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Happy Spring!
The angle of the sun, the budding of the trees and shrubs, the pollen count, the coming of colors over the landscape ~ all tell us that it’s Spring!
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“Cool Science” ~ UML/GSE and Commonwealth’s students educate LRTA commuters about climate change
“Cool Science” is a program at UMass Lowell in the Graduate School of Education. The program allowed students across the Commonwealth to participate in a project whereby they could teach others about the science of climate change through art. For this competition, David Lustick and Jill Hendrickson Lohmeier – both Associate Professors at…
Read More »New Downtown Report, Parking Woes, Business Mix, Etc.
Lowell Live Feed on Facebook has a discussion thread about a new report on Lowell’s downtown and the related issues of parking, business mix, etc. I began to comment on the thread, but my comment got long so I decided to post it here on the blog. I think Yogi…
Read More »A modest proposal for the House Speaker by Marjorie Arons-Barron
The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Three Massachusetts Speakers indicted, the most recent, Sal De Masi, sent to the slammer for eight years. With Massachusetts reeling from the scandalous pattern, Representative Bob DeLeo became the man of the hour in 2009 when, on becoming…
Read More »My Memories of the Blizzard of “78 ~ North Tewksbury and Lowell
My colleagues Dick and Paul have shared their memories of those days in early February of 1978 known now as the Blizzard of 1978. Checking the archive I found this narrative of my own experiences. I remember the Blizzard of ’78 as a challenge to dig out and feel reconnected…
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‘Mill Power’ Talk @ Tewksbury Library Postponed
Please note that due to extreme weather (cold cold cold) forecast for today and tonight, the Tewksbury Public Library has postponed my talk scheduled for this evening about my new book, “Mill Power: The Origin and Impact of Lowell National Historical Park,” until later this winter. Watch here for the…
Read More »Ed Brooke won and lost grace by Marjorie Arons-Barron
The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. When two-term Massachusetts Senator Ed Brooke woke at 3:30 in the morning on November 7, 1978 the election was already over. And just after 8 p.m. that evening, as the first votes trickled in, his long-time aide Roger Woodworth…
Read More »Sizing up Deval Patrick’s legacy by Marjorie Arons-Barron
The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. I confess to being seduced by Governor Deval Patrick. Not literally, of course, but almost always being won over by his charm. It happened the very first time I met him at a house party, nine years ago, when…
Read More »NYPD officer assassination fuels furor by Marjorie Arons-Barron
The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barrons own blog. I have never been a fan of Al Sharpton. I look at him and see Tawana Brawley, the late eighties phoney rape case that Sharpton embraced in such an inflammatory way. I have always seen him as someone who has…
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