Observer Department: Opinion
Trump’s tariff tumult: Attack on small businesses caused by trade policies
As new tariffs are being imposed and re-upped by the Trump administration, many small businesses are taking a hit and having to front hefty costs when it comes to manufacturing their product and having it sent to the U.S. to be distributed. President Donald Trump has recently imposed tariffs on…
Title IX ruling will come at a cost
The NECC coordinators of Human Resources, Labor Relations, and Affirmative Action released a college-wide statement via email in March, detailing the intent of NECC to comply with executive orders and recent court rulings on the enforcement of Title IX in institutions of higher education nation-wide. In the early afternoon of…
Letter to the Editor: Latino Recognition Initiative, a national public awareness campaign
My name is Eduardo Crespo. I am a naturalized Latino U.S. citizen who immigrated from Guayaquil, Ecuador, to Lawrence, MA during my high school years. I graduated from Northern Essex Community College with an AA degree and was recognized as one of the 40 Most Successful Graduates during the celebration…
Too close to step back: Coming of age in a crumbling technoscape
To have a more meaningful understanding about the world since the advent of the internet I believe it is helpful to create a demarcation in understanding between the initial possibilities of philanthropic utopias new tech could offer and on the other hand understanding the vice grip that government money and…
Comics by Narjis Musa
Comics: The art of making you laugh at the current situation
Opinion comics by Narjis Musa, Observer correspondent
Improving Lawrence Campus
The spacious atrium of the Dimitry Building on the Lawrence campus with hand painted murals with inspiring quotes and one large glass wall like a fancy sunroom, is mostly empty. Unless Early College students are having classes, the big lobby is far from having engaged students hanging around or studying…
Good things are happening here
I know it looks like a PSA public service announcement, but I promise you it’s not. It has a well-being message. First, I’d like to apologize for this late show-up of the year of the NECC Observer. If you have seen the blue post of our newspaper all winter, you…
Shrinking of the ‘press pool’
For more than one hundred years, the White House Correspondents’ Association has been in control of the press pool, choosing which journalists get to be in the White House; now this system is being thrown out in favor of the White House choosing the journalists who get to be there.…
Diner beware
Shops and malls playing Christmas carols from open to close remind us of the list of presents we may try to purchase. Also, it’s the season to go out and chat in real time, face-to-face, having a special meal with those special ones. Whether you want to pamper yourself for…
