The show begins with an excerpt from Fr. Bernie Gilgun's homily at the memorial mass for Tom Lewis.
Cha-Cha was part of a Real Solutions press conference this week looking to change people's attitudes towards "sex workers" and "drug users," among others. Real Solutions has asked the City Manager for information about the state of rooming houses and "SROs" in Worcester over the past decade.
Jeff Barnard and Jordan Levy have criticized some of the recommendations the Research Bureau made about the city's finances. Mr. Levy's blog now has an RSS feed.
Jeff:
They recommend that the city sell, among other things, the airport. . . . the city's been trying to sell the airport since the beginning of time . . . They'll probably recommend in some future report that the empty mall on Front Street should be redeveloped . . . .
We experiment with reading Mr. Levy's blog aloud.
Brendan: You, Mike Benedetti, just fixed everything that's wrong with Jordan Levy.
Mike: As Muhammad Ali said of someone else, he's "too old and too ugly to be the champion. Look at me! I'm pretty!"