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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. Give the proverbial man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach him to fish and you feed him for…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Recent memories of Cape Cod breezes, warm sunshine and gentle waves can’t dispel the acid taste left in the mouth by Congress’ despicable( and self-inflicted) game of chicken around raising the debt ceiling, followed by the eighth largest…
Read More »Historian Paul Hudon, the author of The Valley & Its Peoples: An Illustrated History of the Lower Merrimack and the recently published All in Good Time, contributes the following essay: It’s my guess that most of us have seen one or two TV commercials pushing drugs. Good drugs of course.…
Read More »Read the report from AOL/Huffington Post.
Read More »The public is invited to the rescheduled release of Lowell poet Jacqueline Malone’s book “All Waters Run to Lethe” on September 11, 2011 at 2 p.m., at 153 Sanders Avenue in Lowell. RSVP to mlchapman@comcast.net, if you plan to attend. Malone’s book includes poems about memory and Alzheimer’s disease. The…
Read More »Ralph Fasanella’s painting “Lawrence 1912: The Bread and Roses Strike” The history of the Merrimack Valley is twined throughout with many significant issues and events – many related to the causes of the Labor Movement in America. I caught this article the other day in the Eagle Tribune that gives…
Read More »Here’s the latest from the Wall Street Journal on the disaster in the stock market today. Get the WSJ if you want more. Subscription required online also.
Read More »One of our frequent commenters, Kad Barma, posted a comment to a recent post by Jim Peters. While the main point of the comment is to explain why Federal spending must be curtailed (a conclusion with which I disagree but I’ll address that in a future post), KB also posits…
Read More »In the Huffington Post/AOL Business section, UMass Lowell Professor Bill Lazonick of the master’s program in Regional Development contributes his analysis to a story about huge oil industry profits.
Read More »Frequent contributor Jim Peter sent along the following in the aftermath of the debt ceiling crisis resolution: I watched with a great deal of interest the situation as it regards raising the debt “ceiling” which was just avoided with a compromise that could hardly be dignified by that term. It…
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