Current Events

Congratulations to yesterday’s groundbreaking by Middlesex Community College of the Boston & Maine Railroad Depot restoration project.  I was not able to attend so MCC’s Pat Cook kindly sent some observations about the project and the event, along with some superb photos by Kevin Harkins.  The following is by Pat…

Frequent contributor Jim Peters shares some of his thoughts today: I have not meandered in awhile, so I thought that this might be a good thing to do.  I have noticed that my books keep getting older, and while that does not make them useless, it does create in some…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Yesterday the Boston Business Journal revealed some of Boston 2024’s duplicity in misrepresenting to the public what it had included in its bid for bringing the Olympics to the Hub.  Information the BBJ obtained through a Freedom of…

John Wooding, a professor of political science at UMass Lowell, shares some thoughts on the May 7, 2015 British election: Britain went to the polls on May 7 to elect a new government. Despite the opinion polls predicting another very tight race, with a possible “hung” parliament, the Conservatives won…

John Edward, who teaches economics at Bentley and UMass Lowell, frequently contributes columns on economic issues. Here are his views on the possibility of the Olympics coming to Boston. Coincidentally, today’s Globe has an editorial urging Olympic organizers to include Gateway Cities like Lowell in the Olympic planning process: The…

John Edward teaches economics at Bentley and UMass Lowell. He’s a frequent contributor of columns on economic issues. A low-risk security with a 4 percent yield is a good return on investment. Using the money to pay off credit-card debt with a 20 percent interest rate is a better investment.…

  The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Check it out too. I long ago gave up my belief in the Easter bunny. (The rabbits who regularly destroy my garden took care of that.) Santa Claus is a relic of a decades-past childhood. But now,…

  The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Just 119 days into his first term in Congress,  Salem’s Seth Moulton, who upset longtime incumbent John Tierney in the Democratic primary last fall, brought his distinct perspective to The New England Council for the first time. …

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. At the risk of sounding immodest, I want to share with readers how deeply moved I am to be receiving an honorary doctor of letters from Regis College, a dynamic and growing university in Weston, MA.  Last night…