In this case, I dont think telling teachers they should make even less money than their peers in neighboring districts is going to help. Or solve the problem. #mapoli
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In this case, I dont think telling teachers they should make even less money than their peers in neighboring districts is going to help. Or solve the problem. #mapoli
While people talk about lowering or eliminating income taxes, check out how limiting property taxes in MA continues to impact local budgets dealing with regular and unavoidable cost increases #mapoli #worcpoli
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I live in NJ. The state of NJ, in both percentage and absolute terms, lost more manufacturing jobs than any other state in the union and it's not even close. Every single NJ county lost more jobs than the US average, and most lost >58% of jobs
And yet, nobody interviews "the forgotten man" here.
Over the past decade, The City of Austin, Texas has permitted more housing in a typical year than the entire Commonwealth of Massachusetts. In 2022 alone, Austin approved 24,227 units, about 1.5× the number permitted across Massachusetts that year.
All the dudes out there with two $1600/month loans on their lifted pickup trucks when gas hits $6/gal
Cypher contemplating a tasty morsel of steak
Me enjoying truffle-flavored anything knowing full well no actual truffle has ever passed within a hundred miles of the factory that produced the flavor compound
Arrgh.
Seemingly another in Mike Johnson’s “I didn’t see that” series, this time with the president saying “it’s a war.”
Or maybe Johnson is reclaiming Congressional authority to declare war! Who knew!
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A graph of change in Federal employment since January 2025
Federal government employment is down 324k since the start of 2025 amidst DOGE cuts—that's more than 10% of the Federal workforce
The large drop in October was caused by many workers who had been on deferred resignation becoming officially unemployed
a set of graphs of US jobs data
NEW US JOBS DATA:
Non-farm Payrolls: -92k
Unemployment Rate: 4.4% (+0.1%)
Prime Age (25-54) Employment-Population Ratio: 80.7% (-0.1%)
Average Hourly Earnings: +0.4%
Again the supreme court ruling would have been the perfect moment for the Trump administration to save face and retreat on the tariffs, which haven't worked and are immensely unpopular. Instead he's doubling down.
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I know this is small potatoes, but why does Planet Fitness now have tablets playing ads on its sinks?? “Sinkside billboards” they said. I’m sure this will become more common over time but it’s gross gross gross
Ideological conferences of the US.
The US has a multi-party Democracy, its just like everything we do: kinda dumb or needlessly complicated. In this case: both.
In America the parties are effectively governing and opposition coalitions, and you don't declare what "party" (caucus) you're with until after you're elected.
Theee books. “The penguin book of First World War poetry”, “a leap in the dark: the struggle to create the American republic,” “erased: a history of international thought without men”
A little book haul from Bedlam Books today
My grandparents had this hole In their yard while I was growing up. It had a metal lid that you could use to open it with your foot. They definitely put food waste into it, but I think they put it in a trash bag first and then fished it out on trash day (and this was also in Worcester!)
Today’s military strikes on Iran — carried out by the United States and Israel — mark a catastrophic escalation in an illegal war of aggression. Bombing cities. Killing civilians. Opening a new theater of war.
Americans do not want this. They do not want another war in pursuit of regime change. They want relief from the affordability crisis. They want peace.
The state of the union address was like 72 hours before the US and Israel chose to attack Iran’s capital and call for regime change, and Trump did not even mention his policy toward Iran before Congress, much less ask for a declaration of war.
A U.S. official said American military strikes on Iran were underway.
Remember when Congress authorized the use of force against Iran?
Me neither.
Any U.S. attack on Iran would violate U.S. and international law.
I’m extremely curious how casella is ahead of schedule. Did it do some Wednesday routes on Thursday, see that there was no recycling, and then say “we’re done! we‘ll get the rest tomorrow!”
Forget a dome, Worcester is under a snow globe
democrats should internalize that this is what their colleagues think of them and act accordingly
It is probably the cycles aspect. But I’ve got to say I am not a huge fan of shoveling snow, and I’m always worried about my parents in it lol
The fight in Holden over multi family zoning is ludicrous. They picked a QUARRY to rezone, it seems. it’s never seeing development.
“new residents will overcrowd our school” ok build new ones with the new tax revenue from prop 2.5
“worcester should be doing more“ Worcester IS building. you’re not.
Skynet AI doomerism? Overhyped. This shit is the real doom - people who don't care about learning willingly turn their brains off. We don't need terminators when we have self-termination.
tweet from @cliftonhowze on twitter Last night at the #DataCenters meeting in Claremore, Darren Blanchard, who has attended most of these meetings around NE Oklahoma & has some pretty impressive FOIA/ORA skills, was arrested after going over his 3 min. allotted speaking time. First arrest I've seen at one of these.
in america, if you go over your 3 minute allotment to speak, men with guns come to take you away.
The news about cameras tracking and ticketing speeding drivers has stirred our readers. Some of you sent missives in support (“we use it for tolls, why not?”) and in opposition (“it’s un-American,” “it jacks up insurance premiums”).
People really do think it's an infringement on their rights to punish them for speeding. Also, insurance premiums won't go up if people simply...don't speed (and if we redesign our roads to lower speeds).
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