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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Boston Mayor Tom Menino’s 19th state-of-the-city speech last night was a welcome relief from the nasty partisanship and overheated rhetoric of the national political scene. Locally, Boston’s unemployment rate is 5.7 percent, two points lower than last year.…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Senate candidates Elizabeth Warren and Scott Brown are adopting a statesman-like posture in calling for the elimination of campaign ads paid for by outside groups. Each candidate, in doing so, can boast of support for a better, less…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Check it out. Mitt Romney should “get a grip” in considering how punitive the United States should be in responding to China’s often unfair (but enormously successful) industrial policy. So said former US Trade Representative Charlene Barshefsky after…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. By the numbers, Mitt Romney can’t have the GOP Presidential nomination wrapped up until late April. By then he could have aggregated enough of the 1144 delegates needed to win next summer’s convention to take off some time…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. So, Joe Kennedy III appears poised to return his famous family to political office. His father, Joe, was a Congressman from the 8th congressional district, that seat famously held by his uncle Jack before he became President. Young…

“Chancellor Marty Meehan Opening Remarks at Health & Social Sciences Building at UMass Lowell Topping Off Ceremony on December 15, 2011. The event celebrated the near-completion of the HSSB, which is a $40 million, 69,000-square-foot classroom facility that will provide academic space to help accommodate a 30 percent increase in…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. New Hampshire’s first-in-the-nation primary is supposed to be retail politics at its most pure. The idea is that the candidates meet people from all walks of life, in every conceivable kind of setting, and the people make…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Check it out. Thank goodness for the Presidential race filling the vacuum created by a New England Patriots bye week. Waiting until 2:30 in the morning for Romney’s 8 point Iowa caucus margin of victory was a bit…

LOWELL – The goal is to build a 20,000-square-foot Buddhist temple and Cambodian cultural and educational center on a 12-acre parcel in the city’s Pawtucketville neighborhood — the largest such complex on the East Coast. This video was originally posted by kiletters

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Check it out. My friend and colleague Tom Waseleski, editorial page editor of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, always prepares for New Year’s Day an aspirational list of headlines from which  many of us could benefit. Here, with my own…