When I lived in Holden after a storm ended and clean up was done all of Holden's roads perfect. Going to Worcester via Salisbury street days after the storm by Assumption that hill into Worcester.. was very scary.. always slippery and I almost hit a bunch of college kids "sledding" in the middle of the road at 10:30 PM at night on my way to work.

Awwww. Thanks for acknowledging I have a brain. Most of the loser liberals on here don’t even recognize that. Y’all have a good night, my trolling is done for the day 😀

Probably the best way is to fill out the form-- you can add any of your interests for next time, and just let us know in the "special requests" section that you can't make it this time but want to get on the mailing list!

I signed up as all night available, see you there!

Wow! Up for a Pulitzer after that ?

Not available tomorrow but how can I get on a mailing list for this?

You’ve lost me. Have fun.

What's that? Sorry, can't hear you over the sound of another police brutality victim cashing their settlement check.

People have been calling for a search ever since Augustus announced his resignation, pointing to the school committee's recent successful search process as an example of what to do, as well as the botched searches from the past two CM selections as an example of what not to do.

It's also just what normal, functioning cities do.

ALSO look at who the city councilors who have been pushing for a search are, and maybe reconsider if it's Batista's race (or anything about Batista, really, other then the process by which he was selected and the cronyism it demonstrates) that matters in the slightest bit here.

Catan is just one of the many games we're planning! We have some hardcore board gamers coming with huge selections of new games as well.

Hope we'll see you there!

Hopefully there will be more!

If only it wasn't on a Thursday. I have work the next day.

That is a very good point! Would love to continue to see new faces on the city council that are smart and take the job seriously.

Also in favor of time limits for councilors speaking as well. If you can’t make your point clearly in 2 minutes - your mic gets cut. 😂 The usual suspects blather on forever with no direction. It’s exhausting to listen to.

Settlers of Catan? Is that supposed to be a selling point 😂🤣 sounds like fun anyway though!

As a lifelong resident, I'm quite happy to see Worcester finally grow into the city it was always destined to be. Despite of the pandemic and insuing lockdown, the city is still on the way up.

You're just making an assertion. Why is it "wildly ahistorical"?

Oh, you’re totally right, I forgot people only complain about things that make sense.

This is wildly ahistorical.

Not to worry, people were definitely complaining that the council was trying to spend entire *thousands* of dollars to make the single most important decision that they make.

I’d they did, how many people would have complained about the cost?

Some years ago, in the 1990s, the International Socialist Organization (which is now gone, but which influenced a whole generation of the American left) had a discussion on police unions, and they found that they were contradictory. They weren't regular unions, but they were unions nonetheless that sometimes need to be supported, based on their demands, at least according to the ISO.

What I don't understand is why there was a meeting informing some people - but not others - about the investigation. According to the T+G, there was a non-publicly advertised meeting organized by Rollins or her office and some members of the community. Why this group of people, whoever they were, and not everyone else? What's so special about whoever they are?

Worcester is not doing this. Boston is doing this.

First ever Latino hired for the job, and now everyone is desperate for a search committee. Maybe not racially motivated (obviously not with Sarai Rivera, as she's an advocate for the community, but the others) but it can't help but feel that way.

But really, so what? Lots of companies and cities with city manager forms of government promote from within. The guy has the experience, etc., so why not?