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Yesterday’s NYTimes included an article about the link between the number of college graduates in an urban area and the success of the city/region. Prof. Bob called this to our attention for sharing with our readers. He wrote: “Fascinating article in today’s NY Times on the role/importance of colleges and…
Read More »In today’s NYTimes, Tim Egan writes about resumes and the Presidency. The job description at the White House is not head bookkeeper. Read Egan’s opinion here, and get the NYT if you want more.
Read More »For some reason I tuned into the local TV news last night and caught a segment from a town meeting somewhere west of Boston where residents and members of the board of selectmen where chastising National Grid for “butchering” the town’s trees. One citizen speaking at the meeting microphone but…
Read More »Massachusetts State Auditor Suzanne Bump was the keynote speaker at last Tuesday’s Greater Lowell Chamber of Commerce Legislative Breakfast which was held at the Tewksbury Country Club. Here is some of what Auditor Bump had to say: She began by quoting Barney Frank’s definition of “government” – it’s the “things…
Read More »The news that Curt Schilling’s Rhode Island based computer gaming company defaulted on a payment on its loan and quite possibly has squandered $75 million of borrowed money that the taxpayers of the Ocean State guaranteed is unsurprising. Twenty-two months ago in this blog post (reproduced below in its entirety…
Read More »The weather forecast for this weekend is superb, so please join us for one of our free walking tours of historic Lowell Cemetery. The tours begin on Friday, May 18, 2012 at 1 pm and on Saturday, May 19, 2012 at 10 am, both from the Lawrence Street Gate. The…
Read More »The Globe today reports on the Boston Police Department’s strategy of (1) greatly increasing the number of officers walking neighborhood beats in the city; and (2) how the department is employing Twitter in conjunction with those officers on foot. For now, individual officers do not have Twitter “handles”, but supervisors…
Read More »In her opinion column today, NYTimes writer Maureen Dowd notes that social-justice advocate Rev Seamus Finn, OMI, who grew up in Lowell, was one of the few shareholders to challenge JP Morgan Chase boss Jamie Dimon about the bank’s recent huge financial blunder. Rev Finn asked if this episode was evidence that banks…
Read More »With President Obama’s historic declaration that he now favors same sex marriage, it’s good to remember that this all began here in Massachusetts nearly ten years ago with the Supreme Judicial Court’s decision in Goodridge v Department of Public Health in November 2003. Up until that time, I was of…
Read More »Gráinne Murphy and Kathleen Boyle, both members of the critically acclaimed Celtic band, Cherish the Ladies, will perform this Friday, May 11 at 8 p.m. upstairs at The Old Court, 29-31 Central St., in Lowell. Our friends at Howl in Lowell caught up with Ms. Murphy for a Q &…
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