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508 is a show about Worcester. This week’s panel is Brendan Melican. [display_podcast]Audio: mp3 link, other formats, feedVideo: Downloads and other formatsContact info.[0:00] Mike won some red shoes in a Fairbridge Project raffle.[[6:15] You can fill out your city census online.[8:00] We read the InCity Times on the Goddard testing scandal and the closure of the PIP shelter. We decry the sexual objectification of Gary Rosen.[[[20:40] On February 4, Finz, the Worcester Sharks’ mascot, was hit by the zamboni.[24:05] Mike busts out the Nexus S to read Cha-cha Connor’s criticism of this week’s Worcester Magazine cover:Worcester Magazine: what were you thinking today? Write an article on reproductive rights, and choose, as a cover image, literally a woman’s belly, without even a head? Reproductive rights are about women being allowed to be equal human beings, not state mandated gestational units. But you decided to represent us as just potentially pregnant bellies. The message sent by that photo was unhelpful.[26:10] Great job, Michael Brazell.


