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A few days ago the local newspaper published an article which framed the stepped-up traffic enforcement by the Lowell Police as a revenue raising measure. On the police department’s blog, Superintendent Ken Lavallee responds to the revenue raising implications by documenting the public safety and law enforcement rationale for the…
Read More »Here are the members of the Lowell City Council on Inauguration Day in January 2002. If the councilors look especially happy, it’s because all nine incumbents from the previous term’s council were reelected in the November 2001 election. Seated from left: Rita Mercier, Eileen Donoghue, Armand Mercier Standing from left:…
Read More »The Washington Post and the Associated Press are reporting today that the Republican National Committee is in sync with the Democratic National Committee when it comes to the schedule for the 2012 Presidential Primaries. The Republican National Committee adopted a new schedule for the 2012 presidential primaries Friday, agreeing to a…
Read More »Boston Catholic Church officials announced Thursday that the archdiocese’s weekly newspaper is now available through Amazon’s Kindle e-reader and via an Apple iPhone application.The 181 year old The Pilot – America’s oldest Catholic newspaper and the official newspaper of the Archdiocese of Boston – is the first Catholic newspaper to…
Read More »Here’s the seventh installment of my Twitter “tweets” of Charles Cowley’s “Illustrated History of Lowell.” We’ve almost reached the city’s incorporation in 1826 (as a town). Much happened here before Lowell even existed. 1st steamboat traveled from Boston to Concord NH in 1819 via Middlesex Canal & Merrimack River By…
Read More »After spilling nearly 127 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico BP Global claims its renegade well is plugged. This morning for the first time I logged into BP’s website and viewed the numerous webcams providing live video feeds of the well. If you haven’t checked this out,…
Read More »Writing for TIME, Joe Klein offered up a sober assessment of President Obama’s speech to the disabled vets a few days ago that marked the end of “major combat operations” in Iraq by our country. You can read the August 2 blog post here. It’s not unusual for a writer to…
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