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With the 7 am temperature only 3 degrees, not a lot of the 20 inches of snow that fell on Wednesday will be melting today. I have a couple of post-storm observations to share: During my two mile drive home from work last night, at two different spots I saw…
Read More »Writing in the Wall Street Journal, columnist Peggy Noonan praises President Obama’s speech in Tucson.
Read More »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.
Read More »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…
Read More »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…
Read More »The news is that Governor Patrick has replaced the Commonwealth’s entire parole board, the parole office’s executive director and has suspended a number of employees of the parole office, all in response to the December 26, 2010 murder of a Woburn police officer during a robbery by a career criminal…
Read More »Tony Sampas uses companion pictures of Lowell’s earliest Roman Catholic Church to illustrate this week’s snowfall.
Read More »The New Yorker’s David Remnick comments on President Obama’s speech in Tucson on Wednesday.
Read More »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…
Read More »The Boston Globe and the Herald are both reporting that Robert Caret – president of Towson University in suburban Baltimore – has been chosen unanimously by the Board of Trustees as the new President of the five-campus University of Massachusetts system. Caret has New England connections – he received degrees at…
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