On Monday night the 29th at 6:30, the Doherty building committee meets to vote on the preferred schematic design. Read the rest at Whos of Who-cester
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Covid Doesn’t Care
COVID-19 doesn’t care about your politics.It doesn’t care about the economy or small businesses or the GDP.COVID-19 doesn’t care about learning loss.It doesn’t care about…
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A Resident’s Disappointment
COMMENTARY–Jennifer’s chat. “I’m not anti-police: I’m pro-black lives.” Read the rest from Jennifer Gaskin at WoostaChat
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CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS UNWELCOME
Call for the Worcester Redevelopment Authority to Remove Columbus Statue and for the City of Worcester to Respond to Indigenous Community’s Call For End to…
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Worcester Police Service Aides in the 1970s
Kevin had recently shared a paper called “Police Service Aides: Paraprofessionals for Police,” which was written in 1978 about a program that the Worcester Police Department…
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Leave your worries on the doorstep
…it isn’t good when you start pulling blog post titles from the Depression era, but it’s definitely looking grim. Here’s The Atlantic in an article titled “The Second…
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Three to read on policing in schools
The past week’s episode of the podcast Have You Heard with Jennifer Berkshire and Jack Schneider looks at how police entered the schools in LA, Chicago, and Boston. If like…
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What we don’t talk about in Massachusetts
The big Boston Globe piece this weekend on two classes teaching lessons on racism and the district response–well worth reading, if you have not–followed the usual Massachusetts habit of…
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Pop It: On Anti-Racism & Amplifying Black Voices (ft. Magdelene Barjolo)
“We are working to examine our own behaviors, become better listeners, and educate ourselves about racism—particularly as it relates to toxic white feminism (:00-:23). Magdelene…
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Independent review, my ass
First off, I tried to write about this in both of the columns that got spiked by the Telegram. It’s sort of old news by…
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