www.dailyfinancereport.com via aol.com is reporting an encouraging trend in employment/unemployment nationwide. America’s bedraggled labor market got a boost today with the latest weekly initial jobless claims unexpectedly plunging 21,000 to 434,000 — their lowest level since July. A Bloomberg survey had expected the report to show a total of 455,000…
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Read the following from Henry A. Giroux, and get a sense of the outrage on the other side of the political spectrum, the side that hasn’t been given the kind of free publicity by media outlets everywhere that the Tea Party has received in the past six months. A moderate-minded reader might consider…
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Much has been made about several head-to-head blows delivered by defenders in the NFL two weeks ago. Some of the offenders were heavily fined for their actions and the league quickly announced it would suspend any player who hit a “defenseless player” in the head. After last week, the NFL…
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His name is Jimmy McMillan and he is running for governor of New York as the nominee of the “Rent is Too Damn High” Party. And even with heavy hitters little Andrew Cuomo and Carl Paladino on the stage, Jimmy steals the show. McMillan, nicknamed Rambo, Papa Smurf, and The…
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Tony Sampas serves up some close-ups of the Club Diner
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Community Teamwork Inc held it’s Local Heroes award ceremony this evening to honor nine people or entities whose activities during the past year of made Greater Lowell a better community. Besides this year’s honorees, several dozen prior award recipients were present this evening. Together they all served as a tangible…
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Today’s NYTimes includes this article about the Harlem-based Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture of the NY Public Library acquiring a massive archive of papers from author and performer Maya Angelou. The story prompted me to recall Maya Angelou’s visit to Lowell in 1989 as a guest of Middlesex Community College. Following is…
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Tony Sampas and his camera venture out into the North Common in the evening.
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“All the President’s Men” is one of my favorite movies, and I believe the dynamic duo of “Woodstein” should be remembered with a statue on the mall in Washington, DC, some day, but I’m not a fan of the Washington insider books that Bob Woodward has been churning out for…
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Meg Whitman, the former president of eBay who has spent in excess of $140mil of her $1.6 billion net worth running for governor of California as the Republican nominee, recently commented that the reason she came to California thirty years ago because back then so much was getting done in…
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