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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…
Read More »John Wooding of UMass Lowell and the COOL Board of Directors is a regular at the Lowell Summer Music Series. He sent us this instant review of Joan Armatrading’s performance at Boarding House Park last night, which sparked a cross-Atlantic memory for him. —PM “Another great night at Boarding House…
Read More »The Boston Herald is carrying an AP story on-line this afternoon asking this question – “Didn’t get enough of the World Cup?” An annual World Cup-style soccer tournament aimed at fostering better relationships among Massachusetts immigrant groups is set to begin next month in Lowell and is expanding to include…
Read More »CHICAGO by Carl Sandburg Hog Butcher for the World, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads and the Nation’s Freight Handler; Stormy, husky, brawling, City of the Big Shoulders: They tell me you are wicked and I believe them, for I have seen…
Read More »The NY Times’ Maureen Dowd continues to challenge the moral authority of the Vatican on the issue of sexual abuse of children by Catholic clergy. In her latest column, she condemns the self-righteousness of the Vatican leadership that she sees on display in the recent statement on Church policy about sexual assault. She has written several columns on…
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