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Smith Baker Center – high and low
Smith Baker Center – high and low – photos by Tony Sampas
Read More »Purging Pawlenty
[youtube]Z195iu2DUmE[/youtube] Here’s a pretty good commercial launched by the Tim Pawlenty for President campaign just before he dropped out of the race after his third place finish in the Ames, Iowa Republican straw poll on Saturday. While Pawlenty, before his exit, was pandering to the extremists who dominate the nomination…
Read More »“Resolve deficit” by John Edward
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. ******** Now that we have the debt ceiling crisis resolved… Before leaving on vacation in late July, I penned that opening to…
Read More »J. Myers Update on Smith Baker Renovation Project
Jennifer Myers in today’s SUN reports on the latest step in the City of Lowell’s effort to redevelop the Smith Baker Center on Merrimack Street near City Hall. Kudos to the SUN for making this Page One news. Her Facebook page has additional comments also. Allen Ginsberg and friends reading…
Read More »from ‘Dearborn Suite’ by Philip Levine, US Poet Laureate
Following is an excerpt from the poem “Dearborn Suite” in the collection “News of the World” by Philip Levine (Knopf, 2009). . Dearborn Suite . 1. Middle-aged, supremely bored with his wife, hating his work, unable to sleep, he rises from bed to pace his mansion in slippers and robe,…
Read More »A view from Lee Street
A view from Lee Street: Bon Marché and St Joseph’s Shrine of the Worker — by Tony Sampas
Read More »Lowell Sun Parent Company MediaNews Group To Offer a Digital Subscription
The Associated Press through many media outlets is reporting that the Denver-based MediaNews Group Inc. is launching a pay wall – digital subscription model – for some content on the websites of 23 of its smaller newspapers in California, Massachusetts, New Mexico, Pennsylvania and Vermont. The digital subscription model doesn’t…
Read More »From MassMoments: Boston Police Vote to Unionize on August 15, 1919
MassMoments reminds us that on this day August 15, 1919 policemen in the City of Boston seeking better wages and working conditions voted to unionize. Wages for the policemen were meager – about 29 cents an hour – and stagnant for decades. Their workday was long and they worked 13…
Read More »Economist James K. Galbraith Sorts Out the Mess in LA Times
University of Texas economist James K. Galbraith takes a crack at explaining what is going on with the economy and what Team Obama got wrong in 2009. Read his op-ed piece in the LA Times that I picked up from poet Garrett Hongo on Facebook.
Read More »Warren Buffet Offers to Help
In today’s NYTimes, financial titan Warren Buffet has some words for the Congressional super-committee as they look for ways to get the nation’s financial house in order. For a start, raise taxes on those people most able to afford to contribute more to the federal pot. He points to the example…
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