Writing in the Wall Street Journal, columnist Peggy Noonan praises President Obama’s speech in Tucson.
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The story about Evergreen Solar shutting down Mass. operations and shifting to Chinese production made the front of the nytimes.com site. See it here. This case underscores how complex the global economy has become. On the other hand, the news from Detroit was good this week with the car-makers bouncing back.
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NYTimes columnist Paul Krugman today writes about the divergent moral views afoot in the USA today. He uses plain language to describe a serious problem. Read his opinion here, and get the NYT if you want more. His writing colleague David Brooks also looks at the moral landscape and sees…
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Last November, with the help of Eileen Loucraft (who also took the above photograph), I posted some death notices of Lowell residents who died in World War One. Here’s the beginning of my November 2, 2010 post: Another Lowell man has given up the greatest treasure he possessed for the…
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The New Yorker’s David Remnick comments on President Obama’s speech in Tucson on Wednesday.
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George Condo is one of America’s most important painters of our time. He’s from Chelmsford. These days he lives in Manhattan. The January 17 issue of The New Yorker includes a ten-page profile of Condo by Calvin Tomkins, a staff writer for the magazine since 1960. Tomkins gives Condo the…
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This message and comment on the late Mary Boutselis Sampas was written by our friend Mehmed Ali. With his permission it is reprinted here: Brother Tony, I heard that our own Gal Friday Mary Boutselis Sampas passed away yesterday. Last time I was home in October we had a chance to…
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The boston.com headline reads “JFK Archives Open to the World.” Read the article here describing how the Kennedy Library in Boston did it. UMass Lowell wants to do the same with the Martin T. Meehan Papers, Paul E. Tsongas Papers, and other documents and materials associated with the members of Congress who…
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See this new feature from www.aol.com with Sarah Brady’s message about improving the nation’s gun laws.
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Mary Sampas – longtime Lowell Sun reporter and columnist and the grand dame among friends and her community – died yesterday at Saints Medical Center at the age of 93. Friend and Sun associate Nancye Tuttle remembers her here on her blog – Nancye’s World. The Sun has a front page story…
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