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 what will be the Worcester Red Sox, the AAA affiliate of the Boston Red Sox, is planned to be a [...]
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 were looking to move to Providence and Hartford and opined how bad things had to be in Worcester to consider [...]
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 it will take you to read it. Here is the Gatehouse Media link to Givan's blog as the T&G version [...]
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 just six businesses, is a product of a partnership between City Manager Edward Augustus’ office, several other City Hall business [...]
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 media and leadership that Worcester is experiencing a “Renaissance”. “The Worcester metropolitan area approved 1,769 new housing units last year, [...]
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 believe in intermarriage? In our second article we explored the attempted smearing of another candidate who just happened to be [...]
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 region lost 4,600 jobs last year while the state and the nation are booming. Not only did the region lose [...]
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 constant propaganda being they are being fed. Never mind the paid for propaganda from “alternative media” which I’ve already written [...]
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. The Chamber takes their cut, and then hands it over to Discover Central Massachusetts without any accounting. I’ve previously written [...]
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 with Margaret Melican, a contributor and attorney for Aidan Kearney’s failed blog - Turtleboy Sports (now commonly referred to as [...]
