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With the Costa Concordia disaster fresh in everyone’s minds, I suppose you could get a pretty good deal booking a Mediterranean cruise these days, if the companies that run these ships survive the big hit to their stock, that is. I’ve never been on a cruise (and the chances of…
Read More »While going through an accumulated pile of newspapers (both paper and electronic) this weekend, I read a couple of stories about a $2 fee Verizon was charging customers who paid bills by debit or credit cards and the resulting anger among effected customers. A front-page story by Todd Wallack in…
Read More »Today in the sun-drenched lobby of the Tsongas Center at UMass Lowell, the 14th annual Lura Smith and Family celebration of the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. took place. For two hours, the crowd was transported and inspired by prayer, music, dance and inspirational words. The annual “Living…
Read More »The East Pawtucketville Neighborhood Group will meet on Monday, January 23, 2012 from 7:00-8:30 pm at the Pawtucket Congregational Church at the corner of Mammoth Road and VFW Highway. The purpose of the meeting is to discuss community issues and members of the Lowell and UML Police Departments will be…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Senate candidates Elizabeth Warren and Scott Brown are adopting a statesman-like posture in calling for the elimination of campaign ads paid for by outside groups. Each candidate, in doing so, can boast of support for a better, less…
Read More »Elizabeth Warren in Lowell, November 2011 In the January/February edition of Mother Jones Magazine, writer Tim Murphy talks about the revenge of Wall Street and its target Elizabeth Warren and her campaign for the U. S. Senate in Massachusetts. For her sin of taking on the banks, Warren is unrepentant and unbowed by the attack-mode…
Read More »John Edward, a resident of Chelmsford who earned his master’s degree at UMass Lowell and who teaches economics at Bentley University and UMass Lowell, contributes the following column. Many Greater Lowell legislators made a big mistake in 2011. My State Representative, James Arciero, was one of them. In this column,…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Check it out. Mitt Romney should “get a grip” in considering how punitive the United States should be in responding to China’s often unfair (but enormously successful) industrial policy. So said former US Trade Representative Charlene Barshefsky after…
Read More »With Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. being remembered tomorrow in a special way across the nation, I went back to a prose poem written after a family visit to Washington, D.C., in the early summer of 2004, another presidential election year. We were months away from seeing Barack Obama make news with a…
Read More »James Whistler “Nocturne, Blue and Silver: Battersea Reach” – Whistler’s emphasis on sensation and atmosphere over detailed description has been compared by some to the philosophy underpinning Gardner’s whole museum. “I see the entire museum as a correlative to these shadowy tone poems,’’ wrote the poet and critic Wayne Koestenbaum…
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