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Here’s the latest POTUS vacation dispatch from the Vineyard by our faithful, far-flung correspondent, Ray LaPorte. Air Force One flew over Vineyard Haven harbor last evening on a glide path to Otis Air Base. Its shimmering light-blue hull and contrails in the fading sun at 10,000 feet signaled that within…
Read More »Check out this rant by Allan Sloan of Fortune from cnn.com I spent July on family leave, not writing columns, and watching with increasing horror as market-illiterate know-nothings, abetted by the craven leaders of the Republican Party (from which I’m about to resign) and the unspeakable ineptness of Obama and…
Read More »Room installation Harmony in Blue and Gold: The Peacock Room James McNeill Whistler, 1834–1903 Oil paint and gold leaf on canvas, leather, and wood Gift of Charles Lang Freer A note in today’s Lowell Sun tells us that the famed and now restored “Peacock Room” in the Freer Gallery of…
Read More »[youtube]Z195iu2DUmE[/youtube] Here’s a pretty good commercial launched by the Tim Pawlenty for President campaign just before he dropped out of the race after his third place finish in the Ames, Iowa Republican straw poll on Saturday. While Pawlenty, before his exit, was pandering to the extremists who dominate the nomination…
Read More »John Edward, a resident of Chelmsford who earned his master’s degree at UMass Lowell and who teaches economics at Bentley University and UMass Lowell, contributes the following column. ******** Now that we have the debt ceiling crisis resolved… Before leaving on vacation in late July, I penned that opening to…
Read More »The Associated Press through many media outlets is reporting that the Denver-based MediaNews Group Inc. is launching a pay wall – digital subscription model – for some content on the websites of 23 of its smaller newspapers in California, Massachusetts, New Mexico, Pennsylvania and Vermont. The digital subscription model doesn’t…
Read More »University of Texas economist James K. Galbraith takes a crack at explaining what is going on with the economy and what Team Obama got wrong in 2009. Read his op-ed piece in the LA Times that I picked up from poet Garrett Hongo on Facebook.
Read More »In today’s NYTimes, financial titan Warren Buffet has some words for the Congressional super-committee as they look for ways to get the nation’s financial house in order. For a start, raise taxes on those people most able to afford to contribute more to the federal pot. He points to the example…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Driving down to Cohasset for a party celebrating Polly Logan, the 85 year old progressive-minded grande dame and happy warrior of Massachusetts Republican politics, on the same day as the Iowa Straw Poll, my husband and I talked…
Read More »There are some interesting things going on this week in the city of Lowell. Here’s a sampling: On Monday, City Councilor Patrick Murphy will kickoff his campaign at the Old Court at 31 Central Street. There will be Irish music and information on how to get involved with the campaign,…
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