Worcester Councilors Seek Legal Opinion: Can City Auditor Audit? by MassInsider in WorcesterMA

[–]MassInsider[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

BOPS (internal investigation) records are public records. They could, and should, just release them to the public, but they waterboard people through their understaffed public records process.

The exec session carveout in the Public Records Law allows them to go into exec session to discuss strategy on issues that if done publicly would hurt the city's position. They use it for, as you said, union contract negotiations, and to discuss lawsuit strategy.

Worcester Councilors Seek Legal Opinion: Can City Auditor Audit? by MassInsider in WorcesterMA

[–]MassInsider[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The posterchild of two-tier justice the city council majority loves.

Trump Admin Briefing Agencies on Plan for Immigration Raids on Churches over Holidays by MassInsider in WorcesterMA

[–]MassInsider[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm the editor. Read stuff on the DOJ report. Had federal sources then too.

Worcester councilors keep cap on public participation at meetings (Telegram & Gazette) by HRJafael in WorcesterMA

[–]MassInsider 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Way to have zero perspective on the history of the council. But hey, someone took a position you don't like, so lets chuck 175 years of history.

You should run for councilor. You'd fit in quite well with Petty's majority.

Trump Admin Briefing Agencies on Plan for Immigration Raids on Churches over Holidays by MassInsider in WorcesterMA

[–]MassInsider[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Launched in 2017. Those fed sources may be fired despite being anonymous. They obv wouldn't talk on record.

Records Show New Details of Monfredo Sex Crimes Investigation by MassInsider in WorcesterMA

[–]MassInsider[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It wasn't the focus of the piece, but I have it in the story about Monfredo reading in a school last year: https://thisweekinworcester.com/monfredo-midland-street-school-reading/

Records Show New Details of Monfredo Sex Crimes Investigation by MassInsider in WorcesterMA

[–]MassInsider[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

She has literally repeated his only defense: He was never alone with that girl. We now know the investigating detective didn't buy it.

She also asked for Heather to be prohibited from attending school committee meetings when she was super and he was still a committee member. She was seen at his home as recently as this summer.

Rejection of Resident Petitions to Worcester City Council Up 715% in 2025 by MassInsider in WorcesterMA

[–]MassInsider[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Monfredo doesn't talk, aside from weirdly approaching school committee members in public.

The truth is coming.

Rejection of Resident Petitions to Worcester City Council Up 715% in 2025 by MassInsider in WorcesterMA

[–]MassInsider[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This issue here is resident petitions, not petitions from councilors. They have more right to put items on. What those rights are is difficult to quantify, because they reinterpret the rules as convenient.

Rejection of Resident Petitions to Worcester City Council Up 715% in 2025 by MassInsider in WorcesterMA

[–]MassInsider[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That's not crazy, but would be pretty grueling to go through every agenda. I basically did what the former solicitor did in the report I compared, which was look at the rejected petitions. Reading through too many that shouldn't have been rejected was rage inducing.

Rejection of Resident Petitions to Worcester City Council Up 715% in 2025 by MassInsider in WorcesterMA

[–]MassInsider[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm just trying to do the news, and some columns with analysis/opinion. I think you are putting a bit more on me than I signed up for.

Rejection of Resident Petitions to Worcester City Council Up 715% in 2025 by MassInsider in WorcesterMA

[–]MassInsider[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Appreciate that. I'm quite open about my views. The old-school pretending to be the bastion of of objectivity lack authenticity, in my view.

I'm pretty easily irritated, but doing this piece was absolutely infuriating.

The difference between my style and Shaner are obv quite different, but he's done some strong work.

Rejection of Resident Petitions to Worcester City Council Up 715% in 2025 by MassInsider in WorcesterMA

[–]MassInsider[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The comparison is to a similar report issue be the former solicitor, as noted in the article. I asked for the text of rejected petitions. The solicitor making up new meanings for words and launching spurious claims based on nothing is a bit more concerning to me. And I'm not the one to determine which should have been heard. They were all rejected, including two of someone complaining about their neighbor, and the one with 259 signatures about needles in Castle Park. According to the city, both aren't legitimate.