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To call The Climate War “a riveting tale,” as the cover quotes Bill Clinton as saying, would be an understatement. There have been many books written about current events in the past few years that deserve a large amount of praise, but Eric Pooley’s is the first to talk about…
Read More »Come January, 2011 with a reorganization of the Massachusetts Film Office – Executive Director Nick Paleologos will be out of a job. In the new year, the state’s film office will be administered through the state Office of Travel and Tourism. As noted in the Globe earlier this month – the office of Housing…
Read More »Lowell Gallery owner and all around good guy Guy Lefebvre sent me this nugget from an old Lowell newspaper. Some of the party platform planks have flopped and flipped through the years, but the rhetoric remains modern. This is from 1834, when Lowell was still a town, two years before…
Read More »The top story in the NYTimes online at this hour is the loss of six more US soldiers in Afghanistan, killed when a van loaded with explosives blew up at an outpost manned by US/NATO and Afghan troops. Many Afghan and US soldiers were wounded in the attack, for which the…
Read More »MassMoments reminds us that on this day – December 11, 19995 – fire destroyed three buildings at Malden Mills in Lawrence. This company produced the well-known Polartec fabric. The loss of 3,000 jobs was a catastrophe in the making for the communities of Lawrence and Methuen. The compassionate promise of the mill…
Read More »Brian McGrory of the Globe and boston.com must have seen the premiere of the Micky Ward film story, “The Fighter,” because he comes out swinging on the side of UMass Lowell Chancellor Meehan and Lowell in his latest column. Read it here, and get the Globe if you want more.
Read More »I pulled this from www.huffingtonpost.com — a commentary by George Lakoff of UC Berkeley, who for years has been talking/writing about “framing” public statements from a liberal or progressive (I detest these labels now) viewpoint. Read what he thinks about the communications problem that’s damaging President Obama’s policy prospects. What he…
Read More »web photo courtesy of gerrynutterslowell.com I worked closely with Pat on Matt Donahue’s two winning City Council races in 1993 and 1995 and was always interested in his political “take” when we’d bump into each other on Market or Central streets, where he always seemed to be coming or going.…
Read More »According to the Associated Press as reported on WBUR.org – Robert Manning – Chairman of the University of Massachusetts Board of Trustees resigned his position today. The chairman of the University of Massachusetts board of trustees has resigned after Gov. Deval Patrick weighed in on the search for a new system president.…
Read More »In a FOX News interview posted at HuffingtonPost.com, Massachusetts Congressman Michael Capuano (D) expressed his frustration with President Obama: In an interview with Fox News in which he compared the recent negotiations process to a car sale, with Republicans being the salesmen and Obama the hapless buyer unwilling to get tough…
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