NEWS: The city has spent 80% of it’s snow removal budget already. And when they do plow? Well, national car enthusiast blog Jalopnik has something to say about it. And again.
NOT NEWS: Who needs an ice skating rink at the Common when, as blogger 4rilla shows us, you have nice condo parking lots?
HAPPY NEW YEAR [...]
You wouldn’t think there’s much Rutland, VT could learn from Worcester when it comes to selling water. But a Rutland Herald article from Monday (followed up by an article in the Boston Globe), detailing how Rutland officials want to find a company to bottle and sell water from their reservoir, points right to the Wo [...]
This is incredible—if you’re in town Saturday night, you NEED to check out THE ELECTRIC BATON at the Hotel Vernon. Check the WCTR-3 video here:
According to the T&G,
“The state Ethics Commission has ruled that Louis DiNatale of Lancaster, a public affairs official at the University of Massachusetts – Lowell, violated conflict of interest laws when he conducted political polls for the school while doing the same as a paid consultant to a political campaign.”
Read it here.
Less than a week after Scola Special Prosecutor Joseph Gaughan withdrew from the case for health reasons, courthouse watchers are quietly questioning exactly what’s included in his $10,850 of billed labor and expenses. At face value, it isn’t much. The issue is that if Gaughan charged $50/hour – an exceptionally conservative estimate – his total [...]
Having leftover campaign donations is equivalent to a celebrity on Jeopardy getting the show’s money to donate in his/her name. No one exemplifies that phenomonom more than former-DA John Conte.
Conte still has well over $200,000 left in his campaign account, and has essentially used it as a funding source for charities or causes that he [...]
Andrea and Kaz have posted their trailer for the Worcester Love DVD, and for the Season Two preview. Great stuff.
A few key things to watch/attend in the week ahead:
Today, you should be tuning in to 580 WTAG from 4-5pm to listen to Scott Zoback, Andy Lacombe, and Jordan Levy talk about the “year-that-was” in Worcester. It’ll be almost as thrilling as Tuesday’s last City Council meeting of this term. Michael Perotto and Dennis Irish [...]
I won’t bother regaling you with details of my drive from Green Street(we started when the first flakes came down) up to the Washington Heights development on Mill Street and back to Greendale…but the Mill/Greendale leg was over 60 minutes alone, mostly due to people deciding the intersections were good places declare their right of [...]
A dispatch from Mr. Brendan Melican:
A line of cars is stuck getting out from the City Hall garage, as a plow just came by and formed a snowbank at the exit, blocking them in.
Seriously kids, it’s a mess out there. If you’re not reading this with a bottle of wine or beer…get home and start.
