Parking wars – the Canal District “Hustle”
By Michael Gaffney Last week Jay H. Givan at the Worcester Telegram and Gazette posted a blog about the lack of parking in the plans for the Worcester ballpark. “Polar Park, the upcoming home of [...]
Worcester, MA – #9 most expensive place to live in US
By Michael Gaffney [Editor's note: earlier version stated Boston was not on list - an obvious error - thank you to Fred Moriarty for pointing it out] Last week we found out that Worcester renters [...]
Worcester’s ballpark and the inevitable fleecing of the taxpayers
By Michael Gaffney Yesterday, Jay H. Givan at the Worcester Telegram and Gazette posted a blog about the lack of parking in the plans for the Worcester ballpark. It is certainly worth the 10 minutes [...]
Worcester has solved its economic woes with Diverse Business Directory!
By Michael Gaffney With economic numbers that only North Korea could envy, Worcester’s leadership has finally found a solution. They created a Diverse Business Directory! According to the Worcester Business Journal: “The directory, currently featuring [...]
Only in Worcester would > 0.0005% growth be declared a “Renaissance”
By Michael Gaffney In an article published by the Worcester Business Journal today generously titled “Housing starts continue slow pace in Worcester metro area” by Grant Welker destroyed the misleading narrative pushed by the local [...]
Worcester Councilor Moe Bergman and infanticide
By Michael Gaffney This is the final article of a three part series about Worcester City Councilor Morris “Moe” Bergman. In our first article we explored Bergman’s prejudice against intermarriage: City Councilor Moe Bergman doesn’t [...]
Worcester’s desperate leaders engage the local media to push pathetic propaganda
By Michael Gaffney It is an election year in Worcester. Naturally, the local media are pushing out the propaganda at an increased pace as failures of the current council and manager are obvious: The Worcester [...]
What is wrong with Worcester and how to fix it
By Michael Gaffney I’m sure the pie-in-the-sky Worcester reactionists will have a fit over the premise that anything is wrong with Worcester. I can’t say I blame them with the constant and steady dose of [...]
It is time for Worcester to stop subsidizing the Chamber of Commerce
By Michael Gaffney The Worcester City Council, led by Candy Carlson, George Russell, and Khrystian King are calling for an audit of Discover Central Massachusetts. The city hands over $500,000.00 to the Chamber of Commerce. [...]
Did City Councilor Moe Bergman try to smear a black candidate?
By Michael Gaffney Councilor Moe Bergman has more explaining to do. (This is part two of three – in part one, we explored Bergman’s involvement in a group against intermarriage) Bergman allegedly had a conversation [...]
City Councilor Moe Bergman doesn’t believe in intermarriage?
By Michael Gaffney Worcester City Councilor Morris “Moe” Bergman has some serious questions to answer. (This is part one of a three part series - I reserve the right to expand the series should further [...]
State Rep. Jim O’Day and the profit in drug addiction
By Michael Gaffney The West Boylston Town Semi-Annual meeting was a real treat for those of us that follow politics. As always, they saved the best item for last, the prohibition of “Marijuana Establishments”. I [...]
Worcester’s diminishing returns – tax breaks, ballparks, and beer gardens
By Michael Gafffney Diminishing returns, also called law of diminishing returns or principle of diminishing marginal productivity, economic law stating that if one input in the production of a commodity is increased while all other [...]
Rep. McGovern and WDCC campaign staffer calls union, teachers, and city “very racist”
By Michael Gaffney He couldn’t help himself. It’s not unexpected as anyone that has been reading this blog has been made well aware of his continuous bashing of the people and city he represents. School [...]
Rep. McGovern’s BFF Rep. Omar goes all in for killing Jews and Christians, he continues to support her
By Michael Gaffney As we know Rep. Jim McGovern has never supported the Jewish people. It’s not surprising, because he hates Americans too. Remember this: In response he tweeted “We have your back, @Ilhan” when [...]
Losing thousands of jobs and one-tenth of a percent growth in this economy is almost impossible, but somehow Worcester’s leadership did it
By Michael Gaffney Whenever you want to find out news that news organizations don’t really want to print, but have to, look to your Saturday papers. Last Saturday was no exception, in an article published [...]
Worcester’s gambling addiction: the failures and the ballpark
By Michael Gaffney Lots of news being pushed out about by the administration about the Worcester ballpark development. Grant Welker over at the Worcester Business Journal, April 29, 2019, in an article titled: Worcester ballpark [...]
Losses mounting Rep. Jim McGovern gets angry and vicious in his tweets
By Michael Gaffney Things haven't been going well for Rep. Jim McGovern over the past two weeks. The Mueller report flopped, the Trump economy continues to destroy expectations with 50 year lows in unemployment and [...]
Claiming nurses kill black women is okay, just don’t say they play cards!
By Michael Gaffney A powerful democrat candidate for president can claim nurses kill black women without a peep from the nurses’ union, but a republican politician nobody in nowhere Washington State says they play cards, [...]
The Never Trump crowd wants to hand the presidency to the democrats
By Michael Gaffney One would think that with a list of accomplishments a mile long, an 88% approval rating with republicans, and the total vindication of the Mueller witch-hunt that the Never Trump losers would [...]
Trash-talking Worcester, MA
By Michael Gaffney Let’s be honest about what makes the other two-thirds of Worcester unattractive to live in. It’s trash. I’m not writing about the west side with the manicured lawns where the majority homeowners’ [...]
Dropping in the polls, Senator Warren goes off the reservation
By Michael Gaffney Just last week, noted that Senator Warren wasn’t getting any love in Worcester. A recent granite state poll put her at 5% in New Hampshire, a drop of 12% from the prior [...]
West Boylston, a case study in political neglect
By Michael Gaffney Editor's note: Earlier article listed $25 million to Lawrence from Senator Chandler, updated to the proper amount of $35 million. West Boylston, MA – You know your town has problems when your state [...]
Broken news: Stories that you may have missed and didn’t know you didn’t care about
By Michael Gaffney Stupid criminals: The Worcester Telegram and Gazette reported that on April 16, 2019, the Auburn Police arrested a 24 year-old woman, Genesis Garcia, from Connecticut who allegedly used a stolen credit card [...]
Rep Richard Neal – Trump’s tax returns and abuse of power
By Michael Gaffney Who is Rep. Richard Neal? Well, he's the western Massachusetts congressman that chairs the Ways & Means Committee. Keep in mind that Worcester's own Rep Jim McGovern chairs the Rules committee. For [...]