508: A Show About Worcester: Recent Episodes
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508 is a show about Worcester. This week, Brendan has a surprisingly optimistic take on Worcester’s future.
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508 is a show about Worcester. This week, Mike tells Brendan about some analysis Greg Opperman and he have done about strategic voting in Worcester at-large elections.
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Short version of this article: You shouldn’t vote for anyone who’s guaranteed to win or to lose. If there are 6 plausible candidates you like, you should vote for them. If there are fewer than 6, you should vote for fewer than 6. Leaving those ballot slots blank will indeed help them. However, the power of those blank slots is pretty small, so you should not try too hard to have blank slots.
508 is a show about Worcester. This week, Brendan updates Mike on the state of Worcester, and Mike despairs.
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508 is a show about Worcester. This week, we discuss losing a judge and gaining a City Manager. Audio: Download the mp3 or see more formats. Subscribe with iTunes | Subscribe with Google Play | Contact Info | Twitter feed | RSS Notes: Timothy S. Hillman is a federal judge for the United States District […]
508 is a show about Worcester. This week, we talk about the City Council live commentary, Joe Petty’s campaign video, lifting Worcester’s mask mandate, our experiences getting COVID, nuclear war, endemic life, Substack, Brent Crude Oil, Metaculus Prediction Updates, Ukraine and its consequences, and COVID brain fog. Audio: Download the mp3 or see more formats. […]
508 is a show about Worcester. This week, we talk with Ali Reid, Worcester’s pre-eminent critic of public art, about Worcester Monopoly, Kevin Can F**k Himself, Ulysses, and the Abby Kelley Foster Memorial. Audio: Download the mp3 or see more formats. Subscribe with iTunes | Subscribe with Google Play | Contact Info | Twitter feed […]
508 is a show about Worcester. This week, we talk about local election results, Polar Park, COVID, Dune, commodities news, the rise of Bill Shaner, and the fall of underground punk shows. Audio: Download the mp3 or see more formats. Subscribe with iTunes | Subscribe with Google Play | Contact Info | Twitter feed | […]
508 is a show about Worcester. This week, we look at the back of the Polar Park sign and struggle to use the Pulse website. Audio: Download the mp3 or see more formats. Subscribe with iTunes | Subscribe with Google Play | Contact Info | Twitter feed | RSS
508 is a show about Worcester. This week, we talk about COVID in the Commonwealth, police in the schools, and the Worcester Pawsox schedule. Audio: Download the mp3 or see more formats. Subscribe with iTunes | Subscribe with Google Play | Contact Info | Twitter feed | RSS Early rate reductions of SARS-CoV-2 infection and […]
508 is a show about Worcester. This week, we talk with Ali Reid about Worcester’s skate mayor, “Christmas on Ice,” “Christmas a la Mode,” weird real estate mail, and the post-COVID Worcester of 2021. Audio: Download the mp3 or see more formats. Subscribe with iTunes | Subscribe with Google Play | Contact Info | Twitter […]
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. Audio: Download the mp3 or see more formats. Subscribe with iTunes | Subscribe with Google Play | Contact Info | Twitter feed | RSS
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. Audio: Download the mp3 or see more formats. Subscribe with iTunes | Subscribe with Google Play | Contact Info | Twitter feed | […]
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. Audio: Download the mp3 or see more formats. Subscribe with iTunes | Subscribe with Google Play | Contact Info | Twitter feed | […]
508 is a show about Worcester. This week, we talk about COVID, Black Lives Matter, school, homicide, air quality.
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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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