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There are some interesting things going on this week in the city of Lowell. Here’s a sampling: On Monday, City Councilor Patrick Murphy will kickoff his campaign at the Old Court at 31 Central Street. There will be Irish music and information on how to get involved with the campaign,…
Read More »Frequent contributor Jim Peters shares his thoughts on the departure of Ken Powers from Lowell House: Sometimes things happen that convince me that the Stoic Movement of the 4th. century might have been right. Basically, they believed that government was not necessary because it was riddled with incompetence. That leads…
Read More »The Boston Globe has a follow-up article on the short-fall of certified signatures in the recall effort to oust controversial Lawrence Mayor William Lantigua. The citizen group “It’s Your Right” submitted 5,483 for certification – 5,232 certified signatures were needed to have Lantigua recalled as mayor -4,366 were certified leaving…
Read More »Chaz Scoggins is veteran sports writer for the Lowell Sun having joined the staff in 1970. Sports writing especially covering the Red Sox and baseball in general for Scoggins seems greatly influenced by that history degree he received from Harvard. Going way beyond the “call” of a game, he seems…
Read More »Bachmann and Paul top Iowa Straw Poll. Big Texan Rick Perry jumps in. I’d say yesterday was a good day for the President. Stay tuned, as the announcer recommends.
Read More »Tony Sampas shares a photo of the bridge connecting the Cotton Warehouse and the Boott Mill
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. News that a huge (4’ deep and 190’ long) sinkhole has opened up under the I-90 Big Dig Tunnel seems to be a metaphor for how our political leaders continue letting us down. Summer hasn’t provided much respite…
Read More »This has been a “sta-cation” summer for my wife and me for various reasons, but there’s nothing to complain about when you live in a region that is a visitor destination and one of the most fascinating areas of the United States. One day this week we took the “back…
Read More »Historian Douglas Brinkley is professor of history at Rice University and author of “Tour of Duty: John Kerry and the Vietnam War.’’ Brinkley has penned an op-ed piece for today’s Boston Globe giving his view that the appointment of Senator John Kerry to the so-called “super committee” on deficit reduction…
Read More »From breaking news at the Eagle Tribune: LAWRENCE – An effort to ouster Mayor William Lantigua fell about 900 signatures short of the 5,232 it needed to prompt a recall of the state’s first Hispanic mayor. The City Clerk’s office was able to verify 4,366 of the 5,483 signatures as…
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