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<![CDATA[City Council race ramps up amid controversy]]>
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<![CDATA[LOWELL -- In an age of voter apathy, the race for City Council gained attention and the interest of potential challengers earlier this year, as the current council found itself bathed in controversy.    One longtime political observer says that he felt the rumblings of growing dissatisfaction with the status quo starting in 2007, but he adds that]]>
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<![CDATA[editor@lowellsun.com (Jennifer Myers, jmyers@lowellsun.com)]]>
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<![CDATA[Fri, 30 Oct 2009 08:01:09 -0600]]>
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<![CDATA[In Lowell, tech school races, incumbents face one challenger]]>
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<![CDATA[LOWELL -- In the spring of 2008, amid public outrage over the School Committee's vote to give the district's four assistant superintendents substantial pay raises and boosted benefits, the public perception was that the 2009 election would be a doozy, with challengers emerging from every neighborhood.]]>
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<![CDATA[Fri, 30 Oct 2009 04:35:58 -0600]]>
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<![CDATA[Question One would change way Lowell elects leaders]]>
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<![CDATA[LOWELL -- For the first time in 52 years, Lowell voters will head to the polls Nov. 3 to consider a ballot question aimed at changing the way city leaders are elected.     The referendum, if approved, would see the city adopt "proportional representation" -- also known as "choice voting" -- in municipal elections, a system that had been employed]]>
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<![CDATA[Fri, 30 Oct 2009 04:35:57 -0600]]>
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