The public is invited to a panel discussion about “Egypt’s Future” on Tuesday, Feb. 22, in the O’Leary Library Auditorium, Room 222, 61 Wilder Street, on the South Campus of UMass Lowell. A reception with refreshments starts at 5 p.m, with the program follwing at 5.30 p.m. Presenters will include…
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Some might wonder about how elected officials take up certain topics. Lately here’s been some buzz about Senator Susan Fargo’s push to name the iconic Rex Trailer as the Commonwealth’s official cowboy. Now it’s a regional school sports league on a legislator’s radar sceen. There’s a story in today’s Eagle Tribune…
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The SUN story this week about performers for the upcoming 25th Lowell Folk Festival sent me to the vault to find a non-web “log” entry before the blog days about the origin of the Festival. I was cultural affairs director of the Lowell Historic Preservation Commission at the time. After…
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All writers, non-writers, and anti-writers, please take notice. This estimable hyper-local blog will host the Third Annual Community Haiku Project in April as one of Lowell’s contributions to National Poetry Month. Start your creative engines, and put on your haiku shoes because we’ll be looking for the choicest of the…
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MassMoments tells us that on this day – February 11, 1812 – the political weapon known the “gerrymander” was born with the stroke of Massachusetts Governor Elbridge Gerry’s pen. The practice of gerrymandering in America predates the invention of the term, but it was this Massachusetts law that gave rise to the…
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NYTimes columnist David Brooks today has a stark warning for all readers: We are on track to be financially consumed by our own federal government debt. I’m copying a large chunk of his column below because he spells out the situation clearly. Reading this, I’m reminded of the late Paul…
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See Forbes Magazine’s recent list of the 20 most miserable cities in the US. Lowell didn’t make this list. California looks bad here. Number one on the list is Stockton, Calif., where I lived for about six months in 1967 when my father was working as a wool grader for Cal…
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UMass Lowell Provost Ahmed Abdelal checking news from Egypt. (Web photo courtesy of CBSBoston.com and WBZ Radio) UMass Lowell Provost Ahmed Abdelal has been following the news from Egypt closely. He was born in Egypt and has relatives and colleagues in Cairo. UMass Lowell will be hosting an exhibition of contemporary…
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A depiction of the failed 1861 Peace Conference in the Willard Hall of the Willard Hotel. (Photo by Jahi Chikwendiu/The Washington Post) From the Washington Post: “As part of the Civil War Sesquicentennial, historians are gathering at the Willard InterContinental hotel to remember the failed, and largely forgotten, peace conference…
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Harvard economics scholar Edward Glaeser today looks at the environmental pros and cons of city life in a column in the Boston Globe. Read his column here, and get the Globe if you want more. Glaeser’s new book is called “Triumph of the City.” He’s on the list for an invitation…
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