PRO SOCCER FOR WORCESTER?
Citing a report that Patriots and Revolution owner Robert Kraft wants to move the Revs to a soccer-specific stadium, a LinkedIn group member launched a discussion about offering Worcester as a home, specifically the old Wyman-Gordon site off Madison Street, as the potential locale for a 20,000-seat stadium. It picked up a good amount of buzz.
“The Revs have an up-and-coming team. … Having the Revs in Worcester would be great but at the end of the day, you will see them eventually in the Metro Boston area.”
LinkedIn group member Brian Davis
“With the impending exit of the ‘Sharks’ it makes sense to try … ”
LinkedIn group member Kenneth Turgeon
WASTE OF FEDERAL MONEY?
Our Feb. 2 online story about researchers at University of Massachusetts Medical School and Worcester Polytechnic Institute securing a $2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to help develop a smartphone app to help curb overeating got a negative reaction from this reader:
“Premise and implementation (are) a waste of $2 million. Better off giving money to food banks.”
Online reader Grafton Realist
