Email us!
LiL Fundraising for Elizabeth Warren!
Lowell Area Bloggers/Forums
- Art is the Handmaid of Human Good
- Blog from the Office of the City Manager, Lowell MA
- Captains Log (Paul Belley)
- Choosing a Soundtrack
- Corey Sciuto
- Downtown Lowell Blog
- Dracut Forum
- Dracut Musings
- Dracut Politics
- gerrynutter'slowell
- JackieDoherty.org
- Lowell Deeds
- Lowell Police Dept WebNews
- Lowell Public Schools Blog
- Lowellest Common Denominator
- lowellresident
- Middlesex Community College Blog
- MV Homlessness Blog
- RichardHowe.com
- Right-Side-of-Lowell
- Tewksbury Issues
- The New Englander
Lowell Politics
Mass Bloggers
- - Leftyblogs MA Blogroll - Almost all of my favorite lefty blogs in Massachusetts can be found here. Linking here keeps my own blogroll short but still up to date! Below are some other MA blogs which are not listed at LB.
- H2Otown (Watertown, MA)
- MargeBLOG (Williamstown)
- Michael Forbes Wilcox (Western MA)
- The Gazebo (Worcester area)
Media in Lowell
- Chelmsford Mass News
- Community Connections The online archive of many of WUML's radio shows.
- LTC :: Our community cable access channel (8 & 10). Excellent people, I've worked with them before.
- Open Source :: Chris Lydon's new show, broadcast on WUML and WGBH locally.
- The Lowell Sun :: Love it or hate it, it's the big newspaper in town.
- WCAP radio :: Talk radio in Lowell - still locally owned, and in transition.
- WUML :: The student- and community-run radio station of UMass-Lowell. Lynne hosts a radio show, Thinking Out Loud, 10am on Fridays.
Media in MA
Other Daily Reads
Politics Online
- City Council Agenda Past City Council agendas, posted in a mostly timely manner
- Lowellma.gov Official city website
Progressive Local Orgs
Snark and politics
The Arts in Lowell
- 119 Gallery - Art gallery with exhibitions of many local artists, interesting events, and living, breathing culture.
- Arts League of Lowell (ALL) - Artist community group, a recent but welcome addition to the arts scene in Lowell.
- Brush Art Gallery - Come and meet working artists in their natural habitats!
- Cultural Organization of Lowell (COOL) - Great local calendar of events.
- Lowell Opera Company - Community opera.
- Lowell Philharmonic Orchestra - Local community orchestra.
- Lowell Poetry Network
- Lowell Rocks - List of live music events
- Merrimack Repertory Theatre - A local theatre "presenting an exciting mix of contemporary and new plays in historic downtown Lowell."
- OUtlET - Paper and online 'zine making a splash locally with events in art, poetry, music, and everything in between!
- Revolving Museum Contemporary, local, public art space with a plethora of children's programs and art by and for the community.
- The Fine Print - Socially aware, themed, arts and issues periodic publication available throughout Lowell.
- The Image Theater - Theatre company which puts on all original works by local playwrights.
- Whistler House Museum - A great collection of contemporaries of Whistler at his historic birthplace.
March 24th, 2008 at 2:42 pm
You know, consolidating all of Jim Flood’s business with the city into one subcommitee makes a lot of sense.
What?
Oh. Nevermind.
March 24th, 2008 at 5:39 pm
On a side topic, but related in that it is on TV tonight, there is the first of a 2-part Frontline program in Channel 2 tonight at 9 pm, entitled “Bush’s War”. Part 2 is on Tuesday at the same time.
March 24th, 2008 at 8:21 pm
The Boot-Hydro engineer has given a detailed briefing of the river and control system, but it still leaves some questions. He has said that in very high flows, there is little that can be done to reduce the river height as it is driven by the geometry of the river and the flow of water going through it.
What is debatable is how the flashboards on top of the dam affect the river geometry. It is intuitive to the majority that they tend to “back up” the flow, making the flooding situation up-river worse. The engineer says they really don’t make a difference, because at those flow rates they fail and the dam is reduced to its basic height. However, the “failure” is not so black-and-white, as there is partial failure which may not fit his models.
Making the flashboards controlable, or more easily failed should help, but with very high flow rates it won’t likely make much of a difference.
March 25th, 2008 at 9:11 pm
That was an ugly meeting last night. Kudos to the the engineer from Boot Hydro for keeping his cool. There was a fair amount of anger directed at him.
The issue of the flash boards is definitely something that should be looked at more. There were some very good points raised by the gentlemen representing the Pawtucketville Citizen’s Council in reference to the flashboards and their history.
While there are probably some minor changes that can be made by Boot Hydro I think the people who live along the river and the brooks (including myself) are at mainly the mercy of mother nature.
I’m crossing my fingers that we don’t see another 100 year flood this year.
March 26th, 2008 at 6:39 am
Here’s a news flash…don’t buy in a flood plain!