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Lowell Sun editor Chris Scott has a shocker of a story on the Lowell Sun “breaking news” site. According to Scott, the deal to be taken over by Steward Health Care LCC is dead! Instead Saints will be acquired by cross-town community health care “rival” Lowell General Hospital. The past few…
Read More »On Monday, October 3, 2011, economist Karl “Chip” Case, recently retired from Wellesley College, spoke at the UMass Lowell Inn & Conference Center as part of this year’s Moses Greeley Parker lecture series. Along with Robert Shiller and Allan Weis, Case developed the Case-Shiller index, a widely respected and quoted…
Read More »I’m stating the obvious here, but I’m interested to read what people might write about this: If you watched Ken Burns’ latest American history film this week on PBS, you probably noticed familiar themes from the Prohibition era: religious extremism, wealth concentrated at the top, organized crime violence (like Mexico today),…
Read More »The Lowell Historical Society has recently gone live with a blog site. This is a cross post of an entry I just wrote for the Society’s blog. Hopefully, we will continue this relationship! Marie Clerk, LHS The Lowell Historic Board has resumed publication of a quarterly newsletter – “Presence from…
Read More »In the wake of the Governor Christie final denial – the editorial in today’s Nashua Telegraph questions “is this it?” Is this the field of Republican candidates for President in 2012? It seems that way to our friend in a state very close to setting one of the earliest dates…
Read More »For those who missed the excellent talk by housing expert Karl Case at the UMass Lowell Inn & Conf. Center on Monday, the Sun’s Dan O’Brien covered the well-attended event. Read his article here, and get the Sun if you want more. The Lunchtime Lectures are presented by the Moses Greeley Parker…
Read More »I haven’t had a chance to look at this yet, but a friend emailed me the link and said he had obtained exclusive footage of a clearly agitated Terry Francona making his final exit from Fenway Park: [youtube]yngq9NmOnFw[/youtube]
Read More »Congresswoman Niki Tsongas and US Senate Candidate Elizabeth Warren answer questions at endorsement event in Lowell today canal-side in downtown Lowell. After teaching a class at Harvard this morning , Elizabeth Warren made her way to Lowell early this afternoon to accept an important endorsement of her candidacy for the…
Read More »If you’re like me and purged all interest in this baseball season after the disastrous loss by the Red Sox, you haven’t been paying much attention to the playoffs. But true baseball fans can’t stay away for long so I peeked at a few innings last night and consulted the…
Read More »The dig site on the grounds of St. Patrick’s Church in Lowell, MA Photo by ANNE RUTHMANN PHOTOGRAPH (Irish America magazine, October-November 2011 edition) Checking in at Dave McKean’s LowellIrish blog gave me this bit of news. The story of the collaboration between UMass Lowell and Queens University Belfast on…
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