Lowell Week in Review: April 5, 2015

It was a quiet week in Lowell politics.  When I posted my notes on Tuesday’s City Council meeting, I mentioned that it had been the “least substantive” meeting of this council term.  That’s not meant as a criticism; just an observation. This coming Tuesday’s meeting contains some interesting items.  The…

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“What is Press Club?” by Roger Pin

The KhmerPost USA is a bi-weekly Cambodian language newspaper published in Lowell and distributed in communities with significantly-sized Cambodian communities up and down the East Coast (I sometimes contribute articles to the paper). In this week’s edition, an editorial by Roger Pin, the newspaper’s publisher, on the two Cambodian monuments…

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“Cool Science” ~ UML/GSE and Commonwealth’s students educate LRTA commuters about climate change

“Cool Science” is a program at UMass Lowell in the Graduate School of Education. The program allowed students across the Commonwealth to participate in a project whereby they could teach others about the science of climate change through art. For this competition,  David Lustick and Jill Hendrickson Lohmeier – both Associate Professors at…

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Lowell City Council meeting: March 31, 2015

Several procedural votes allowing sidewalk seating for downtown restaurant, etc. “Minor change to Acre plan” to incorporate Lord Overpass.  Craig Thomas from DPD explains that this is the existing Lord Overpass plan.  A small portion of it, the intersection at Fletcher Street, is within the boundaries of the existing Acre…

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