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11) What was the previous name for the Harvard Brewery before 1898? * The Consumers’ Brewing Company which was incorporated in 1893 12) What was the original name of the street that runs in front of the main area of the North Campus of the University of Massachusetts Lowell? *…
Read More »Growing up, at least once a week in the summertime my family would load up the station wagon, pickup my grandmother, and cross the School Street Bridge to the north side of the Merrimack River so we could enjoy some Glennie’s Ice Cream (now the site of Heritage Ice Cream…
Read More »How well do you know Lowell? Answers tomorrow. 11) What was the previous name for the Harvard Brewery before 1898? 12) What was the original name of the street that runs in front of the main area of the North Campus of the University of Massachusetts Lowell? 13) Which Lowell…
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Read More »Economist Peter Diamond of MIT is one of three co-recipients of this year’s Nobel Prize for Economics. Read the boston.com news account here. (Hey, if these guys are so smart, why can’t they get people to work within a system that is stable and productive and avoids boom-and-bust cycles, a…
Read More »Prof. Bob Forrant of UMass Lowell is a member of the editorial board of ‘MassBenchmarks,’ the highly respected UMass journal that tracks the state economy in the context of regional, national, and global conditions. The board today issued a statement about the “health” of the Massachusetts economy. Here’s the link And here’s…
Read More »E. J. Dionne, Jr., writing in the Washington Post spells out the impact of new campaign finance regulations, thanks to the recent Supreme Court decision that unleashed “third-party” political spending. He says the moneyed interests have declared war on government officials who support policies that attempt to balance the interests of…
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Read More »The whole inside back page of the NYTimes Book Review today has an essay by Lee Siegel comparing the Tea Party with the Beats (Kerouac, Ginsberg, and the other Beat Generation writers of the 1950s and ’60s). The essay is a cultural stretch in many ways, but makes for surprising…
Read More »John Merline writing for AOL News has a contrarian take on the possible GOP takeover of Congress and suggests there could be positives for President Obama if the November election puts R’s in charge of the House and/or Senate. Read his column here. Most interesting to me is his comment…
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