Paul Krugman in his NYT column today tells why we are not getting serious energy policy legislation out of Washington, D.C. Krugman lines up with Andrew H., if you’ve been reading this blog regularly. Read his essay here. Krugman’s colleague Ross Douthat takes a different view on the consequences in his…
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Break dancers from UTEC and the “Yo Yo People” [youtube]kSh9gXiCGOI[/youtube]
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Scenes from the streets of Lowell during the 2010 Lowell Folk Festival [youtube]F3c5vAOk3UM[/youtube]
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Photos of some of the ethnic food booths at the 2010 Lowell Folk Festival [youtube]CNwQXa4MP7U[/youtube]
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Photos of some of the performers at the 2010 Lowell Folk Festival [youtube]PArQLfEfwdg[/youtube]
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Photos of some of the people I saw at the 2010 Lowell Folk Festival [youtube]IMwoAI8Tj68[/youtube]
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Kudos to the City of Lowell, Greater Merrimack Valley Convention and Visitor Bureau, Lowell Festival Foundation, Lowell National Historical Park, and National Council for Traditional Arts for once again being the prime movers behind an inspiring and joyful Lowell Folk Festival. The Sunday crowd was much smaller than yesterday’s, but it…
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The popular Franco-American singer-songwriter Michele Choiniere of Vermont this afternoon at Boarding House Park dedicated her final song at the Lowell Folk Festival to Jack Kerouac because, she said, “He was a Franco-American, and he was from Lowell.” I missed her additional comments about the song and the title, but it…
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A story in today’s Boston Globe provides some details about the two fatal stabbings that occurred in Cupples Square on Friday afternoon, and the third (non-fatal stabbing) that happened a short distance away.
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In today’s Globe Rob Gavin (formerly a Lowell SUN staffer) gives us an account of the many projects the UMass system is undertaking across its five campuses. He calls them “another sign of its growing impact on regional economies.” The projects bring federal and private dollars into the Commonwealth and importantly it…
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