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A couple of things occurred over the past few days that got me thinking about the state of journalism in Lowell these days. Consider . . . Yesterday afternoon, the Sun’s political blog launched a post critical of Mayor Patrick Murphy’s subcommittee appointments. Within hours, Mayor Murphy posted a response…
Read More »The clock high above Lowell City Hall. Photo by Tony Sampas.
Read More »Read Rita Savard’s fine article about typewriters in our culture and, specifically, Jack Kerouac’s typewriter at the National Park’s Mogan Cultural Center museum exhibit about the immigrant history of Lowell. Filmmakers were in the city yesterday documenting the old Underwood typewriter on display with one of Kerouac’s backpacks on the…
Read More »In today’s Boston Globe in the GlobeNorth section, writer Katheleen Conti writes about the current state of reclaiming, rehabbing and reuse of the mill space in the downtowns of the Merrimack Valley’s historic mills cities – Lowell, Lawrence and Haverhill. She notes: Mill and factory buildings that supported gateway cities…
Read More »From truth-out.org, I picked up news that Bill Moyers has a new TV program. He keeps coming back, I think, because nobody else has figured out how to do the kinds of shows he is so well known for, mixing high-minded thinking, compassionate political ideas, and entertaining broadcast methods. Read…
Read More »Tony Sampas gives us a close up of the eagle that sits high atop Lowell City Hall
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