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The Lowell Sun website now has the newspaper’s endorsements for city council. Eight candidates were endorsed, three incumbents and five challengers. Incumbent councilors who received the endorsement were: Ed Kennedy Rita Mercier Joe Mendonca Challengers who were endorsed were: Dan Rourke Jim Milinazzo Stacie Hargis Derek Mitchell Corey Belanger That…
Read More »The biggest development this week will come as a surprise to most: it’s the launching of a new blog in the city. Learning Lowell is written by two young people, Chris and Aurora, who recently moved to Lowell. They are making a determined and enthusiastic effort to learn Lowell’s history,…
Read More »Nancy Greene, a Lowellian who lived elsewhere but who recently moved back to the city, contributes another essay, this one about an event for women candidates that was held last weekend at the 119 Gallery. Here’s Nancy’s report: Last Saturday, October 19th, I attended Stacie Hargis’ Meet-Up at the 119…
Read More »“Safety is, at its core, a feeling. Statistically, we know that most of us won’t ever be direct victims of a crime such as gun violence. But we are all victims when we do not feel safe in our own community.” —Van Pech Van Pech, a candidate for Lowell City…
Read More »Jay Mason of 350MA of Greater Lowell, a local group that advocates local action and policies on the environment and sustainability, believes that these policies must be addressed at the local level. He has submitted a question that he hopes all candidates for Lowell City Council will answer. His question,…
Read More »City Council candidate Stacie Hargis just sent the following statement and asked that I post it. Here it is: “I’m personally disgusted. No women should be spoken about in that way, even in this one incident of misjudgment. As far as being qualified to ensure the process of democracy as…
Read More »The big story this week was the controversy that arose over the appointment of Gerry Nutter to the Election Commission. Seven city councilors said “yes” to the appointment. The two who said “no”, Rodney Elliott and Ed Kennedy, cited things Gerry had written on his blog as the reason for…
Read More »Here’s a new feature that I’m launching today. “Lowell Week in Review” will be published each Sunday (typically earlier in the day than this one) and will review political events in Lowell during the past, especially those that got attention on the local blogosphere. Here goes . . . At…
Read More »The following motion appears on the agenda of the upcoming October 15, 2013 Lowell City Council meeting: 24. C. Elliott. Req City Mgr modify Council email system This issue first came up at the council meeting this past Tuesday night. Here’s how I described it in my report on that…
Read More »In the following video produced by LTC in conjunction with last night’s council candidate forum, I urge residents to vote in the upcoming city election: [youtube]LX_cfo_U-Wc[/youtube]
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