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Van Pech hosts listening session for artists
Van Pech, a candidate for Lowell City Council, hosted a listening session for artists on August 21 at the Appleton Mills on Jackson St. His campaign shared the above photo and the below press release. (Campaigns may email similar information to DickHoweJr@gmail.com for posting): The arts and culture scene is…
Read More »Lawn Signs
There’s been some speculation about whether candidate lawn signs are up too early. Until about ten years ago that would have been correct. The city had an ordinance that prohibited the placement of campaign signs until a short time before the election – maybe 20 days? Since then, in a…
Read More »Lowell Voter Demographics: 2011 City Election
This is the second of a series of posts that look at the voters of Lowell. The first broke down all registered voters by gender, party and age. This one will do the same for the 9500 or so people who voted in the 2011 city election. One caveat: I’m…
Read More »Lowell voter demographics
I spent some time this weekend with the Lowell voter database. Here are some numbers as of January 1, 2013: Total registered voters – 54,943 Number of male voters – 26,771 (49%) Number of female voters – 27,978 (51%) Democrats – 22,005 (40%) Republicans – 4,827 (9%) Unenrolled – 27,731…
Read More »Primary Predictions
Sorry but I’m not going to make any order-of-finish predictions for the city council primary. The headline was just a cheap trick to get you to read this post. I do have some thoughts on the fact that there will be a primary, assuming a few of the 21 individuals…
Read More »Steve Gendron for School Committee website
Above is a screen shot of the new Steve Gendron for Lowell School Committee website. You can find the actual website is here. Steve’s Twitter account (which is here), announces that he will be a guest on WCAP radio tomorrow morning at 8:15. Below is a portion of the “About…
Read More »2013 City Election candidate websites
The deadline for submitting nominations papers for this fall’s city election is fast approaching so the field is almost set. I’ve compiled a list of most of the candidates for city council and school committee and have listed them below in the order they would appear on the November ballot.…
Read More »Bill Samaras for City Council website now online
Bill Samaras, a candidate for Lowell City Council and the former headmaster of Lowell High School, launched his campaign website today along with a corresponding Facebook page. Here’s what the front page of the website has to say: I believe in this city. I believe in its history. I believe…
Read More »Van Pech kicks off council campaign
Here’s a press release from the Van Pech for City Council Campaign: VAN PECH OFFICIALLY KICKS OFF 2013 COUNCIL CAMPAIGN Candidate shares priorities to capacity crowd of Lowell voters Lowell, MA – Although he’s already knocked on over 2,000 doors and been meeting with voters for several months now, Van…
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