Elizabeth Warren: too much too soon

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Check it out. Elizabeth Warren insists she is not running for President, most recently this past Sunday on Channel 5′s On the Record program. This is a good thing.  There’s been too much  bandwagon buzz about a possible…

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Lowell Week in Review: December 15, 2013

Here are some observations on the past week in Lowell politics. Most of the items covered below come from last Tuesday’s City Council meeting which I covered in detail in a previous post. Downtown Businesses The item that dominated the discussion at last Tuesday’s City Council meeting was the state…

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What Linda Biehl Learned from Nelson Mandela: A UMass Lowell Greeley Peace Scholar Story

Linda Biehl of California was the first Greeley Scholar for Peace Studies at UMass Lowell in 2008. She was on campus and in the community for three weeks, meeting people, talking, sharing her remarkable, inspiring, and challenging story. Her daughter was a casualty in the sometime violent struggle to end…

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