Worcester Politics 101

07/01/2025

***** VIA: The WRTA Is Everywhere But Worcester *****
Worcester pays the most money to support/finance the Worcester Regional Transit Authority while hosting their bus/van fleets here in the city.
Worcester carries the burden as the host community.
And yet they can offer area uppity towns, like Shrewsbury, Northboro and Westboro vastly improved services that the WRTA refuses to make accessible here in New England's 2nd largest city, our City of Worcester, Massachusetts.
That's penny wise pound stupid, outright wrong and a damn shame to s**t on our city families and residents like this.
Shameful!

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📍 Westborough
📍 Northborough
📍 Shrewsbury

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✅ Shrewsbury Town Hall
✅ Shrewsbury Public Library
✅ Northborough Senior Center
✅ Westboro/Southboro MBTA Station
✅ Solomon Pond Mall
✅ Northborough Crossing
✅ Market Basket / Edgemere Crossing

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Via-WRTA is your new, easy, and affordable way to ride local.
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07/01/2025

*** When Unions Stand Together Unions Win Together ***
Shame on Republic Services who are nothing more than garbage dumping on their workers and affecting municipal trash and recycling service pickups.

HAPPENING NOW: Hundreds of trash and recycling workers are on strike, possibly disrupting waste collection in more than a dozen Massachusetts communities ahead of the Fourth of July.

07/01/2025

***** Exactly Who Is John Fresolo & Why Did He Resign His Statehouse Seat In 2013? *****
District 3 City Council Candidate Fresolo certainly has some explaining to do to the voters and families in the district, and with
Fresolo refusing to do so is a huge RED-FLAG for the entire district.
Let's recap shall we what the history shows:
Alleged questionable per-diem travel reimbursements to and from Worcester to Boston.
That's taxpayer dollars possibly misused that he allegedly pocketed.
Strike 1
Allegedly violated elderly subsidized housing complex rules by campaigning inside the facility.
Strike 2
Resigned in 2013 after a House Ethics Committee investigation with rumors and innuendo still swirling around as to what allegedly took place.
Strike 3.
Attempted a comeback in 2016 running under the United Independent Party where the founder, Evan Falchuck, completely and without question nor hesitation disavowed Fresolo's candidacy.
Case Closed!
Worcester District 3 certainly deserves better, much better than this self serving politico only in it for himself as his recent history suggests.

When lawmakers get pushed out of Beacon Hill because of ethics problems, it should be a high priority to make sure they don’t come back.

07/01/2025

***** Meet Chaos Candidate Cayden Davis Candidate For City Council At Large *****
Davis is another one of the King/Haxhiaj/Mailman Chaos Candidates running for office who want to tear our neighborhoods down, pit neighbor against neighbor and sow chaos throughout our city and on the city council floor.
A few of the platform points Davis is running on include:
*Opening up 'drug injection sites' in our neighborhoods seriously jeopardizing public safety while raising serious concerns for all of our families, children, elderly and neighbors throughout our city.
That's not bringing a city together that's purposely dividing our city.
Unacceptable.
* Creating a 'civilian police review board'
Well that's a dollar late and a day short.
Police already have a statewide review board concerning police officers and it's called POST already up and running.
Cayden wants to waste everyone's time and resources duplicating that which is already working.
Unacceptable.
*Creating falsehoods about our Worcester Police Department (Official) response to Eureka St is despicable and uncalled for.
The fact is WPD were called to the scene by a multitude of callers concerned about public safety.
The WPD does not cooperate nor coordinate with ICE.
Unacceptable.
**Being anti-police shilling bulls**t is a non-starter across the board when seeking political office in our City of Worcester, Massachusetts.
**Supporting drug injection sites in our City of Worcester, Massachusetts is anti-Worcester.
Remember come the primaries on 9/2/25 and vote accordingly to send this candidate of chaos packing.
Worcester residents and families deserves much better than this crap!

06/30/2025

*** City Councilor Kate Toomey Stepping Up For Public Safety Around Our Rail System Tracks ***
A child's life was needlessly ended by have easy access to the rail tracks.
Requiring fencing wherever possible is a positive step forward preventing such deaths in our city.

Section 93A. If the mayor of a city or the selectmen of a town where a railroad corporation is authorized to lay and use tracks are of the opinion that the public safety requires the er****on of a fence along such tracks, they may apply to the department, which shall, after public notice, hear all p...

06/30/2025

PSA
Via: 100 FM The Pike

Join us for Worcester’s Independence Day Fireworks Celebration, presented by M&T Bank, Tuesday, July 1 at East Park (Cristoforo Colombo Park). 🎆

For more information visit: https://www.discovercentralma.org/events/worcester-fireworks/

06/30/2025

***** Governor Maura Healey Is Destroying Vocational Education & Our Public Schools Across The Commonwealth *****
Worcester Regional Chamber of Commerce President Tim Murray is spot on with his assessment including the dire need to strengthen Voke Ed admission policies not weaken them.
Let's not forget Maura Healey ignoring for the last 2 years the MCAS question and now with it removed as a graduation requirement what will fill the void to ensure our public schools are getting the job done educating our youth.
Kudos to Tim Murray including the Massachusetts Vocational Technical Coalition for continuing to apply the needed public pressure to defend and save vocational schools including our public schools.

Statement from Worcester Regional Chamber of Commerce President & CEO Tim Murray


WORCESTER, Mass. (June 30, 2025) – Massachusetts’ vocational-technical and agricultural high schools are a Massachusetts public education success story. Unfortunately, Gov. Healey‘s decision to eliminate the current admissions process for these schools – instead of providing focused leadership to address the waiting list of some 11,000 students seeking this highly successful form of education – represents a further retreat from the Massachusetts tradition of having high standards and aspirations for our students.

As a longtime advocate for voc-tech education, I personally want to thank state Rep. Frank Moran and the Massachusetts House leadership for seeking to put a pause on Gov. Healey’s ill-advised policy in the state budget and create a statewide task force to look at ways in which we can expand voc-tech education for all students. Unfortunately, Rep. Moran’s proposal was omitted from the state budget reported out of conference committee. Without this or any other immediate action by the Legislature, Gov. Healey’s misguided admissions lottery will take effect and it will have a profound adverse effect on our students. Voc-tech and local school districts, and municipalities, will be forced to deal with the aftermath of this failed policy.

Gov. Healey‘s decision to eliminate requirements around student attendance, academic performance and behavior for voc-tech admissions cannot be viewed in isolation. This, coupled with the failure of our state’s leaders to come up with an alternative to the MCAS after two years of discussion prior to the 2024 ballot question, will result in poorer academic outcomes for Massachusetts students. It also undermines our position as a national leader in public K-12 education. Our educational leadership has been a calling card for Massachusetts in competing for the jobs, companies and industry sectors of both the present and future. As a result, we risk losing ground economically in every region of the state.

06/30/2025

***** The Mass State Senate and Mass House Of Reps Have All Failed Vocational Education Students Across The Commonwealth *****

06/30/2025

***** Senate GOP Bill Will Add over $5 Trillion To National Debt Over Next Decade *****
The ultimate moral test of any government is the way it treats three groups of it's citizens.
First, those in the dawn of life - our children.
Second, those in the shadows of life - our needy, our sick and our handicapped.
Third, those in the twilight of life - our elderly.
HHH
The Senate and House GOP have failed the American people, no matter their political affiliations, epically on all three points.

A new analysis showing the legislation would be far more expensive than the House version could complicate its chances of final passage in that chamber, where fiscal hawks have said the cost must not grow.

06/30/2025

***** Shame On UMASS Memorial Healthcare Screwing The Most Vulnerable Amongst Us *****
Pulling the rug out from under those seeking care and then not following DPH timeline guidelines is par for course with this UMMHealth.org sitting on over $172,000,000 parked in the Cayman Islands of which 60+% of that total are public monies bought and paid for by each and everyone of us.
Profit care over patient care is unAmerican but that's exactly who and what UMASS Memorial Healthcare is all about.

The DPH has stated the Worcester healthcare system violated a regulatory requirement with its rushed closure, yet the regulators have denied the union's request to hold a public hearing.

06/27/2025

***** MA Governor Maura Healey Signs Fair Share Supplemental Budget Screwing Everyone Else Outside The Boston Beltway *****
And we can all thank our local state delegations in the statehouse for throwing the rest of us under the bus.
Our local state delegations place their paychecks and committee assignments first before the people back home they are supposed to represent.
In Worcester we can thank Mary Keefe, State Representative Jim O'Day for State, David LeBoeuf, State Representative and Representative John J. Mahoney who represent and prioritize their wallets first and our families and neighbors last.

"These improvements will cut traffic times, reduce commutes and grow our economy..." Massachusetts Governor signs $1.3 billion supplemental budget from Fair Share revenues.

06/26/2025

***** Entitled Worcester City Councilor and City Councilor Candidate Parking Wherever They Choose *****
They both must subscribe to "the rules apply to thee not to me" bulls**t.
It was Chaos Councilor King who complained about people parking on sidewalks at a city council meeting a couple of years ago even though he himself would park wherever the hell he wanted to.
Now we apparently have D3 City Council Candidate Fesolo who feels he's entitled to park in hospital fire lanes jeopardizing public safety.
What is it with these people who feel they are entitled and the rules only apply to everyone else?