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Julie Mofford, a former staffer at the Lowell Historic Preservation Commission, who currently lives in midcoast Maine where she writes and works as a museum and historical society consultant, shares this story about government censorship with a Lowell connection: As Lowell Historic Preservation Commission’s representative on the Kerouac Committee, I…
Read More »The following real estate sales took place in Lowell last week: November 3, 2014 – Monday 69 Agawam St for $355,000. Prior sale in 2006 for $390,000 145 Cross St for $232,000. Prior sale in 2010 for $75,500 1461 Pawtucket Blv Unit E-11 for $140,900. Prior sale in 2005 for…
Read More »Adhering to the rule that all politics is local, let’s begin with the 18th Middlesex Rep race By now everyone knows that Rady Mom won this election and that he won it by a large margin. He received 3847 votes to Fred Bahou’s 2386. Of the twelve precincts in the…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Governor-elect Charlie Baker is off to a good start. He was gracious to losing candidate Martha Coakley on election night and the day after. He struck the right tone with Deval Patrick in discussing the transition. Pushed to…
Read More »Although Charlie Baker defeated Martha Coakley in this year’s gubernatorial election, Coakley won Lowell with 10,364 votes to Baker’s 8,915. As for the others on the ballot for that office, Falchuk got 661 votes; Lively got 208; and McCormick got 210. Here are the precinct-by-precinct results for the governor’s race…
Read More »The excitement of this political week has us returning to the archives to remember the live and legacy of the Kennedy family’s maternal grandfather – famed John “Honey Fitz” Fitzgerald. Just two days ago his great-grandson Ted Kennedy, Jr. launched his political career at the state level getting elected to…
Read More »This has been a big week in local and Massachusetts politics. Tom Menino – a beloved, long-term, some would say iconic Mayor of Boston – died before his time. The mighty and the meek celebrated his life. The white-hair and supportive arms of Bill Clinton enveloped the family as pre-schoolers…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Tip O’Neill famously said all politics is local. Yesterday, Republicans won big by turning that adage on its head. They nationalized state races and turned President Obama’s unpopularity and his administration’s failures into anvils around the necks of…
Read More »Rady Mom surprised me again. Back on September 9, I didn’t expect him to win the primary, but he did. Yesterday, I thought that he would win but I also thought it would be very close. It wasn’t. In the end, Rady beat Fred Bahou by 22 percentage points. Here…
Read More »Question 1 – A YES VOTE would eliminate the requirement that the state’s gas tax be adjusted annually based on the Consumer Price Index. YES – 10,002; NO – 9,068 Question 2 – A YES VOTE would expand the state’s beverage container deposit law to require deposits on containers for…
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