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WSJ on the Market Plunge Today
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.
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A path to Democratic victory
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 »UMass Lowell Prof Lazonick Speaks Truth to Big Oil Power
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 »“An argument for a higher tariff & the nature of Tea Parties” by Jim Peters
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…
Read More »‘We Got Him’
August 1, 2011
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PaulM
Posted in Politics, Election 2012, Current Events, History, Lowell
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There’s a lot of turmoil today among liberals, progressives, Democrats, or whatever label fits for people who are more inclined to like and support President Obama than not. Maybe it’s time to step back. I just read Nicholas Schmidle’s account in The New Yorker of the raid in Pakistan that put an…
Read More »Lowell Folk Festival – Reviews Are In
In today’s Boston Globe writer Stuart Munro puts the 2011 Lowell Folk Festival in a nutshell when he says: ” …the hallmark of the festival is musical diversity, because that’s what they strive to produce… With diversity comes surprise: It’s hard to leave Lowell without having been bowled over by…
Read More »Tonight at the Lowell Folk Festival
Just back from the colorfully ethnic festival parade, opening ceremonies and the first act – The Quebe Sisters Band – at the 2011 Lowell Folk Festival! The band’s guitar and fiddle sounds along with the sweet voices of the “sisters” played well at Boardinghouse Park. I first heard these very…
Read More »In the Globe: Lowell and Newport Music Festivals This Weekend
The Quebe Sisters Band opens the Lowell Folk Festival tonight at Boardinghouse Park in historic downtown Lowell at 7 pm. The Lowell Folk Festival and the Newport Folk Festival both happen to fall on the same weekend this year – this weekend. James Reed’s article in today’s Globe notes that…
Read More »Crowd-sourcing the Lowell Folk Festival
Do you plan to attend the Lowell Folk Festival? If yes, why not share your photos or videos with us. Either post them to Flickr or YouTube (or just email individual photos to me – DickHoweJr[at]gmail.com) and we’ll post them here. Same goes for your experiences – look for our…
Read More »Lowell Native Cardinal O’Connell ~ Reinterred, Revisited, Remembered
Mark Arsenault tells us in today’s Boston Globe that the dispute of long-standing between the Archdiocese of Boston and Boston College on one side and the family of William Cardinal O’Connell on the other – has been settled. Those following the lengthy dispute know that the Archdiocese and BC wanted…
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