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One of our frequent commenters, Kad Barma, posted a comment to a recent post by Jim Peters. While the main point of the comment is to explain why Federal spending must be curtailed (a conclusion with which I disagree but I’ll address that in a future post), KB also posits…
Read More »Florence Marion was a charming, enthusiastic, determined, untiring maven of the arts and culture scene in Lowell for many years. Her contributions were honored and remembered with a bronze plaque installed at the corner entry way to Boardinghouse Park – a musical hotspot – in downtown Lowell. While bronze is…
Read More »In the Huffington Post/AOL Business section, UMass Lowell Professor Bill Lazonick of the master’s program in Regional Development contributes his analysis to a story about huge oil industry profits.
Read More »Frequent contributor Jim Peter sent along the following in the aftermath of the debt ceiling crisis resolution: I watched with a great deal of interest the situation as it regards raising the debt “ceiling” which was just avoided with a compromise that could hardly be dignified by that term. It…
Read More »Page one of the NYTimes online and in print features Deborah Sontag’s lengthy article about Pericles Clergeau, the young man accused of murdering Jose R. Roldan last January at the Lowell Transitional Living Center on Middlesex St. The reporter offers a disturbing account of Clergeau’s behavior for years and the…
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