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Here’s some information about a two-day long “weekend design workshop” that will take place on Saturday, November 15 and Sunday, November 16 at the Armand P. Mercier Community Center in Lowell. The cost to attend is $100. The workshop is an Introduction to Urban Permaculture. The flyer below has all…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Today Boston Herald Editorial Page Editor Shelley Cohen has a heartfelt and candid apology for the racist cartoon it published showing President Obama in his bathroom squeezing toothpaste onto his toothbrush while a White House intruder looks on from…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Two trumpets, a horn, a euphonium and a tuba, a brass quintet performing the music for Saturday’s memorial for the late Boston Globe food writer and editor Gail Perrin. The music was loud, bold, brassy and confident: how…
Read More »On Saturday, November 8 from 7 pm until 11 pm, there will be a special event at the UMass Lowell Inn & Conference Center. The purpose? To raise funds for the Sacred Heart Neighborhood Scholarship at UMass Lowell. What makes this event unique is how it came about. Six individuals…
Read More »For those able to attend the Lowell Plan’s annual breakfast yesterday at the UMass Lowell Inn & Conference Center, a person would have to be pretty hard-hearted not to have come away feeling better about the city and more optimistic about what’s over the wooded horizon. The 300 people in…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Apparently, the number of Massachusetts voters willing to accept casinos has grown from 37 percent to 53 percent, that according to a Boston Herald poll. I had even begun to think that, well, if Springfield needs jobs and…
Read More »Tuesday was the grand opening of Cafe UTEC which is located at 41 Warren Street in Lowell, just inside the UTEC building across from the Lowell District Court. The cafe is open Monday through Thursday from 11 am until 2 pm and offers a great new place for lunch in…
Read More »John Edward teaches economics at Bentley and UMass Lowell. He’s a frequent contributor of columns on economic issues. Imagine a new video has gone viral. In the video, a CEO announces he is issuing a share-the-wealth challenge to fellow executives. He lifts a bucket over a railing and dumps the…
Read More »The BBC is reporting that the Scottish Independence Referendum lost with 55% voting no and 45% voting yes. My interest in this process increased as election day grew near, not because I was committed to one side or the other but because of the rare phenomenon of a country (possibly)…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. I’m with Karl Rove, at least on this: Condoleezza Rice should replace Roger Goodell as head of the National Football League. Goodell has been a toady for the owners, who get fat profits from leaving the game just…
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