508 is a show about Worcester. This week, Brendan has a surprisingly optimistic take on Worcester’s future. Audio: Download the mp3 or see more formats . Subscribe with iTunes | Subscribe with Google Play | Contact Info | Twitter feed | RSS...
508 is a show about Worcester. This week, Mike tells Brendan about some analysis Greg Opperman and he have done about strategic voting in Worcester at-large elections. Audio: Download the mp3 or see more formats . Subscribe with iTunes | Subscribe with Google Play | Contact Info | Twitter feed | RSS Short version of this article: You shouldn’t vote for anyone who’s guaranteed to win or to lose. If there are 6 plausible candidates you like, you should vote for them. If there are fewer than 6, you...
508 is a show about Worcester. This week, Brendan updates Mike on the state of Worcester, and Mike despairs. Audio: Download the mp3 or see more formats . Subscribe with iTunes | Subscribe with Google Play | Contact Info | Twitter feed | RSS...
508 is a show about Worcester. This week, we discuss losing a judge and gaining a City Manager. Audio: Download the mp3 or see more formats . Subscribe with iTunes | Subscribe with Google Play | Contact Info | Twitter feed | RSS Notes: Timothy S. Hillman is a federal judge for the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts A Tale of Three City Manager Searches...
508 is a show about Worcester. This week, we talk about the City Council live commentary, Joe Petty’s campaign video , lifting Worcester’s mask mandate, our experiences getting COVID, nuclear war, endemic life, Substack, Brent Crude Oil, Metaculus Prediction Updates , Ukraine and its consequences, and COVID brain fog. Audio: Download the mp3 or see more formats . Subscribe with iTunes | Subscribe with Google Play | Contact Info | Twitter feed | RSS...
508 is a show about Worcester. This week, we talk with Ali Reid, Worcester’s pre-eminent critic of public art, about Worcester Monopoly, Kevin Can F**k Himself, Ulysses, and the Abby Kelley Foster Memorial. Audio: Download the mp3 or see more formats . Subscribe with iTunes | Subscribe with Google Play | Contact Info | Twitter feed | RSS | Spotify...
508 is a show about Worcester. This week, we talk about local election results, Polar Park, COVID, Dune, commodities news, the rise of Bill Shaner, and the fall of underground punk shows. Audio: Download the mp3 or see more formats . Subscribe with iTunes | Subscribe with Google Play | Contact Info | Twitter feed | RSS...
508 is a show about Worcester. This week, we look at the back of the Polar Park sign and struggle to use the Pulse website. Audio: Download the mp3 or see more formats . Subscribe with iTunes | Subscribe with Google Play | Contact Info | Twitter feed | RSS...
508 is a show about Worcester. This week, we talk about COVID in the Commonwealth, police in the schools, and the Worcester Pawsox schedule. Audio: Download the mp3 or see more formats . Subscribe with iTunes | Subscribe with Google Play | Contact Info | Twitter feed | RSS Early rate reductions of SARS-CoV-2 infection and COVID-19 in BNT162b2 vaccine recipients Effectiveness of BNT162b2 mRNA Vaccine Against Infection and COVID-19 Vaccine Coverage in Healthcare Workers in England, Multicentre Pro...
508 is a show about Worcester. This week, we talk with Ali Reid about Worcester’s skate mayor, “Christmas on Ice,” “Christmas a la Mode,” weird real estate mail, and the post-COVID Worcester of 2021. Audio: Download the mp3 or see more formats . Subscribe with iTunes | Subscribe with Google Play | Contact Info | Twitter feed | RSS...
508 is a show about Worcester. This week, we talk with Worcester legend Shaun Connolly about drought, banning Halloween, the state of standup, crime rates, and ballot questions. Audio: Download the mp3 or see more formats . Subscribe with iTunes | Subscribe with Google Play | Contact Info | Twitter feed | RSS...
508 is a show about Worcester. This week, we talk with Justin Raphaelson and Colin Novick about Justin’s unsupported, continuous run of the Hike Worcester Challenge, rats, trash, demolition, and forest fires. Audio: Download the mp3 or see more formats . Subscribe with iTunes | Subscribe with Google Play | Contact Info | Twitter feed | RSS...
508 is a show about Worcester. This week, we talk about the baseball field and related development, flying in and out of the state, restaurants and COVID-19, municipal broadband, and clean air. Audio: Download the mp3 or see more formats . Subscribe with iTunes | Subscribe with Google Play | Contact Info | Twitter feed | RSS...
508 is a show about Worcester. This week, we talk about COVID , Black Lives Matter, school, homicide , air quality . Audio: Download mp3 See more formats . Subscribe with iTunes | Subscribe with Google Play | Contact Info | Twitter feed | RSS...
508 is a show about Worcester. This week, we talk about school and childhood trauma in this time of pandemic with Audrey Smolkin, Director of Child and Family Policy at UMass Medical School, and Tracy Novick, Worcester School Committee member. Audio: Download the mp3 or see more formats . Subscribe with iTunes | Subscribe with Google Play | Contact Info | Twitter feed | RSS...
508 is a show about Worcester. This week, we talk about the ongoing pandemic with Worcester City Clerk Nikolin Vangjeli and Worcester School Committee member (and COVID-19 sufferer) Tracy Novick. Audio: Download the mp3 or see more formats . Subscribe with iTunes | Subscribe with Google Play | Contact Info | Twitter feed | RSS...
508 is a show about Worcester. This week, we talk about Motley Crew Way and SARS-CoV-2 with Brendan Melican, Holmes Wilson, and Tracy Novick. Audio: Download the mp3 or see more formats . Subscribe with iTunes | Subscribe with Google Play | Contact Info | Twitter feed | RSS Motley Crew Way [PDF] Petty satisfied with teleconferenced Worcester City Council meeting...
508 is a show about Worcester. This week, this week, we look at how Worcester rates on the Wharton Residential Land Use Regulatory Index, and share our exhaustion reading about the coronavirus. Audio: Download the mp3 or see more formats . Subscribe with iTunes | Subscribe with Google Play | Contact Info | Twitter feed | RSS Tax deal endorsed for $60 million WuXi Biologics project in Worcester The Local Residential Land Use Regulatory Environment Across U.S. Housing Markets: Evidence from a New ...
508 is a show about Worcester. This week, we talk about Worcester’s Libertarian primary, the downside of tax breaks for businesses, and pandemic prepping. Subscribe with iTunes | Subscribe with Google Play | Contact Info | Twitter feed | RSS The Prepared You Don’t Always Get What You Want: The Effect of Financial Incentives on State Fiscal Health Commonwealth of Massachusetts: Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan: Base Plan, January 2019 Diocese of Worcester: Flu Letter to Faithful 2020 Audio...
508 is a show about Worcester. This week, we talk about H.R. Giger, mini city hall, cubicle housing, our forthcoming tiny house villages, the baseball stadium deal, malls, and the Skate Mayor. Audio: Download the mp3 or see more formats . Subscribe with iTunes | Subscribe with Google Play | Contact Info | Twitter feed | RSS...
508 is a show about Worcester. This week, we talk with John Aylward about music in Worcester, teaching at Clark University, and the work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction. Audio: Download the mp3 or see more formats . Subscribe with iTunes | Subscribe with Google Play | Contact Info | Twitter feed | RSS...
508 is a show about Worcester. This week, we note that in 2019 homelessness in Worcester was down 19%, and that the Diocese of Worcester lost $1.5million. We try to understand these findings, and generally fail to do so. Audio: Download the mp3 or see more formats . Subscribe with iTunes | Subscribe with Google Play | Contact Info | Twitter feed | RSS...
508 is a show about Worcester. This week, we talk with “Worcester’s most-traveled, most-jailed, and most notorious political radical since Abbie Hoffman” about getting hit by a car , cost overruns for the baseball stadium, war with Iran, the bus, and YIMBY consequences . Audio: Download the mp3 or see more formats . Subscribe with iTunes | Subscribe with Google Play | Contact Info | Twitter feed | RSS...
508 is a show about Worcester. This week, we talk about property taxes , Worcester Magazine , Yeats , listener feedback, state capacity libertarianism , and getting through a singularity crisis. Audio: Download the mp3 or see more formats . Subscribe with iTunes | Subscribe with Google Play | Contact Info | Twitter feed | RSS...
508 is a show about Worcester. This week, we talk with Noah Bombard of masslive.com about journalism, the Worcester Renaissance, murder, and commodities. Audio: Download the mp3 or see more formats . Subscribe with iTunes | Subscribe with Google Play | Contact Info | Twitter feed | RSS...
508 is a show about Worcester. This week, we talk with Worcester legend Tina Zlody about the Worcester Public Market, the Market Pantry, and tips for spearheading new projects in the city. Audio: Download the mp3 or see more formats . Subscribe with iTunes | Subscribe with Google Play | Contact Info | Twitter feed | RSS...
508 is a show about Worcester. This week, we talk about Lt. Jason Menard, commercial taxes , Underdog , and Worcester Plaza Tower . Audio: Download the mp3 or see more formats . Subscribe with iTunes | Subscribe with Google Play | Contact Info | Twitter feed | RSS...
508 is a show about Worcester. This week, we talk about tax deals , election results , crime stats, bad/good driving , vapes, tarot , the CEMANECT economy, and the season finale of our favorite non-scripted TV drama, “Worcester!” Here’s the Cowen/Gioia interview Mike recommends. Audio: Download the mp3 or see more formats . Subscribe with iTunes | Subscribe with Google Play | Contact Info | Twitter feed | RSS...
508 is a show about Worcester. This week, we talk about the 2019 municipal election and the lawnsigns thereof. Audio: Download the mp3 or see more formats . Subscribe with iTunes | Subscribe with Google Play | Contact Info | Twitter feed | RSS...
508 is a show about Worcester. This week, we talk about death and crime in Worcester, Post-Christian America , opioids and religion , property taxes, election mailers, and flashlights . Audio: Download the mp3 or see more formats . Subscribe with iTunes | Subscribe with Google Play | Contact Info | Twitter feed | RSS...
