508: A Show About Worcester

508: A Show About Worcester

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508: A Show About Worcester episodes

  • Hot Dog! (508 #370 w/ Shaun Connolly)

    508 is a show about Worcester. This week, we talk with Worcester legend Shaun Connolly about drought, banning Halloween, the state of standup, crime rates, and ballot questions.


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    24 min
  • Hike Worcester (508 #369 w/ Justin Raphaelson and Colin Novick)

    508 is a show about Worcester. This week, we talk with Justin Raphaelson and Colin Novick about Justin’s unsupported, continuous run of the Hike Worcester Challenge, rats, trash, demolition, and forest fires.


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    31 min
  • Airline Food (508 #368)

    508 is a show about Worcester. This week, we talk about the baseball field and related development, flying in and out of the state, restaurants and COVID-19, municipal broadband, and clean air.


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    41 min
  • Pre-Post-COVID Worcester (508 #367)

    508 is a show about Worcester. This week, we talk about COVID, Black Lives Matter, school, homicide, air quality.


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    38 min
  • COVID and Kids (508 #366 w/Audrey Smolkin)

    508 is a show about Worcester. This week, we talk about school and childhood trauma in this time of pandemic with Audrey Smolkin, Director of Child and Family Policy at UMass Medical School, and Tracy Novick, Worcester School Committee member.


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    25 min
  • COVID 1138 (508 #365)

    508 is a show about Worcester. This week, we talk about the ongoing pandemic with Worcester City Clerk Nikolin Vangjeli and Worcester School Committee member (and COVID-19 sufferer) Tracy Novick.


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    37 min
  • Worcester in the Time of SARS-CoV-2 (508 #364)

    508 is a show about Worcester. This week, we talk about Motley Crew Way and SARS-CoV-2 with Brendan Melican, Holmes Wilson, and Tracy Novick.


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    Motley Crew Way [PDF]

    Petty satisfied with teleconferenced Worcester City Council meeting

    45 min
  • State of Emergency (508 #363)

    508 is a show about Worcester. This week, this week, we look at how Worcester rates on the Wharton Residential Land Use Regulatory Index, and share our exhaustion reading about the coronavirus.


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    Tax deal endorsed for $60 million WuXi Biologics project in Worcester

    The Local Residential Land Use Regulatory Environment Across U.S. Housing Markets: Evidence from a New Wharton Index

    Our friend, Brent Crude Oil

    “For the fourth time in my adult memory, humanity has collectively, visibly lost the plot at a global level.”

    Holmes Wilson’s Facebook page

    24 min
  • COVID Fever (508 #362)

    508 is a show about Worcester. This week, we talk about Worcester’s Libertarian primary, the downside of tax breaks for businesses, and pandemic prepping.

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    • The Prepared
    • You Don’t Always Get What You Want: The Effect of Financial Incentives on State Fiscal Health
    • Commonwealth of Massachusetts: Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan: Base Plan, January 2019
    • Diocese of Worcester: Flu Letter to Faithful 2020
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      29 min
    • The Alien Cafe (508 #361)

      508 is a show about Worcester. This week, we talk about H.R. Giger, mini city hall, cubicle housing, our forthcoming tiny house villages, the baseball stadium deal, malls, and the Skate Mayor.

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      35 min

    About 508: A Show About Worcester

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    A show about Worcester, Massachusetts.