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More and more “For Sale” signs are popping up in my neighborhood. I expect that they’ll be there for a while. A real estate recovery seems elusive and the market continues to stagnate at best. The statistics suggest that the market could be eroding. As I wrote in this month’s…
Read More »We’ve had a Netflix subscription for several years and use it mostly to compress a season of “Mad Men” or “Friday Night Lights” into a week rather than several months. But once in a while a movie will come to my attention and I’ll stick it in the queue. Eventually…
Read More »web photo courtesy of washingtonpost.com I saw the aerial-view pictures of the “restore America’s values” rally in Washington, D.C. The organizers and attendees deserve credit for an impressive looking gathering. A lot of people. They put their shoes on and showed up to make a point and pump themselves up. The…
Read More »Thanks to Kim Zunino for her informative tour of the School Street Cemetery this morning. Dedicated 16 years before Lowell was incorporated as a town, School Street, also known as “Lowell Cemetery No. 1” is the city’s oldest public burial place. Roaming around the markers, names from the pre-Lowell period…
Read More »Regular reader Mary G visited the Middlesex County 4H Fair in Westford, shared some pictures, and had this to say: One thing that comes to mind when I attend the 4H Fair every year, is how impressed I am with the pride that these young contestants show for the animals…
Read More »The Moses Greeley Parker Lectures, Middlesex Community College, and UMass Lowell have teamed up to offer two important public lectures on economics this fall at the UMass Lowell Inn & Conference Center. Both programs are free and include a light buffet lunch. Here are the details: Monday, Oct. 18, 12 noon…
Read More »Just one more column. Timothy Egan of the NYTimes goes after the fact-less and clueless in our civic culture who are giving the term “know-nothing” a new spin. Read Egan here, and look for the NYT if you appreciate the reasoning.
Read More »David Brooks wrote a column this week in the NYTimes extolling the virtues of German economic policies. So far, more than 200 readers have responded to his opinion piece, and lots of them do not agree with what he said. Read the readers’ comments here, and get the NYT if…
Read More »Bob Herbert and Charles Blow of the NYTimes today comment on the Glenn Beck rally in Washington, D.C., that coincides with the anniversary of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech. Read Bob Herbert here and Charles Blow here, and consider buying the NYT if you appreciate the…
Read More »In September 2001, my wife and son for the first time picked grapes to make jelly from the venerable vine that crawls all over our modest backyard arbor. We had been coaxing the vine back to health for a couple of years before we got a large enough yield. In…
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