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Someone wrote a spoof/parady news video expressing an alleged reason why Worcester is poorly marketed. They wisely have a foreigner posed as the head marketing officer, explaining that Worcester is so great they want to keep it to themselves. It is great. Some do want to keep it closed, after all , why spoil a good thing with over crowding? People who lived here all their lvies know it’s a great place to live.

Often we find city initiatives are directed by people who do not even live in the city. Whether it is to deliberate and decide on arts grant funding, planning, or even a cable franchise, citizens often wish people who actually are professionally experienced in such matters, or least, intimately aware of such assets, would be involved in the process, which is too often NOT the case. This may not necessarily be a bad thing, however, inclusiveness at home can go a long in nurturing civic pride while creating a positive incentive for residents to want to see mutual success. Say YES to participation. Do not wait for government or some social agency to step in. Do it yourself. Say Yes, BE THE CHANGE you visualize .

At any rate, there are great things going on in Worcester in spite of that. We say YES to the following blog sites where you can visit to meet real caring and active people of vision who are doing great things in Worcester. It is not an all inclusive list, so feel free to add by way of comments. Let’s think locally and act positive. The top of my list is a great representation of what I am talking about.
Posted by “Sharilee” on blog.worcestercountyrepublicanclub.com

Worcester City Manager Michael O’Brien released the proposed 2009 budget along with a pat on his own back for only increasing spending 3.4%. When the economy is in trouble, that’s the time to cut budgets. We have to do it in the private sector. Why does the public sector get to follow different rules?

Posted by “Jeff” on wormtowntaxi.com

I am, by no wild stretch of the imagination, any sort of “pro-CSX” figure in this issue. But I am a person who would genuinely appreciate it if public figures, especially those who were elected to represent the public, would read this analysis of the situation and bring that into the so-called forum on public transportation needs on the railroad lines between Framingham and Worcester. If what Mr. Gorman has outlined in his May 5th opinion piece is accurate, then our public officials are just basically lying to us. Conversely, if Mr. Gorman’s descriptions are not an accurate representation of the situation, then why has no-one called attention to that?

The presentation by public officials has yet to deviate from the vilification of CSX as the only roadblock in this so-called process, and I had been willing to believe them until I read Mr. Gorman’s analysis of what this is all about.

If what Mr. Gorman says is accurate, then James McGovern, Tim Murray, and everybody else involved with this focus on CSX as the only reason things haven’t moved forward is nothing but outright lying and covering up… not to mention the anonymous author of the T&G’s latest obsequious ass-kissing on the subject.

In this country, a public corporation is required by law to serve the best interests of its stockholders. Were CSX, in light of Mr. Gorman’s outline of the situation, to act in any other way than it has done in this matter, then the stockholders would have cause to sue them for failing to maximize their returns. Meanwhile, McGovern, Murray, and a whole host of others have been making them out to be the only reason things haven’t moved forward in all this time, and publicly re-running the tired old hype that CSX isn’t willing to “act in the public interest”… Well, they CAN’T act in the public interest if it conflicts with the interests of stockholders.
Posted by “Missy Hollenback” on shrewsburied.blogspot.com

“We are cheap”; “Cheap or Free it’s for me”; or “Not the same without Spags” slogans all are saying the same thing. It is really true, Shrewsbury has had a Christmas Trees Shop for years, long before many other towns got one, we have the Sears Outlet, the Pepperidge Farm outlet, we had Spags (now Bldg. 19, but my kid refuses to call it that) we have low property taxes, low electrical rates and I feel like I am forgetting something.

We are known far and wide as the CHEAP BARGIN place next to Worcester. My mother in Ca. runs into retirees all the time who are familiar with Spags and Shrewsbury. A few weeks ago I attended an environmental conference and a guy from Brookline said, “oh yeah the Sears outlet, we need a fridge and will be coming out”.

Today, we were in Westborough Center and my husband wanted to see the new Bay State Commons. His jaw dropped and he could not believe the size, complexity and money to be generated. And the Northborough Loop sounds like it is going to be very similar to Bay State Commons. What does Shrewsbury have going on? The Value Place Motel? The expansion of the Rainbow Motel?

Posted by “Jacob” on fujichia.com

yesterday i heard two (2) enactments of the old “stranded w/o wallet” story, and even though i told myself i would no longer go for this scam, i ended up giving two bucks, and then 50 cents. in the first instance, i told myself later that i was buying his story, so here it is, as my story:

yesterday (or i guess two days ago actually), me and a friend drove from springfield to worcester for the purposes of drinking / partying. well, we had a couple bars, we got into a dispute, and he left me here, taking with him my wallet and all my money, IDs and credit cards, which i had left in the car during the whatever. i’m just trying to get back to springfield. i went to all the places, they couldn’t help me. i need $14.75, which is the full price of a bus ticket.

pretty decent, i like “we had a couple bars” (of what?), and i like setting up the current town as “the party town”, and i really like that “empty hand technique” of going out with no ties to anything. but really, whither the lost art of panhandling? remember when grisly dudes / scientist types used to sell their poems on the street? this happened twice to me growing up, and each time i was psyched. it’s such a good racket! a small investment in photocopies, and they’re stuck there captive while you read it and then afterwards, they feel obligated to buy it, before you sspring on them the cost of a buck or two each (which really isn’t that bad for a crazy story you can tell someone later and an artifact). i remember there was one guy with a brian chippendale haircut that sold astrological posters he made, but they weren’t as good as they could’ve been. not like there’s a lot of low-level street hustlers that read this (or any (?)) blog, but let’s raise the bar, folks! let’s be new gods for once!

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