Left In Lowell

Just in case you missed it, the Lowell Sun has posted on its website a commentary and biography of the candidates for this year’s Lowell municipal elections.

It appears that the paper’s web site will use the same format for this year’s local elections as the one they successfully implemented for the MA-05 Congressional race. They have set up a site called City Election 2007 where articles and other information are being posted. It is a great tool; thanks Sun!

And speaking of our local paper, tomorrow night, the big three, Editor Jim Campanini, City Editor Chris Scott and City Hall Reporter Mike Lafleur are discussing the City Council and School Committee elections on Sun Talk. If you miss it, they archive the podcasts for a month.

From what I understand, so far only a couple of candidates’ forum/debaters have been set up. It would be a tragedy if the people of Lowell did not have an opportunity to hear the candidates discuss the issues we are all interested in.

WCAP radio is interviewing each candidate for about an hour; the first half hour is dedicated to questions from the two co-hosts, George Anthes and John McDonough; and the second half hour is phone calls. Unfortunately, the radio station does not have the capability to posting these interviews on their web site. Maybe they can partner with the blogger who automatically records the program and have him post it on his site.

Lynne and I are working on finalizing the questions and we will be sending them out to the candidates and the responses will be posted on this site.