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“Brilliant” author Jane Brox said “thanks” for the blog post about her book the other day and also said that she was “as surprised as anyone to see the mention [in TIME magazine].” She credited her publicist at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, whom she says is treating her very well. Jane noted that there’s…
Read More »Several weeks ago I wrote of my rediscovery of TV sportscaster Len Berman who did sports on WBZ-TV in Boston during the 1970s and who now has launched an internet career after many decades doing TV sports in New York City. Berman’s website invites you to sign up for his…
Read More »As of now (8:07), both Channel 5 and WBZ are reporting that the worst of the storm along Route 2 is moving southeast, and therefore won’t hit Lowell. There are other storms in western Massachusetts, but none of them seem directed at Lowell based on Channel 5’s online radar map…
Read More »Our best wishes to Mass Dems Party Chair John Walsh as he recovers from an apparent mild heart attack. Dem activists in the Greater Lowell/Merrimack Valley area have a high regard for John Walsh and his commitment to the Democratic Party. From the MetroDesk of Boston.com: John Walsh, the chairman…
Read More »According to a story in the Worcester Telegram – lawyer and Central Massachusetts GOP activist James P. McKenna has decided to mount a sticker-candidacy to join the race against Attorney General Martha Coakley. No Republican was nominated by the State Republican Party to challenge her in the November election. McKenna now…
Read More »There’s an Op-Ed in today’s Globe by Carlo Rotella, a professor of American Studies at Boston College, that uses Lowell’s Micky Ward as the prime example of how popular culture, mostly in the form of movies, has embraced Massachusetts as a place where “traditional forms of masculine virtue still thrive.”…
Read More »We know her. Jane Brox, now living in Maine, but who will always be connected to Dracut and the Merrimack Valley, has a new book, “Brilliant: The Evolution of Artificial Light,” which is featured this week as one of TIME magazine’s Short List “Picks for the Week.” Here’s the recommendation: Jane…
Read More »Gerry Nutter’s blog published an extensive response by City Manager Lynch to recent criticism of his financial management by one of his regular critics. The Manager’s statement is thorough and reasoned and civil in tone. We are fortunate that the city’s chief administrator is as capable and articulate as he is.…
Read More »I personally despise the label “activist judge” and wish it would be struck from our public discourse. While definitions vary, it seems very obvious to me that “activist judge” means “a judge who I disagree with.” This position assumes, of course, that there is only one legitimate way of interpreting…
Read More »Writer Jay Atkinson of Methuen reviewed the new volume of letters by Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg for the Boston Globe. Jay’s most recent book is “Paradise Road: Jack Kerouac’s Highway and My Search for America.” Read the review on boston.com here, and consider subscribing to the Globe if you…
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