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Scenes from Sustainability Week
A great video from LTC with scenes from Sustainability Week: [youtube]ZG__3Q4xVPA[/youtube]
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Patent Medicine in Lowell: James C. Ayer
The second in my series on the patent medicine industry in Lowell: James Cook Ayer was born in 1818 in Groton, Connecticut and moved to Lowell at age thirteen where he served as apprentice in James Robbins’s apothecary shop on Lowell and also studied medicine under the tutelage of Dr.…
Read More »Patent Medicine in Lowell: Charles I Hood
Recent news about the “compounding pharmacy” that provided tainted drugs that have now led to dozens of cases of meningitis got me thinking about the US Pharmaceutical Industry which had its roots in Lowell, a national leader in medicine production in nineteenth century America. One of the largest manufacturers was…
Read More »“Fallen Heroes” ceremony
The Centralville Social Club held its annual “Fallen Heroes” ceremony yesterday to honor all service members from Massachusetts who have died in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. After remarks by Master of Ceremonies Joe Dussault, Congresswoman Niki Tsongas, State Representative Tom Golden, City Councilor Rita Mercier and Lowell Police…
Read More »“Strict Scrutiny” by John Edward
John Edward, a resident of Chelmsford who earned his master’s degree at UMass Lowell and who teaches economics at Bentley University and UMass Lowell, contributes the following column. Governments should be cautious when they spend taxpayer money. Elected leaders would do well to follow the lead of the Supreme Court…
Read More »Motions for this week’s City Council Meeting
Here are the motions that have been filed for this week’s Lowell City Council meeting: By Councilor Kennedy – Request City Council amend the proposed changes to Section 176, Article 1 (rental property Ordinance) by excluding owner occupied two family properties. By Councilor Mercier – Request the City Manager have…
Read More »Greater Lowell Tech School Committee vacancy
Mike Lenzi, one of the Lowell representatives to the Greater Lowell Technical High School, has submitted his formal resignation from that school committee to be effective October 11, 2012. Lenzi, who had purchased a home in Dracut earlier this summer, was expected to resign at some point. Who will succeed…
Read More »The 2012 Boston Red Sox
Waiting for the presidential debate to begin in a couple of hours, I just tuned to NESN to see some of the last game of the 2012 season for the Boston Red Sox which color commentator Jerry Remy in tonight’s intro repeatedly described as “embarrassing.” Somewhere I read that this…
Read More »Check out PolicyMic article on Senate debate
Mike Luciano formerly taught political science at UMass Lowell and occasionally offered posts and comments on this site. Now he is a Senior Editor at PolicyMic which describes itself as “the first democratic online news platform to engage millennials in debates about real issues.” Here’s some of an article he…
Read More »US Senate debate from UMass Lowell
Congratulations to UMass Lowell for hosting tonight’s US Senate debate between Scott Brown and Elizabeth Warren. I was fortunate to be in attendance and very much enjoyed the carnival atmosphere outside the arena before the debate as supporters of both candidates filled every open space, holding signs, wearing t-shirts, and…
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