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City Census Arrives The City Census arrived in the mail on Friday. Be sure to answer it promptly. Not doings so will result in you being marked “inactive” on the voting list. This annual requirement comes from Massachusetts General Laws chapter 51, section 4 which mandates “an annual street listing…
Read More »Pioneer blogger Andrew Sullivan is writing a weekly essay for New York Magazine about what’s going on. Here’s the latest.
Read More »I’ll have my newest book, “Lowell Municipal Elections: 1965-2015” for sale this coming Saturday, March 4, 2017 from noon to 5 p.m. at Mill No. 5’s “Pulp and Press” event. The book contains the results of every city council and school committee race for the past 50 years, plus stories…
Read More »Vote: To approve the four unranked options for Lowell High. Councilor Elliott moves to forward all four options to the state. But first there are 39 registered speakers to hear from: Chris Meehan of Kearney Drive – keep LHS downtown. Lives in Cawley neighborhood. Predicts putting LHS on Cawley will…
Read More »Hat tip to Fred Sperounis and Deborah Boucoyannis from Facebook and Talking Points Memo for this interview with community organizer Marshall Ganz. Judis: How do you see this solidarity coming to pass. Doesn’t there have to be leading organizations at this point? One suggestion I’ve heard is that progressives have…
Read More »Lowell High Update Just a couple of procedural notes on the Lowell High project: This coming Monday, February 27, 2017 at 6:30 pm there will be a special meeting of the Lowell City Council in the Mayor’s Reception Room at City Hall. According to the meeting notice, the purpose of…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Getty Images Immigration advocates called President Barack Obama the “Deporter in Chief.” His administration deported record numbers of immigrants while Republican critics insist he was soft on illegals. Now comes Trump, with his vastly expanded list of immigrants who…
Read More »City Councilor Dan Rourke shared the following message about the new Lowell High School: Everyone Benefits from a New High School By Dan Rourke The past few months have been the most engaging, debatable, sometimes frustrating, and by far and away is becoming the most contentious time during my short…
Read More »We get two great alumni magazines regularly – one from UMass Lowell and the other from Boston College… the Winter 2017 BC magazine just arrived with a terrific article about an old Lowell friend… Seamus Connolly. in The Legacy – folklorist and musician Mick Moloney tells us of the great…
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