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Dreaming Trolley Dreams: Lowell Is Better Than Your City

January 24, 2012 By lynne Leave a Comment

Yeah, hyperbole and half. But really, isn't that what being in love with the community you chose to live in is all about? :) I normally would not post about a post on Left in Lowell that really is only of interest to us Lowellians, … [Read more...]

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Take a Break from the Debt Debate: The Lowell Folk Festival! (Updatedx2 with video!)

July 29, 2011 By lynne 3 Comments

Are you obsessively refreshing BMG and other blogs, and watching Twitter feeds and Facebook links, in order to keep up to date on the potentially disastrous debt ceiling debate? Want to stave off your political worries for a day or two … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: events, Folk Festival, free, lowell, music, summer

40B — Love it or smother it

June 15, 2010 By massmarrier 36 Comments

Lynch has had considerable experience with affordable-housing issues and 40B specifically for a couple of decades. His city has successfully added to the stock of middle-class and lower affordable units. Yet, he doesn't see 40B as a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: 40b, affordable-housing, ballot-question, bernard-lynch, election, lowell, massachusetts, repeal

Left in Lowell Endorses Eileen Donoghue for State Senate

June 1, 2010 By lynne Leave a Comment

Ever since we've been watching Lowell politics, we've observed that there are not only two (or more) "factions" on local issues, but two types of Councilors. Old school councilors are lifetime citizens, who have many familial and personal … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: 2010-elections, donoghue, lowell, state-senate

John Kerry at town hall meeting in Lowell today, with link to radio interview from yesterday

January 30, 2010 By kerryvisionary Leave a Comment

Just ahead of Senator John Kerry's appearance at a town hall meeting in the Merrimack Valley this morning, WCAP 980 Radio in Lowell, MA was kind enough to allow us to feature their interview with the Senator from yesterday at our site, John … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: john-kerry, lowell, massachusetts, merrimack-valley, radio-interview, town-hall-meeting

Does anybody care – with POLL!

October 24, 2009 By AmberPaw 46 Comments

"If at first you don't succeed, try, try gain." … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: homeless-teens, irish-potato-famine, lowell, shelters

Three Little Letters Lowell Doesn’t Want to Hear: FBI

August 31, 2009 By JimC 14 Comments

Cross-posted from Blue News Tribune. I don't often read the Lowell Sun. But it's must-see this week. LOWELL -- For the most part, City Councilors were guarded yesterday in their comments regarding the city's 10-page investigatory report … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: corruption, fbi, lowell

Staycation? You are CRAZY if you miss this!

July 17, 2009 By lynne 13 Comments

Did I mention it was free? For more info on who is playing among other things, check out the Folk Fest website. Seriously, I didn't attend my first few years living in the area, and when I did, I was kicking myself that I'd been so stupid … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: events, festival, folk, lowell, music

LeftAhead! Podcast: Bizarre Politicians and How to Cure ‘Em

July 7, 2009 By Ryan Leave a Comment

Today, on LeftAhead, Lynne, Mike and I chatted about four sets of politicians on the national, state and local levels who have made rash, illegal, unacceptable and/or bizarre decisions. We discussed Sarah Palin and her problems in Alaska, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: cahill, campaigns, deval, deval-patrick, eileen-donoghue, elections, gop, governor, leftahead, leftinlowell, lowell, lowell-city-council, lynne, mark-sanford, marry-in-massachusetts, massmarrier, palin, patrick, podcast, republican, republicans, ryans-take, ryepower12, sarah-palin, tim-cahill, treasurer-cahill

Should Lowell have a curfew?

April 6, 2009 By ACLUm blog 2 Comments

The oral argument in court today focused on the severity of the penalty and the lack of protections that the law allows.  For example,  a high school student who is at a friend's house working on a class project that takes them … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: aclu, curfew, first-amendment, lowell, youth

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Yikes.

Adam Bass@AdamBassWCCS

The idea of a Pro Life Trump supporter winning Suffolk 19 is not out of the ordinary. Winthrop is particular is much more right leaning that Revere. And Revere got severely out voted. When Capobianco had his story, that left you with two progressives. #mapoli

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.@CDCgov dir. @RWalensky, once part of MA's #COVID19 advsy board, said

"Now is not the time to relax the critical safeguards that we know can stop the spread of COVID-19 ... not when we are so close."

But @MassGovernor pushes to reopen.

Who is advising Gov. Baker now?

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JoeCurtatoneJoseph A. Curtatone@JoeCurtatone·
1 Mar

It's time to state outright that Charlie Baker's science advisory team is the Chamber of Commerce. That's why we were slow to act last year, why our public health network got ignored on vaccines & why our reopenings have flown in the face of data, expert advice & common sense. https://twitter.com/MikeConnollyMA/status/1366423893276303364

Mike Connolly@MikeConnollyMA

Just reiterating my COVID philosophy: Instead of bucking advice from the CDC and Dr. Fauci (by further reopening the Mass. economy), we should #TaxTheRich and use the new revenue to provide cash relief to people in need and small businesses while also investing in health equity.

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He’s running

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Mayor Joe Curtatone announces this is his final year as mayor of Somerville. @WBUR

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28 Feb

A Rhode Island-sized piece of ice just broke of Antarctica. The video of the breach in a 500-foot thick Brunt Ice Shelf is absolutely staggering

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