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Momentum builds for Lowell Middle East relief effort

Leaders from the Lowell region and beyond are gathering this Sunday to honor the persecuted religious minorities in the Middle East. A growing number of local politicians and church representatives will meet at St. George Antiochian Orthodox Church in what promises to be the largest event of its kind in

umass

Active shooter detection systems recommended by Senate for UMass

The Senate on Tuesday tacked onto its budget a directive for the University of Massachusetts to study the feasibility of installing on every campus a system to detect gunfire and alert the authorities. The amendment filed by West Roxbury Sen. Michael Rush requires the UMass system to look into installing

Massachusetts

Mass. Senate ready to make case for higher education funding increases

STATE HOUSE — The Massachusetts Senate is poised in the coming weeks to press the House and Gov. Charlie Baker to make larger investments in public higher education. The fiscal 2017 budget proposal (S 4) marked for released Tuesday by the Senate Ways and Means Committee will call for a $13

boston

Harvard steps may lead down a thorny path

CAMBRIDGE – The latest call by students at Harvard University for the school to purge terms or symbols deemed offensive by a vocal minority raises what could be a confounding issue: How far will the 379-year-old school go to distance itself from historic figures whose actions and social values we would

Massachusetts

Rep. Rady Mom on transforming Lowell’s urban landscape

Rady Mom (D) is the first Cambodian-American in history to be elected to a state Legislature. His extraordinary personal journey mirrors the remarkable metamorphosis of his home base in Lowell. Like many industrial cities in Massachusetts, Lowell succumbed to the ravages of urban decay in the second half of the

Massachusetts

‘Middle cities’ residents deserve the same economic opportunities as Bostonians

A Brookings Institution study made headlines in January when it found that Boston has the worst income inequality of any major American city. In doing so, the study obscured the far more punishing reality of Massachusetts cities outside Boston, which have seen far less economic growth and today resemble the

Massachusetts

Pioneer Institute calls on Baker administration to remember ‘middle cities’

BOSTON – Do smaller municipalities outside of this city feel forgotten? While Gov. Charlie Baker's $918 million, five-year economic development package slowly progresses, the nonpartisan research firm Pioneer Institute called on the administration to look outside of Greater Boston to so-called "middle cities."

Massachusetts

Tsongas backs draft registration for women

LOWELL – Niki Tsongas, the congresswoman from Lowell, thinks women should be required to register and be ready to be drafted for military service, calling it another step toward gender equality in the armed forces, according to comments reported by the Lowell Sun newspaper. The Sun posted a video of a