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UML Health and Social Sciences Building
The new Health and Social Sciences Building under construction on the UMass Lowell South Campus. Photos by Tony Sampas.
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“Flat Red Herrings” by John Edward
John Edward, a resident of Chelmsford who earned his master’s degree at UMass Lowell and who teaches economics at Bentley University and UMass Lowell, contributes the following column. How long does it take you to figure out how much federal tax you owe on your income? If your answer is…
Read More »Electing Lowell’s Mayor – 1970
Even before the final vote was counted a few weeks ago, speculation as it always does had turned to who will be the city’s next mayor. Talk is that Patrick Murphy and Rodney Elliot each have three committed votes with one or more others being noncommittal in the hopes that…
Read More »Bicentennial of the War of 1812
As we approach the start of 2012, remember that the coming year, besides bringing a presidential election and continued recognition of the 150th anniversary of the American Civil War, willmalso be the Bicentennial of the War of 1812. I don’t expect many commemorative activities locally since mostmof New England vehemently…
Read More »Northern Canal, Textile Memorial Bridge & the Merrimack River
Northern Canal, Textile Memorial Bridge and the Merrimack River. Photos by Tony Sampas.
Read More »Occupy Best Buy
I couldn’t help but note the irony of the above photo from yesterday’s New York Times. It shows tents erected by shoppers outside a Best Buy store. They want first crack at the incredibly inexpensive but in short supply electronics goods that were to go on sale in the early…
Read More »A memorable Thanksgiving
November is one of my favorite months. It always begins with an election, either local or statewide, next comes Veterans Day (which I’ve always seen as a day of honoring those who have served in the military and not just some random day off from work). Mid-month brings my birthday…
Read More »Architectural Details
Architectural details at the Pollard Memorial Library. Photos by Tony Sampas.
Read More »Wilder Street Fences
Photos by Tony Sampas
Read More »“Cyberspace & Civic Space”
On Saturday I traveled to Boston College for a Mass Humanities program called “Cyberspace & Civic Space: The Influence of the Internet on Our Democracy.” Among the panelists Eli Pariser, the former executive director of MoveOn.org, and Charles Steelfisher who was Deval Patrick’s new media director in the 2006 campaign…
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