NECN Many in swivet over Sanofi sign One big way that former Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis came to statewide fame – and ultimately the 1988 Democratic nomination for president – was as a late 1960s crusader against the excesses of the billboard industry in the Bay State. Now 79 and teaching at Northeastern University and in California, Dukakis has come back to […]
Highway expansion threatens historic Motown studio “United Sound Systems ought to be the linchpin, the centerpiece of a 21st-Century Detroit soundscape,” said Carleton Gholz, 37, who founded the Detroit Sound Conservancy. “It is Exhibit A of Michigan and Detroit’s impact on global sound. It should be alive and cooking. “Preserving it is going to take a lot of money and a […]
Obama Revamps $8 Billion Coal Program Amid Objections The speech revived accusations from coal advocates that Obama is waging a “war on coal.” The industry had sought to popularize that refrain in swing states that produce coal during the 2012 presidential campaign, without much effect. Obama won in Ohio, Virginia and Pennsylvania, where coal producers targeted much of their efforts. Christopher Bosso, a […]
Artscope The Paintings of Edward Telleria Ordinarily, a corridor serves to hurry one’s feet along its narrow symmetry and be gone, but in this corridor, just outside the glassed-in precincts of Northeastern University’s Gallery 360, Edward Telleria’s paintings seem to warp space, bidding the viewer to linger in a moment of arrival.
Are Jobless Benefits Leading to Higher Unemployment? The latest entry in the debate comes from Rand Ghayad, a graduate student atNortheastern University who has already won attention for his work studying the plight of the long-term unemployed. In an earlier paper, Mr. Ghayad and a colleague looked at the well-known relationship between unemployment and job openings. Ordinarily, the two indicators move together, in a predictable pattern: More […]
Don’t Blame Unemployment Insurance for Our Jobs Crisis The Great Recession has not been a great vacation. Four years since the recovery officially began, many people are still unemployed not because they don’t want to work, but because, with three job-seekers for every job opening, they can’t find any work. And they are trying to find work. Indeed, a new paper by Rand Ghayad, a visiting scholar at the […]
New English Review Igbo Jews of Nigeria Strive to Study and Practice A much more recent phenomenon has been a movement among some Igbo to match their tradition of Jewish descent with the learning of Hebrew and the practice of Judaism. Outside of Nigeria, there has been growing interest in the country’s Igbo Jews, who now number somewhere between 3,000 and 5,000. In 2012, New York filmmaker Jeff […]
Wave of arrests continues to plague NFL “You’re hoping it’s a teachable moment, where they can grasp the topic, understand it for more than it has been sensationalized for, and have a takeaway for them to where their thought process actually gets improved through it,” said Dan Lebowitz, the executive director of Sport in Society at Northeastern University in Boston. Though the […]
Are we creating the next housing bubble in Mass.? By 2009, the depths of the last recession, building permits had fallen to fewer than 8,000, and in 2012, three years after the recession, building permits issued for housing units were still less than half the number of 2005. Meanwhile, the state’s population grew by more than 400,000, according to the census. “There’s simply no […]
Downsizing doomsday? WITH BIDDING WARS heating up, construction booming, and mortgage rates still at historic lows, the housing market is finally on the rise — but a new problem might be on the horizon. And the baby boomers now pondering downsizing could be to blame. When empty nesters decide en masse to try and unload those sprawling homes in Newton […]
The Seattle Times Games to keep teenage girls enthralled with math, science On Friday, some of the best gaming and education minds in the area gathered at the Northeastern University-Seattle campus to kick off an ambitious, long-term project to create just such a game. G.A.M.E.S. — short for Girls Advancing in Math, Engineering and Science — includes participants from Northeastern, the University of Washington’s Center for Game […]
Student loan rate set to double Senator Elizabeth Warren, a Massachusetts Democrat who also campaigned on lowering student loan debt, had pushed for tying the student interest rate to what big banks pay to the Federal Reserve and lowering loan rates to 0.75 for one year. But Warren’s bill, her first piece of standalone legislation, never made it to the Senate […]