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Adhering to the rule that all politics is local, let’s begin with the 18th Middlesex Rep race By now everyone knows that Rady Mom won this election and that he won it by a large margin.  He received 3847 votes to Fred Bahou’s 2386.  Of the twelve precincts in the…

Although Charlie Baker defeated Martha Coakley in this year’s gubernatorial election, Coakley won Lowell with 10,364 votes to Baker’s 8,915.  As for the others on the ballot for that office, Falchuk got 661 votes; Lively got 208; and McCormick got 210. Here are the precinct-by-precinct results for the governor’s race…

Rady Mom surprised me again.  Back on September 9, I didn’t expect him to win the primary, but he did.  Yesterday, I thought that he would win but I also thought it would be very close.  It wasn’t.  In the end, Rady beat Fred Bahou by 22 percentage points.  Here…

Question 1 – A YES VOTE would eliminate the requirement that the state’s gas tax be adjusted annually based on the Consumer Price Index.  YES – 10,002; NO – 9,068 Question 2 – A YES VOTE would expand the state’s beverage container deposit law to require deposits on containers for…

Here are the results of contested races in Lowell direct from City Hall: Governor Coakley – 10,364 Baker – 8,915 18th Middlesex State Rep Rady Mom – 3,847 Fred Bahou – 2,386 Congress Niki Tsongas – 14,683 R. L. Wofford – 5,054 US Senate Markey – 13,293 Herr  – 6,132…

Election Day Tuesday is the state election.  Here’s a rundown of what will appear on our ballots here in Lowell: US Senate – Democrat Ed Markey, who was elected Senator in a special election in the spring of 2013 to fill the vacancy created when John Kerry became Secretary of…

John Edward teaches economics at Bentley and UMass Lowell. He’s a frequent contributor of columns on economic issues Question 4: A YES VOTE would entitle employees in Massachusetts to earn and use sick time according to certain conditions. Question 4 would make paid sick leave available to many Massachusetts workers…