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Michael Moore had his finger on the Trump revolution months ago. He predicted the wins in Penn-Mich-Wisc-Ohio, as well as the Jesse Ventura Effect of voters making mischief because they can. Now he says get up off the mat if you were not for Trump and get to work. That’s…
Read More »What bothers me as much as anything on this day after is that the Congressional Republicans were rewarded by voters, not all voters but enough of them, for taking their football and going home for the past six years. They did almost nothing to help move America forward. We could…
Read More »We are on the doorstep of an American presidential election result that will either be the most disruptive since 2000 (see my colleague Dick’s post today) or a decision to stay the course with a moderate, compassionate, fact-based White House administration. Are we headed toward a Brexit-type repudiation of the…
Read More »Ribbon-cutting at the restored “Pawtucket Prism” (web photo courtesy of Marie Sweeney). From left, Jay Linnehan, Steve Joncas, Paul Marion, Celeste Bernardo, Mayor Edward Kennedy, Jim Campbell, Nancy Donahue, Belinda Juran, Evan Schapiro, and artist Michio Ihara. About 75 people yesterday attended the re-dedication of the “Pawtucket Prism” sculpture by…
Read More »Tuesday, November 1, 2016 4:00 p.m. – Speaking Program & Reception UMass Lowell Inn & Conference Center 50 Warren Street, Lowell The Pawtucket Prism sculpture was created and installed by world-renowned artist Michio Ihara in 1987 at the Lower Locks where the Pawtucket Canal and Concord River meet. It’s…
Read More »Rainbow this morning at 7 AM over Meetinghouse Hill and the Eliot Church in the South Common Historic District in Lowell.
Read More »Pawtucket Prism Unveiling Tuesday, November 1, 2016 4:00 p.m. – Speaking Program & Reception UMass Lowell Inn & Conference Center 50 Warren Street, Lowell The Pawtucket Prism sculpture was created and installed by world-renowned artist Michio Ihara in 1987 at the Lower Locks where the Pawtucket Canal and Concord…
Read More »Lowell’s Big Plans By James Ostis Lowell was the most significant planned industrial city in the early United States. In the 1820s, a group of Boston investors set their sights on the water power potential of the Merrimack River and systematically created a new community based on maximizing the development…
Read More »Carrying a Torch for ‘Ti Jean’ We were talking about Bob Dylan getting the Nobel Prize for Literature last week and ole Jack Kerouac having received nothing in his life by way of awards and prizes, and so my friend and I went to the famous gravesite in Edson Cemetery…
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