Thanks to everyone who came out to Dive Bar last night - The 1st Annual No Slogan Day was a huge success. Duncan, Brooks and Troy played a few ridiculous sets, and the beer flowed like…beer.
And, best of all, we were entirely slogan-free, except for Pie and Coffee’s Mike Benedetti, who let slip an ill-advised [...]
Here it is, No Slogan Day. A day to imagine a slogan-less Worcester; a city that isn’t On the Move or doing anything that can be summed up in four brightly printed words or less.
No, for one day and night, we are just Worcester: Stop Talking. (Shit, is that a slogan for No Slogan Day? [...]
16 people have been sent to the hospital this morning with carbon monoxide poisoning.
The Stevens Block - home to a couple state agencies - has been evacuated, and officials say some of those poisoned are in serious but not life threatening condition.
The downtown scene is something of a zoo, although the mood among many is [...]
Haller says a good number of parking meters she comes across are broken. Moylan says that while upgrades at lots are made, many meters are 30 years old or more, and are expensive to repair. They’re at the point of “obsolescence.”
And Palmieri wants the number of minutes on the meters to be researched–some of them [...]
Weird exchange.
Block Grant funding was about to get approved, when Smith - after a quick whisper conversation with Petty - rose to say he was concerned his District wasn’t getting enough money, proportionally.
Clancy quickly rose to say that the distributions are done by the number of eligible neighborhoods; Smith’s district simply doesn’t have as many [...]
Rushton and others want St. Gobain and other companies that use CSX for transportation to consider using alternative methods. He’d also like other towns in the area to do the same with their major manufacturers. What would those methods be? Trucks? Planes?
Palmieri adds that he’d like one of the City Manager’s staffers to be dedicated [...]
Rick Rushton wants the $250,000 from MassPort to go directly to reducing average class sizes.
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Joff says the response time on upper Salisbury Street–his own hood–is the worst in the city, and something needs to be done. Maybe coordinating with Holden, maybe looking to build a new one truck station….perhaps on donated Assumption property. “People in that area [should] be protected like other parts of the city.”
“We need to get [...]
Germain (we guess his background in insurance really helps) has brought up a new idea to save money on medical insurance. He’s calling for a “dependent audit” by a private vendor, a look at how many “dependents” the city is covering that shouldn’t be eligible. He’s saying we could be looking at $1.4-$2 million in [...]
