William Lantigua
Added 2025-05-29 07:00:06 +0000 UTC
This week, we cover possibly our most embattled and empaneled mayor, Willy Lantigua. Municipal meeting minutes include: Coconut water poisoning, dkdkflflfiffnfkrdjheb, Time to Embattlement (TTE), Deputy Neelix, The (International) Garbage Truck Conspiracy, the mayor that marries you, and a real smoothed-out town.
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Historical note about the labor struggles in Lawrence, MA: The slogan "Bread and Roses" is associated with 1912 strikes there.
Raymond Price
2025-12-22 04:48:57 +0000 UTCOr a cummerbund.
Raymond Price
2025-12-22 04:46:25 +0000 UTCWouldn’t the “Cloth Belt” be more of a “Sash”?
Ma Dooley
2025-11-23 13:20:09 +0000 UTClet your grouses become your spouses at the Grand Jury of success
cry -laughing at the end of all things
2025-06-29 18:23:17 +0000 UTCthe paving thing is classic Caribbean politics. it's beautiful to see us moving up in the world
Maria Neptune
2025-06-09 22:56:10 +0000 UTCRiley better not transition in the US, because then there will be an upper limit of potassium that he can enjoy. I used to enjoy bananas and gatorade, but now I have to watch my consumption or I'll die of complications arising from hyperkalemia.
Libra
2025-06-06 12:48:04 +0000 UTCHave you guys every done an episode on George Dale, the anti-Klan mayor of Muncie, Indiana? Idk if you’ve ever done a good mayor but his story is really cool and it feels relevant to living through trump 2 with such a broken media ecosystem
Adam Goecke
2025-05-30 12:38:02 +0000 UTCmakes me proud to be a resident of the great commonwealth of massachusetts... a story about how being a massachusetts guy is not about where you're born, it's about how good you are at drinking with the boys, doing small time corruption, jokingly threatening violence, seriously threatening violence, being friends with cops wokely, things of this nature
zane
2025-05-30 03:26:33 +0000 UTCYay! Thank you! I lived in Lawrence during Lantigua's mayorality and I had forgotten half of this nonsense because it was, truly, constant absurdity and badness (like the publishing of the recall list.) The fire station closures were extremely chaotic but he wasn't entirely wrong? One firefighter getting terminated for not showing up for work when his FMLA ran out because his wife hadn't died yet (she died on Tuesday when he was ordered to return on Monday) while other guys were collecting disability while working full-time construction jobs (extremely common firefighter stuff.) A neighbor owned a restaurant and lived in fear of getting on Lantigua's bad side. The school thing with Wilfredo Laboy also involved pizza contract corruption. It was impossible to keep up with it all at the time.
Something Witty
2025-05-30 01:08:50 +0000 UTC
