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The Lowell City Council meets at 5:30 pm in special session to discuss the process for selecting a new city manager and a new city auditor. The following is not a verbatim transcript but my notes taken as the councilors speak. For brevity’s sake, I just use the last names…
Read More »Last Wednesday night I was the guest of a UMass Lowell Community Psychology class. The students had all attended the prior evening’s Lowell City Council meeting. That was the meeting at which there was a lengthy discussion about the location of the city’s Nativity Scene and at which City Manager…
Read More »On the first Wednesday in January in each of the past five years I’ve ventured to the south campus of UMass Lowell to speak with students in a Community Psychology class. The course runs “intersession” (i.e., between the fall and spring semesters) and meets for many hours on many consecutive…
Read More »Knowing now that City Manager Lynch resigns effective March 10, 2014 towards the end of this meeting, the rest of this seems a bit anticlimactic but here it is for posterity. Given the debate that immediately proceeded Lynch’s announcement, it’s my sense that none of the councilors were aware of…
Read More »I’m transcribing the discussion at tonight’s Lowell City Council meeting and the first hour was taken up by a motion to restore the city’s manger (i.e., nativity scene) to city hall. It was an interesting discussion so I decided to post it separately here. Be sure to read all the…
Read More »Welcome – or welcome back – to Jack Mitchell. He’s rejoined the Lowell blogosphere after a very brief hiatus by launching his own site called “Lowell Live Feed.” His first post, “Inaugural”, lays out his objectives for the site and also breaks some news with a story about an erroneously…
Read More »Thanks to the more than 50 people who attended today’s Lowell Social Media Conference at LTC which was a co-sponsor of the event. Planning has already begun for the Second Annual Lowell Social Media Conference with a target date of the first Saturday in December. This morning began with a…
Read More »At its meeting yesterday, the Lowell Election Commission certified the results of the 2013 city election. The official results will have changed slightly due to the inclusion of 19 provisional ballots that were counted after researching their viability. Listed below are the candidates in order of finish. The first number…
Read More »The meeting opens with the City Manager introducing the new Superintendent of Police, Bill Taylor. Says Taylor was an early advocate of community policing but also is a leader in the use of data to drive police work. Supt Taylor says he is honored to have been selected and is…
Read More »The first post election city council meeting. Vice Chair Joe Mendonca is chairing the meeting. Mayor Murphy is at an energy conservation summit in Boston tonight. A modification of the traffic flow on Fletcher Street near the intersections of Whiting and Dane Street that involves elimination of curbside parking to…
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