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“Meanderings” by Jim Peters

The latest from regular contributor Jim Peters: One of my good friends told me the other day that he could not read my blogs sometimes because they were so full of history and notes on historical facts.  So, I promised him a new Meanderings.  Here it is.      I…

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Lowell City Council Meeting: November 10, 2015

Vote authorizing City Manager to execute Massachusetts School Building Authority feasibility study agreement relative to Lowell High School.   CM Murphy explains that on November 18 at the MSBA meeting the city is expected to be “invited in” to the feasibility study process which is 3 months earlier than had been…

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Mehmed Ali: War and Peace

Fred Faust, principal of The Edge Group, Inc., a real estate consulting firm, previously was an assistant to U.S. Senator Paul Tsongas. He shares the following essay: This is another entry in a series about people in the Greater Lowell area who have taken initiative and achieved special things including…

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Lowell Week in Review: November 8, 2015

City Election Voters opted to stay the course on Tuesday, reelecting all incumbents on the ballot including eight city councilors and two school committee members. Even those elected already had connections with city government: Jim Leary, the new city councilor, was an incumbent school committee member; three of the four…

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Lowell Election By The Numbers

Some facts about last week’s city of Lowell election: Registered Voters in Lowell: 59,265 Number who voted on Tuesday; 10,714 Turnout percent: 18.1% Average council votes cast per ballot: 6.0 Average school committee votes per ballot: 3.7 Precinct with highest per ballot CC vote: 9-1 (6.8 votes) Precinct with lowest…

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2015 Lowell Election: Turnout by Precinct

This past Tuesday, 10,714 of the 59,265 registered voters in Lowell voted in the city election. That’s a turnout percentage of 18%, but voter participation was not spread evenly across the city. Instead, just a few sections of the city yielded the bulk of all votes. For electoral purposes, Lowell…

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