Some 9/11 survivors are genuinely aghast at the location of this proposed…
Read More »David Brooks of the NYTimes is back with another cerebral commentary today. He keeps digging to find out what’s really ailing the nation. I get the sense lately that he is deeply pained by the high level of toxicity in our civic culture and thinks that if he can describe the cause we…
Read More »The “Elections” page on this site remains a work in progress. (The link to the “Elections” page is at the very top right of this site). Recently, I’ve been adding state election results, year-by-year. Just yesterday, however, I loaded our “political biographies.” That section of the Elections page is divided…
Read More »Saturday I wrote my assessment of the Chris Doherty v Eileen Donoghue campaign for the Democratic nomination in the First Middlesex Senate District. I noted that Doherty had sent me five flyers in less than two weeks while I had received none from Donoghue. That changed today. Eileen’s first flyer…
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