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The entry below is being cross posted from Majorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. I’ve written often that college students need to hear more, not fewer controversial points of view, that they need to learn how to function in the marketplace of ideas. That’s what college is all about and how kids…
Read More »The Lowell Walks summertime Saturday morning series of guided walks of downtown Lowell begin this Saturday, June 10, 2017 at 10 a.m. from Lowell National Park Visitor Center at 246 Market Street. The topic of this week’s tour is the Western Canal which I will lead. The tour will take…
Read More »If you’ve visited expecting the standard report on the city council meeting, sorry to disappoint. I did tune in last night for the special meeting of the council which was intended to provide a mass of information about the various options for Lowell High School. But the information had all…
Read More »The Boys & Girls Club will be inducting its second Hall of Fame Class this year and this Friday, June 9, 2017, is the deadline for nominees. There are a number of nominees already, but the Club want to have as many as possible. The first Hall of Fame induction…
Read More »This is the tenth installment of my Lowell in World War One series which commemorates the centennial of the entry of the United States into World War One. Here are the headlines from one hundred years ago this week: June 4, 1917 – Monday – Kronstadt sailors threaten to attack…
Read More »Massachusetts Democratic State Convention The 2017 Democratic State Convention was held in Worcester yesterday at the DCU Center. While this would normally be an “off” year and sparsely attended because there is no state election in 2017, this year’s convention was packed with more than 5000 delegates in attendance including…
Read More »NYTimes web page has a lead story about how the Republican Party and its financiers first sold to the public and then politically embraced the view that the facts and forecasts for global warming or climate change are “fake science.” There’s a lot of criticism of how the Democratic Party…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. No, no, don’t click off. President Donald Trump is good for one thing. He is challenging me to expand my vocabulary. How many new ways can I find each day to say ignorant, childish, incurious, narcissistic, malignant, erratic,…
Read More »In the New York Times, scholar and activist Bill McKibben calls Trump’s decision to cancel U.S. participation in the Paris Climate Accord “stupid and reckless.” It’s looking more and more as if Pres. Trump is doing things, making decisions, and appointing people just because he can—not because the purpose is…
Read More »The Evolution of City Budget Documents By Mimi Parseghian This past Tuesday, the Lowell City Council approved the FY 2018 City Budget presented by City Manager Kevin Murphy and his financial staff. As I looked through the Budget on the City’s website, I reflected how far we have come in…
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