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For those interested in Elizabeth Warren, her role with the Obama White House and her race to win the Democratic nomination to challenge incumbent Scott Brown for the US Senate seat in Massachusetts in 2012, this article from Vanity Fair might be just the thing. Millions of Americans hoped President…
Read More »The following is the second in my series of posts about the canals of Lowell. The first described the Pawtucket Canal. The Proprietors of Middlesex Canal received its charter as a Massachusetts corporation on June 22, 1793, just a year after the incorporation of the group that would build the…
Read More »Joe Nocera in the NYTimes this morning shares news about an idea that Starbucks’ CEO Howard Schultz and some of his people came up with as a way to stoke up the ecoomy and create jobs. He’s urging Americans to donate money that can be loaned to small businesses for the purpose…
Read More »There’s a lot of talk out there about books and reading being endangered by changing tastes among people. And then there was “Harry Potter” with lines around the bookstore block and six-year-olds reading hardcovers as thick as a brick. And now there’s Haruki Murakami of Japan, a literary writer selling millions of books.…
Read More »Early Saturday afternoon my wife and I drove through downtown and lower Centralville towards East Dracut and our destination: Brox Farm on Rte. 113, which has one of the region’s best farm stands. I don’t go to Brox’s as often as I used to, so it was like old times…
Read More »Last weekend Mitt Romney’s Mormon faith burst into the national news when Robert Jeffress, the evangelical pastor of a Southern Baptist megachurch in Dallas, after endorsing Texas governor Rick Perry for the presidency, said that Mormonism was “a cult” and that Romney was “not a Christian.” I suspect that most…
Read More »[youtube]SsJKc6CJA_s[/youtube] The Tsongas Industrial History Center, located in the Boott Cotton Mills Museum in downtown Lowell, celebrated its 20th Anniversary this past Friday with a cake, tours, an exhibit of the Center through the years and a speaking program that featured UMass Lowell chancellor Marty Meehan and Thaleia Tsongas Schlesinger,…
Read More »Huffingtonpost.com this morning leads with reports on Occupy demonstrations in the US and abroad.
Read More »Talking with Roger at Cote’s Market on Salem Street this afternoon, I learned that Cote’s is a food supplier for the Bay State Marathon being run in Lowell tomorrow. He said he has a crew of 12 coming in around 2 a.m. to prepare enormous quantities of soup (chicken noodle…
Read More »Occupy solidarity demonstration in Berlin, Germany, today (web photo by AP courtesy of nytimes.com) Read today’s report in the New York Times here and get the NYT on your porch or online if you want more.
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