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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’ biggest complaint about trash is when it blows out of a recycling bin or the cheaply made, but overly expensive [...]

By | April 25th, 2019|The Worcester Independent Leader Blog|Comments Off on Trash-talking Worcester, MA

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 poll. If she can’t win New Hampshire with its Boston media market, she’s done and she knows it. Hence her [...]

By | April 24th, 2019|The Worcester Independent Leader Blog|Comments Off on Dropping in the polls, Senator Warren goes off the reservation

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 representative is this brilliant piece of work: He’s on a hunt to find those jobs that are hiding somewhere, probably [...]

By | April 23rd, 2019|The Worcester Independent Leader Blog|Comments Off on West Boylston, a case study in political neglect

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 to by $8,000.00 worth of diamonds from Macy’s at the Auburn Mall. She attempted to flee by throwing the diamonds [...]

By | April 18th, 2019|The Worcester Independent Leader Blog|Comments Off on Broken news: Stories that you may have missed and didn’t know you didn’t care about

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 a party that claims to be about diversity and accuses everyone of racism, they have no shortage of old white [...]

By | April 17th, 2019|The Worcester Independent Leader Blog|Comments Off on Rep Richard Neal – Trump’s tax returns and abuse of power

Rep. Jim McGovern: “We have your back, @Ilhan”

By Michael Gaffney Rep. Jim McGovern joins the anti-American crowd, supports Rep. Ilhan Omar's statement that the attack on America on 9/11 was just "some people did something". Apparently, President Trump tweeting Omar's own words is hate speech in McGovern's world. He's right! The words Omar used to describe the loss of nearly 3,000 Americans that were [...]

By | April 16th, 2019|The Worcester Independent Leader Blog|Comments Off on Rep. Jim McGovern: “We have your back, @Ilhan”

Little Aidan Kearney asked me to write this blog about his page views

By Michael Gaffney Before any of the Aidan-riders get up in arms about me writing a blog about his page views, he specifically asked me to do so (and, as will be shown later, he reached out to me):   He denies ever having a hit counter on his blog, but as you can see [...]

By | April 10th, 2019|The Worcester Independent Leader Blog|Comments Off on Little Aidan Kearney asked me to write this blog about his page views

Worcester School Committee member John Monfredo – the latest victim of the racist cabal

By Michael Gaffney [Disclaimer: I don’t know John Monfredo. I’ve never had a conversation with John Monfredo. At most he may have said “hello” to me a few times while at City events.] Well, the worst of the worst of Worcester—the evil, hate-filled, race-baiting crew of opportunistic liars aka the “racist cabal” (Rivera, Comparetto, Encarnacion, [...]

By | April 6th, 2019|The Worcester Independent Leader Blog|Comments Off on Worcester School Committee member John Monfredo – the latest victim of the racist cabal

A tale of two cities: Boston races to the bottom, Worcester says “Thank you!”

By Michael Gaffney If the politicians in Worcester weren’t so busy engaging in general pettiness, they’d get together and thank Boston for making them an attractive bedroom community. No, it’s not because Gov. Charlie Baker has finally fixed the commuter rail or added new trains to make the commute from Worcester to Boston practical. It [...]

By | April 4th, 2019|The Worcester Independent Leader Blog|Comments Off on A tale of two cities: Boston races to the bottom, Worcester says “Thank you!”

Worcester schools: Statistics don’t lie, but yellow journalists and politicians do!

By Michael Gaffney Math is hard. Statistics even harder. The truth is apparently the hardest. We’ve spent the last few days watching, listening, and reading about School Committee Member Dante Comparetto, Telegram Columnist Clive McFarlane, Councilor Sarai Rivera and her husband Jose Encarnacion, attack the school superintendent, Maureen Binienda, our teachers, and the City of [...]

By | April 4th, 2019|The Worcester Independent Leader Blog|Comments Off on Worcester schools: Statistics don’t lie, but yellow journalists and politicians do!