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Notes from Lowell City Council’s interviews with city manager applicants Linda Milsapps, James White and Eileen Donoghue: Linda Millsaps (interview via Skype) Opening Statement: Lifelong public servant and manager of excellent public employees. Undergrad from American University and Masters from Harvard Kennedy School, then Ph.D. from West Virginia. Focused on…
Read More »Mimi Parseghian previews tomorrow’s Lowell City Council meeting. This Tuesday’s City Council meeting should be an historical one. All public information indicates that State Senator Eileen Donoghue will be elected as the 17th Lowell City Manager and the first woman to hold that position. In addition to this most significant…
Read More »City Manager Selection This Tuesday night the city council will meet at 5 pm to interview the three finalists for the position of Lowell City Manager. The three applicants are State Senator Eileen Donoghue, MIT assistant dean James White of Marshfield, and Linda Millsaps, the director of a North Carolina…
Read More »A great new exhibit on all the logos, signs, seals and other images using for branding Lowell through the years will open tomorrow at the Mogan Cultural Center at 40 French Street from 3 to 5 pm. Digital previews of the exhibit reveal that it will present a lesson in…
Read More »This is the 49th 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 this week: March 18, 1918 – Monday – Massachusetts troops in action…
Read More »Asst CM Conor Baldwin introduces James Doneson, new leader of Department of Public Works. Mayor Samaras next introduces the three finalists for the position of city manager: Eileen Donoghue of Lowell; Linda Milsap of North Carolina; and James White of Marshfield, Mass. Councilors set 5pm next Tuesday night interviewing…
Read More »Mimi Parseghian previews tomorrow’s Lowell City Council meeting. Due to the cancellation of last week’s meeting, this week’s agenda of the Lowell City Council incorporates new items with those of last week. The first order of business is the report from the City’s CPA firm, Powers & Sullivan. The FY…
Read More »Happy St. Patrick’s Day St. Patrick’s Day is always a big deal in Lowell. I celebrated by joining Dave McKean and Walter Hickey on yesterday morning’s Acre Neighborhood Walking Tour which was part of Irish Cultural Week and also the kickoff of the 2018 Lowell walking tour season. Despite the…
Read More »This is the 48th 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 this week: March 11, 1918 – Monday – Sammies go “over the…
Read More »US Rep. Nancy Pelosi and US Sen. Charles Schumer should sacrifice their own ambition to help their nation and party. The success of attorney and former Marine Conor Lamb in this week’s congressional election in southwest Pennsylvania is further evidence of the potential for widespread victory by Democrats in the…
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