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kksen.bsky.social @kksen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
TIL On Jan. 1, 2026, CT’s minimum wage increased to $16.94/hr.
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kksen.bsky.social @kksen.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The Attorney General and the City of Worcester have apparently changed their minds and wage theft, threats and intimidation against immigrant workers is allowable. At Carpenters Local 336 we view all of this as UNACCEPTABLE! Come join us on Thursday as we put people on blast.
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kksen.bsky.social @kksen.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Meanwhile in Worcester, immigrant communities' repeated requests for soccer fields goes ignored again and again every year. Worcester maintains 60+public ball diamonds in our parks. You tell me how many soccer fields.
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kksen.bsky.social @kksen.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Spread the word. The 20th Annual WORCESTER World Cup starts Friday, Aug. 7th.
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kksen.bsky.social @kksen.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
MNA nurses on strike July 8th. Hopefully fills over on Belmont St. get negotiating and avoid this happening in Worcester.
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Gyratorio @gyrate.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
This looks like a fish made out of cheese. It’s a cheesefish.
The new Google Meet icon. Which looks like a cheesefish.
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kksen.bsky.social @kksen.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Way to go Montreal!
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kksen.bsky.social @kksen.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Dancin on steel. Best Worcester club ever. Nothing since has ever come close.
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kksen.bsky.social @kksen.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Nice to see Gannet supporting the revolution!
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kksen.bsky.social @kksen.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
It's bad when the Dalton Police are telling the public they're ending work with the neighboring Hinsdale Police Dept. because it's unsafe. ... officers have observed concerns about the Hinsdale PD's training and oversight.... a risk to the public and Dalton officers. www.wamc.org/news/2026-05...
wamc.org
Dalton, Hinsdale end mutual aid pact after Jan. 7 police killing
After a controversial police killing in Hinsdale, Massachusetts, that involved officers from its neighboring department, the town of Dalton has formally ended its mutual aid agreement with Hinsdale.
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kksen.bsky.social @kksen.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Project getting pushed back to 2029. Wasn't this the ONLY affordable housing project in Worcester's entire "Housing is Our Priority" pipeline?    Not counting Curtis and Lakeside. www.telegram.com/story/news/l...
telegram.com
Affordable housing project near Worcester Senior Center may be delayed
Construction now expected to start in early 2029.
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kksen.bsky.social @kksen.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
And we should also know, for 20+ years, Greenwood has been one of Worcester's union companies.
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kksen.bsky.social @kksen.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
The Carpenters have proposed Worcester strengthen the Responsible Development Ordinance to include requiring there be a hold on issuing new building permits to any entity that has been cited for wage theft. If enacted, Worcester would have had much more leverage addressing what this house of cards.
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kksen.bsky.social @kksen.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
This huge mess could have been prevented or at least mitigated @ericcasey.bsky.social . At Carpenters Local 336, we flagged for the City & n'bd leaders that the Mass AG's Office cited Polar Views on 4/26/24 for WAGE THEFT from ELEVEN workers. (Similar to the concerns we've raised elsewhere)
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kksen.bsky.social @kksen.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
It must have been a very packed and busy meeting. Kate's usually very good Googling throughout a meeting.
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kksen.bsky.social @kksen.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Here's your reminder. Veg fest tomorrow!
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kksen.bsky.social @kksen.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Good article focused on my friend Sam Bishop and how absolutely debilitating its been for him as a unregistered American. Comment and share in the hopes we can raise up this mess and help Sam.
theguardian.com
The ‘unregistered Americans’: because of their parents, they do not exist
Hundreds in the US have no birth certificate or Social Security number. Some covet this ‘off-grid’ status – but it means being barred from ordinary life
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kksen.bsky.social @kksen.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Couldn't cover the $200K Plumley Clinic deficit, but apparently they've saved up $14M to branch out on some things. wbjournal.com/article/umas...
wbjournal.com
UMass Memorial Health buys Worcester Business Center for $14M
UMass Memorial Health on Tuesday purchased the Worcester Business Center after the site was developed by Charles “Chip” Norton, who has filed for bankruptcy.
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kksen.bsky.social @kksen.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Amazingly -- not Worcester.
masslive.com
Beekeeping housing advocate guilty of attacking deputies with honeybees, sheriff reports
Rebecca “Rorie” Woods, 59, was found guilty of four counts of simple assault and battery and two counts of reckless assault, according to a statement from the Hampden County Sheriff’s Department.
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kksen.bsky.social @kksen.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Councilor Toomey would like you to know she didn't forget. She finally got around to discussing Shotspotter.
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MassLive @masslive.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Boston pays $12M settlement to wrongly imprisoned man after ‘egregious misconduct’
masslive.com
Boston pays $12M settlement to wrongly imprisoned man after ‘egregious misconduct’
The City of Boston paid a $12 million settlement to a man accused of killing his cousin in Dorchester in 2001 after investigators' "egregious misconduct" was exposed.
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kksen.bsky.social @kksen.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
First time I've laughed at any of the Academy hate. H/T to someone. Doctor Who Show ‘Gallifreyan Academy’ from Alex Kurtzman Coming to BBC and Paramount+ | Doctor Who TV
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New Doctor Who Show ‘Gallifreyan Academy’ from Alex Kurtzman Coming to BBC and Paramount+
New Doctor Who spin-off will finally reveal the Doctor's early life.
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kksen.bsky.social @kksen.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
One of the many items Etel proposed and tried to move forward that the naysayers just sat on. Keep up the fight Rob!
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kksen.bsky.social @kksen.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Fun Worcester Development Fact: Walker Development and Construction was the General Contractor that built out the Menkiti Group Offices and project at 455 Main St.
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kksen.bsky.social @kksen.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Exactly. He had all the answers and was supposed to be challenged.
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kksen.bsky.social @kksen.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Agreed... but this also links back to Bob Moylan and Worcester's inability to demolish townie politics. This reeks of of the townie "don't worry about it" "stop asking questions" "we're taking care of it" playbook.
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kksen.bsky.social @kksen.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Flagging this for folks. This is an incorrect use of the phrase "Direct Action Training" and shouldn't be used to promote a training for Marshalls or for De-Escalation.
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kksen.bsky.social @kksen.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Councilor Toomey now arguing a tax subsidy isn't a tax subsidy.
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kksen.bsky.social @kksen.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
We'd love to have folks join us at City Hall today. Why do we reward unapologetic developers that take millions of our tax $'s and then make no effort to follow our laws? Worcester needs housing, but we need affordable and accessible housing. And the ends, never justify the means.
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kksen.bsky.social @kksen.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
They saw Rutland had one and so they needed to get one.
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kksen.bsky.social @kksen.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Yes... and let's keep handing out TIFs w/o any oversight and compliance.
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kksen.bsky.social @kksen.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Feels like some folks need a little reminder. Mayor Petty and Councilors King, Toomey, Ojeda, Bilotta and Rosen all signed Worcester's 2025 Responsible Development Pledge in which they agreed to "work and vote to claw-back part, or possibly all of the TIE tax subsidy to the Menkiti Group"
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kksen.bsky.social @kksen.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Once again we're in the situation of a developer asking Worcester taxpayers to approve a major tax-break but they decide they don't need to meet face to face with Worcester taxpayers, they think they can just phone it in. Why does Worcester continue to allow developers to hide behind a veil?
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kksen.bsky.social @kksen.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Getting underway in a few minutes in Courtroom 22. If you're, able please come by for court support. Etel takes the stand this morning.
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kksen.bsky.social @kksen.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
If you're able, please come tomorrow. Thanks to everyone that came today.
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kksen.bsky.social @kksen.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Jury in place, trial starting shortly and then lunch break. We're in curtain COURTROOM 22 for anyone wanting to support Etel. Lunch at 1pm, trial resumes at 2pm.
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kksen.bsky.social @kksen.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Source: YouTube search.app/2y5oG Three students were arrested... wow
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kksen.bsky.social @kksen.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Nice job Natick. The Select Board unanimously ended the police pilot of Flock license plate readers in response to resident concerns. Watertown too.
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Andrew Quemere @andrewqmr.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
“Two #Framingham police officers placed on administrative leave in September 2025 are no longer employed with the department. … [Framingham Police Lieutenant Rachel] Mickens did not identify either former Framingham officer, nor specify whether they were fired or resigned.” #Massachusetts
masslive.com
2 Framingham officers no longer with department after misconduct probe
Two Framingham police officers placed on leave in September 2025 are no longer employed by the department after an internal misconduct probe.
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kksen.bsky.social @kksen.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
It must be some kind of miracle. Where are all the angry posts about how terrible it is to drive and live on Mill St. ?
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kksen.bsky.social @kksen.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
100% There's so much that's broken. The Carpenters continue to raise frustrations about how building permit review has been removed. It took 2+ years, residents weren't included in the planning/review and we now got a mess.
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kksen.bsky.social @kksen.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Nice job by @adambassofmass.bsky.social summarizing where things stand with the Menkiti Group's request for taxpayer subsidy (TIF/TIE) for the bldg it purchased in 2018 at 401-409 Main St. If approved this would be Menkiti's 3rd TIF. We'll be planning to attend the Econ Dev. mtg when scheduled.
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kksen.bsky.social @kksen.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
I'm nominating Fr. Jonathan Slavinskas for a 2026 Toomey. Every part of his performance at tonight's Human Rights Commission was impeccable.
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kksen.bsky.social @kksen.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
The Worcester Human Rights Commission is meeting virtually on Monday and has a 45minute discussion on the Civilian Review Board on the agenda. Zoom in link. worcesterma.primegov.com/Public/Compi... (PDF)
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kksen.bsky.social @kksen.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
The Carpenters and other construction unions are asking the Mayor and City Council to NOT give the Menkiti Group another tax break since they have shown no willingness to take Worcester's Responsible Development Ordinance seriously.
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kksen.bsky.social @kksen.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
In October, Mayor Petty, City Councilors and State electeds signed the Responsible Development Pledge which included the call to take back some or all of TIF for the current project because of these "minor" citations.
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kksen.bsky.social @kksen.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
The Menkiti Group has sought to minimize and dismiss everything that has happened calling the citations a minor infraction, but for the workers that were cheated out of $73,000+ wage theft is actually a very very big deal.
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kksen.bsky.social @kksen.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
These aren't "allegations" as Councilor Bergman describes buy the results of months long investigations by the AGs Office. This was all after both the Carpenters and the City of Worcester had expressed to Menkiti the expectations behind Worcester's Responsible Development Ordinance.
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kksen.bsky.social @kksen.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
This summer the Carpenters found the Menkiti Group had Barber Drywall working at the project at 204 Main St. This is a company the Carpenters have been tracking for a while which has received wage theft and other wage/hour citations from the Mass. Attorney General in 2024 and then AGAIN in 2025.
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kksen.bsky.social @kksen.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
The Menkiti family has operated under 30+ LLC's in Mass., buying/selling properties in Worc. & Southbridge for 8yrs. They are speculators w/ a good PR machine. In Worcester, in addition to Main St. properties they own/ed apt bldgs on Chandler (Vendome), Allen St, Charlton, Beacon & Cambridge Sts.
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