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Thanks to this morning’s rain, I was able to upload the videos of last night’s Lowell Citywide Neighborhood Council candidate forum on “Finances, Taxes & the Budget.” The fifteen council candidates in attendance – Paul Belley and Vesna Nuon were unable to attend – were asked to spend their two…
Read More »The Lowell Citywide Neighborhood Council presented its third City Council Candidate Forum tonight at the Wang Middle School. Set in the school auditorium, candidates sat on the stage behind a row of tables while organizers and audience members occupied the auditorium seats. The topic for this evening was “Finances, Taxes…
Read More »Congresswoman Niki Tsongas and US Senate Candidate Elizabeth Warren answer questions at endorsement event in Lowell today canal-side in downtown Lowell. After teaching a class at Harvard this morning , Elizabeth Warren made her way to Lowell early this afternoon to accept an important endorsement of her candidacy for the…
Read More »The first poll from the new UMass Lowell Center for Public Opinion is a joint effort with the Boston Herald—and the results show Sen. Scott Brown (Rep.) and candidate Elizabeth Warren (Dem.) in a near tie if voters today had to choose between them. Read the Center’s poll results here. The…
Read More »This Monday night from 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm at the Wang Middle School at 365 West Meadow Road, the Lowell Citywide Neighborhood Council will present its third City Council candidate forum. The topic for this gathering will be “Finances, Taxes & the Budget.” Nothing beats seeing the candidates in…
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Read More »The dig site on the grounds of St. Patrick’s Church in Lowell, MA Photo by ANNE RUTHMANN PHOTOGRAPH (Irish America magazine, October-November 2011 edition) Checking in at Dave McKean’s LowellIrish blog gave me this bit of news. The story of the collaboration between UMass Lowell and Queens University Belfast on…
Read More »In today’s Boston Globe correspondent Scott Kirsner speculates on the viability of start-up clusters created outside university-rich Boston hub. Citing the recent start-up seeds sown in Lowell and Fall River, Kirsner notes: The hope in Lowell is that a new incubator, dubbed M2D2, will attract medical device start-ups and spur…
Read More »“Lowell Poster” by Richard Marion (c) 2011. See more artwork at www.richardmarion.net The 32nd Annual Textile Regatta on the north bank of the Merrimack River in Lowell is tomorrow, Sunday, October 2
Read More »Here’s the audio of Lowell City Council candidate Fred Doyle’s radio broadcast of earlier today: [youtube]zVudPvnOp9E[/youtube] As much as his verbal jabs seem unusual in today’s political environment, this is nothing new for Fred as you can judge for yourself by listening to THIS vintage broadcast from an earlier era.
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