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Here are the motions that have been filed for this week’s Lowell City Council meeting: By Councilor Kennedy – Request City Council amend the proposed changes to Section 176, Article 1 (rental property Ordinance) by excluding owner occupied two family properties. By Councilor Mercier – Request the City Manager have…
Read More »Mike Lenzi, one of the Lowell representatives to the Greater Lowell Technical High School, has submitted his formal resignation from that school committee to be effective October 11, 2012. Lenzi, who had purchased a home in Dracut earlier this summer, was expected to resign at some point. Who will succeed…
Read More »Waiting for the presidential debate to begin in a couple of hours, I just tuned to NESN to see some of the last game of the 2012 season for the Boston Red Sox which color commentator Jerry Remy in tonight’s intro repeatedly described as “embarrassing.” Somewhere I read that this…
Read More »Mike Luciano formerly taught political science at UMass Lowell and occasionally offered posts and comments on this site. Now he is a Senior Editor at PolicyMic which describes itself as “the first democratic online news platform to engage millennials in debates about real issues.” Here’s some of an article he…
Read More »Congratulations to UMass Lowell for hosting tonight’s US Senate debate between Scott Brown and Elizabeth Warren. I was fortunate to be in attendance and very much enjoyed the carnival atmosphere outside the arena before the debate as supporters of both candidates filled every open space, holding signs, wearing t-shirts, and…
Read More »I don’t usually comment on anything contained in the Sunday Lowell Sun “Column“, but one item this week caught my attention. It wasn’t that developer David Daly employed former city manager John Cox as a “consultant” on his proposal for a housing development on Westview Road, although that did explain…
Read More »That stands for “Emerging Technologies and Innovation Center.” Photos by Tony Sampas
Read More »John Silber, the former president of Boston University and the 1990 Democratic nominee for governor of Massachusetts died yesterday. The Globe has a big story about Silber’s passing and I’ll leave it to that newspaper to record the highlights of his life, but I thought readers might be interested in…
Read More »In the division of home chores, I often draw grocery shopping. As I push the cart up and down aisles, I sometimes wonder why I buy one brand rather than another. Price and taste are two factors but intangibles are often at work. That’s certainly the case when it comes…
Read More »That’s the title of the new Lowell Plan video that was unveiled at this morning’s breakfast. I’ve embedded the video below for your viewing, but before pressing “play”, here’s a preview of what you’ll see: The 6+ minute video features an upbeat musical track but no narration. Instead, there’s a…
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