508: A Show About Worcester

508 is a show about Worcester. This week, we talk with David Lebouef and Kola Akindele about the Initiative for Engaged Citizenship. Also: traffic cameras and prostitution.

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508 is a show about Worcester. This week, we talk with Worcester District 3 City Council Candidate Mat Taylor.

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508 is a show about Worcester. This week’s panel is Gabe Rollins and Brendan Melican.

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Gabe isn’t running for City Council, but he joined us before a screening of “Back to the Future” on the Common to go over the questions we’re using to frame this year’s Council race.

Music: Flock of Assholes.

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508 is a show about Worcester.

Here’s what we have of the 1.0 list of “what do you want the candidates to be discussing as they compete for votes in this year’s election?” (Thanks, Jay Rosen). We’ll be fleshing out the questions in the coming weeks, and redrafting the list once a month till the election. We’re trying to keep the questions/framing to 50 words or less.

Also: Nice feature in Womag.

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508 is a show about Worcester. This week’s panel is Adrienne LaPierre and Brendan Melican.

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[0:15] Adrienne talks about the “Making a Green Solidarity Economy” conference July 23.

[2:50] Adrienne also talks about Worcester Time Trade. Mike has posted an offer to see what happens.

[9:45] Life is suffering.

[10:00] Beer.

[10:15] News of the month: Paul Stamets unveiled a new “fermentation” method for preparing mushroom culture substrate in a talk at Clark.

[13:10] Blogging Orthodox priest Peter-Michael Preble has been criticized for his management of tornado relief donations. Mike is confused as to what he supposedly did wrong.

[14:50] ICT swimsuit issue.

[15:55] Brendan’s favorite tattoo shop.

[16:15] New Happiness Pony out this week.

[16:20] Worcester restaurant Duck Yao on (Australian) Gizmodo for accepting Bitcoin. Update: We can confirm Duck Yao HAS received Bitcoin for food.

[16:50] Bitcoin app for Android.

[16:55] St. John’s soup kitchen expanding.

[17:20] Abbott’s Worcester offices expanding.

[18:00] Half-assed nazis to return to Worcester for well-protested but poorly-attended meeting.

[18:48] Does Worcester suck?

508 is a show about Worcester. This week’s panel is a cordless phone, a statue of a sea captain, and Bruce “Snow Ghost” Russell.

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EPOCA kicked off new campaigns; City Council loves the City Manager; we made a video about the women of Worcester punk; Mike comments on the cover story of Worcester Magazine; election issues; and downtown destinations.

Mike completely forgot to mention his 2 favorite stories of the week, DCU’s cheap gas publicity stunt and Paul Stamets’s talk at Clark.

508 is a show about Worcester. This week’s panel is Dante Comparetto and Brendan Melican.

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Rally for Tim DeChristopher at the Worcester federal building; revocation of nonprofit status from some Worcester groups; “Building a Green Solidarity Economy”; Duck Yao takes bitcoins; Worcester will be sued over tobacco ad ban; opposition to closing Downing Street makes some progress; City has an online permitting system; chickens; what issues should City Council candidates discuss during the election? And: neighborhood councils.

508 is a show about Worcester. This week’s panel is Brendan Melican, civic gadfly Jo Hart, and Mike’s sexy body.

The question: What do you want the candidates to be discussing as they compete for votes in this year’s City Council election?

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508 is a show about Worcester. This week’s panel is Julius Jones and Brendan Melican.

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[0:57] Julius talks about a “Get Your Shine On!” dance party happening 9:30pm-1:45am Friday, June 3 at the Sahara, 143 Highland Street in Worcester.

[3:33] Train.

[4:17] Tornadoes in Massachusetts yesterday.

[6:35] June 4: Celebrate “National Trails Day” by repairing and exploring the trails at God’s Acre.

[7:35] Julius and Mike talk about the previously postponed nazi meeting in Worcester.

[9:24] Mike talks about some sort of melee that occurred at the library when three of them finally met there May 21, and a group of antifascists got rowdy. Some details of this account are confirmed by the partial report visible on the NEWP website. If anyone wants to go on the record about what happened, they are welcome to be on 508.

Update: Worcester Wired got some people who were there on the record. Among other errors that Mike made in his 508 summary, there were 9 or 10 (not 20) attackers, wearing bandannas, not ski masks.

[13:50] There are interesting articles in the InCity Times about the city budget and preventing foreclosures.

[15:42] TIFs and DIFs. What the hell?

Julius recommends this TED talk:

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Linda Parham is applying for a grant to start a “food recycling” program in Worcester, Bountiful Harvest. They’ll take donations of food that would otherwise go to waste, prepare healthy meals, and partner with local groups to distribute the meals. You can help her get the grant by voting online.

T&G circulation figures are now measured with a new metric, so it’s hard to say how circulation is doing. They do report that “readership” is up 5.6% to 381,129.

T&G mistakenly considers Worcester and Providence to be “peers.”

Gabe Rollins, At-Large City Council candidate, has a very professional logo.

Pit bulls. The fiasco continues!