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508 is a show about Worcester. This week, we talk with Nikki Erskine about this year’s stART at the Station, the lack of large indoor festival space in Worcester, Worcester 2019 election campaign issues, 2018 election results for Worcester County District Attorney and 17th Worcester District State Representative, David LeBoeuf’s Xxxtreme Agenda, and ewoks.

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508 is a show about Worcester. This week, we talk about the redesign of Kelley Square, a distributional analysis of the tax systems of all fifty states, “Taxachusetts,” hating masks, the New French Extremity, and Nicolas Cage.

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508 is a show about Worcester. This week, we talk with Frank Kartheiser about how Worcester could annex Holden, the Mustard Seed, Worcester Interfaith, and community organizing.

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508 is a show about Worcester. This week, we talk about being a gay-friendly city, crime, the transit service cuts that never came, a new platform at Union Station, the Research Bureau’s transit report, and the 100th anniversary of the death of Cornelius Kelley.

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508 is a show about Worcester. This week, we talk with Worcester legend Joe Finneral about theater in Worcester, growing up in Lowell, being a pedestrian, looking like Gandalf, Jack Kerouac, Ken Kesey, Tom Wolfe, Emily Dickinson, Jim Carroll, the spirit of New England, the 100th anniversary of the death of Cornelius Kelley, the birth and growth of Kelley Square, and why Kelley Square isn’t like a werewolf.

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508 is a show about Worcester. This week, we talk to Chilean immigrant Romina Barria as she prepares to move from Worcester to Oregon. We also cover George Frisbie Hoar vandalism, stART, the ACLU’s COPD, pervasive surveillance, why are conversations limited to four people?, giving MDMA to octopuses, giving LSD to dolphins, Worcester’s most-endangered buildings, and the Mt Carmel deed restriction.

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508 is a show about Worcester. This week, we talk with once-and-future-Worcesterite Kevin Oliver about Worcester’s excellent drivers, the midwest, Kelley Square, how to get a square named after you, the World War I Worcester Telegram, Cornelius Kelley falling off a tiny train, does the parking part of the stadium deal make sense?, psychopathy by U.S. state, great city council orders.

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508 is a show about Worcester. This week, we talk about Worcester’s bad drivers, yuppie diversion, the liking gap, and the beautiful Holy Cross campus.

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508 is a show about Worcester. This week, we talk about baseball sloganeering, why the pope should not resign, and our favorite moments from this week’s episode of “Worcester, Massachusetts.”

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508 is a show about Worcester. This week, we talk about Holden Man, the “perfect game,” the “poorly-attended game,” and the Worcester Red Sox with Worcester baseball historian Brian Goslow.

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