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Thanks to Steve Edington of Lowell Celebrates Kerouac, Inc., for the schedule of the upcoming annual Jack Kerouac Birthday Celebration. The schedule for the 2017 Kerouac Birthday Celebration in Lowell has been finalized. All events take place on Saturday, March 11 (the day before Jack’s birthday): 12:00 Noon: Pollard Memorial…
Read More »I wrote this poem in late 2008 after Barack Obama was elected president but before his inauguration. The title is from his campaign chant that he got from a woman who supported him: “Fired up! Ready to Go!” The poem is not so much about him as the sense of…
Read More »This week, I’ve been posting Year in Review posts. Monday, I combined 2007, 2008, and 2009 into a single post, there is no 2010 article, Tuesday was my 2011 year in review , Wednesday was 2012, Thursday was 2013, yesterday was 2014. Today, the highlights from Lowell in 2015: Lowell…
Read More »Another essay by Bob Hodge, a 1973 graduate of Lowell High School, a 1990 graduate of University of Lowell, and one of the greatest runners to come from Lowell – ever. Bob has previously contributed, Running Down a Dream: Cohasset by the Sea Road Race, April 1978, School Daze Lost…
Read More »This week, I’ve been posting Year in Review posts. Monday, I combined 2007, 2008, and 2009 into a single post, there is no 2010 article, Tuesday was my 2011 year in review , Wednesday was 2012, yesterday was 2013. Today, the highlights from Lowell in 2014: Top Ten Lowell Political…
Read More »Documentary filmmaker Errol Morris in 2002 captured businessman, now president-elect, Donald Trump talking about his favorite movie, “Citizen Kane.” Here’s an interview with Morris and a film clip. Thanks to lithub.com for the source material.
Read More »Economics scholar Bill Lazonick, who teaches at UMass Lowell, contributes to the global discussion about money, labor, and ownership. Here is his latest, co-written for the Korea Times. “Disappearing Act of the U.S. Middle Class.” While pressing for restructuring, value extractors and academics who justified this activity argued that…
Read More »This week, I’ve been posting Year in Review posts. Monday, I combined 2007, 2008, and 2009 into a single post, there is no 2010 article, Tuesday was my 2011 year in review and yesterday was 2012. Today, the highlights from Lowell in 2013: Lowell Political Year in Review: 2013 With…
Read More »I’m not insensitive to the condition of the White Working Class today, which as an identity politics category seems accepted by chin-stroking pundits in comparison to Environmentalists, now some kind of No Go Zone for political strategists if you listen to the opinion writers (Don’t pander to those Green people).…
Read More »As we approach the end of 2016, I am reposting past year in review articles. Yesterday, I reposted my 2011 year in review and on Monday, I combined 2007, 2008, and 2009 into a single post (there is no 2010 article). Here is a reposting of my Lowell Year in…
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