508 is a show about Worcester. This week’s panel is School Committee member Tracy Novick and Emily Jones and Maureen St. Cyr from Community Legal Aid. (For legal help, you can contact CLA at 508-752-3718, ot you can contact a private attorney.)

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Legal Aid is ready to help you with lending discrimination or foreclosure problems.

We listen to “Legal A” by Bruce “Snow Ghost” Russell, remixed by Mubba. (mp3 link)

We debate the quality of Rush Street Gaming’s pro slots parlor website.

The ACLU has sued the city over the recent anti-panhandling ordinances.

The City can no longer crack down on landlords renting 1 apartment to 4 students by claiming these are unlicensed rooming houses.

Huge amounts of public school issues are being decided in the next month or so. If you have an opinion, now is the time to talk to the School Committee.

Mike likes Nori’s catalog of the supermodels of Worcester.

508 is a show about Worcester. This week we mostly talk about ‘s body at the Graham Putnam and Mahoney funeral home in Worcester. We talk a little about a drawing of the proposed Worcester slots parlor. We have an interview from the final Dive Bar Thursday Music Night. And we talk about other awful stories you will have to google yourself.

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• Bombing suspect’s body buried
• “Stop making jackasses of yourself in front of the entire nation.”
• Innocence, terror lay side-by-side at Worcester funeral home
• Uncle Ruslan Not Happy With Moronic Worcester Protestors Of Loser Tamerlan’s Dead Body
• Why Burry in Worceter???
• This end is a beginning; The Curtis Mayflower sets sail as Dive Bar Music Series concludes
• A collection of posters from The Dive Bar Thursday Music Series

508 is a show about Worcester. This week: more about a proposed slots parlor in Worcester. Also: what issues do you want City Council candidates to be talking about as election season approaches?

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508 is a show about Worcester. This week: a shockingly frank and measured discussion of casinos in Worcester. Also we roll the d20 and read Nassim Taleb.

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508 is a show about Worcester. This week, Brendan talks about how Worcester is “the snowiest city this winter in the United States”, and talks about his concerns over a possible slot machine casino and hotel in the city. Mike tries to avoid ranting by reading a brief statement on panhandling, then rants about how the city should encourage competition by easing restrictions on food carts.

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508 is a show about Worcester. This week, we talk about local journalism, past, present, and future, with participants in the Worcester Institute for Senior Education at Assumption College. Special thanks to Tracy Novick and Karl Hakkarainen.

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508 is a show about Worcester. This week, Scott Schaeffer-Duffy and Brendan Melican discuss and debate an upcoming anti-gun protest at the local Walmart.

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Press release about the protest:

On this Saturday, March 9, from noon to 1 PM, please join a vigil to oppose the sale of assault weapons, handguns, and ammunition by Walmart, America’s largest seller of guns. The vigil will take place on the public sidewalk at the McKeon Street entrance to Worcester’s Walmart. 1,700 Walmart stores around the nation sell the Bushmaster AR-15, the assault weapon used in the Sandy Hook, Connecticut and Aurora, Colorado massacres. Thankfully, the Worcester store does not sell guns, but unfortunately does sell over a hundred types of ammunition, including ammo for assault weapons. Sales of ammunition have been so brisk that almost half the shelves are empty and customers are limited to three boxes each per day. Please come out to urgeAmerica’s number one retailer to get out of the business of making a profit off of selling guns whose sole purpose is to injure or kill human beings. Sponsored by Saints Francis & Thérèse Catholic Worker.

508 is a show about Worcester. This week, Scott Schaeffer-Duffy, Robert Peters, and Brendan Melican discuss Worcester’s anti-panhandling laws and opposing them with civil disobedience.

On a related note, here’s a good 2013 article on Saint Francis.

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508 is a show about Worcester. This week, we talk Worcester at the Paris Of The Eighties Cafe with Chris Besaw, Gina Migliozzi, Erika Dunn, Martha Assefa, Jen Burt, Asa Needle, Nicole Apostola, and Dante Comparetto.

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[0:00] We talk about the newly-opened Paris of the Eighties Cafe, saving the Palladium, and Juggalos.

[8:15] Worcester foreclosures update from Martha Assefa.

[11:35] Book of the week: Terry Bisson’s collection Bears Discover Fire.

[12:21] Library parking lot discussion continues. Nicole and Dante, fresh from a meeting, fill us in.

[20:15] Nat Needle is releasing a CD of his songs, “Worcester Potholes,” January 31 at Nick’s.

[20:59] How much do you have to like Worcester to get the seal tattooed on your chest?

[25:15] Stone Soup update.

508 is a show about Worcester. This week’s panel is Amy Chase, Chris Robarge, and Brendan Melican.

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[0:00] This week’s show is taped at Crompton Collective, a mall of antiques and artisan goods, right off Kelley Square.

[2:16] Palladium saved! (When I told Bruce “Snow Ghost” Russell about this, he said, “Oh yeah. Metal always wins.”

[3:01] Front Street reopened after years of being blocked by a mall.

[5:00] Pulse magazine’s “Ones to Watch” list. As is our annual tradition, we go through the list.

[7:05] Worcester Magazine picked Tornadoes owner Todd Breighner as Person of the Year. Mike thinks this choice was risky and thought-provoking. Chris thinks this was a terrible choice, Mr. Breighner being “the parasitic clown who robbed a bunch of local businesses as he sunk the Tornadoes baseball franchise”.

[9:55] Worcester has a closed coal mine. Also, a door in the City Hall Christmas tree. Much more in the latest Happiness Pony.

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[15:00] Panhandling. City Council slated to discuss proposed anti-panhandling ordinances next week. With luck, this’ll be the first public forum where elected officials address, rather than avoid, the controversial parts.