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<![CDATA[Delegation has moved mountains]]>
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<![CDATA[Kendall Wallace is chairman of Lowell Publishing Co. He has 50 years of newspaper experience, starting as a reporter at The Sun in 1959.    LOWELL -- I've been in Florida since the Saturday after the city election, so I've felt a little out of touch with community reaction to what the voters did.]]>
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<![CDATA[Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:37:13 -0700]]>
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<![CDATA[Dracut's Duda wins 'Oscar of teaching']]>
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<![CDATA[DRACUT -- If you didn't know Rebecca Duda teaches eighth-grade history, you would have assumed she was a rock star.    "Duda! Duda! Duda!" chanted her students after Duda received the Milken Educator Award in a surprise ceremony at Lakeview Junior High School Wednesday.]]>
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<![CDATA[editor@lowellsun.com (Erin Smith, esmith@lowellsun.com)]]>
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<![CDATA[Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:35:49 -0700]]>
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<![CDATA[Where's the outrage in Chelmsford?]]>
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<![CDATA[What's a holiday gift shop without holiday gifts?    That's the question two women with children at the Byam Elementary School in Chelmsford are asking.    Byam officials, in a classic example of political correctness going way, way too far, have planned the school's annual gift shop for Dec.]]>
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<![CDATA[Tue, 17 Nov 2009 04:35:48 -0700]]>
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<![CDATA[PLAs drive up construction costs]]>
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<![CDATA[After an eight-year prohibition, President Obama signed an executive order in February that allows executive agencies to require that contractors use union-only project labor agreements on federal construction projects costing more than $25 million.]]>
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<![CDATA[editor@lowellsun.com (Greg Beeman)]]>
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<![CDATA[Sat, 14 Nov 2009 13:54:36 -0700]]>
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<![CDATA[The GOP's hands-off approach to job creation]]>
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<![CDATA[Conservatives ask the Obama administration, "where are the jobs?" and why is it taking the government so long to create thousands of new, well paying jobs? Conservatives demand these jobs appear without increasing the deficit by one red penny.]]>
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<![CDATA[Fri, 13 Nov 2009 04:36:45 -0700]]>
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<![CDATA[Flu cure: Wash your hands while singing a happy tune]]>
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<![CDATA[The following is an important announcement from the Centers for Disease Control regarding H1N1.    It is our understanding that local health organizations and their representatives have been informing citizens that the washing of one's hands is a simple and effective way to prevent germs, including the bacterium that causes the H1N1 flu.]]>
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<![CDATA[Thu, 12 Nov 2009 06:13:00 -0700]]>
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