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Garrison Keillor, author, long-time radio host of “Prairie Home Companion,” and one-time visitor to Lowell on the stage of Lowell Memorial Auditorium, has a new essay that appeared in papers all over the country this week. He titled it “Trump Is What He Is, and God Help Us Now.” He…
Read More »Student Mario Savio at UC Berkeley during the Free Speech protests in 1964.
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Governor Charlie Baker’s life is a balancing act – a Republican in an overwhelmingly Democratic state, a reasonable and enlightened moderate while the top of his party is anything but. With an entirely blue Congressional delegation, he will…
Read More »Where is the discussion? By Mimi Parseghian The Massachusetts Legislature is about to give themselves a pay raise with little attention and public discussion. The House Leadership dusted off a 2014 report which made a number of recommendations for salary adjustments. This base salary of the State Reps and State…
Read More »Web photo courtesy of ABC News Over the weekend, we saw two competing visions of America in the form of citizens standing (and marching) for what they believe is best for the country, all of it in public view on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. I wrote this poem…
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 »Gus Bickford, a long-time Westford resident and the new chair of the Massachusetts Democratic Party, spoke to about 40 Democratic activists from around Greater Lowell this morning at the Greater Lowell Area Democrats meeting at the Radisson Hotel in Chelmsford. After reviewing his impressive and extensive resume as a 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 »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).…
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