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Scenes from Sustainability Week
A great video from LTC with scenes from Sustainability Week: [youtube]ZG__3Q4xVPA[/youtube]
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LHS Edson Cemetery Tour Postponed
The Lowell Historical Society announced that the Edson Cemetery Tour scheduled for this Saturday October 13th has been postponed. Kim Zunino who designed the tour is unable to guide the tour so it will be rescheduled to another weekend. We will post the information here when available.
Read More »‘Bin Laden Is Dead. GM Is Alive’
Maybe the guy who came up with this six months ago was onto something. Keep it short and simple.
Read More »“Fallen Heroes” ceremony
The Centralville Social Club held its annual “Fallen Heroes” ceremony yesterday to honor all service members from Massachusetts who have died in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. After remarks by Master of Ceremonies Joe Dussault, Congresswoman Niki Tsongas, State Representative Tom Golden, City Councilor Rita Mercier and Lowell Police…
Read More »“Strict Scrutiny” by John Edward
John Edward, a resident of Chelmsford who earned his master’s degree at UMass Lowell and who teaches economics at Bentley University and UMass Lowell, contributes the following column. Governments should be cautious when they spend taxpayer money. Elected leaders would do well to follow the lead of the Supreme Court…
Read More »Occupy and the Tea Party
October 8, 2012
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PaulM
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The biggest surprise to me this fall is the absence of massive youth demonstrations in favor of President Obama or at least in opposition to the trickle-down, “voodoo” economics that is still the favorite approach of the national Republican leaders. I thought for sure after last fall and winter that…
Read More »It’s About Us, Not Obama
October 5, 2012
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PaulM
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It’s been a little painful to read and hear all the complaints about how poorly President Obama presented his case in the first debate in Denver. I have no idea why he was “flat” or “didn’t show up,” as some commentators have described it, but it made me think about…
Read More »The 2012 Boston Red Sox
Waiting for the presidential debate to begin in a couple of hours, I just tuned to NESN to see some of the last game of the 2012 season for the Boston Red Sox which color commentator Jerry Remy in tonight’s intro repeatedly described as “embarrassing.” Somewhere I read that this…
Read More »Check out PolicyMic article on Senate debate
Mike Luciano formerly taught political science at UMass Lowell and occasionally offered posts and comments on this site. Now he is a Senior Editor at PolicyMic which describes itself as “the first democratic online news platform to engage millennials in debates about real issues.” Here’s some of an article he…
Read More »Brown v. Warren at UMass Lowell
October 1, 2012
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PaulM
Posted in Culture, Current Events, History, Lowell, Politics, Election 2012
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The debate tonight. Massive crowd. UMass Lowell looked fabulous. Five years of Chancellor Meehan came together in a national event. It was major league. Bigger than Division 1 hockey, as much as I like hockey. The building looked super in the red-hot media spotlight. Marketing videos on the jumbotron catalogued…
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