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…
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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.
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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…
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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…
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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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Cawley Stadium was alive with music and marching tonight as the Lowell High School band wrapped up Band Camp for 2010. All this week, student musicians have each day, even in the heaviest rain, worked hard to learn this year’s field show which will be performed at all LHS football…
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Back row from left: Joe Fitzpatrick, Gerry Durkin, Brendan Fleming, Curtis LeMay, Bud Caulfield and Bob Kennedy Front row from left: Tarsy Poulios, Richard Howe Sr, Brian Martin Only four councilors – Fleming, Howe, Brian Martin and Bob Kennedy – won reelection that year making it the first term for…
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Tomorrow morning (Saturday, August 28) at 9 a.m., Kim Zunino of the Lowell Historic Board will lead a tour of the School Street Cemetery. Surrounded by a stone wall in the midst of a century and a half old residential neighborhood, this cemetery is bounded by Branch, School and Middlesex…
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Video originally posted by lowellfilm YouTube video description: “Jack Kerouac historian and Lowellian Roger Brunelle talks with Suzzanne Cromwell on the banks of the Merrimack River which dramatically overflowed in March 2010. In a spontaneous moment, Brunelle expounds about the 1936 floods in Lowell, relaying how Kerouac integrated the experience…
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Today the yield on US Treasury 1-year bonds fell to 2.50%. Three months ago, it was above 3.25%. In April, it had actually peaked at 4%. A falling interest rate means that investors are worried about the long-term economic outlook of the United States. Many people have been arguing for…
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