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Chuck Turner and the perils of testifying in your own defense
Boston city councilor Chuck Turner was recently convicted of taking a bribe from a man who sought a liquor license. The man was an FBI informant and the transaction was secretly videotaped. At his trial, Turner testified in his own defense. As reported in the Globe, it didn’t go well.…
Read More »Apple picking: a case study in capitalism
Tuesday night driving home I heard a story about apple picking on NPR, a station I listen too more frequently now that I don’t have to worry about hearing Juan Williams. Set in Washington state, the 4 minute radio piece (which is available to read and listen to HERE) included…
Read More »Two Upcoming Parker Lectures
October 30, 2010
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PaulM
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Sunday, Nov. 7, 2 pm, Lowell National Hist. Park Visitor Center, 246 Market St. “The Girl in the Italian Bakery” features Lawrence native Kenneth Tingle, author of a hard-knocks memoir about growing up in our neighbor mill city. It’s a story about not losing hope. Check out the book here.…
Read More »Sun’s Scoggins Approves Tsongas Center Face Lift
October 29, 2010
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Marie
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In today’s Lowell Sun veteran sports writer, author and Red Sox scorekeeper has good things to say about the face-lift given to the former Tsongas Arena – now UMass Lowell Tsongas Center. Scoggins has given us a quick recap of the changes: New million-dollar video score board hanging over center…
Read More »Caritas Sale to Cerberus Approved By Massachusetts SJC
October 29, 2010
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Marie
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The Boston Globe is reporting on “breaking news” that Supreme Judicial Court Justice Francis Spina held a hearing on the sale of the Caritas Christi Heath Care system to Cerberus Capital Management today. Justice Spina signed-off on the transaction tranferring the assets of a non-profit entity to a for-profit entity. This was the…
Read More »Lowell Benefits From the Broadband Stimulus Program
Computerworld on-line notes that the “broadband stimulus program” wasn’t created just to bring broadband to underserved rural areas but it was also designed to create education centers to teach and train people to access and use the Web. There has been a particular need for such centers in cities…
Read More »More foreclosure fallout
The big national lenders that halted foreclosure activities two weeks ago have now resumed after their self-scrutiny of the documentation related to mortgages that are to be foreclosed. The efficacy of this review is questionable; if it’s anything like the degree of care these same companies brought to granting the…
Read More »A Ray of Hope on Jobs
October 28, 2010
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PaulM
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www.dailyfinancereport.com via aol.com is reporting an encouraging trend in employment/unemployment nationwide. America’s bedraggled labor market got a boost today with the latest weekly initial jobless claims unexpectedly plunging 21,000 to 434,000 — their lowest level since July. A Bloomberg survey had expected the report to show a total of 455,000…
Read More »Worst Case Scenario from the Activist-Government Side
October 28, 2010
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PaulM
Posted in Politics, Culture, Current Events, Election 2010, History, Lowell
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Read the following from Henry A. Giroux, and get a sense of the outrage on the other side of the political spectrum, the side that hasn’t been given the kind of free publicity by media outlets everywhere that the Tea Party has received in the past six months. A moderate-minded reader might consider…
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