“Where does he stand on Iraq?” the Sun asks.
Is this just because the press just wants to make the campaign for Congressman in the Massachusetts 5th District about the war in Iraq?
Why isn’t a race in the 5th district going to be about economic development in Massachusetts? About the loss of local industry and agriculture? [...]

I have heard references made to a Master Plan developed for Dracut
approximately a decade ago. The determination made was the people did not
want to attract business. I find this difficult to believe, unless of
course, the question was asked to garner this answer.
There are many hard working individuals that have started businesses [...]

If they wanted help from Deval Patrick, maybe they should have gone out and got subprime mortgages on all the farms…

Plea made for Patrick to help save dairy farms
By Hillary Chabot, hchabot@lowellsun.com Lowell Sun
BOSTON — Representatives from Greater Lowell have asked Gov. Deval Patrick for $3.6 in emergency funds to save the state’s remaining 167 [...]

School Committee member May Paquette joined Dennis Ready on Town Talk, a regional talk show produced in Chelmsford and played throughout the Greater Lowell area.
Racing from meeting to meeting, Paquette fit in an interview with Dennis just prior to heading over to Dracut to participate in the Candidate’s Forum.
Dennis and May covered some of the [...]

 

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“With Sullivan and Smerlis on my side, the Republicans can win this race. — Jim Ogonowski”
With the news yesterday that Lawrence Mayor Mike Sullivan and talk show host Fred Smerlis have decided not to run for the Massachusetts 5th District seat being vacated by Marty Meehan, Ogonowski is being green lit to get the Republican [...]

By Dennis Shaughnessey, Lowell Sun
DRACUT — A new town hall, revamping Town Meeting and the school superintendent’s contract.
All grist for the mill as candidates for selectmen and School Committee in the May 7 town election squared off last night in a debate that was televised on Dracut Cable Access Television and sponsored by the Candidates [...]

Just as I like gridlock at the federal level, I like the current situation at our own Board of Selectmen.
At the federal and state levels, gridlock works best to stop them from doing much damage. We’ve pretty much seen that whenever the government tries to solve a problem they just make matters worse and raise [...]

From an audio recording of Ogonowski’s Announcement on Tuesday morning, April 24th that he is running for Congress in the Massachusetts Fifth Congressional District.
To get the scene right, you need to visualize the old farm, the little children playing, and the wind chimes ringing in the spring breeze:
Welcome to the fifth congressional district,
I’m Jim Ogonowski,
I’ld [...]

I stopped over to watch Jim Ogonowski announce that he is a candidate for the 5th Congressional District of Massachusetts.
A father, husband, citizen farmer, Air Force Colonel, small business owner, and a victim of 9-11, this man gave voice to the the long history of his family, where they came from, and where they [...]

 

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