As I noted in a previous post – former Massachusetts State Senate Minority Leader and candidate for Lt. Governor in 2010 Richard Tisei of Wakefield has already decided to jump into the race in the 6th Congressional District currently represented by John Tierney. He’s expected to make it official next week.…
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To say this election yielded interesting results in an understatement. For the council, at least, it wasn’t a wholesale dismissal of incumbents as was the case in 1993. The same cannot be said for the school committee. In fact, I would call this an anti-school committee election. Two challengers, Kim…
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2011 Election Results Note: Incumbents in italics City Council 1. Rita Mercier – 5305 2. Rodney Elliott – 4114 3. Kevin Broderick – 3880 4. Patrick Murphy – 3732 5. Marty Lorrey – 3709 6. Bill Martin – 3692 7. Vesna Nuon – 3611 8. Ed Kennedy – 3586 9.…
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Yesterday I attended the UMass Lowell – Parker Lecture at the UML Inn & Conference Center forum on the 2012 Presidential election . Chancellor Marty Meehan moderated a panel that consisted of former Republican gubernatorial candidate Charlie Baker, the Boston Herald’s Joe Battenfeld, the Lowell Sun’s Jennifer Myers, and the…
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In today’s Globe – veteran writer Frank Phillips and colleague Noah Bierman cover the fall-out from yesterday’s announcement of the new Congressional District Map for Massachusetts. Phillips had written over the weekend about the House plan to carve Lawrence out of the 5th District into the 6th – which many…
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We do not say that a man who takes no interest in politics is a man who minds his own business; we say that he has no business here at all. —Pericles (495–429 BC), speaking about citizens of Athens and politics
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Its presidential political season again and that means Saturday Night Lives parody machine is cranking again. Here is a skit featuring one of Governor Rick Perry’s embarrassing incidents.
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John Edward, a resident of Chelmsford who earned his master’s degree at UMass Lowell and who teaches economics at Bentley University and UMass Lowell, contributes the following column. So far, the Occupy Wall Street movement is just that, a social movement. The protestors have much to protest. Our socio-economic system…
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The joint committee on redistricting released its proposed Congressional redistricting map today. Contrary to what was reported in the Globe last week, Lawrence stayed in the same district as Lowell, only it’s no longer the Fifth, it’s now the Third. Lost were two Greater Lowell communities, Billerica and Tewksbury, which…
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There were three neighborhood-sponsored candidate forums in this City Council election. Video was recorded of each candidate who attended and the recordings were posted to YouTube. A nice feature of YouTube is that it lets you see how many times each video was viewed, giving us a type of straw…
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