I was interested to hear two people in two days refer to the consequential vote by the Lowell City Council in 1994 to put the City on record as backing the new owners of the Wang Towers, which were re-born as Cross Point. On Wednesday night, at a panel discussion…
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A total of 6696 of 55,708 registered voters (12%) cast their ballots in today’s primary election. Here are the results: 1. Rita Mercier – 3681 2. Rodney Elliott – 2764 3. Bill Martin – 2748 4. Dan Rourke – 2704 5. Ed Kennedy – 2652 6. Jim Milinazzo – 2541…
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The video has become a requirement in today’s campaign world. Most local campaigns are all about social media, too. Not everyone makes full use of the options on the web, but more often than not the candidates are going digital. It was a ground-breaking move when local candidates started making…
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In this space I’ve written about the house party and the “time” as building blocks of a political campaign. Another staple of any campaign is the “stand out.” Some people call this “holding signs,” and the insiders refer to this activity as “viz” or “doing a visibility.” The stand out…
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Vote 17. The Lowell-based campaign to allow for voting at 17 years old has been going on since 2010. The United Teen Equality Center (UTEC) has made an extraordinary effort on this issue. If all the young people in Lowell who have been pushing this change registered to vote when…
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In this space I wrote about a political house party the other day. Another building block of the local campaign is “the time,” a term with aromatic political roots that is not used as much in Lowell these days, but is familiar to politicos in places like South Boston and…
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Reminder for the next GLAD Meeting This coming SATURDAY! Greater Lowell Area Democrats Regular Breakfast Meeting Saturday September 21, 2013 at 8:00 AM SHARP! Independence Grill at the Radisson Hotel Rte. 110 in Chelmsford Please join us at this meeting of area Democrats. Marie Sweeney, GLAD Chair For more information: sweeney133@verizon.net AGENDA: The regular agenda…
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This is the tenth in a series of posts showing some historical data from the 2011 city election. Each post shows how one candidate on the ballot in the 2013 city election performed in the 2011 election. Here is thirteenth place finisher Corey Belanger. The information presented below is organized…
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In our democracy one of the revered institutions is the New England town meeting, the equivalent of a political common where voters gather to make decisions together under the one person-one vote rule. In the state houses, city and town halls, and our national congress representatives who are elected by…
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