Internal Policy.
Remember that phrase, dissect it, analyze it, and understand it.
As we said yesterday, that’s the phrase of the week.
Essentially, Police Chief Gary Gemme is insisting that his new policy forbidding one unit details (and requiring anyone who hires one cop to hire two instead) is internal policy. A couple councilors – most publicly, Michael [...]
Entries from July 2008
July 31, 2008
Internally Yours
July 30, 2008
We didn’t get it in time for our print edition, but here is the original memo from Assistant City Manager to the City Council detailing Police Chief Gary Gemme’s new “internal policy” requiring businesses to hire two detail officers instead of one. Keep your eye on that phrase internal policy—the hot debate over the coming [...]
July 30, 2008
Germain and Gemme’s flame war
Telegram columnist Dianne Williamson is ready to drop a big one tomorrow, including details from an email flame war between Police Chief Gary Gemme and City Councilor Michael Germain. The firey exchange allegedly took place after Germain responded to news about Gemme’s order that all details be doubled with a quickly written rebuke sent [...]
July 29, 2008
WHERE THE HELL HAVE WE BEEN????
Well, we’ve been dealing with naked guys on airplanes, nerd-core level stuff at San Diego Comic Con, and other vagrancies of a so-called vacation.
But we’re back. With a vengeance.
And starting tomorrow, you can expect all the regular blogging you’ve come to love. There’s sure a lot to talk about, including double-dipping cops, secretive cops, and [...]
July 23, 2008
Interview with the vendor
Another guest post from Mike Benedetti.
Much has been written in the papers and on the internet about some City Councilors’ efforts to place new restrictions on Worcester’s street vendors.
Little has been heard from the vendors themselves, which is why Worcester Indymedia has produced an interview with 9 of them:
(Disclosure: I did [...]
July 23, 2008
Art under attack
There’s been a public art exhibit in Elm Park for the past few weeks. According to the Telegram & Gazette, one of the metal statues, Fern Cunningham’s “Massai Warrior Adorned,” was stolen.
Photo courtesy WCCA TV13
The authorities think that “It was swiped from its pedestal sometime Saturday night or early Sunday morning,” but it was missing [...]
July 17, 2008
A temporary change
I (Zoback) am on vacation for a week (look for me at the nerd-paradise known as Comic Con!) so Daily Wuss will be a bit different next week. You can look forward to some guest bloggers giving their take on what’s up in Worcester. I’m sure it’ll be a welcome break from my usual load.
And [...]
July 15, 2008
They’ve got a beat
Yesterday was the first day of filming for Worcester-based We Got The Beat, and we gotta say…we’re impressed. Daily Worcesteria spent late last night at Becker’s Leicester campus, watching the cast and crew film a few garage-band related scenes. We won’t give anything plot wise away, but things looked great. The Kaz Gamble music was [...]
July 15, 2008
Garage times changed
Well, that didn’t take long.
This morning’s Telegram reports that the new garage will be open 5:30 am to 1 am “to allow commuters to catch the first train and to exit the garage after the last train, according to city Commissioner of Public Works Robert L. Moylan Jr.” That’s a quick change from yesterday’s report [...]
July 14, 2008
Blog Log Digital
Posted by “Jeff” on wormtowntaxi.com
Nowhere, however, can I find any reportage of Mr. Antonio Hernandez, the owner of the El Delicioso food truck, the center of all this attention and clearly the one person that both WoMag and the T&G should have spent some shoe leather in seeking out and interviewing. Surely the opportunities for [...]
