Blue light special?
The sight of three powerful Democrats pushing for use of civilian flaggers in place of costly extra-pay police details at some construction sites is enough to make the most cynical taxpayer take notice.
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Chitchatters, gossipmeisters and the ‘news’
If this presidential election campaign has turned into an even bigger circus than usual - and it surely has - you can put a good share of the blame on the sideshow barkers commonly known as the cable television “news” channels.
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Homing in on housing
After many years of dire neglect, homelessness has suddenly become the center of attraction. At least three current initiatives aim to place homeless individuals and families in permanent housing. Two programs focus on Worcester and its regions, and the third is statewide. All three recommend the relatively new “housing first” concept. The Home Again program, sponsored by The Health Foundation of Central Massachusetts and managed by Community Healthlink, is the most promising.
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March Madness good for business
WORCESTER - As popular as the NCAA hockey tournament is here, it’ll probably never compare to the NCAA basketball tourney, which called the DCU Center home for memorable weekends in 1992 and 2005.
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Sharks drop another
LOWELL - This was the Worcester Sharks’ entire season condensed into 60 minutes of frustrating hockey.
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Review - Superhero Movie
SUPERHERO MOVIE [PG-13]
Dear Mr. & Mr. Weinstein:
In that you did not take the time to screen in advance your latest pop culture spoof, Superhero Movie, I think it appropriate that someone like myself who was unfortunate enough to have to endure it opening weekend without the benefit of ether, vodka or a series of anesthetizing mallet strikes to the skull should not have to take the time to cover its release properly, either. That is why I am sitting in the back row of my local googolplex and reclaiming the two hours I lost watching it by writing this pissive entirely on my BlackBerry.
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Original post by Robert Newton
Saving Zimbabwe
It has been painful to watch the terrible decline of Zimbabwe, a country so rich in human and natural resources. Perhaps that is why the elections scheduled today still raise hopes that President Robert Mugabe’s destructive rule can be brought to an end, despite the certainty that the vote will be neither free nor fair.
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Movie had message beyond simple story
I went to see “Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who!” with my two grandsons and daughter, thinking it would be just another children’s movie.
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