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Last Monday night famed author Stephen King visited and spoke to students at UMass Lowell. This video was originally posted by umasslowell

The video incorporates the full build-out scenarios of the Hamilton Canal District project, the UMass Lowell expansion and other developments in the pipeline for the city of Lowell. http://www.lowellplan.org/ This video was originally posted by umasslowell

Stephen King is coming to UMass Lowell on December 7. King’s appearance marks the debut of the new UMass Lowell Chancellor’s Speaker Series. Tickets to the Dec. 7 event go on sale to the public Friday, June 1 and are $30 (plus $2 facility fee) for general admission and $50…

The following post is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. This fall, after 27 months of bitter negotiations, the Boston Teachers Union accepted a contract providing new forms of teacher evaluation and remediation for under-performing teachers. At the same time, they turned thumbs down on extending the school…

This morning major news outlets are reporting that Mitt Romney told a group of his supporters that he lost the election because President Obama give “gifts” to certain groups. In a conference call Wednesday afternoon with his national finance committee, Mr. Romney said that the president had followed the “old…

This video shows some interesting memorabilia from the Harvard Brewery in Lowell. captainbirch originally posted this video.

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. You can find it here. Congress returns to work tomorrow, and there are a few reasons to be hopeful that the two parties may be able to negotiate a solution to the fiscal crisis, the so-called fiscal cliff that…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Just as the Boston Herald was unable to sway voters with  obsessively demeaning Elizabeth Warren as an affirmative action princess “Fauxcohontas,”  so too did the Boston Globe fail to run John Tierney out of office, using barrels and barrels…

The entry below is being cross-posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Massachusetts finally did it!  It elected a woman to the U.S. Senate.  And what a woman she is!  After a miserable campaign start, in which she turned off even her supporters by appearing too prim, preachy, professorial and sometimes suffocatingly earnest,…