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Lowell High vote This coming Wednesday morning, most people in the city, especially the nine city councilors, will be glad that the vote on the new Lowell High School is over, no matter what the result. In the nearly fifty years that I’ve followed Lowell politics, this is the most…
Read More »Congresswoman Niki Tsongas, University of Massachusetts President Marty Meehan, and State Senator Eileen M. Donoghue have jointly released the following statement about the selection of the site of a new Lowell High School. Downtown Site is Most Appropriate Choice By Niki Tsongas, Marty Meehan & Eileen Donoghue As public servants…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Majorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. I’ve written often that college students need to hear more, not fewer controversial points of view, that they need to learn how to function in the marketplace of ideas. That’s what college is all about and how kids…
Read More »The Lowell Walks summertime Saturday morning series of guided walks of downtown Lowell begin this Saturday, June 10, 2017 at 10 a.m. from Lowell National Park Visitor Center at 246 Market Street. The topic of this week’s tour is the Western Canal which I will lead. The tour will take…
Read More »If you’ve visited expecting the standard report on the city council meeting, sorry to disappoint. I did tune in last night for the special meeting of the council which was intended to provide a mass of information about the various options for Lowell High School. But the information had all…
Read More »The Boys & Girls Club will be inducting its second Hall of Fame Class this year and this Friday, June 9, 2017, is the deadline for nominees. There are a number of nominees already, but the Club want to have as many as possible. The first Hall of Fame induction…
Read More »This is the tenth installment of my Lowell in World War One series which commemorates the centennial of the entry of the United States into World War One. Here are the headlines from one hundred years ago this week: June 4, 1917 – Monday – Kronstadt sailors threaten to attack…
Read More »Massachusetts Democratic State Convention The 2017 Democratic State Convention was held in Worcester yesterday at the DCU Center. While this would normally be an “off” year and sparsely attended because there is no state election in 2017, this year’s convention was packed with more than 5000 delegates in attendance including…
Read More »NYTimes web page has a lead story about how the Republican Party and its financiers first sold to the public and then politically embraced the view that the facts and forecasts for global warming or climate change are “fake science.” There’s a lot of criticism of how the Democratic Party…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. No, no, don’t click off. President Donald Trump is good for one thing. He is challenging me to expand my vocabulary. How many new ways can I find each day to say ignorant, childish, incurious, narcissistic, malignant, erratic,…
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