April 7, 2008...7:50 am
Blog Log Digital
Posted by “4rilla” on 4rilla.blogspot.com
Just two weeks ago Jeff at Wormtown taxi was opined Foreclosure Bus Tours and if they might arrive here in Worcester. I sent him a link from the Boston Globe regarding the fact that these tours were already in Massachusetts.
Well I opened my Sunday T&G and what did I see?
Worcester Foreclosure Bus Tours hosted by Remax here in Worcester.
Their website says March 12, but the ad in the paper says April 12th. I doubt they had one last month on a Wednesday so I will assume that the one next weekend is the first one and that their website is incorrect.
Well the city and its environs certainly has the supply on the market for this type of tour. It would be interesting to take the ride just to see what types of properties they show off.
Posted by “Bill Randell” on worcesterma.blogspot.com
Downgrade ORH now
Enough is enough.
First, the City of Worcester needs to save money. Although some will say ORH is costing us nothing this year, based on the hope that negotiations with MassPort will result in this year’s deficit being paid is “fuzzy math”. Last year ORH cost the tax-payers approximately $1,500,000 of which approximately 600,000 was debt service. If we downgrade to GA airport, we will save money.
Second, between the economy, the tightening credit markets and the high cost of fuel, there is little to no chance of ORH getting commercial service in 2008. Add to that a future potential airline has no idea of our future management, lets be realistic???
Third, our own consultant IMG recommended this. Read the report page 3 with the paragraph that starts off with the word “ultimately.”
Fourth, the current mgmt can not get anything done. Two failed land RFP’s, $300,000 of untapped grant monies, a 20 year Airport Master Plan that taken 5 years to create, the never ending construction work on Goddard, a horrible website and the failing conditions of the buildings at the airport tells you something.
From someone who believes in the potential of the airport, however, you need to realistic. We need to downgrade to a GA airport today.
Posted by “Josie the Massachusetts Pussycat” on josiethemassachusettspussycat.blogspot.com
Sometimes Worcester Is Awesome By Accident
On the right hand side of Main Street…the giant, lovely, shiny new Courthouse.
On the left hand side of Main Street…the Irish Times, this week featuring “No Alibi” on Friday, followed by “Probable Cause” on Saturday.
Posted by “cascadingwaters” on who-cester.blogspot.com
I’d assume it’d be pretty easy to chase down whether there is, in fact, a disparity in the number of students heading into the public high schools from public middle schools among the four city quadrants. Worcester has always had a population of students that leave the public schools at middle school to go to private (often Catholic) high school. Is that in fact increasing? And is there any disparity between Burncoat, North, South, and Doherty?
The perception that there is a funding disparity may in fact be a result of the Darwinian system the city has set up for the schools with lack of adequate funding. When cuts are made in things schools need, be that people to staff the library, paper for writing, or a copy machine, in the schools where the parents’ income and time allow them to do so, parents (and parents’ groups) have stepped in to fill the gaps where they can. And so we have ink cartridges brought from home, a copy machine leased by the parent-teacher organization, a library staffed by parents. The problem is that not all schools have parents that can do this. Most city schools don’t. And so those schools go without, and have to meet the daily needs of their students with only the funds the city provides.
We are setting up a two-tiered system in which the schools with parents with a lower income level and less time bear the brunt of the funding cuts in a way that the schools with parents with higher income and more time don’t. And that’s, of course, completely contrary to the great leveller of obstacles that publicly funded education is supposed to be.
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