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Northern Middlesex Council of Governments (NMCOG), under contract with the state Executive Office of Housing and Economic Development, will conduct the first of two Visioning Sessions to gather input for a new Strategic Plan, which will address land use, infrastructure, environmental resource protection, housing, and economic development policy. A light…
Read More »Sunday, Nov. 7, 2 pm, Lowell National Hist. Park Visitor Center, 246 Market St. “The Girl in the Italian Bakery” features Lawrence native Kenneth Tingle, author of a hard-knocks memoir about growing up in our neighbor mill city. It’s a story about not losing hope. Check out the book here.…
Read More »“In a nutshell, the universe is 13.7 billion years old, plus or minus one percent; a recent previous estimate had a margin of error of three times as much. By weight it is four percent atoms, 23 percent dark matter—presumably undiscovered elementary particles left over from the Big Bang—and 73…
Read More »The UMass Lowell website this week includes a link to a Boston Herald review of the recent sold-out concert by hip hop star Drake at the revamped Tsongas Center. Read the review by Lauren Carter here, and get the Herald if you like the reporting.
Read More »This is for Dean! I was saving Willie for the second inning.—PM
Read More »Legendary San Francisco poet and founder of City Lights Bookstore and publishing company Lawrence Ferlinghetti is a baseball fan, too. The card-carrying Beat writer and publisher of Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl” and several books by Jack Kerouac, including “Book of Dreams” and “Pomes All Sizes,” has a most fitting poem for this…
Read More »Thanks to Globe reporters Courtney Hollands and Nicole Cammorata for suggestions for last-minute Halloween costumes in today’s Boston Globe Calendar. Unfortunately, the photo was not included online. You have to see the hard copy of the paper for the full effect—the yoga mat is worn like a serape and marked…
Read More »www.dailyfinancereport.com via aol.com is reporting an encouraging trend in employment/unemployment nationwide. America’s bedraggled labor market got a boost today with the latest weekly initial jobless claims unexpectedly plunging 21,000 to 434,000 — their lowest level since July. A Bloomberg survey had expected the report to show a total of 455,000…
Read More »Read the following from Henry A. Giroux, and get a sense of the outrage on the other side of the political spectrum, the side that hasn’t been given the kind of free publicity by media outlets everywhere that the Tea Party has received in the past six months. A moderate-minded reader might consider…
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