The Mayor joins us for his weekly #WorcesterWednesday appearance on the show a day late (apparently it's a lot of work being the mayor of the 2nd largest city in New England, who woulda thought?).

Anyway we were happy to have him on to talk about The CPA, The Council's role in ballot questions, Notre Dame, and The PawSox

Honee Hess, the Chair of the Worcester Cultural Coalition along with 4 other important community and government members signed a Cultural Compact with the Massachusetts Cultural Council on Monday, June 18th

The Compact will promote a shared vision for cities and towns to recognize the power of culture and make communities better places for people to live, work and thrive. Worcester is one of 6 cities selected to pilot this statewide initiative.

The master planning committee from Holden joined us this morning to talk about the Holden Master Plan, what it means and what it does, and how you can get involved in the process and have your voice heard.

Joining us this morning were Holden Selectman Anthony Renzoni, Trish Settles and Janet Pierce of the Central Massachusetts Regional Planning Commission (CMRPC), and Holden Town Planner Pam Harding

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We take an hour every Friday morning to talk about all the national stories and issues that we didn't get to during the week. On our rotating panel of guests, this week we had Hank Stolz, Ben White, and Former Republican US Senate Candidate Brian Herr

Our conversation wraps up with GOP Gubernatorial Candidate Scott Lively as Hank asks him how he would deal with different issues of the day- the pressing ones facing the Commonwealth.

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Mayor Petty joins us in studio in The Vault for our weekly Worcester Wednesday chat. Obviously we talk a lot about Notre Dame as that was the big topic on last night's City Council meeting.

Paul Giorgio joins us to talk about the annual The Taste of Shrewsbury Street, 2018 edition.

Bob Massie is a Democrat running for Governor of Massachusetts and is locked in a primary battle with fellow Dem Jay Gonzalez. This morning he joined the show to lay out his plan on how to move Massachusetts forward on what he sees is as strong progressive platform.

We asked him about all the pressing issues from transportation to opioids to energy to the economy and beyond.

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Hank talks about Notre Dame potentially coming down and what Save Notre Dame is and isn't doing right as they try to save the church. Is there a bad guy in this? how could this have been prevented? What is the best way to save it? Hank has all the answers

Scott Lively is a Republican candidate for Governor who made his way onto the GOP primary ballot with a surprising 28% of the vote at the GOP Convention here in Worcester.

He is looking to unseat sitting Governor Charlie Baker, and he joined The Talk of the Commonwealth to talk about his vision for Massachusetts, some of the pressing issues he is running on, and what he would do if elected Governor.

NOTE: We had technical difficulties at the end of the interview, will finish at a later date