Oof. Just looked them up and where I live, we'd have to sign a contract for at least 6 months and the rate is only $.05 less than what we pay now.

It was more than 60%. The supply charge went from $.11/kwh to $.25/kwh. That's over 100% increase. We paid about $103 last month for our supply charge and this month it's $199. Plus, there's the distribution charge and transmission charge, which are all essentially the same thing, so we're paying about $260 this month just to get our electricity.

Imo Worcester generally sucks at snow removal, especially off of the main roads. You find a way to manage though

I second this. Leave early start your weekend now.

Even closer than that are the apartments on Plantation Ridge, one of which is called Audubon , up a hill from the hotel.

But all the apartment complexes are at a higher price than what you can find in one of the triple-decker buildings. The new apt complexes usually have central air if that's something you prioritize. If it's not a big deal, the older buildings will usually have more space fir your money. You can find info on them with things from Craigslist to trulia.

Some good info here: https://www.reddit.com/r/WorcesterMA/comments/102737a/has_anyone_changed_electricity_suppliers/

I went to Worcester State and some of my classmates used the bus from Brookfield to get to and from class every day. I could never do that and always admired that dedication lol

National grid put a 60% or something raise on their rates starting Dec 1st 2022.

Things must've changed in the 5 years since I graduated...

What management can do is very limited. The police union is pretty extreme, and they have a lot of power over the department.

South of the city has been all rain with a tiny bit of flakes mixed in. No accumulation

not at all. roads are clear.
you should still leave early though. because it's friday, and you're tired.

I'm fine with projects like this being built, but in tandem with it we need:

1. Affordable / low-income units, and programs that make sure low-income Worcester residents can continue to live and thrive here.
2. More robust public transit / make the city less reliant on car infrastructure
3. More condo units for sale so there isnt an oversaturation of """luxury""" rentable units or just competitive single-family homes.
4. More culture and institutions that are genuinely interesting and edgy and cool but uniquely Worcester. Why pay New York style prices and not even get the tip of the iceberg of the type of amenities of that city? I'm so ready to move out of this city to NYC (was born here, lived in Boston for 11 years, and just recently moved back to the Woo) because between the shit public transit and lack of stuff to do, I'm at my wits end here, and if the city is going to start costing just as much, might as well be somewhere worth the high price.
5. More than just $15 an hour jobs outside of the medical or tech field. I've been scouring Indeed for the past few weeks for a new interim job, and the pay wages these days are abysmal if you're not in med or tech (real estate is maybe the only other field I can think of here that pays well but THEY are the ones who are part of the problem of gentrification/high cost of units and homes).

BTW this is not the first lesbian bar in Worcester. That would be Isiah's back in the 70s and 80s.

I'm new to the area (coming up on a year in Worcester) and this was what floored me about this city. The lack of any coherent transit system, or in reality, the lack of support for any mode of transportation that isn't a car. I can't run more than like 9 miles uninterrupted in this town. I don't think I've seen a single bike lane the whole time I've been here.

Reliable public transit, bike infrastructure, or even just sidewalks that don't just end/have trees growing out the middle of them would be a great start to actually help this city achieve it's full potential. These are the kinds of things that increase opportunity for citizens in a city. More opportunities means more financially secure citizens, more people with expendable income, and in turn better economic health. Cars are expensive and often cause more financial hardship in the long or sometimes short term. I lived in Milwaukee WI, for about a decade without having a car. If I had needed one I'm not sure I would have made it through school. I really don't know how people make it in this town without a car.

I drove for work doing door dash and GrubHub the roads are surprisingly clear even with the continued snowfall. Fingers crossed it stays that way lol I need to work. But even side roads are clear.

Every time there's an article about this, everyone conflates internet and cable services. This article/survey/discussion is about cable television only, not internet availability/service/options.

Survey results don't surprise me at all, though I don't see how bringing in another service will may a huge difference considering the contracts that Charter needs to sign with content providers to be able to carry them. Hence why you always see end-of-year commercials about "DirectTV will not longer be carrying TimeWarner channels" or things like that.

I can agree that their prices were getting outrageous which is why I dropped cable tv a few years ago.

I hesitate to curse myself, but in 3 years working from home, I have had 2 outages, neither of which have lasted more than a few hours. Now, that’s internet. Is this discussion/contract for both TV and internet, or just TV? For TV my issue is what I think is the same as everyone else’s, price is too high, and ever increasing. I think there need to be more tiers offered, if the hundreds of channels offered, we probably watch <50 on a regular basis.

Not necessarily. Look up EPB in Chattanooga if you've never heard of them. This company should be a model for any effort to create a municipal broadband service. It's a large, extremely well managed and successful business owned by the city that as of last year rolled out 25 gigabit service.

You can get 1Gbps for $68/mo. The 10gbps is pretty cost prohibitive at $300/mo, but the 1gig service is cheaper than what I pay Xfinity.

Temperature is supposed to drop so it could get messy but it was fine at 2:10 on 290 and Burncoat and Shrews

Just book an appt with Danielle, they know what they’re doing there

I think I wrote hairdresser

It got better snows light now

Heartwell barber

Nope