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What’s the equivalent of shell-shock for snow-ver-the-top white stuff? Snow fatigue? On the other hand a lawyer friend of mine is giddy about ski prospects in Vermont for the next many weeks. I’ve always admired the people in seasonal businesses, like fried dough at Hampton Beach, clam shacks on the…
Read More »In today’s NYTimes, Sen. John Kerry, chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, wrote about Egypt and the post-Mubarak scenario. Read his guest column here, and get the NYT if you want more.
Read More »Judith Dickerman-Nelson of Lowell and Vermont has three prose poems about the Cambodian refugee experience in the online journal Blue Lake Review. Read them here, and support the journal if you appreciate the work.
Read More »Note this alert from the Lowell City Manager’s blog: Winter Curbside Delay Due to the Winter Storm, curbside collection (of trash & recycling), for Wednesday 2/2, will be delayed by one day.Please do not place carts and bins curbside until Thursday morning; this will give streets crews time to open…
Read More »From the UMass Lowell Public Affairs Office: Celebration Honors Black History Month, Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. “A performance by a nationally known poet, a screening of a documentary, a visit to the Black History Trail and a leadership workshop are just some of the events scheduled for the…
Read More »See this nugget over at Cliff’s place in which Larry Summers takes on the Tiger Mom-mom Amy Chau on the topic of strict study-and-learning practices vs. creativity.
Read More »Big. Huge. Vast. Jumbo. Massive. A cornucopia of American art. My wife and I met two friends for Sunday brunch at the Museum of Fine Arts. We hadn’t been to the MFA since the opening of the new Art of the Americas Wing and Shapiro Family Courtyard last November. To…
Read More »The walking in the city is treacherous this morning. Ice of every variety—pure, crunchy, fat, layered, crusted—on every surface. Outside the Tedeschi Food Shop on Appleton Street the mood was somber among the men near the front door. Inside, the Sunday Sun stacked hgh in the rack read “Lowell Shelter Worker Slain.”…
Read More »From yesterday’s Wall Street Journal, a column about history and the trouble in Egypt by an international relations scholar. I picked this up from realclearpolitics.com
Read More »The Associated Press via the Sun on Jan. 27 reported that the local corporation Raytheon Company had fourth-quarter revenue of $6.9 billion in 2010. The net income for the period was $459 million, down 9 percent from one year ago. The decline was attributed to pension costs and debt retirement,…
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