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508 is a show about Worcester. This week’s panel is David Druin, Melissa Smith, Kyle Moda, Bill Sontag, Tim Lowe, Paul Cotnoir, and Brendan Melican. [display_podcast] Audio: mp3 link, other formats, feed Video: Downloads and other formats Contact info. [0:00] Worcester’s Becker College has the #4 undergrad video game design program in the country, according … Continue reading "50...

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...

From a memorial mass for Gerard LaRochelle at 29 Merrick St, Worcester. Dan Dick was also remembered. [display_podcast] More formats

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...