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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…
Read More »One of the challenges about the real estate that forms the Cawley Stadium complex is that it’s a patchwork of parcels that have been compiled by the city over more than one hundred years. In this post, I try to trace the ownership chains of the various parcels to provide…
Read More »Mimi Parseghian shares her observations on how the Lowell High debate is changing the political process in Lowell. Political Consequences of the Lowell High Debate By Mimi Parseghian The “high school decision” is going to make or break some political lives. The City of Lowell has not seen this kind…
Read More »New Lowell High School Talk of the new Lowell High project dominated the city this past week. There was Tuesday’s council meeting, the “committee of the whole” council gathering on Thursday that included 16 public speakers, a blizzard of comments on Facebook, and the bombshell news that the intended footprint…
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