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With the passage of yesterday’s deadline for filing nomination papers, the 2011 Lowell City Council field is set with 19 candidates. They are, listed alphabetically with incumbents first followed by challengers: Kevin Broderick Franky Descoteaux Rodney Elliott Bill Martin Joe Mendonca Rita Mercier Jim Milinazzo Patrick Murphy Corey Belanger Paul…
Read More »Poetry is front-page news online tonight. That’s different. The NYTimes tonight reports that Philip Levine is the new U.S. Poet Laureate. Read Charles McGrath’s article here, and get the NYT if you want more. Phil Levine was one of my poet-heroes when I started writing in the mid-1970s. I admired…
Read More »My records indicate that the last time the city of Lowell held a primary election for city council was in 1999. Here are the results with incumbents in italics and the order of finish in the general election in brackets: 1. Rita Mercier – 4820 – [1] 2. Eileen Donoghue…
Read More »If you have an interest in exploring more of Congresswoman Michele Bachmann’s background and candidacy for the GOP nomination for President in 2012, read the Ryan Lizza article in The New Yorker. Lizza along with five other reporters was invited on a campaign plane trip with Bachmann and some of…
Read More »On this day August 9, 1852, Henry David Thoreau’s “Walden; or, Life in the Woods” was published. “Walden” details Thoreau’s experiences over the course of two years living in a woodland cabin he built near Walden Pond near Concord, Massachusetts. Notes about the author from The Thoreau Society – which…
Read More »The clock at Lowell City Hall, by Tony Sampas
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. I’ve been a big fan of Newton Mayor Setti Warren, 19 months into his first term and now a candidate for the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate seat now held by Scott Brown. As BlueMass Group pointed…
Read More »Tomorrow at 5 pm is the deadline for candidates in the 2011 Lowell City Council race to turn in their nomination papers. While we’re not yet sure who will be on the ballot, here’s a list of the candidates who took out papers with a list of the political offices…
Read More »“River Board” by Richard Marion (c) 2011
Read More »From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: “The Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (or CETA, Public Law 93-203) is a United States federal law enacted in 1973 to train workers and provide them with jobs in the public service. “The program offered work to those with low incomes and the long term…
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