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Methuen School Committee member and former City Councilor Ken Willette is running a write in campaign for state representative. Tom also shocks the audience by declaring he wants Latinos to take over Methuen and that "only Latinos can save this country"

(6-18-26) PAYING ATTENTION PODCAST with Tom Duggan: Guest Mike Gorman of TMF Mike Gorman founder of TMF talks about the organizations mission to service the homeless in Lawrence, Massachusetts and his battle with the city of Lawrence over homeless dinners at the Buckley Garage.

Brian Shortsleeve is a candidate for governor of Massachusetts and had a LOT to say about his primary opponent as well as current governor Maura Healey and the flood of corruption under her reign of terror as the head of Massachusetts Government. 

It was a fascinating show as Essex County Sheriff Kevin Coppinger joined Tom Duggan to discuss what a Sheriff actually does, how prisoners are handled who are awaiting trial vs. those who have been convicted, what was it like to run a prison system under Covid? How does the Sheriff's Department handle corruption and MORE! VERY Educational interview! 

Tom Duggan and Intern Girl are LIVE at Brando's Chicken Cutlets in North Andover with special Guests Billy Griffin owner of Brandos' Methuen School committee member Nick DiZoglio, former Methuen School Committee member Kristen Maxwell, and Special Guest Co-Host Attorney Doug Mercurio. It was a VERY heated discussion about food, the Methuen School scandals, and pretty hefty disagreement between Dug...

Today Tom talks about the Annual Taste of Methuen and this year's winner Quality Catering, as well as the controversy from last year's  event, a possible race hoax in Lawrence as a backwards swastika is painted on city hall and someone hacks into the City Council live feed using racial slurs, an THEN Tom's guest Lissy Rivas from Despierta Lawrence goes at it with Intern Girl!

It's a hodgepodge show today As Tom talked about gun rights, Intern Girl has a beef with my Lissy Rivas, what is the standard for libel and slander, the democrats do NOT care about education! the myth of class size, Methuen's continuing education failures continue to get rewarded, why Mike Minogue cannot win the governor's race in Massachusetts, Steve Gillis may be getting sued, illegal aliens and...

Methuen Councilor Yanilda Santos is not guilty of Drunk Driving, and political hack Dan Shibilia continues to defame her. Massachusetts State Rep. Francisco Paulino lets loose on controversial topics like abortion, Education funding, Special Ed. Artificial Intelligence, His rift with the Lawrence Mayor, and MORE!

Paying Attention! with Tom Duggan Today Tom and Intern Girl chatted at the beginning of the show about the $9.6M defecit in the Methuen schools upcoming state rep race between Francisco Paulino and Councilors Celina Reyes and Ana Levy, the pettiness of Methuen Mayor Beauregard whining about councilors missing a special meeting after he missed three in a row, Lawrence mayor Brian DePena fighting in...

(4-16-26) Guest former Methuen School Committee Member Kristen Maxwell discusses the teacher on leave for inappropriate relationship with a student and the porn material that teacher was publicly advocated be read in the classroom - PAYING ATTENTION PODCAST

(4-9-26) What a BASH!! Awards and Scholarship Updates  Guest: Attorney Doug Mercurio 

(3-19-26) The Valley Patriot 22nd Anniversary BASH Preview Show 

(3-12-26) Zaka Shafiq of AFC Urgent Care joins Tom 

(3-5-26) Georgetown Selectman Mike Donohue Joins Tom To talk Corruption

Salisbury Selectman Gil Medeiros joins Tom after he talks about the assault of Methuen School Committee member Kristen Maxwell by colleague Laurie Keagan.  The state of Salisbury Beach,  the new developments, Town Manager  Neil Harrington and MORE 

Methuen City Council President Neily Soto joined Tom today to talk about the politics of Methuen the direction of the schools and all things METHUEN Massachusetts!

Anne Brensley republican candidate for Lt. Governor joins Tom to talk about the waste and abuse of state tax dollars and why she should be the next Lt.  Governor  

Tom broke his neck and took three week's off and now he's back.  Topics: The function of the Supreme Court, Supreme Court Rules laws against boys playing in girls sports. Woman shot by cops, democrats are still inciting violence. AI Porn laws, are they unconstitutional? Local officials take leadership positions on Methuen and Lawrence   Nick DiZoglio becomes school Committee vice president in Meth...

National conservative podcasters all fired up he echo chamber by over-reacting to a fake news story put out by progressive democrats without doing a quick google search to find out that Lawrence Mayor Brian DePena actually DOES speak English and is not QUITE the liberal democrat they portrayed him to be. NOPE if they bothered to do a quick search they would have found Depena is PRO LIFE,  ANTI-TRA...

They were out in full  force this week attacking anyone who opposed their efforts to defend the status quo! The Methuen, MA School Nazis defended the failed superintendent of schools after the Valley Patriot newspaper investigation revealed that more than 70% of the kids in the Methuen schools cannot read OR do math at grade level. Also a look back at the way one of the school Nazis acts at a city...

(12-4-25) PAYING ATTENTION PODCAST Guest Yanilda Santos, Topic Methuen Schools and Test Scores.

A thanksgiving show about food and fun, guests David Consoli of Pleasant Valley Landscaping Contracts, Billy Griffin from Brando's join Tom Duggan to talk about the new food phenom in Haverhill, Thanksgiving stuff and Methuen politicians behaving badly! The pervert brigade in  Methuen that pushes porn on kids  in the Methuen Schools are hopping  mad!  

11-20-25* The Attorney General Spanks Lawrence City Attorney Tim Houten for giving terrible legal advice to the Lawrence City Council as they have now been found guilty of violating the open meeting law.* The Lawrence City Council puts the cart before the horse and abandons the homeless in Lawrence with a new no tent ordinance.* Revelations about bogus complaints against Methuen Councilor Patricia...