This is in the "just can't win" department. A week ago, the Lowell Sun wrote an editorial criticizing the Lowell School Department for the accommodations made for the accreditation team that will be visiting Lowell High School next September. The newspaper expressed outrage that rooms were reserved not at the downtown Doubletree Hotel but at the Courtyard by Marriott Hotel (which is near the Cross Point towers and certainly within the Lowell city limits). Tucked away in this Sunday's political column was the news that the school department actually put the request for hotel rooms out to bid. Courtyard was $3000 less than Doubletree, so the school department went with the low bidder. Of course, had the school department selected the Doubletree, you just know that a Sun editorial would have accused the responsible school department officials of being reckless spendthrifts for ignoring the bidding process and squandering precious tax dollars on lavish accommodations.