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Flashback Friday: Community Policing Grant, 1994
Here’s a photo from September 1994 taken on Bridge Street outside the Centralville Police Substation. Massachusetts Governor Bill Weld (right) presents a check for $600K+ to Lowell Mayor Richard Howe Sr (left) and Police Chief Ed Davis (center).
Read More »“The Fighter” movie trailer
[youtube]1_zijS_UAtw[/youtube] Here’s the first trailer for the filmed-in-Lowell, Mickey Ward bio-pic, “The Fighter.” This clip is just 2:30 seconds long but there are so many recognizable scenes from Lowell – Cupples Square, Florence Road, Middlesex Superior Court, many shots of Micky O’Keefe – that it’s a bit like watching a…
Read More »10 Kearney Square, Lowell
Photo-blogger Tony Sampas captured this view of the Fairburn Building at 10 Kearney Square in Lowell. I’ve passed by this building thousands of times (and have been inside hundreds of times – my dad’s law office was on the fourth floor for twenty years) and never before noticed this architectural…
Read More »Post Primary Observations
Some random thoughts on the election that I scribbled down during the past 24 hours: I never would have guessed that the iconic image from the 2010 primary election would be a pair of men’s dress shoes. Chris Doherty used the shoes with the hole in them to good effect,…
Read More »1st Middlesex Senate: 2010 and 1996 compared
Eileen Donoghue prevailed in yesterday’s Democratic primary for the 1st Middlesex State Senate District. The last time there was a contested primary for that seat was in 1996 when Steve Panagiotakos defeated Matt Donahue. Here’s a town-by-town comparison of the two elections: Dunstable Eileen Donoghue – 139 — Chris Doherty…
Read More »Tsongas comes out swinging
I visited the Kirk Street headquarters of Niki Tsongas last night after the polls had closed. Once it became clear that Jon Golnik would win the Republican primary, Tsongas wasted no time in bringing the fight to her opponent, highlighting Golnik’s failure to vote in local elections for eight years,…
Read More »Donoghue wins and other results
Eileen Donoghue defeated Chris Doherty in the 1st Middlesex State Senate race. With all the votes counted but those from Pepperell, Donoghue received 6069 votes (62%) to Doherty’s 3699 (38%). Donoghue won every community in the district, taking Lowell 4241 to 2387; Dunstable 139 to 105; Groton 391 to 305;…
Read More »Primary Election Day
It’s finally here. Through the day I’ll update this post with my observations. Please use the comment feature to do the same. As I emerged from the house for my early morning run, I found a neon green card protruding from under the door mat urging me to “Vote Chris…
Read More »Election eve electioneering
I arrived home from work to find an answering machine full of robocalls and one post card in the mailbox. That was from Eileen Donoghue and it featured a pair of shiny black men’s dress shoes with this: With serious issues facing the commonwealth such as job creation, the economy,…
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