Current Events

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog.   Philando Castile. Alton Sterling. Lorne Ahrens. Michael Krol. Michael Smith. Brent Thompson. Patrick Zamarripa. Seven men shot and killed last week. Seven senseless deaths, all speaking in one way or another to the racism laced through relations…

From Tony Sampas . . . “One of many groups of “Pokémon Go” players wandering the Lowell night with their smart phones seeking “digital creatures, which appear overlaid on the real world.”

The following is from Marie Sweeney: The 29th Annual CTI / Lowell Farmers’ Market had a Grand-Opening ribbon-cutting today with the help of Lowell Mayor Ed Kennedy. The Farmers’ Market operates on Fridays through mid-October (except during the Lowell Folk Festival) on JFK Plaza adjacent to Lowell City Hall from…

If you are interested in literature about Lowell or written by people from Lowell, there are a couple of events this week for you. This Thursday (July 7) night, at 6 pm at HyperText Bookstore Café at 107 Merrimack Street, Paul Marion will convene a group of poets and authors…

John Edward teaches economics at Bentley and UMass Lowell. This is the fourth in a series of columns he has written on economic issues related to the upcoming presidential election. The first column, “The 100 Percent,” appeared on May 16, 2016; the second, “Voodoo Two,” on May 23, 2016; the…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog.   It’s hard not to be elated by the Supreme Court’s five-to-three ruling today on the Texas abortion law H.B.2.  Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said it all in her one paragraph concurring opinion. The law dictated that an…

Last Thursday, the people of Great Britain voted to leave the European Union. John Wooding, a native of England and a professor of political science at UMass Lowell for many years, shared on Facebook his thoughts on the Brexit vote outcome.  John, who has contributed a number of articles to…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. Fasten your seatbelts. The ride’s going to get even bumpier.  A word that few on this side of the pond had heard six months ago may portend greater troubles in the United States. Brexit, shorthand for the…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog.   photo LA Times It’s hard to get one’s mind around the horror of the worst mass shooting in the nation’s history. There seems to have been a perfect storm, with multiple factors coming together to carry out this…