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Mass Bloggers
- - Leftyblogs MA Blogroll - Almost all of my favorite lefty blogs in Massachusetts can be found here. Linking here keeps my own blogroll short but still up to date! Below are some other MA blogs which are not listed at LB.
- H2Otown (Watertown, MA)
- MargeBLOG (Williamstown)
- Michael Forbes Wilcox (Western MA)
- The Gazebo (Worcester area)
Media in Lowell
- Chelmsford Mass News
- Community Connections The online archive of many of WUML's radio shows.
- LTC :: Our community cable access channel (8 & 10). Excellent people, I've worked with them before.
- Open Source :: Chris Lydon's new show, broadcast on WUML and WGBH locally.
- The Lowell Sun :: Love it or hate it, it's the big newspaper in town.
- WCAP radio :: Talk radio in Lowell - still locally owned, and in transition.
- WUML :: The student- and community-run radio station of UMass-Lowell. Lynne hosts a radio show, Thinking Out Loud, 10am on Fridays.
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- City Council Agenda Past City Council agendas, posted in a mostly timely manner
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The Arts in Lowell
- 119 Gallery - Art gallery with exhibitions of many local artists, interesting events, and living, breathing culture.
- Arts League of Lowell (ALL) - Artist community group, a recent but welcome addition to the arts scene in Lowell.
- Brush Art Gallery - Come and meet working artists in their natural habitats!
- Cultural Organization of Lowell (COOL) - Great local calendar of events.
- Lowell Opera Company - Community opera.
- Lowell Philharmonic Orchestra - Local community orchestra.
- Lowell Poetry Network
- Lowell Rocks - List of live music events
- Merrimack Repertory Theatre - A local theatre "presenting an exciting mix of contemporary and new plays in historic downtown Lowell."
- OUtlET - Paper and online 'zine making a splash locally with events in art, poetry, music, and everything in between!
- Revolving Museum Contemporary, local, public art space with a plethora of children's programs and art by and for the community.
- The Fine Print - Socially aware, themed, arts and issues periodic publication available throughout Lowell.
- The Image Theater - Theatre company which puts on all original works by local playwrights.
- Whistler House Museum - A great collection of contemporaries of Whistler at his historic birthplace.
December 31st, 2009 at 7:07 pm
Thanks for all the great work you have done in 2009. 2010 is already shaping up to be a promising year, with lots of issues to work on both in Lowell and the rest of the Commonwealth. Happy New Year, and best wishes for a great 2010!
January 1st, 2010 at 9:26 am
Happy New Year to all. The two dillies in Chelmsford who sicced O’Reilly on Chelmsford are not fascinating, they are just uninformed, easily manipulated, Fox fodder. Now they are suing the town. Not fasinating, just very, very, sad.
January 1st, 2010 at 3:28 pm
Happy New Year to everyone MY New Year’s Resolution is to stop beating on the Elected Official unless I have a clear answer and start exploring ways to be helpful especially things involving kids.
January 1st, 2010 at 7:28 pm
I find their actions worthy of making the list. The Christmas tree was eliminated from our school but yet the children learned about lighting the menorah and the dradle game??? Yes, I consider this a prejudice to Christians in the public school system. This suit will be one of many I am sure and they are trailblazers. We have become so afraid of the “few” that complain that we are now going the opposite extreme and excluding “christ”mas. Why can’t they just learn about all holidays? Oh thats right that will exclude some …..
January 2nd, 2010 at 10:24 am
Most children in the US already know all about christmas - even if you aren’t christian, it’s pretty hard to not hear about it. The menorah and dradle games not so much. It makes sense to me to teach them about cultures they don’t know.
January 3rd, 2010 at 8:29 pm
The framers of the Constitution only referred to “God” or the “Creator”. Religious beliefs at the time were a very personal thing. That is why the seperation of church and state exists, to make sure that the state doesn’t trample upon others’ religious beliefs. In a strict, literal translation, religious beliefs of any kind should not be tolerated in public schools. It is not a cultural education to learn about Eid, it is religious. It is not culture to sing about the Baby Jesus, it is religious. Kwanzaa is not a religious celebration but cultural. We don’t even know how many organized religions exist in the US today, but if we had to respect everyone’s wishes we would never have time for Learnin and Cipherin’. We preferred our children to have a religious education, so we paid extra for that. Religion should be taught at home, in church or in private schools if desired. It should not be subsidized by the taxpayers.