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The much awaited decision in Perry v Schwarzenegger was issued today. The full decision may be found here. I just finished reading it (which at 138 pages took me a while). Here’s how the judge’s reasoning went with a couple of excerpts mixed in. The judge spent some time discussing…
Read More »The Wall Street Journal is reporting a significant legislative win for Democrats in the U.S. Senate, made possible by the support of the two Republican Senators from Maine. Speaker Pelosi will call the House members back from the break to vote next week. The President is expected to sign the bill,…
Read More »The NYT today has an update on the Bill and Melinda Gates/Warren Buffet trolling-for-billionaires initiative. They are having a great deal of success in getting people to pledge to give at least half of their riches to charity. Read the article here, and consider buying a copy of the NYT if…
Read More »It was great to see all the kids downtown today at Lowell’s Boarding House Park enjoying one of the “Kids” sessions of the Summer Music Series. Despite the heat everyone seemed to be having fun under good supervision and the watchful eye of Deputy Superintendent of the Lowell National Historical…
Read More »The Wall Street Journal reported the other day that Barnes and Noble has put itself up for sale. Barnes & Noble Inc., put itself up for sale Tuesday, succumbing to pressure from shareholder activists as digital books erode the traditional business of the nation’s largest bookstore chain. The New York-based…
Read More »Here’s another installment in our State Election database – 2004. The real excitement that year was at the top of the ticket as Senator John Kerry attempted unsuccessfully to replace George W Bush as President. For this and all other annual election results, please visit our ELECTIONS page. The big…
Read More »Tonight on Larry King Live rapper Wyclef Jean will announce his candidacy for the Presidency of Haiti If I can’t take five years out to serve my country as president, then everything I’ve been singing about, like equal rights, doesn’t mean anything (Wyclef Jean). Jean was born in Haiti in…
Read More »Why are we starting to talk about a Kerouac Center for Creativity in Lowell? Aside from the facts that Lowell was founded by inventors and entrepreneurs, that the city is a contemporary hub of the creative economy, and that higher education institutions like UMass Lowell and Middlesex Community College demonstrate the positive results…
Read More »Natural selection was Darwin’s key insight, the idea that truly made him famous. The idea of evolution existed before he was born, but there was no credible mechanism. Darwin, and Alfred Russell Wallace, uncovered that mechanism. Natural selection has been defined as “the non-random survival of randomly varying replicators.” Before…
Read More »I’m not a big fan of the Obama Administration’s financial team. Too many are the products of Wall Street and have twisted the old “What’s good for GM is good for America” phrase into “what’s good for Wall Street is good for America.” Back in the early 1990s when banks…
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