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Democratic State Convention The Massachusetts State Democratic Convention was held Friday night and yesterday at the DCU Center in Worcester. In a gubernatorial election year like this one, the purpose of the convention is twofold: To nominate Democratic candidates for statewide office, and to endorse one of those candidates for…
Read More »Mimi Parseghian shares her observations on past week in Lowell politics: The FY 2019 Lowell City Budget is on line. This year’s edition has 682 pages, the largest ever. With the ability to use software that presents graphs, tables, side bars, images as well as eye-catching and easy to read…
Read More »Mimi Parseghian provides a preview of tonight’s Lowell City Council meeting: The City Manager’s section of the Agenda dominates this week’s City Council Meeting. It is mostly in preparation for the submittal of the FY 2019 Budget. It is essential information; not just for policy wonks but for all of…
Read More »Today at the Centralville Veteran’s Park in Lowell, a new monument was unveiled in honor of Normand Brissette of Lowell who died in the atomic bomb blast at Hiroshima. A survivor of that blast, Shigeaki Mori, who was 8 at the time of the explosion, devoted his life to uncovering…
Read More »Here are the remarks I delivered yesterday at the Greater Lowell Veteran’s Council Memorial Day Ceremony at Lowell Memorial Auditorium. I serve as the Council’s historian. One hundred years ago today, the Allied armies in France faced a crisis. The new Soviet government in Russia had signed a peace treaty…
Read More »Memorial Day This morning the Greater Lowell Veterans Council will host its annual Memorial Day Remembrance Service. The first part of the event begins at 10 am at the Ladd and Whitney Monument in front of City Hall. There, the roll of local veterans who have died in the past…
Read More »Here’s Part II of my coverage of Tuesday’s Lowell City Council meeting. Part I of the coverage was posted last night. HCID Garage Presentation – This garage will be the city’s presence in the Hamilton Canal District and is has to set the standard for what is expected from…
Read More »Due to a commitment on Tuesday night, I was unable to watch the live telecast of the Lowell City Council meeting. I watched on on-demand video replay tonight and took the following notes, however, the meeting was more than three hours long so I only covered half of it tonight.…
Read More »Mimi Parseghian shares her observations on past week in Lowell politics: By now most of us have read about the disturbance last week in City Council chambers which prevented the Environmental and Flood Issues Sub-Committee from meeting. The aftermath of the public discussion focused solely on the protestors and their…
Read More »This is the 56th installment of my Lowell in World War One series which commemorates the centennial of the entry of the United States into World War One. Here are the headlines from one hundred years ago for the past two weeks: May 20, 1918 – Monday – Renewal of…
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