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UML Emerging Technologies Center
Tony Sampas gives us a couple of shots of the fence cordoning off the construction site of the Emerging Technologies and Innovation Center on UMass Lowell North Campus.
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Lewis Black at Lowell Memorial Auditorium
I just returned from the Lowell Memorial Auditorium where I saw comedian Lewis Black perform. My face still hurts from laughing so hard. I’d seen a prior Black performance on DVD and have caught him many times on The Daily Show, but this was my first in-person experience. He did…
Read More »Bernie Sanders condemns the war on the middle class
Visitors to the Boott Cotton Mills Museum at the Lowell National Historical Park become fully acquainted with the struggle by workers a century ago to win the rights and protections that culminated in the thriving and dominant middle class of the post World War Two era. Beginning in 1980, however,…
Read More »Pizza and illegal immigration
I’ve never dined at Upper Crust Pizza and after reading the story in today’s Globe about the upscale chain, I probably won’t eat there any time soon. The story is mostly about a dispute over employee pay with a lot of back and forth between former employees and the employer’s…
Read More »Lowell Blogger Meet Up a Big Success
[youtube]dWxYu5cUTuA[/youtube] Thanks to everyone who gathered at Top Donut this morning for our Blogger Meet Up. To those who couldn’t make it, don’t worry: everyone who was there wants to do it again, so maybe you’ll make it next time. As I’ve written before, Greater Lowell has a very active…
Read More »Early deeds to St Patrick Church in Lowell
Recall that back in August, three professors from Queen’s University in Belfast traveled to Lowell as part of a joint venture with UMass Lowell to do an archaeological dig in front of St Patrick Church. I wrote a post about the dig back then and now I’m trying to assist…
Read More »University Ave Bridge in Lowell
Tony Sampas takes some photos from atop the University Ave Bridge.
Read More »Interesting Stories from Recent Newspapers
Catching up on accumulated dead-tree newspapers from the past few days, I found a greater-than-usual collection of interesting stories. Here’s a sampling: Fox versus Fox The New York Times reports on how the animated Fox television program, The Simpsons, has taken several shots at its corporate companions, Fox News. One…
Read More »Lowell City Hall
Tony Sampas views Lowell City Hall by night in early December. “Peace on Earth”
Read More »Blogger meet-up this Saturday
This Saturday (December 4) anytime between 9 am and 11 am, everyone is invited to stop by Top Donut at 700 Aiken Street in Lowell (at intersection with VFW Highway, just across the river from Lelacheur Park) for a Greater Lowell Blogger Meet-up. It’s just an opportunity for folks who,…
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