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2011 Election Results Note: Incumbents in italics City Council 1. Rita Mercier – 5305 2. Rodney Elliott – 4114 3. Kevin Broderick – 3880 4. Patrick Murphy – 3732 5. Marty Lorrey – 3709 6. Bill Martin – 3692 7. Vesna Nuon – 3611 8. Ed Kennedy – 3586 9.…
Read More »Yesterday I attended the UMass Lowell – Parker Lecture at the UML Inn & Conference Center forum on the 2012 Presidential election . Chancellor Marty Meehan moderated a panel that consisted of former Republican gubernatorial candidate Charlie Baker, the Boston Herald’s Joe Battenfeld, the Lowell Sun’s Jennifer Myers, and the…
Read More »John Edward, a resident of Chelmsford who earned his master’s degree at UMass Lowell and who teaches economics at Bentley University and UMass Lowell, contributes the following column. So far, the Occupy Wall Street movement is just that, a social movement. The protestors have much to protest. Our socio-economic system…
Read More »The joint committee on redistricting released its proposed Congressional redistricting map today. Contrary to what was reported in the Globe last week, Lawrence stayed in the same district as Lowell, only it’s no longer the Fifth, it’s now the Third. Lost were two Greater Lowell communities, Billerica and Tewksbury, which…
Read More »There were three neighborhood-sponsored candidate forums in this City Council election. Video was recorded of each candidate who attended and the recordings were posted to YouTube. A nice feature of YouTube is that it lets you see how many times each video was viewed, giving us a type of straw…
Read More »The polls open tomorrow morning at 7 and remain open until 8 pm. A list of polling locations and a group of frequently asked questions are available on the Lowell Election Commission website. The candidates for the city council are Kevin Broderick, Rodney Elliott, William Martin, James Milinazzo, Joe Mendonca,…
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Read More »When, at the end of her introduction of Elizabeth Warren at the Butler Middle School today in Lowell, Congresswoman Niki Tsongas said “They will rue the day they didn’t appoint her” to lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, she tapped into the enthusiasm of the overflow crowd and of the…
Read More »The birch tree that I planted back in 2004 along the property line has grown tall with three distinct trunks. Last Sunday morning, with its leaves weighed down by heavy wet snow, each of the three trunks was bent over nearly touching the ground (photo above). While there were no…
Read More »Frequent contributor Jim Peters shares his thoughts on national politics: I have been trying to make sense of Facebook, and I am getting nowhere. It says that I have something like 182 friends, but I do not even know that many people, let alone as friends. One friend I would…
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