I tell you, if you're not on the Elm Park-Lincoln Estate Neighborhood Association mailing list, you are missing out.

This morning an article went out about the feud between Association Chair Bob Bourassa and neighborhood resident Claude Dorman. Dorman's crazy feud with Becker College was described in WoMag last year, but I can't find it online anywhere.

It's always lousy when someone is being slandered or libelled, but when the person responds it can illuminate unexpected corners of the city. And there are many gems in this piece. Note in particular that the author claims to have traced posts on the T&G's "Speakeasy" to a particular computer. (I've e-mailed the Association to find out how they did that. One would hope the T&G isn't handing out IP information unless subpoenaed.)

 Does this Internet disparagement have any real effect? A Google search for "bourassa worcester contractor" doesn't pull up any negative reports in the first few pages---or any positive ones, either, which is a serious problem.

 (NB: The first illegible screenshot in this article is from Worcester Activist, a site I helped build, and which removed the crazy comments soon after they first appeared.)

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