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“Supply-Side Experiment” by John Edward
John Edward, who teaches economics at Bentley and UMass Lowell, frequently contributes columns on economic issues. Here is his latest: A single courageous State may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country. – Supreme…
Read More »Lowell Real Estate: Week of June 29, 2015
Here are Lowell real estate sales from last week. The last day of June is always a busy one for sales but with Friday being the day before the 4th of July, activity really fell off by the end of the week. June 29, 2015 – Monday 65-67 Gates St…
Read More »Lowell Week in Review: July 5, 2015
With no city council meeting on the Fourth of July holiday, this was a quiet week in Lowell politics. It was also the halfway point of 2015. This week I’ll take a step back and take a broader view on two fronts: the upcoming city election and the Lowell real…
Read More »Some thoughts on Independence Day
Joseph Plumb Martin was born in 1760 in Western Massachusetts and enlisted in the Continental Army as a teenager at the start of the war and served for the duration. In 1830, he anonymously published a memoir of his service called A Narrative of a Revolutionary Soldier. I picked up…
Read More »Literary Lowell
This past Saturday, eighty people participated in the Literary Lowell edition of Lowell Walks. Tour guide Sean Thibodeau, the Coordinator of Community Programming at the Pollard Memorial Library, prepared a handout that listed many books about Lowell or written by people from Lowell, and added the names of other notable…
Read More »Lowell Folk Festival Coming Soon
The following post appears on the Keepers of Tradition blog which is written by Maggie Holtzberg, Ph.D., the Commonweath’s Folklorist at the Massachusetts Cultural Council. The Lowell Folk Festival is held each year in Lowell during the last weekend of July. The full schedule for this year is available on…
Read More »Lowell Week in Review: June 28, 2015
Two weeks ago saw three different million dollar plus real estate deals in Lowell (Markley Group/Prince Spaghetti; Lowell Community Charter Public School/Mill No. 5; UTEC/Central, Prescott & Warren Streets). This week there was one deal of that scale: an apartment building at the corner of Stevens Street and Princeton Boulevard…
Read More »Lowell Real Estate: Week of June 22, 2015
June 22, 2015 – Monday 2000 Skyline Dr Unit 6 for $133,900. Prior sale in 2008 for $135,850 106 Methuen St Unit B for $194,000. Prior sale in 2001 for $143,850 99 White St for $185,000. Prior sale in 1966 28 Boylston Ln Unit 28 for $190,500. Prior sale in…
Read More »An Amazing Week
“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.” —Martin Luther King Jr. Usually I don’t use this space to comment on national issues but I believe that history will record this week to be a momentous one in our nation’s story. That demands comment. Confederate…
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