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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Call it the big Whew! After weeks of shrinking polls numbers for Hillary Clinton and small but steady gains in momentum for Donald Trump, voters were finally able to see them one on one. What they saw…
Read More »Writing about Monday’s presidential debate, Adam Gopnik in the New Yorker nails the whole “Birther” thing in one paragraph in a way that sent a shiver up my spine. He puts the whole thing together with Trump’s down-deep character and temperament. You can read the entire magazine piece here.–PM Yet…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Monday night’s Clinton/Trump debate won’t be Lincoln/Douglas. No Demosthenes or Cicero here. Even if the candidates were inclined to that level of discourse, the American public would probably not be prepared to give it the time or…
Read More »By Mimi Parseghian This past Saturday Mill City Grows celebrated its 5th Annual Harvest Fest. The highly successful event, which took place at the North Common, featured live entertainment, food tasting, children’s activities, a raffle, silent auctions, local food vendors, and information tables from various organizations. It attracted a large…
Read More »John Edward teaches economics at Bentley and UMass Lowell. This is the seventh in a series of columns he has written on economics and the presidential election. Links to his earlier posts may be found at the end of this column. Presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are far…
Read More »Web photo courtesy of rocktumbler.com Online videos illustrate the results when plain-looking stones slowly turn in a rock tumbler with a mixture of special grit and a liquid solution. After 30 days of continuous tumbling, the agate, quartz, and jasper mineral specimens come out looking glassy and gleamy and so…
Read More »By Mimi Parseghian Last Thursday, Libertarian Presidential Candidate Gary Johnson was asked on MSNBC, “What would you do about Aleppo?” He blanked and stumbled and answered, “What is Aleppo?” That whole day both corporate media and social media criticized him for “lack of knowledge on foreign policy” and of course…
Read More »Now that we are past Labor Day, I can say that I had my first summer “off” since I was 17 years old. That’s a long time in human years. When I retired from my management job at UMass Lowell last March, the thing I looked forward to more than…
Read More »By Mimi Parseghian This past Friday evening, I attended the Lowell Votes Rally for Civic Engagement, which was held at JFK Plaza. The grass roots, non-partisan organization seeks to increase participation in city elections, especially in neighborhoods with historically low turnout. All candidates who are on the ballot this fall…
Read More »This coming Friday, September 2, 2016, from 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm, there will be a “Rally for Civic Engagement” at JFK Plaza, alongside Lowell City Hall. The event is sponsored by Lowell Votes which is a nonpartisan, grassroots organization that encourages all Lowell citizens to vote, with special emphasis…
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