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Work crews were on site early this morning to start the landscape improvements, upgrades of courts, and more at the South Common. This is the long-anticipated renewal project funded by the City of Lowell and state government. Within a few hours there were signs of major progress, from orange construction…
Read More »Here’s the Mass Moments for today. Kerouac is writing “The Town and the City” in 1948, which would be his first published novel (1950).
Read More »Writer Andrew Sullivan looks at (1) the weird speech suppression at Middlebury College that happened recently when students (and maybe other protestors) shut down a guest speaker and (2) the damage Pres. Trump is doing with his attacks on reality, facts, and the American Way. Read the essay here, and…
Read More »Pioneer blogger Andrew Sullivan is writing a weekly essay for New York Magazine about what’s going on. Here’s the latest.
Read More »Hat tip to Fred Sperounis and Deborah Boucoyannis from Facebook and Talking Points Memo for this interview with community organizer Marshall Ganz. Judis: How do you see this solidarity coming to pass. Doesn’t there have to be leading organizations at this point? One suggestion I’ve heard is that progressives have…
Read More »Author and scholar Jedediah Purdy writes about an extended campaign of political resistance in North Carolina that has lessons for people in other towns, cities, and states. This is from “The New Yorker” magazine.
Read More »Andrew Sullivan was the best known blogger in the country for many years until he burned out from the constant posting. He has a new gig at New York Magazine with a format somewhere between blogging and a regular opinion column. I think this is his second piece in the…
Read More »I’m thinking this morning, What’s wrong with this picture? President Trump, less than a month in office, has everyone talking about him and his White House crew. He continues to suck all the media oxygen out of the air. The mainstream media, including cable TV political reporters, have gone back…
Read More »Web photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons (Credit: Bear Golden Retriever) My co-bloggers may pick up on this post, this thread, as the storm goes on. But my in the moment report is that here in The Flats (named for the many tenements in this borderland of Back Central, according to…
Read More »Bootstrap Press of Lowell is publishing my next book, “Union River,” a collection of poems and sketches spanning 40 years of writing. The book will be released this spring. Thanks to Ryan Gallagher for the cover design. The paperback book will be 5 x 8 in size with cover flaps…
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