Governor Deval Patrick was in Worcester today, speaking to a gathering of local business leaders to discuss his plans to close the $600 million mid-year budget gap. His idea? Governor Patrick said he is going to make $277 million in cuts across Executive Branch agencies, and is also seeking expanded 9C authority to make $75 [...]
Entries from October 2009
October 27, 2009
Live blog: City Council 10/27/2009
7:16: Mayor Lukes starts the meeting with a moment of silence to recognize City Council reporter’s Nick Kotsopoulos’s loss of his father.
7:21: Gary Rosen proposes the Philadelphia Plan. He tells the council how the city 300 miles to our south came up with this plan that worked well for them. It brought in businesses by [...]
October 27, 2009
Konnie responds …
Konnie Lukes has responded to the Coalition for Worcester Retirees demand that she release information about where her family has registered its cars since 1999 following a T&G column that revealed her husband, Jim, had two cars registered in Chatham. Lukes says the Coalition has launched a “smear campaign” against her family. Her response in [...]
October 27, 2009
Blog Log Digital 10/27/2009
Posted by “Jim Gonyea” on www.notestoleicester.blogspot.com
The Boston Globe has a snippet about a push by the Republican senators in the State Senate. It appears that the five Republican senators are pushing a bill to require schools to teach about the proper care of the United State flag. I guess this means that all of our [...]
October 26, 2009
Coalition: Fess up, Konnie
The Coalition of Worcester Retirees is asking Konnie Lukes “to publicly disclose where all the vehicles owned by the Lukes family have been registered since 1999 by 5 p.m. tomorrow. If Konnie Lukes refuses to disclose the complete and accurate excise history by 5 p.m. we will be asking her directly before the City Council [...]
October 23, 2009
Cops vs. T&G … continued
At Tuesday’s City Council meeting and reportedly at Thursday’s Citywide Crime Watch meeting at the police station, City Manager Michael O’Brien noted that the T&G failed to report on two incidents last weekend – a double stabbing and the discharging of a firearm – that he deemed newsworthy. According to Thursday’s story in the T&G [...]
October 23, 2009
‘Fried’ candidates
Have we reached the point of overkill with these candidates’ forums/debates? By the time last night’s forum at Clark rolled around, the mayor candidates had done a dozen of these (they’d just been on Jordan Levy’s show earlier), and some confessed privately to being, as one candidate put it, “fried.” The Clark event had been [...]
October 21, 2009
Stop the Presses
Several councilors at Tuesday’s meeting were critical that the T&G had not written about the Police Department’s report on crime stats, which placed Worcester as one of the state’s safest cities with populations over 100,000. We can’t pretend to read the T&G’s mind, but typically if a report is released on Friday, as this was, [...]
October 20, 2009
Live blog: City Council 10/20/2009
With a war breaking out between the Telegram and Gazette and Worcester’s Police Department, and with only two weeks before elections, tonight should be a rip-roaring one.
Kate Toomey walks into the room wearing a matching crimson skirt and jacket. Ruston starts singing to her “laaaaady in red”. David Rusford comments “she’s ready for her inauguration”.
7:20 [...]
October 19, 2009
Blog Log Digital 10/19/2009
Posted by “Dee Wells” on www.worcesterismajor.blogspot.com
When magazines headlines invoke lines from famous Hip Hop songs, you know that the music’s range is significant. This week, NewsWeek called upon Eric B. & Rakim’s “I Aint No Joke” to dub Vice President Joe Biden as no joking matter. (I guess President Obama’s ratings, in NewsWeek’s eyes, has [...]
