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I haven’t dragged economist-columnist Paul Krugman over here for a while because he’s been so ticked-off about everything in Washington, DC, but his NYTimes column today deserves a mention. He blows the whistle on Republican members of a commission charged with investigating what caused “the current financial and economic crisis in the…
Read More »Matt Bai of the NYTimes analyzes the compromise tax bill that is headed to the President’s desk today. Read the opinion piece here, and get the NYT if you want more. Such compromises, ideal or not, are the building blocks of responsible governance. If that makes Mr. Obama some kind of…
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Read More »LZ Nunn of the City’s Office of Cultural Affairs and Special Events reports that the art market in Lowell is surprisingly strong even as the Great Recession holds back the economy in general. Lowell has hundreds of artists of all kinds. Each one is a small business even if that’s…
Read More »The Arturo Gatti – Micky Ward fight trilogy took place in 2002 and 2003. On WBUR’s “HubBub” Benjamin Swasey writes today of Lowell fighter Micky Ward and his participation in a long-term study conducted by BU’s Center for the Study of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE). Eventually Ward will donate both…
Read More »Today we combine photos by Tony Sampas with a poem by Paul Marion in a tribute to Paul Tsongas and the UMass Lowell Tsongas Center. Tsongas Steel I view my approach as compassionate realism. Can you imagine a bumper sticker with those words on it? —Paul Tsongas 1. It’s January…
Read More »In the early 1960s, I was following my father’s lead and collecting stamps. I wasn’t obsessive about it, but I enjoyed the hobby for a while, particularly as the stamps were small windows onto history and geography. During the centennial of the Civil War (1961-65), the US Postal Service issued…
Read More »The NYTimes online has an ongoing series about the Civil War, started in anticipation of the 2011 anniversary year when we will see lots of attention being paid to the beginning of the Civil War. This blog has already moved in that direction. Today’s entry at the NYT site is…
Read More »Nancye Tuttle traveled to the Merrimack Repertory Theatre the other day to see and enjoy Beasley’s Christmas Party which is showing at the MRT only through this Sunday. Nancye liked the play very much, writing on her website that “Beasley’s Christmas Party is sweet, sentimental and a perfect alternative to…
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