We sit down in the courtyard of Chris’s building for a Sunday night session with the peepers. We catch up on the local chatter and hone in on our two favorite avatars of municipal corruption: Thomas Duffy and Candy Mero-Carlson.

While I have you, a few announcements I’ve been meaning to share...

One, the pre-orders for the second run of the Bad Brains shirts are all in the mail. Thank you for your patience! There are about 12 leftovers up on the merch store. Get ‘em while you can!

Two, next Election Squad is set for Oct. 16 at Steel and Wire! See you there. Flyer with details here.

Reading list for Duffy’s appearance in court last week: my short write up and This Week In Worcester’s coverage. I’ve been away at a wedding since Thursday, when the court date happened, and so I haven’t been able to provide my full written analysis yet. It’s coming! It was an extremely revealing move, Duffy’s going to court. Both for the city’s power relations and for his personal involvement in the case against Etel Haxhiaj. Short version: the absolute dumbest way he could have spent his political capital.

On the Candy front, we focus on the mailer she recently sent out which uses on the Alta on the Row development for some reason as the basis to rattle off a list of weird lies. Here’s the mailer...

...and the truth on Alta on the Row

“The development of Alta on the Row will cost north of $100 million, Lambert said. The project received $1 million in Housing Development Incentive Program funding and was also granted a Tax Increment Exemption (TIE) by the city of Worcester. The tax abatement agreement will last 15 years, according to Lambert”

“The apartments available will include junior one-bedrooms, standard one-bedrooms, one-bedrooms with dens and size all the way up to three-bedroom apartments, Lambert said, so there will be a variety of price points for the rent.

The project will not have affordable housing”

Here’s my reporting on the little league field and Anthony Petrone etc etc

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