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The City Manager & the License Commission
When I wrote my post about last week’s cable TV gathering of City Manager Bernie Lynch and members of the local media (new and old), I omitted this exchange: Chris Scott (Lowell Sun) to Lynch: “Would you ask for the resignation [of the members of the License Commission]?” City Manager…
Read More »Mill City Toastmasters Club
The ability to speak well in public is critically important in many lines of work. An established organization devoted to improving such skills, Toastmasters International, now has a club in Lowell. The Mill City president, Dan Barrett, sent me some information about the local chapter and extends the following invitation…
Read More »Lowell Mass Memories Road Show now online
Back in March a team from the Mass Memories Road Show, a roving digital history project from UMass Boston that seeks to capture historical images from every community in the Commonwealth, visited Lowell. With the help of dozens of local volunteers, the team scanned photographs brought to them by local…
Read More »Tornado Watch
As the skies darkened yesterday afternoon, my cell phone began buzzing with alerts from the National Weather Service. Here they are: 3:36 pm – Tornado Watch in effect for Middlesex County, MA until 9 pm 5:27 pm – Flash Flood Warning for Middlesex County, MA until 8:30 pm 6:24 pm…
Read More »Fair Treatment
One thing all of us want is to be treated fairly. Monkeys want to be treated fairly too as is evident from the experiment depicted in the following video: [youtube]HK8Mp3OJYjk[/youtube] The above is actually a short portion of a TED talk given by Frans de Waal, an expert on primate…
Read More »City Manager meets the media on LTC
On the occasion of the sixth anniversary of his hiring as Lowell City Manager, Bernie Lynch invited members of the media, mainstream and new, to appear with him for 90 minutes on Lowell Telecommunications last evening and discuss the issues of the day. Joining the manager from City Hall were…
Read More »Busy Day for Bloggers
Today starts and ends with some of my fellow bloggers. At 6am on City Life on Lowell cable TV channel 8, a bunch of Lowell bloggers will gather to discuss the issues of the day with co-hosts George Anthes and John McDonough. That show will be replayed at 4pm on…
Read More »Detail of City Hall & Market Mills smokestack
Photo by Tony Sampas
Read More »Governor to sign Health Care Cost Containment bill
Boston.com is reporting the Governor Deval Patrick today will sign the first-in-the-nation Health Care Cost Containment bill that was passed by the legislature at the end of July. The Act, Senate Bill 2526, is complex and far reaching and attempts to transform the way health care providers are paid, switching…
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