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Chancellor Meehan Speaks @ UML Health & Social Science Building Ceremony
“Chancellor Marty Meehan Opening Remarks at Health & Social Sciences Building at UMass Lowell Topping Off Ceremony on December 15, 2011. The event celebrated the near-completion of the HSSB, which is a $40 million, 69,000-square-foot classroom facility that will provide academic space to help accommodate a 30 percent increase in…
Read More »Voting with polls is the tail wagging the dog by Marjorie Arons Barron
The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. New Hampshire’s first-in-the-nation primary is supposed to be retail politics at its most pure. The idea is that the candidates meet people from all walks of life, in every conceivable kind of setting, and the people make…
Read More »‘On the Road’ Movie to Be Released in France in May
Thanks to the Beat Museum in San Francisco and its website www.kerouac.com, here’s news about a film release date for the movie version of Jack Kerouac’s legendary novel “On the Road.” The cast includes Amy Adams, who starred in “The Fighter” and Viggo Mortensen of “The Lord of the Rings”…
Read More »Globe feature on Vesna Nuon
Today’s Globe North section has a story on Hong Net of Lynn and Vesna Nuon of Lowell who both took office as city councilors in their respective cities this week. The story also gives credit to Rithy Uong for being the first Cambodian-American ever elected to a city council in…
Read More »LIHEAP Individual Allotments Increased
Yesterday the Patrick/Murray Administration announced an increase in critically needed funding for the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP), increasing the maximum benefit to help low-income residents in Massachusetts heat their homes this winter. The Commonwealth is expected to receive an additional federal funding increase in the coming weeks that…
Read More »Joe Kennedy, III to Explore a Run in the 4th Congressional District
On Facebook from David Bernstein – writer for the Boston Phoenix – this heads-up: Joe Kennedy III just released a statement “announcing today my intention to explore a candidacy for the United States Congress in the Fourth District of Massachusetts.” This looks like an interesting development for the future of…
Read More »Lowell Shovels?
An issue I’ve returned to repeatedly in winter’s past is the failure of many in the city to clear the sidewalks in front of their homes of snow thereby making it difficult and even dangerous for walkers, be they kids going to school or adults seeking exercise, to pass. While…
Read More »Mayor O’Brien of Boston and Mayor Donovan of Lowell
With the city of Lowell just having elected its youngest mayor and one of Irish descent – Patrick O. Murphy, it’s interesting to read the MassMoments story today about Hugh O’Brien. O’Brien was sworn-in on this day – January 5, 1885 – as the city of Boston’s first Irish-born Mayor. O’Brien’s swearing-in…
Read More »Paul Tsongas Gets a Mention in Kristof Column
Writing quite moderately about Mitt Romney today, NYTimes opinion columnist Nicholas Kristof reviews past charges of flip-flopping candidates and reminds of us of Paul Tsongas calling Bill Clinton “a pander bear” in 1992—there are photos of Paul holding up a stuffed panda bear at campaign rallies. I don’t know who came…
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