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Tom Moses finalist for Hudson, Mass job
Gerry Nutter reports that the city of Lowell’s Chief Financial Officer, Tom Moses, is a finalist for a top position in Hudson, Massachusetts. Gerry’s full post is here.
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Blogger Meet-up – Book event in Tewksbury
This Saturday (October 5) at 2 pm at the Tewksbury Public Library at 300 Chandler Street, Dan Kennedy, the founder of the Media Nation blog, will give a talk about this new book, The Wired City. This is a great chance for all who are active in the Lowell blogosphere…
Read More »City Council and Cross Point: Pivotal Vote on Cross Point in 1994
September 27, 2013
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PaulM
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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…
Read More »The Stand Out
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…
Read More »Stammtisch
Once you get out of the tourist areas in Germany and into the smaller cities and towns, every gasthaus (a small, local restaurant that also serves prodigious amounts of beer) has a stammtisch. A stammtisch is a table, usually round, that is positioned near the entrance that is occupied by…
Read More »Martha Coakley in Lowell
Martha Coakley visited the Owl Diner in Lowell yesterday as part of the multi-city kickoff tour of her gubernatorial campaign. I wasn’t able to be there, but this photo, which I pulled from the Coakley for Governor Twitter feed, shows Attorney General Coakley, accompanied by State Senator Eileen Donoghue, listening…
Read More »Carl Sciortino for Congress ad
Carl Sciortino is a state representative from Medford who is running for the Congressional seat left vacant when Ed Markey was elected to the US Senate. A Sciortino video is getting some attention these days. Here it is: [youtube]Z3S1zcbWkoM[/youtube]
Read More »The House Party
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…
Read More »Lt Gov candidate Mike Lake in Lowell
Mike Lake, a candidate for the Democratic nomination for Lt Governor in 2014 was in Lowell this evening to meet supporters and interested voters at Babylon Restaurant at 25 Merrimack Street. I wanted to hear what Mike had to say so I dropped in. He spent a lot of time…
Read More »Martha Coakley and Larry Summers
There was an interesting juxtaposition of stories on the pages of the Boston Globe this morning. On the front page was the news that Larry Summers, former Secretary of the Treasury under Bill Clinton, former president of Harvard, and former chief economic adviser to President Obama, had withdrawn his name…
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