508: A Show About Worcester

508 is a show about Worcester. This week’s panel is Tom Khoury, Billy, Laura Suroviak, and Brendan Melican. [display_podcast] Audio: mp3 link, other formats, feed Video: Downloads and other formats Contact info. [0:00] The “Worcester World Cup” soccer tournament is coming up this weekend. The Liberian team will win. [6:30] The City Council is still … Continue reading "508 #...

508 is a show about Worcester. This week’s panel is EPOCA. [display_podcast] Audio: mp3 link, other formats, feed Video: Downloads and other formats Contact info. [0:34] After years of struggle, CORI reform passed in Massachusetts; the governor signed the bill into law today. The ex-prisoners of EPOCA talk about this. (I haven’t found a really … Continue reading "508 #123: CORI r...

508 is a show about Worcester. This week’s panel is Brendan Melican. [display_podcast] Audio: mp3 link, other formats, feed Video: Downloads and other formats [0:31] Dan Dick died this week; his funeral today. Among other things, Dan was a long-time activist who worked on civil rights, ending the Vietnam War, Catholic church reform, and environmentalism. … Continue reading "508 #122: D...

508 is a show about Worcester. This week’s panel is Brendan Melican. [display_podcast] Audio: mp3 link, other formats, feed Video: Downloads and other formats [0:56] The George Street Challenge is coming up. [2:15] They’re doing The Taming of the Shrew in Green Hill Park the next few weeks. [3:00] Billy Blue is coming back to … Continue reading "508 #121: SWIP"

508 is a show about Worcester. This week’s panel is Chris Warren, Bruce Russell, Jesse Pack, and Brendan Melican. [display_podcast] Audio: mp3 link, other formats, feed Video: Downloads and other formats [0:25] We speculate about Saturday’s Worcester Peace Festival. [1:30] The Transgender Emergency Fund is raising money with a calendar. [5:55] Brian Goslow walks by. … Continue re...

508 is a show about Worcester. This week’s panel is Stephanie Katz, Jen Burt, Colin Novick, and Brendan Melican. [display_podcast] Audio: mp3 link, other formats, feed Video: Downloads and other formats [0:00] We investigate the “moss animals” living in a Worcester pond. These invertebrates are also known as Bryozoa or Ectoprocta. This species is Pectinatella … Continue rea...

508 is a show about Worcester. This week’s panel is Ian Anderson and Brendan Melican.[display_podcast] Audio: mp3 link, other formats, feed Video: Downloads and other formats This week we begin a series about how people in Worcester are confronting the Bad Economy. If you know someone with a story to share, contact us at pieandcoffee@gmail.com. … Continue reading "508 #118: Confronting...

508 is a show about Worcester. This week’s panel is Brendan Melican.[display_podcast] Audio: mp3 link, other formats, feed Video: Downloads and other formats 508 contact info [0:00] Mike was out of town this week. [0:48] We attempt to say something interesting and informed about public sector pension liabilities, using the ongoing Mark Rojas fiasco as … Continue reading "508 #117: Half...

508 is a show about Worcester. This week’s panel is Brendan Melican, Gabe Rollins, and Cha-Cha Connor. [display_podcast] Audio: mp3 link, other formats, feed Video: Downloads and other formats 508 contact info [1:08] Worcester police officer Mark Rojas’s personnel records and poetry were finally released to the T&G. [3:03] Gabe has looked at the population … Continue reading...

508 is a show about Worcester. This week, Raianne Richards, Mark Mandeville, Jenny Jade Albert, and Chris Bell stop in Worcester and perform a show, as part of a walking tour across Massachusetts. [display_podcast] Audio: mp3 link, other formats, feed Video: Downloads and other formats 508 contact info

508 is a show about Worcester. This week’s panel is Jeff Barnard and Brendan Melican.[display_podcast] Audio: mp3 link, other formats, feed Video: Downloads and other formats 508 contact info If you would like to boycott 508, please contact us at pieandcoffee@gmail.com. Various epic Worcester stories climaxed this week. [0:30] Unum signed a lease to became … Continue reading "508 #114:...

508 is a show about Worcester. This week’s panel is Brendan Melican and a mystery guest.[display_podcast] Audio: mp3 link, other formats, feed Video: Downloads and other formats 508 contact info If you would like to boycott 508, please contact us at pieandcoffee@gmail.com. [1:18] Brendan and Mike went to stART in the Street. They speculate about … Continue reading "508 #113: Wunneompse...

508 is a show about Worcester. This week’s panel is Jim Henderson, Nikki Erskine, Tina Zlody, and Brendan Melican.[display_podcast] Audio: mp3 link, other formats, feed Video: Downloads and other formats 508 contact info If you would like to boycott 508, please contact us at pieandcoffee@gmail.com. [0:57] Jim is running independently for Secretary of the Commonwealth. … Continue readin...

508 is a show about Worcester. This week, Mike and Brendan talk with School Committee member Tracy Novick. [display_podcast] Audio: mp3 link, other formats, feed Video: Downloads and other formats 508 contact info [0:00] We start by talking about school funding, principal firing, and union negotiations. [10:33] Brendan notices some anti-drug-dealer graffiti on a log. … Continue reading "508...

508 is a show about Worcester. This week’s panel is Erica Getto and Brendan Melican. [display_podcast] Audio: mp3 link, other formats, feed Video: Downloads and other formats 508 contact info [0:30] Erica and Mike think the first annual Worcester VegFest was a triumph. stART on the Street is May 15. [9:36] Brendan thinks that violent … Continue reading "508 #110: Hippopotamus"

508 is a show about Worcester. This week we mostly talk about the Worcester Tea Party.[display_podcast] Audio: mp3 link, other formats, feed Video: Downloads and other formats 508 contact info [0:30] Turns out the skull found in the woods near the city likely was a black woman who “appears to have suffered a brain aneurism.” … Continue reading "508 #109: Tea Party aftermath"

508 is a show about Worcester. This week’s panel is Greg Opperman and Brendan Melican.[display_podcast] Audio: mp3 link, other formats, feed Video: Downloads and other formats 508 contact info A skull was found in the woods near the neighborhood; not much more is known. Some Atlantic Union students eschewed shoes for a day to “call … Continue reading "508 #108: Items of interest"

508 is a show about Worcester. This week’s panel is Tim Hart, Pam Toomey, Brendan Melican, and Carly. [display_podcast] Audio: mp3 link, Downloads and other formats 508 contact info We discuss proposed Worcester pit bull restrictions and think they are a bad idea. (You might enjoy this Malcolm Gladwell article about pit bulls.) Clark students … Continue reading "508 #107: Pit Bulls"

508 is a show about Worcester. This week’s panel is Janeezzii Nyamekye, Jen Burt, Matt Feinstein, Clifford Reiss, and Brendan Melican.[display_podcast] Audio: mp3 link, other formats, feed Video: Downloads and other formats 508 contact info Today’s the 1-year anniversary of the Stone Soup fire. We talk about the past and future of the artist/activist center. … Continue reading "5...

508 is a show about Worcester. This week’s panel is Brendan Melican and Jen Burt. [display_podcast] Audio: mp3 link, other formats, feed Video: Downloads and other formats 508 contact info CitySquare II, a subsidiary of Opus Investment Management, itself a subsidiary of Hanover Insurance, has signed a purchase-and-sale agreement with Berkeley Investments to take over … Continue reading...

508 is a show about Worcester. This week, Mike and Brendan do the show on a frozen pond. (Today’s weather.) [display_podcast] Audio: mp3 link, other formats, feed Video: Downloads and other formats 508 contact info If you want to get involved with the effort to bring Google Fiber to Worcester, you can get started with … Continue reading "508 #104: Ice"

508 is a show about Worcester. This week, Mike, Brendan, and Jim Dempsey talk with a class of Clark University students about campus and city issues. [display_podcast] Audio: mp3 link, other formats, feed Video: Downloads and other formats 508 contact info Today’s topics are union activity at Clark, and trends in campus crime.

508 is a show about Worcester. [display_podcast] Audio: mp3 link, other formats, feed Video: Downloads and other formats 508 contact info This week, Mike and Brendan begin with a recap of city government’s efforts to bring Google Fiber to Worcester. The Whiskerite charity beard competition raised almost $1000. Check out the video. We have learned … Continue reading "508 #102: Good enou...

508 is a show about Worcester. This week’s panel is Brendan Melican, Scott Zoback, Jen Burt, and Jeremy Shulkin.[display_podcast] Audio: mp3 link, other formats, feed Video: Downloads and other formats 508 contact info Inspired by Jeremy’s Worcester Magazine cover story “Selling Worcester: Who will take the lead to market our city?”, we discuss the rich … Continue rea...

508 is a show about Worcester. This week’s panelists are Tracy Novick, Brendan Melican, Mike Benedetti, Jeff Barnard, Drew Wilson, Nicole, Bruce Russell, Matt Feinstein, Paul Levitsky, Kevin Ksen, Jesse Pack, and Jacob Berendes.[display_podcast] Audio: mp3 link, other formats, feed Video: Downloads and other formats 508 contact info This week, we ride the #2 and … Continue reading "508...