VOTE NOVEMBER 5th IN LOCAL ELECTIONS – HERE’S WHY ITS IMPORTANT November 5th is Election Day for cities in the Merrimack Valley. In Methuen and Haverhill voters get to decide who their mayor will be for the next two years. In Lawrence, Mayor Dan Rivera has two years left in his term and cannot […]
The Paying Attention! Podcast is recorded in front of a live studio audience at the Studio 21 Podcast Cafe, a United Podcast Network you can subscribe to the audio podcast Here If you enjoy our Debates please consider making a $1 donation Methuen Mayoral Debate Between Neil Perry and Jen Kannan Methuen Central District (Final Election) City Council […]
By: John Cuddy -Oct.2019 Dracut’s Pat Walor was born on his family’s farm in Peabody, Massachusetts in 1923 – the second youngest of eleven children. His father was a dirt farmer (Pat’s own description of a vegetable farmer). He recalls his weekly trips into Faneuil Hall in Boston to sell their vegetables on commission. A […]
By: Dani Lengevin – Oct. 2019 “How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don’t think,” Adolf Hitler. This should be the current administration’s mantra. As far as I can see, Trump’s administration and most of his followers don’t think or at least have checked the part of their brains that has a conscience […]
By: Brian Genest – Oct. 2019 Where there’s smoke, there’s usually fire, especially in Dracut. Just ask town firefighters. As the result of a number of smoldering issues, members of the International Association of Fire Fighters Local 2586, joined by the Professional Firefighters of Massachusetts, picketed outside the board of selectmen’s meeting, before bringing the […]
By: Rep. Linda Dean Campbell – Oct.2019 One of my top priorities this session and last session, Nicky’s Law, has taken a big step forward in the legislative process. The bill, which I filed to help protect individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities from abuse by care providers, recently received a favorable vote from the […]
Hello Valley Patriot Readers, Recently, I was so pleased to host fellow senators from across the Commonwealth for a listening SenaTOUR of the Merrimack Valley. This was a prime opportunity to make the unique challenges facing our communities salient to legislators outside the region. I opened the SenaTOUR with a policy forum at CI Works, […]
The Paying Attention Podcast debate page ◊ The Methuen City Council is made up of nine members; three city councilors are elected at-large (city-wide), and two councilors elected from each of the three districts (East, Central, and West). In the West End, both incumbent city councilors George Kazanjian and Lynn Vidler are not seeking reelection, leaving two […]
BY: Bharani Padmanabhan – Oct. 2019 On September 24, 2019 Governor Charlie Baker suddenly declared a public health emergency and invoked MGL chapter 17 § 2A, which allows the Public Health Commissioner to “during such period of emergency, take such action and incur such liabilities as he may deem necessary to assure the maintenance of […]
By Rick Bellanti-October 2019 Do you remember that old saying, “Sometimes You Feel Like A Nut – Sometimes You Don’t.” Well you may want to start feeling like adding more nuts to your healthy diet, because those little guys pack an awful lot of goodness in them. It’s a healthy snack that’s good for you […]
By: Finocchiaro – October, 2019 Hello Methuen my name is Jessica Finocchiaro. I’ve been your Methuen City Councilor At Large since 2018, and I’m running for my first reelection. I grew up in Methuen, and chose to stay because this is my home. I have 2 master’s degrees from Suffolk University in Public Administration and Government. […]
October 29, 2019-3:30pm Campaign supporters of Methuen mayoral candidate Jen Kannan – chairman of the Methuen City Council – is calling on her opponent Neil Perry to release his personnel records from Raytheon where Perry has been a top executive for the last few decades. This afternoons press release from the Kannan campaign reiterates her […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 29, 2019 Contact: Megan Costello, 617 653 3781 WOMEN OF METHUEN STAND WITH JENNIFER KANNAN AND CALL ON PERRY TO RELEASE HIS PERSONNEL FILES FROM RAYTHEON We the undersigned women of Methuen, call on Neil Perry, a candidate for mayor, to join his opponent, Methuen City Council Chair Jennifer Kannan, in […]
The race for Central District City Council is the campaign to watch on November 5th. Methuen residents will elect TWO city councilors in the Central District. Incumbent James McCarty topped the ticket in the primary as he seeks his second term, while fellow incumbent and longtime elected official Joyce Campagnone came in fourth. But, […]
Every two years, Methuen voters elect a mayor to represent the city’s municipal government as it’s CEO. The mayor is in charge of all hiring, firing, promotions and demotions for the City of Methuen. The mayor is also in charge of signing all private contracts and enforcing the city ordinances set forth by the city […]