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Episode 48: Worcester Is Hungry For Just One Thing

You Talk About Things That Nobody Cares

December Horrorscopes

Agenda Preview: December 4 School Committee Meeting

WPS in Brief: November 2025

Episode 47: Never Promised You A Knausgården

What I'm Thankful For

We Reward the Rot

Recount Weekend Open Notebook (Updated: Saturday, 5 p.m.)

What would it take for a Michelin Star in Worcester?

Episode 46: What A Long, Strange Trip It’s Bean

Where we go one, Wegovy

Agenda Preview: November 20 School Committee Meeting

A Queen Of The People

Episode 45: The 'From Here' Contingent (ft. Etel Haxhiaj)

Worcester Speaks #12: Harley Queen

Always Be Snoring

Episode 44: Do Androids Dream Of Electric Meats?

Election night notebook dump

Episode 43: That Is My File (ft. Heather Prunier, Tom Marino)

It’s A Big Club And You’re Not In It

November Horrorscopes

Episode 42: I Wish!

WPS in Brief: October 2025

The Worcester Sucks guide to the municipal election

Do you know someone who needs to register to vote in Worcester?

Halloween is for Merry Pranksters

Agenda Preview: October 23 School Committee Meeting

Protecting Their Own Over Protecting A Child

Episode 41: The Candidate You Deserve

Election Guide to the Worcester School Committee

Five Fraught & Frightful Costume Ideas

Episode 40: Training Day

Our Elected Officials Are Afraid Of The People

Time for some Tool Time

Episode 39: She went black-and-white on his ass

Agenda Preview: October 9 School Committee Meeting

A circuit of mutual services and complicity

October Horrorscopes

Episode 38: Glocked and Goaded

WPS in Brief: September 2025

Open notebook: Haxhiaj and Spring motion to dismiss hearings

Why can't Goose stay on the loose?

Giving up the ghoul

The Whole Commonwealth Is Underwater

Council transcript 9.16.25

The KENO app will be the downfall of man

Episode 37: Claude Da Bussy

Agenda Preview: September 18 School Committee Meeting

When on Zoom, show your face no matter what

Council transcript Sept. 9 meeting

A glorified homeowners' association

Episode 36: Folder: /

September Horrorscopes

Charles lacked Luster (and other preliminary outcomes)

Agenda Preview: September 4 School Committee Meeting

Introducing: WorcesterElection.com

Episode 35: Let's Give Em Something To Talk About

Back to school tips & tricks

Skating by on the vibes

Council transcript 8.19.25

WPS in Brief: August 2025

How do we make the anti-Petty case to the well-meaning liberals in his corner?

If you're thinking about running away from home

There’s a white boat coming up the river

Episode 34: F*ck, That's Malicious

Agenda Preview: August 14 School Committee Meeting

Approach flying like The Pickup Artist

Guide to the Sept. 2 preliminary election

Episode 33: Show Less!

August Horrorscopes

Episode 32: How To Blow Up A Pothole (ft. Keith Linhares)

A standoff with no one

Four precincts control the entire city

I’ve Listened to Preachers, I’ve Listened to Fools

Should I buy a gun?

WPS in Brief: July 2025

Holding the uncomfortable bag

Must I Teach Dance?

Test: City Council 7.15.25 transcript

Episode 31: The Mooninite Massacre

All the fun a wicked god must be having with us

How do I stop going to school?

Agenda Preview: July 8 FOG Subcommittee and July 10 School Committee Meeting

Episode 30: Mr. Midgley’s Mortar

A long way of saying nothing

Worcester Speaks #11: Dani Killay

July Horrorscopes

Episode 29: A fireside khat

A politics of no translation

WPS in Brief: June 2025

Intimidated by your mechanic?

A half decade of Worcester Sucks

Episode 28: A/C/G?

Agenda Preview: June 18 School Committee Meeting

The War on Terror comes home as a TV Show For A Death Cult

Lessons in love from the Int'l Players

Episode 27: Rare Candy

Horrorscopes

Agenda Preview: June 5 School Committee Meetings

What are we doing here?

Episode 26: Digging in (ft. Ashley Spring)

Worcester Speaks #10: Grace Sliwoski

5 Things You Need to Do After College

Keep it alive until you know what to do with it

Episode 25: We just need to come together

WPS in Brief: May 2025

The world keeps on zyn-ing

More balls than you guys

May Horrorscopes

Agenda Preview: May 15 School Committee Meeting

Episode 24: We have something they fundamentally lack

The Backlash Blues

Meet Brian Allen, the Next Superintendent of WPS

Episode 23: Council Clowns and Factory Towns

ShaunClave

Unwittingly, voraciously, disgustingly…

Episode 22: Whitey should stick to the moon

Agenda Preview: April 28 Finance, Operations & Governance and May 1 School Committee Meetings

WPS in Brief April 2025

The Red Scare never went away, it just briefly turned green

Words written on water

Episode 21: Evidence Dot Com

Not the step dog dad

Agenda Preview: April 17 School Committee Meeting

"The Federal Government Will Find You"

Episode 20: Student visa revocations at WPI, Clark

April Horrorscopes

Rejoice for the wicked is disappeared

O.C. Dispatch: Hands Off Rally

Worcester Speaks #9: Grace Ross

Episode 19: Roy Rage (ft. Sue Mailman)

Agenda Preview: April 3 School Committee Meeting

Five tips to become beautiful like me

"We’re sort of like partners in this"

WPS in Brief: March 2025

Episode 18: Dog-Bite Ratios (ft. Tom Marino and John Keough)

The genie can’t be put back in the bottle

Episode 17: Challenge Union. Change Our World. (ft. Maile Marguleas and Hadas Brownstein)

No one in your office is a college basketball expert

O.C. Dispatch: Clark student worker strike

Agenda Preview: March 20 School Committee Meeting

Episode 16: Time for an overhaul (ft. Keith Linhares)

Taking care of business

Is veganism even worth it in 2025?

Episode 15: The Enshittification of Local Journalism (ft. Joanne McNeil)

The uneven geography of political backwater

Episode 14: Cayden 4 Council! (ft. Cayden Davis)

March Horrorscopes

Agenda Preview: March 6 School Committee Meeting

They look at this beautiful garden and see only weeds

Episode 13: Recall All Scientologists

As promised, Herr Döge

The oily nexus between lazy and malicious

Agenda Preview: February 27 School Committee Meeting

Episode 12: Political Pie Throwing and Dead Kennedys (ft. Michael Stewart Foley)

WPS in Brief: February 2025

They point down at the drowning people and laugh

Episode 11: Clips In The Chamber

Not Like Us

"Thank you for helping to erase my child"

Episode 10: Sorry Miss Jackson (ft. Carla LeBlanc)

Worcester Speaks #8: Claire Schaeffer-Duffy

February Horrorscopes

Agenda Preview: February 6 School Committee Meeting

Ain’t I A Person?

WPS in Brief: January 2025

Episode 9: Denying Humanity (ft. Josh Croke)

Doctors With Borders

What a drag!

Episode 8: An Empathy 101 Tutorial (ft. Etel Haxhiaj)

Deny, Deflect, Retaliate

A Road Map for Improving Literacy in Worcester

Tips for a New Era

The Unbearable Bigotry of Townies

Episode 7: Candy's A Big-"It"

Agenda Preview: January 16 School Committee Meetings

Worcester's Literacy "Crisis" (Part 1)

Don't go big, just go home

Episode 6: Coward! (Ft. Allie Cislo)

A million tiny acts of cowardice

To hold the mirror of moral clarity

Agenda Preview: January 9 School Committee Meeting

Horrorscopes 2025

Episode 5: A Tale Of Two Blippis (ft. Shaun Connolly)