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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. President Trump hints he wants the death penalty for drug traffickers. (He’s an unabashed admirer of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte.) Is the President calling for the death penalty for doctors prescribing Oxycontin, Percocet, morphine, and other pain killers? After all,…
Read More »Mimi Parseghian previews tomorrow night’s Lowell City Council meeting: This week City Council agenda is led by a vote “To execute the Employment Agreement between the City of Lowell and Incoming City Manager Eileen M. Donoghue.” In his Sunday post, Dick discussed the use of “employment agreement” as opposed to…
Read More »Martin Luther King Jr. in Lowell This past Wednesday – April 4, 2018, was the 50th anniversary of the murder of Martin Luther King Jr. in Memphis, Tennessee. Did you know that Dr. King preached in Lowell on Sunday, April 12, 1953? He was in the midst of his doctoral…
Read More »This is the 50th weekly installment of my Lowell in World War One series which commemorates the centennial of the entry of the United States into World War One. Here are the headlines from one hundred years ago for the past two weeks: March 25, 1918 – Monday – Berlin…
Read More »ROLL CALL MAYOR’S BUSINESS Citation – LFD in recognition of Dennis Moran, Jr. Also, citation to Lowell High Air Force JROTC for multiple first place finishes in drill competition in Dayton, Ohio. Communication – Update regarding Manager Donoghue contract. Will be discussed in Executive Session later tonight. CITY CLERK Minutes…
Read More »Mimi Parseghian previews tomorrow’s Lowell City Council meeting. This Tuesday’s City Council meeting should be an historical one. This week’s City Council meeting agenda is short, only one motion response from the Administration and three City Council motions. This will be a transition week as the new City Manager’s contract…
Read More »New City Manager Congratulations to Eileen Donoghue on her selection as Lowell’s seventeenth city manager. After voting for her unanimously on Tuesday night, the council assigned the task for negotiating an employment agreement to Mayor Samaras. This coming Tuesday night, one of the early items on the agenda is a…
Read More »On a bright yellow day in new-minted May, my phys ed class and I are out for a walk. The class is actually called Mind and Motion, with some idea that the two go together. The small urban high school where I teach has no athletic facilities—no courts, no playing…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Boston Herald photo Every time you renew your driver’s license in Massachusetts you have a chance to say whether you’d donate an organ upon your death. Waiting lists for cadaver transplants can be six to eight years, far…
Read More »MAYOR’S BUSINESS Communication – Selection of City Manager. Motion to select City Manager. Eileen Donoghue selected unanimously. Mayor to meet with Manager-elect Donoghue to negotiate employment terms. Citation – Friends of Council on Aging. Council Mercier introduces the members of the Friends who all receive citations. Motion taken out…
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