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WSJ on the Market Plunge Today
Here’s the latest from the Wall Street Journal on the disaster in the stock market today. Get the WSJ if you want more. Subscription required online also.
Read More »Archive for August, 2011
Lowell Region Is Sixth Most Geeky in USA: Forbes Mag
This is an extraordinary announcement from Forbes Magazine. San Jose Calif, Boulder Colo., Framingham Mass., Huntsville Ala., and Durham N.C. are the five regions listed as more Geeky than Lowell (figures based on percentage of workers in science, technology, engineering, and math-based jobs). See the list here. Both the City Manager…
Read More »Jacoby Ellsbury, ‘Nuff Said
A path to Democratic victory
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 »Cultural Activist’s Stolen Plaque Replaced
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 »UMass Lowell Prof Lazonick Speaks Truth to Big Oil Power
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 »“An argument for a higher tariff & the nature of Tea Parties” by Jim Peters
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 »A Murder in Lowell Becomes a National Story
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…
Read More »Lowell’s Mehmed Ali Receives Benjamin Franklin Award in Iraq
Lowell native Mehmed Ali has been serving with the US State Department in Iraq for the past few years. Last Saturday, the Sun published a photograph with caption noting that Ali had recently received the Benjamin Franklin Award for Public Diplomacy at the US Embassy in Baghdad. According to the…
Read More »Council Election Big News in Cambodia
This year’s Lowell City Council race is attracting substantial interest in Cambodia. The Phnom Penh Post recently ran a big story about the race with special emphasis on the two Cambodian-American candidates, Van Pech and Vesna Nuon both running for the city council. The article features an interview with Pech…
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