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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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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Much has been made about several head-to-head blows delivered by defenders in the NFL two weeks ago. Some of the offenders were heavily fined for their actions and the league quickly announced it would suspend any player who hit a “defenseless player” in the head. After last week, the NFL…
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“All the President’s Men” is one of my favorite movies, and I believe the dynamic duo of “Woodstein” should be remembered with a statue on the mall in Washington, DC, some day, but I’m not a fan of the Washington insider books that Bob Woodward has been churning out for…
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Meg Whitman, the former president of eBay who has spent in excess of $140mil of her $1.6 billion net worth running for governor of California as the Republican nominee, recently commented that the reason she came to California thirty years ago because back then so much was getting done in…
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It’s hard to remember back to last year when we were blanketed with ominous warnings of a devastating strain of influenza that put us all at risk. At the same time, the vaccine for the expected strain was difficult, nearly impossible, to find. Fortunately we all made it through that…
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