Big Red Pepper fan here but their fried rice is nothing special. If you're having Red Pepper, don't waste your time on fried rice, spend your money and calories on what they do best (spicy sichuan dishes).

Avoid. Dunkin imitators. Not good - pretty much exactly like Dunkin (awful donuts, worse coffee).

Our money is mostly going to the cops to pay fraudulent overtime, buy military equipment and horses, and fund brutality and civil rights settlements.

Can we talk about how outrageous it is that our city just flat out declines to perform a basic municipal service for a full third of the year?

Plenty of cities offer bulk waste disposal at curbside for no additional charge, included in your monthly trash utility payment.

For sure, some cyclists need to chill. But drivers running red lights and speeding are a much bigger danger. It would also be a lot easier for cyclists to ride predictably if there were good infrastructure in place for us. Believe me, I would rather stay in a protected bike lane than ride in traffic.

Disagree. As a cyclist and pedestrian, I love the bumps and wish there were more of them. Drivers whip through Worcester neighborhoods at outrageous speeds and we should do everything we can to slow them down.

These days it’s more common for it to be over 50 degrees in winter than for it to be cold enough to need more than a light jacket. I wish I were exaggerating.

End of May? That’s absurd. Last year it was nearly 100 degrees before Memorial Day.

I told Petty that if he proceeded with anointing Batista as CM instead of conducting a real search, I would never vote for him for public office again. I intend to fulfill that commitment.

Yeah, I read the article too quickly and thought the $5 was added on to the customer's tab for the order. Glad to see that Amazon is providing the money.

Or maybe Amazon could just pay its drivers a reasonable wage and not try to trick customers into doing it for them.

Before anyone jumps on me: drivers absolutely deserve gratitude and more money. But it should come from their bosses, not customers. Tipping culture makes it easy for extremely wealthy, profitable employers to shift the costs of labor onto customers who are already stretched thin. As a society, it would be better if we tipped less and paid higher wages instead.

EDIT: I read the article too quickly. Amazon, not the customer, pays the $5. Good for them. Tipping culture is still bad, though.

Yeah that place is outrageously priced. Shop there if you like paying $6 for two potatoes. I want to support local/organic/etc but come on, be reasonable.

Redesigning our streets to make them safe would benefit everybody in the city, including small businesses.

You are thinking of Beto’s Tacos, since reopened as Main Tacos.

I can see why my reply confused you. I think your premise, that people who moved here more recently are higher on Worcester than people who left long ago, may have some merit. But there are probably also quite a few people like me who are comparing today’s Worcester not to the Worcester of the 1990s, but to more functional similarly sized cities. Worcester does not come out looking good in those comparisons.

Never said I hate it. There's a lot to like here - the surrounding countryside and landscape, the diversity, the proximity to a ton of cool stuff in New England. But the shortcomings in the areas I mentioned are pretty frustrating for a city of this size that claims to be going through a renaissance. There's a ton of potential in Worcester, but the people in power can't seem to get out of their own way.

On the contrary, I moved to Worcester within that time period. Since I have lived in cities with actually functioning social services, real bus systems, safe and usable bike and pedestrian infrastructure, and at least some degree of enforcement of traffic and parking laws, I find myself really frustrated with Worcester.

You're not wrong, but going for a walk isn't the same if you have to first get in your car and drive to the place where walking is nice.

Every neighborhood in Worcester should be walkable. Every person in Worcester should be able to take a safe and relaxing walk from their front door.

There is an ecological niche for a large canid predator in New England. With plenty of deer and other prey, wolves would do well here if we let them. Since we killed them all off, coyotes are gradually becoming more like wolves. Pretty cool evolutionary process playing out right before our eyes.

Coyotes belong here and don't cause problems for anybody.

Anybody over Cipro.

Plugged in my address (Worcester). "Home internet services are not currently available at your location."

Gonna take a big effort to defeat him.

It is

Don't you think discussing the city's problems on a site like this is part of the process of making change? People have to know others share their concerns before they'll invest time and energy into organizing.