Retired Methuen Police Joe Solomon has pleaded guilty today to: 2 counts — Perjury by Written Affidavit 7 counts — Obtaining Unwarranted Privileges in Violation of the Civil Service Laws 6 counts — Civil Service Law Violations 1 count — Uttering a Forged Document 1 count — Procurement Fraud The charges stem from the illegal […]
8-26 Nearly a year after the Valley Patriot exposed the Methuen School Committee’s non-existent obscenity policy, they still haven’t changed it. The current “policy” does not require parents to be notified or given the chance to opt their children out when teachers expose students to sexually explicit material in the classroom. They pretend that there […]
What nobody in Boston Media Picked up on!
Unconstitutional Recording Policy Once Again Proves – It Isn’t YOU! Aug. 2026 Imagine walking into a public meeting of your local city government. You simply take out your phone to record what your elected officials are saying. You are not disrupting or interfering with the meeting in any way. But when you do, you are […]
By: Tom Duggan 7-1-26 Given the amount of hatemail that I’m getting about my position on the constitutionality of birthright citizenship for children of illegal aliens (Trump v. Barbara, No. 25-365.) I thought this might be a good teachable moment for my readers on the Constitution itself and the role of the Supreme Court. There […]
Expands access to a service that has been unavailable in the Merrimack Valley, ensuring patients receive care within their community. April 29, 2026, Methuen, MA – Merrimack Health announced that it is bringing advanced robotic-assisted surgery to Methuen Hospital with the acquisition of Intuitive’s da Vinci 5 surgical robot, the company’s […]
May, 2026 Let’s give $9.6M more of our tax dollars to the Methuen public schools, so that they can maintain their epic 30% reading proficiency rate, and 27% math proficiency rate, all the while they continue to push smut to kids in the classroom, preach politics to kids, and continue to waste […]
Every year in March, the Valley Patriot Newspaper holds a Charity BASH! Scholarship and Award where the highlight of the evening is when the newspaper’s publisher Tom Duggan Jr. bestows an award called the Officer Tom Duggan Sr. Hero Police Officer Award. The award is given to police (and sometimes firefighters) who do heroic […]
Last week Valley Patriot newspaper publisher Tom Duggan stunned the crowd at his annual 22nd Anniversary BASH! Scholarship and Award Night at the Elks in Lawrence when he announced Kristen Maxwell as the winner of the Valley Patriot 1st Amendment Award. The Valley Patriot does not give this award out every year. It is not […]
April, 2026 For years we have been sounding the alarm bells about the intended use – and potential misuse – of government cameras and recordings by the City of Lawrence and other municipalities in the Valley. In fact, just last fall we wrote a scathing editorial called “Creeping Fascism at the Local Level, You […]
Spending Way Up While Math, Reading Scores Plummet vs. State & National Average You read that right! Seven out of ten kids in the Methuen Public School System cannot read at grade level. More than 73% of Methuen kids can’t do math at grade level. Superintendent Kwong and her administration graduates 86.5% of the kids, […]
When Methuen Public School parent Annie Kivlehan complained about the obscene sexual and racist material being read aloud in her daughter’s class, she was verbally attacked by left wing activists and accused of wanting to “ban books” by the Nevins Library crowd, when she simply wanted to be notified when her child was exposed to […]
Or … Why You Need to Pay More Attention to Those Running Your Schools 09-25 “But, TOM! He’s a nice guy!” “But, TOM! She works so hard!” “But, TOM! He means well!” In the years I have been in the media business (going on 40 years, believe it or not) there has never been an […]
Methuen School Committee Member’s Quest to Corrupt Your Kids August, 2025 Last week I made a Facebook post about the woke political agenda of Methuen School Committee member Laurie Keagan. Among the many things I exposed about Keagan was her woke agenda for the kids of Methuen. In the post I wrote: […]
July 17, 2025 – Today Tom had a discussion with Lawrence City Council President Jeovanny Rodriguez about the future of Lawrence, the homeless, the crime and drug problem in the city, his relationship with the mayor, and MORE… AUDIO OF PODCAST FOR DOWNLOAD