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Lowell High School City Manager Murphy introduces a presentation on the new Lowell High School. He explains that there were ten options but that the state suggests reducing it to four. That happened this morning at the city’s school building committee. He cautions that these are still preliminary and that…
Read More »The new president does not seem happy unless he is punishing some person or some group. The vibe coming from the White House is a punitive one. He and his crew are going to teach California a lesson for objecting to Trump’s views. Today, he offered to destroy the career…
Read More »Thanks to Prof. Sue Kim of UMass Lowell for Sharing this Baltimore Sun opinion column about the root of authoritarian control—somebody on the ground has to enforce the authoritarian ruler’s orders. As mentioned in the column, Trump and Bannon did not stop people from entering at the airports. Civil disobedience…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Set aside the friendships between Donald Trump and New England Patriots MVP quarterback Tom Brady, or coach Bill Belichick or owner Bob Kraft (who, as a young man, stood with his late wife as leading progressive Democrats), there’s still plenty of inspiration to be…
Read More »Lowell High School The New Lowell High School project continues to dominate local news. Tuesday night, the architects will do a presentation for the city council on various “conceptual options” with “very preliminary” cost estimates for each. The presentation slides are in the city council packet in case you want…
Read More »Thanks to the Huffington Post for this link to US Sen Elizabeth Warren’s fiery speech to progressive Democrats today. Read the whole speech here.
Read More »Last night a big crowd packed Luna Theater at Mill No. 5 to hear the latest on the Lowell Waterways Vitality Initiative. After introductions by James Ostis of Lowell Heritage Partnership, Mayor Ed Kennedy spoke of the importance of festivals in Lowell. He said they are important in two ways:…
Read More »Motion Responses Referendum on New High School – Councilor Belanger explains putting a referendum question on November ballot is fairly easy, but state timetable requires the city to make decisions earlier than would be needed to delay that decision until the November election. City Manager explains that the city has…
Read More »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 »Eliot A. Cohen writes in ATLANTIC magazine that we are in a “clarifying moment” in our national journey. Many conservative foreign-policy and national-security experts saw the dangers last spring and summer, which is why we signed letters denouncing not Trump’s policies but his temperament; not his program but his character.…
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