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City Council Meeting of December 3, 2013 The first thing noticeable about the Council meeting was that City Manager Lynch was not present (more on that below). The first part of the meeting was dominated by a discussion of telephone poles and the reasons why it takes so long to…
Read More »Kerouac wrote that he “always considered writing his duty on earth.” Merrimack Valley Conference writer and sportsman Jay Atkinson has an essay about the endurance of Jack Kerouac in today’s Boston Globe. We’re waiting for Jay to have a regular Sunday column on words and books in the Globe. He’s…
Read More »Thanks to the more than 50 people who attended today’s Lowell Social Media Conference at LTC which was a co-sponsor of the event. Planning has already begun for the Second Annual Lowell Social Media Conference with a target date of the first Saturday in December. This morning began with a…
Read More »Judith Davidson of the East Pawtucketville Neighborhood Group shared this report on the group’s December 2, 2013 meeting. To everyone involved in any of the city’s neighborhood groups or other organizations, I am happy to post your meeting announcements, agendas, meeting minutes and photographs. Just email them to me at…
Read More »One of the objectives of today’s Social Media Conference was to get people in Lowell to share more content on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and all similar platforms. I extended an invitation to those in attendance to send me something via email and I’d post it on their behalf. Nancy Pitkin,…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. MGM Resorts International Chairman and CEO James J. Murren was the house controlling the game in his speech Thursday to the Boston College CEO’s Club. As with all CEO’s Club luncheons, the event invitation promised remarks plus opportunities…
Read More »It’s not too late to sign up for the First Annual Lowell Social Media Conference which is this Saturday, December 7, 2013 from 10 am until 1 pm at Lowell Telecommunications Corp (LTC) at 246 Market Street in Lowell, right next to the National Park visitor center. To register, go…
Read More »The entry below is being cross-posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Presidents have their social secretaries to tell them when to applaud during a White House concert. The rest of us, President Obama says, are on our own. But some of today’s rigid rules need rethinking. Last Saturday night at the Boston Symphony,…
Read More »Bruce Babiarz, a spokesman for the Detroit Police and Fire Retirement System, was blunt in his assessment. “This is one of the strongest protected pension obligations in the country here in Michigan,” he said. “If this ruling is upheld, this is the canary in a coal mine for protected pension…
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