Whos of Who-cester

 Something I didn't know but found out this morning:  Previous to the pandemic, Massachusetts had a law which allowed for remote partici...

 ...which means it is time for my annual reminder regarding authority:  The vote of the legislative body of a city or town shall establish t...

That's here. Remember, the city asked that the schools' budget be based on the Governor's budget. ...nobody thinks that's ...

Cue this (which even has dancing) I did t his on Twitter this morning Front page, top of the fold, five takeways from the Worcester Cit...

We'd heard this was what was being done already, but I think it bears repeating: “What we did was take the governor’s numbers that ...

Looks like the neighborhood is starting to wonder ... “This is a jewel,” said neighbor Philip Economou on Wednesday. Economou said the par...

...one wonders if anyone at all is going to raise with the City Council Tuesday during their tax classification hearing that the City's ...

posting as we go; here's hoping the presentation goes up online. Also there is still no posting of who is on the school building committ...

Beyond the ever-present "whose job is it anyway?" tussle that there is every year, there were a few things that were new to me tha...

When the Worcester Public Schools goes before the Worcester City Council on the budget--or when any school district goes before their approp...

I'm not kidding: the first blog post on here, for March 1, 2008 , compared the required district spending to the actual district spendin...

Tangetially education related, as spending $100M on this baseball stadium in Worcester means , well: But does that come across to the publ...

The T&G is reporting that, with FY17 closed, the city has nine million dollars it expects to be certified as free cash. Note that on T...

at least nominally on budget, but we'll see where the questions go... Supt Binienda: FY17 adopted budget $322M; FY18 recommended $334M...

Looks like we have John Monfredo from the School Committee, Mr. Allen, and, on her first day in her new position, Superintendent Binienda u...

The news that the FY17 City of Worcester budget would make up all remaining ground on net school spending to the Worcester Public Schools...

... which is not online yet... Facilities, HR, School safety, program modifications Nearly all new windows in at Clark St., West Tatnuck,...

Just a few short things: I don't have much to add to Nicole.   It's completely inappropriate for the City Manager to cite what m...

We've just received the following from City Manager Augustus via Superintendent Boone: Worcester Prepares for another Winter Storm ...

I'm always pleased to see the T&G give space to covering something as important as the WPS budget, so good reading today on the cov...