tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76639770054301837172012-01-29T15:50:41.856-05:00Will W. W.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02574589401455131323noreply@blogger.comBlogger4521100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7663977005430183717.post-21531660813516435382012-01-27T13:37:00.035-05:002012-01-29T09:41:24.003-05:00

Without a doubt, Rosalie Tirella has worked hard to attain InCity Time’s reputation for (ahem) journalism. Let’s clarify one point before we go further. No one in Worcester’s media considers Rosalie Tirella anything more than a crackpot devoid of talent. And if we may add, a good portion of the population too. Yes, there is a market for sleazy journalism in Worcester and InCity Times

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Credibility & Consequences at InCity Times, 01/12 Show us your Webstats Rosalie Tirella!, 01/12 It's Webstats Time Again!, 01/12 Webstats: InCity Times - Ouch!, 01/12 Rosalie Tirella's Political Contribution Report, 12/11 Blogging Fool Award - Rosalie Tirella, 10/11 InCity Times - Statistics Don't Lie, 07/11 Have you no Shame Rosalie Tirella, 05/11 Rosalie Tirella - A Penny for your Thoughts, 08/

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Where are they? Been searching high and low. Where's Wusta's OWS camping out? Got a box of donuts to drop off. So who would have thought, Occupy Worcester KO’d not by a mob of 1%-ers, but by a single person – a priest no less: The Rev. Robert Bachelder of the Worcester Area Mission Society, part of the liberal United Church of Christ, stopped them dead in their tracks, based on a

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InCity Times and journalism are mutually exclusive terms. Since we've been blogging about our beloved Worcester, we've taken the 51 year old spinster, Rosalie Tirella, to task for her journalistic ineptitude. In fact, making fun of the Mistress of Muck has become a local sport. Yet we suspect she takes pride in her reputation; being a pariah among the locals is a medal worn with pride. And

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Okay kids, we're ready for another round of look at those freakin stats will ya! Any questions before we start? None, um... okay, so let's press on. We got a lot of stuff to cover today. Oh, wanna thank the folks at compete.com for the stats. In our last post we made a couple revealing and telling discoveries - WOMAG is sucking wind big time and InCity Times is effectively dead, a non-entity in

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Here's a thought. If we're in a recession, and undoubtedly, locally, a lot of folks are feeling it, and banks are reluctantly lending money to small businesses, for that matter, any business, how then is Worcester going to attract new businesses if the financing isn't available? Is Mayor Joseph M. Petty gonna call Duddie and beg him to open the cash faucets? Assuming Duddie will even take Joe's

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The T&G reported last week that a new store is coming to Worcester. A department store no less - just what we need. Goodwill was getting tired anyway. Imagine that, a new business is coming to Worcester despite one of the highest business RE taxes in the Commonwealth. Seems the naysayers were all wrong about the effects of tax rates on city's economy. I wonder what Mayor Joe Petty has to say

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Looks  like my blogging buddy Paul W. Collyer aka Paulie, went on a booze induced comment rampage on Christmas Eve. Of all days huh? And after he woke up that morning, he realized his mistake and pulled down his comments from Bill's blog and here. Take a look over at Bill's blog. Note the time stamps. The rant started Saturday at 12:15 AM, Christmas Eve, then came to here to taunt me and anyone

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My will ya look at that, ole Harry Tembenis, 43, registered independent, is the proverbial shaker & mover in Wusta. A whopping $60 donation to Tony and George in the 2011 council election. Me thinks the money could have been better spent. So looks like Wusta's not-so-smart Teletubby (the neighborhood kids call him Uncle T.), is trying to make his mark on local politics. But, come to think of it

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Billy Breault is on a freaking tear! Look at the money. Ain't a man in Clowntown who spends that much on polits. For a janitor (Holy Cross of all places), he sure does like to throw around wads of cash. Must be good money in janitoring. Me thinks I oughta get a job there. So what's there to say about Billy B. that hasn't already been said? He's engaged, hard core, and lives in Main South. An

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Whata ya say about a guy who thinks nothing of giving a lawyer $3,000 to defend his right to free speech, got him tons of well deserved public derision and a big fat dis by the T&G's Dianne Williamson. After all the hard work he put into being a pundit and ole DW gives him a swift kick in the balls. Ouch! But Stephen Quist, aka Q, is too dimwitted to realize he'd get more attention and

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Anyho, last we heard he's into property development - 224 Chandler St. - converting a 3-decker into a restaurant or some hangout for Allman Brothers fans - doesn’t seem to be going anywhere. In fact what Paulie's done is create another glaring eyesore on Chandler St., (see photos) just like the folks he blames around the fictitious Village of Piedmont (VOP). Remember Common Ground? Guess

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Wanna stoke the citizen’s wrath, let Paulie Collyer loose in your neighborhood. As we all know, Paulie is the consummate self-promoter. Not a very good one, but still… he's our Paulie. The city has endured his theatrics for years, the recent SMOC fiasco has earned him well deserved criticism - from locals and politicians alike. Whata rabblerouser! Now he’s persona non grata in just about

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Interesting stuff from The Atlantic: Where the 1% live.  Now that you know where they live, what of it? In the South, seems there's a lot of big incomes. Big swaths in Georgia, Texas, and Florida. Georgia? Who woulda thought? I thought it was a barren landscape populated by boll weevils and itinerant cotton farmers drinking moonshine all day. Georgia is in fact one of the 3 top recipients of

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I don't buy into the argument that local  politicians and business magnates contend, if real estate taxes are lowered, businesses will come. How about, if they haven't shown up by now, they never will. Worcester's been around for more than 250 years, it's had it heyday. Thanks to the lack of foresight by Worcester's politicians over the past 4 decades. The fact is, no one in city government or

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Tracy Novick, it has to be said, is true to her principles - like all liberals she's attracted to the smell of money. Found this tidbit of activism without forethought on Womag.com (of all places). How embarrassing. To think she was endorsed by Womag as bright, outspoken and independent. Really now? You guys wanna reconsider that? But hey, this is Wusta - we got lower standards for

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Another fine mess brought to you from the teachers at the the EAW and our favorite EAW lackey Tracy Novick. Yes, another Worcester grade school has reached the bottom. This time the EAW managed to push Burncoat Prep into the abyss. Maybe Superintendent Boone is to blame? That's where the buck stops right? Actually it doesn't. But of course the EAW doesn't see itself in any way responsible for

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I make a habit of scrutinizing the local media’s blogstats – T&G, ICT, Womag (and recently the local radio stations) to get a feel for where the locals are wasting their time. Blogstats tell an interesting tale. This week I discovered something surprising - Womag pulled the plug on public access to  it's stats provider Quantcast. Umm, now why would they do that? Keep out prying eyes of course.

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Want to contact your favorite corporate wanker or wankette to give them a piece of your mind? Or hit em up for some change or maybe a job in the hallowed halls of corporate America? Well here's your chance. The folks at Occupy the Board Room! have setup a nifty site. Life gets awfully lonely for those at the top. What can OBR! do to let them know someone's thinking of them? Maybe they need some

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My main source of information about local politics is radio, newspapers, and gossip. Forget the local bloggers, they're wrapped up in themselves.  So I got an idea that I needed to know more about the candidates than what the local propaganda machines kick-out. So I checked their websites to see if they had a resume. Some pretty lame stuff out there, but no resume per se. So I emailed

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And then there’s Jordan Levy, 70, the contentious former mayor and city councilor, disgraced MA Turnpike Authority board member, and a not-so-successful CEO. In 1984 as city councilor, Jordan Levy was responsible for the  infamous dual rate tax system that has financially devastated residential tax payers. Although he publicly rails against it, he never mentions his role. In 1992 and 1993, as

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How is it that Worcester, a city with 10 institutions of higher education pumping out thousands of degrees a year, is not a hotbed of activity for business entrepreneurs? Or is it and we just don’t know it? Paraphrasing the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s report: The Role of Colleges and Universities in Building Local Human Capital, colleges and universities contribute to the economic

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Voting day will soon be upon us and all those dedicated Worcestertonians, who cherish their democracy, will soon be storming the polls. Hopefully no lines eh? Then again, most likely not. Historically voter participation has been, at best, about 20%. Why? One can only guess. We all know, and she’s constantly pointing it out,   Nicole S. Apostola-Persdatter (33) is Worcester’s little Ms. Civic

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I think we can all agree that Worcester Magazine is a cruel joke perpetrated on the locals. Some locals think when God created journalists he forgot to endow WOMAG's writers with impartiality and critical reasoning. But we think it's not just a WOMAG thing, it pervades all of the local media outlets. An outsider reading WOMAG, the T&G, or god forbid, InCity Times, or listening to WTAG will

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Folks, OWS has been cancelled due to lack of participation. Appears to be the case in Worcester too, all the pictures are of white folk. What happened to diversity? I thought we were all in this thing together? What happen to our Black, Hispanic and Oriental brothers & sisters? This is 2011, I thought we were all past the color thing? Why ain't Main South flooded with demos? Why ain't Mayor

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So why push legislation that's anti-job creation in the two largest metropoli in the state that needs jobs? Two areas totaling 116,786 unemployed or 48% of all unemployed in MA. Let's see, the unemployment rate is 7.6% in Worcester & County, 23k unemployed, or 10% of the state's total unemployed. Boston's at 6.0%, 94k unemployed, or 38% of the state's total unemployed. Thanks to Harriet

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Interesting article in FastCompany. Run-of-the-mill losers? Communists and Socialists with a smattering of Democrats? The unemployed? Students? Went downtown last night to City Hall Common to join the demo - no one was there. Well, I thought, I'm here, just go through with it. Felt like a fool standing there alone (the Wills sat in the car and watched) in a 3-piece suit and sign in hand - Feed

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CMLP has advice for those hearty souls involved in OccupyWallStreet: Q1: Do the protesters have a right to assemble in Zuccotti Park? On the sidewalks? In the streets? Q2: Do I have the right to record police action at the protest? Do I have a right to record the protesters? Q3: May the police record me? Q4: May the police search me? May the police seize my camera and view its contents? Q5: If

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The Occupy Wall Street movement has reached the  polarization stage. Americans are no longer blue or red - we've gotten past color. Now you're either a socialist loser or a greedy capitalist. The true Americans, the devout capitalists, the ones with jobs, are deriding the occupiers as good-for-nothing whining freeloaders - pay your debts, get a job. Good advice if only… It’s always refreshing

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Gotta hand it to Rosalie Tirella, the old girl loves the F-bomb. F-this, F-that, tossing it indiscriminately at perverts, pundits and politicians. And anyone she doesn’t like. Like all of Worcester. She’s been using the last couple months to practice her bomb throwing skills - getting ready for the election season. Last week she tossed the season's first R-bomb. The unwitting victim, the T&G’s

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Only a matter of time that Occupy Wall Street made its way to Worcester, MA. Sorta cool actually. Who better to give us the play-by-play? NEN&PA award winner The T&G, printed its obligatory inanities about the disenfranchised - students and the unemployed - peacefully occupying the Worcester Common on a lovely sunny Sunday afternoon. Democracy in action - E pluribus unum! So where was Mayor

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Click for details So the good ole T&G finally won an award. No not a Pulitzer. Something better, the NEN&PA award! The New England News & Press Association had their annual showdown. So, from a field of 14 dailies, including the Herald, but not the Globe, can’t say there was any competition to speak of - never heard of most of them. I wonder if all 14 newspapers in the +60k circulation

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I for one have a mistrust of politicians. More so with wannabe politicians. How does a voter judge a candidate’s character? Character is a relative term. What is good character? What is bad character? One’s deeds are often used as the measure of a man’s character. Does one deed make a man's character? For the last two years Worcester voters have had to reconcile themselves with Mayor Joseph O

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Here's another fine product from the folks who brought you MassCityStats. The smart folks at Pioneer Institute now bring you: MassOpenBooks. MassOpenBooks puts the tools in your hands to find out what state employees’ make, who is getting what kind of pension and payments made by government agencies to businesses and people. With this site, you can obtain data about specific people or

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Interesting website. MCS collates Public Safety, Economic Development, Education and Fiscal Management data from the State.  The folks from Pioneer generate a lot of unbiased information, unlike local  shrinktank WRRB. This could be sumptin for Tony Economou. I think there's a category called forclosure abuse.

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So the battlelines are drawn. It’s Business vs. Consumer in Worcester, MA. To the barricades! Pulled this info off WCB's site. No surprise here, my blogging buddy William H. Randell Jr.'s businesses - Advantage Benefits Group, ABG Real Estate LLC, ABG Rental Properties, Vangella Real Estate LLC, and Randell Package Store Inc. are on the list. Opps, Beth Proko forgot to add Randell Check Cashing

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Hi boys and girls, welcome to Wonderland. Today’s lesson is called, What in world are they doing? Today we want to do a little bit of math. Actually it's statistics. Oh don’t worry, there’s no thinking involved - just clicking.  Okay fun aside. So what’s up with Womag. They're at a critical juncture. With all the personnel changes, the stories are getting really weird. Quality (if it ever was

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Election season approaching. The battle lines are being drawn - them versus us rhetoric is picking up.  How can sumptin like that happen in bucolic Worcester, MA? Easy, when a group of  business people, Worcester Citizens for Business, push a tax-them-not us agenda. What happened to community - we're all in in it together. We can't let money come between us. Hey, we're Wusta! Hey, I thought

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The election season caterwauling has gone unnoticed among the voters of Worcester, none the less, one man is still howling his lame tirades in the hope that someone - anyone, will pay attention.  The yowling, targeting Councilor Konnie Lukes, accusing her of tax improprieties, and our affable Mayor, Joseph O’Brien, for his lack of integrity and his retro-socialist politics, has taken on a

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Election season approaching. What’s on your mind? Taxes? Ask local business woman Beth Proko of the Worcester Citizens for Business, who alleges to be the voice of Worcester businesses’ - all 108 of em, mostly commercial real estate holders.  WCB progenitor Beth Proko, owner of a used car lot, is out and about trying to convince folks what ails us all is the city’s high business tax rate -

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I made a resolution last year to attend as many D1 (my district) candidate meetings as possible. Fact is, you can't believe everything you read in the T&G. Seeing it live, ya get the up-close-and-personal of the candidate - warts and all. So I made my way there last night - along with a neighbor. Shoulda just stayed home. Only managed 20 minutes before being overwhelmed by the BS - referring

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Only in Wusta folks would a group of bookworms have the audacity to tackle a constitutional question. Pretty sure that’s not what our insightful forefathers had in mind, preferring to leave it in the hands of learned minds. No matter how you look at it, NEWP, a group of white supremacists, has smartly manipulated the issue of free speech and attracted media attention in their cause. And a

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It’s no wonder that locals have ignored the call to apply to city boards and commissions. Or maybe not. Many are rejected for political reasons. Thanks to the city manager. But it's really apathy that hinders citizen participation, caused by decades frustration and disappointment with a bureaucracy that places it’s interest before the citizen's. But hey, that’s what governments do. But there

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The panacea to cure what ails Wusta's near zero business growth. WickedStart does offer a lot of insight into the business formation process. In fact it  reads like a college business case study. Don't need all that stuff to open a bar or hot dog stand here. To those folks out there who think that setting up shop in Wusta here is a slam dunk - think again. Not is Wusta. However I think this

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Imagine finding a story (Ratings Agency Scrutinizes Municipal Debt)  in the Worcester Business Journal that doesn't kiss someone businessman's butt. Although the author points that there many factors that determine ratings are beyond the control of the municipality. The fact is it does have a lot of control, e.g. willingness to curb spending and ability to raise revenues, that are two of the

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or better put, How To Remove Yourself from People Search websites according to ZDNET's Violet Blue. Yeah like good luck trying. Interesting article for those of you who don't want to be part of society anymore. Or maybe, have become too much a part of society. It seems many people just don't know the Internet and what it can do, thinking a facebook page or a personal blog is your ticket to

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RealtyTrac reporting the July 2011 numbers. July has always been a hottie for real estate, but this map makes it look freaking blazing. 17,076 foreclosures on the market statewide, 3,004 in Worcester County (the northwest part of the county being really hot), 96 in Worcester alone - that's 1 in every 793 housing units. Good time to buy I suppose. Selling not no good. Recommended source

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In a Worcester resident's foreclosure case, a federal bankruptcy court ruling called into question the ability to foreclose on a MERS held mortgage. In the case Schwartz vs. Deutsche Bank (nasty nasty people) a MA judge ruled against Deutsche Bank. Yes, the very bank that had more than just a hand in the worldwide mortgage debacle and brought you the infamous CDO.  Read the details here: The

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Don't shoot me, I'm just the messenger. This was published in 2009. Think it's standing has changed since then? Most likely. A recession will do wonders for most rankings - likely knocked it "up" a few notches. Wonder where that puts Wusta in 2011? Look on the bright side, it coulda been worse. 8. Worcester, Mass. “Taxachussetts” has one of the highest corporate income tax rates in the

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As reported in the T&G, City Manager M. V. O’Brien is finally jumping on the boost Wusta bandwagon - he wants to reorganize and consolidate all city marketing efforts under his auspices. After umpteen failures by the city, public and private efforts (Worcester Marketing Corp., Choose Worcester Inc., Grow Worcester Inc., Worcester UniverCity Partnership, Destination Worcester, Chamber of Commerce

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Another interesting T&G article today: City Targeting Causes of Early Death. Interesting, some 62% of locals are fatties, like 112,246 of em. I wonder if the city council is now gonna mandate some wacky laws to combat fattyness - like outlaw food.  Think any of the councilor or school committee candidates are gonna use that as an issue in their campaign propaganda? Better not, with 62%

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Gotta love those folks at the T&G - interesting story, insightful graph, and illuminating quotes. Tracy Novick is on a roll. She's ramping up her 2011 re-election campaign, saying anything to get points with the stay-at-home-moms. Recall her manifesto - stop MCAS etc. That was for the socialist Moms out there. "Start mixing kids of different background and abilities, she said, everybody

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Welcome to election season 2011. Quiz time! How many arrests were there for prostitution in Worcester, MA in 2011? 2010? 2009? How many convictions were there for prostitution in Worcester, MA in 2011? 2010? 2009? Councilor Barbara Haller doesn’t know, nor does  Mayor Joseph O’Brien. Yet they want you to believe it’s out of control. Heck, even the District Attorney’s office doesn't know.

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Don't bother calling. The owner pulled the ad because the folks at Groupon messed up - the $159 is per person. But they're still taking reservations. You may recall the T&G story from two weeks ago - a hot air ballon landed near the Auburn Pike station. What fun that must have been eh. I imagine that if I were up there, drifting over City Hall... Finally something to do in Wusta if you're

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Election season is rapidly approaching and as expected news about the candidates is wanting. Well except for an insidious piece of propaganda that seeped on line recently.  And who’s the perpetrator? None other than Tracy Novick. I had a good laugh reading her rambling manifesto “Why I March”. Tracy Novick has a lot of issues. Tracy Novick says she believes in Democracy. I guess that

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Locals have by now recognized Paulie Collyer as an unabashed self-promoter. Recently as the president of the Chandler Business Association he inserted himself in the local news by criticizing SMOC’s interest in buying a building on Chandler St. The T&G played up the controversy. WOMAG played it down. InCity Times...  Typical of the T&G, it's reporting was incoherent. But the contribution from

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If I didn't know any better, I'd say the death knell for ICT is ringing rather loudly. In June InCity Time site drew a whopping 223 unique visitors. That's gotta really hurt. Rosalie Tirella has always maintained she's the heart and soul of Wusta. Yeah, like all 223 of em. Here's something new, sitetrail.com. Get a full media analysis of your other favorite sites. In ICT's case, not a pretty

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The dirty world of politics. Geez... pickin on an 84-year old geezer like that. A frame-up if ever there was one. No mention of glaucoma. Chicks and politics don't mix. If ya wanna destroy someone's reputation - don't. Nowadays with the Internet they do it themselves. Plenty of rope to go around. Good that nuttin like that happens in bucolic Worcester, MA. Politicians around here don't even

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The T&G posted the names of the candidates for this year's City Council. Missing from the candidates was former local blogger Gabe Rollins. Wonder what's gonna happen to the campaign money he collected? I hope he gives it back. Call me rude. So it looks like Nicole Apostola failed in her mission to bring democracy to  Wusta by gathering signatures for select  potential candidates. A farce if

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Common Ground BOD (click to enlarge) Imagine Bill Randell formulating a coherent sentence. Imagine Paulie Collyer stops whining about NOLA. Today the 2-man Chandler Business Association has stepped up the volume of its criticism of local NPOs - SMOC and Common Ground. CBA member Bill (The Blogging Fool) Randell leading the charge in a 5-part incoherent ramble in which Bill Randell admits

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Meanwhile back in the hood… It’s been 4 years since Paulie Collyer unleashed NOLA on the city. It never attracted the crowds he hoped for. He’s been disappointed every year since. Paulie blames the locals for its failure. It’s not their fault is it? He organized it - he fucked up. So Paulie's to blame. NOLA started with the best of intentions - to help the NAA. But Paulie “Urban Core”

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Fascism is alive and kicking in Worcester, MA - free speech no, white folks must go. And the T&G has again shown itself as inept as ever in its reporting of local events - liberals and communists battling a couple white guys, aka NEWP and the WPL. Not surprisingly, there wasn't a peep from the city’s political leadership, aka councilors. Think - the one time they could profile themselves by

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So NOLA 2011 has come and gone. Paulie Collyer came online 3 days afterwards and gave this sober assessment, “it has a way to go.”  Last year it took Paulie 5 days, reeling from the disappointment that Wusta let him down, to say this just might be the last NOLA. Think he mighta learnt sumptin from that? Go figa. So what was different this year? Well... nuttin actually. He lost more money and

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Democracy, as we learned it, doesn’t exist in America. Or maybe it does. Last year the U. S. Supreme Court (Citizen United v. FEC) awarded corporations the right to pump millions of dollars into elections, knowingly setting up the legal mechanism for them to unduly influence elections. According to MovetoAmend.org,  the City of Boulder and some 30 other communities across America have taken

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It was only a matter of time eh? Interesting Sutner article in the T&G from this past weekend. I for one think this is a historic moment for Pinkieville, MA aka Worcester, MA. A 15% minority group steps-up to take its place in local politics. But time will tell. “This PAC’s mission is to promote the nonpartisan political and civic development of our communities. It’s not just about getting

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Last week the United Way of Central Massachusetts celebrated their latest success according to the T&G. They dished out a $1 million less than in 2009. That’s a success? The question is, who actually are the beneficiaries of that success? Hint, it’s rarely the needy. As is the case in almost all NPOs, employees rake in pretty good salaries. The UWCM is no exception. Their 2009 Form 990, see

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