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The call for books is out from the Friends of the Pollard Memorial Library! This is a great opportunity for the community to support your public library and the mission and program of the Friends. The Friends of the Pollard Library annual book sale takes place Thursday-Saturday, May 15-17, at the…
Read More »In the current Master Plan for Lowell, Sustainable Lowell 2025, the chapter on Sustainable Neighborhoods includes the following recommendation: ◙ Identify funding and implement planned improvements at South Common.
Read More »Game One Goes to Montreal; Chapter Two Set for Saturday
Read More »Congratulations to everyone who participated in the successful civic-engagement action at the Lowell City Council last night, encouraging the councilors to study further refinements of the current design of Father Morissette Boulevard as opposed to removing bike lanes and parking meters. Kudos to the council as a whole for showing…
Read More »John Edward teaches economics at Bentley and UMass Lowell. He’s a frequent contributor of columns on economic issues. Here is his latest: Forgive me for noting that conservatives seem to believe that the rich will work harder if we give them more, and the poor will work harder if we…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. The latest bad news from the Middle East is that the Palestinian Authority (the Fatah faction) has entered a “unity pact” with militant group Hamas, which has pledged never to recognize the right of Israel to exist. The…
Read More »Books by French professors of economics usually don’t get much attention in the United States, but a recently published one by Thomas Piketty, a professor at the Paris School of Economics, certainly has changed that. Piketty’s book, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, explores the issue of income inequality. On Friday,…
Read More »TED started in 1984 as a conference that each year brought people from Technology, Entertainment and Design together for short lectures (no more than 18 minutes) on their favorite topics. The talks were videotaped and made available for free on YouTube. That quickly made TED a global phenomenon. TED’s motto…
Read More »In all the good words spread around last Thursday at the announcement of the forthcoming UMass Lowell Innovation Hub in the 110 Canal St. building, formerly Freudenberg Nonwovens, this statement by Mayor Rodney Elliot resonated strongly for me because it had a familiar theme: “The location of UMass Lowell’s Innovation…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Life has taken a Cold War Turn, and I find myself almost missing Ronald Reagan and his willingness to stand up to the Russians. Ten years ago, Ukraine was the third most powerful nuclear power in the world.…
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