Paying Attention

Paying Attention

Paying Attention with Tom Duggan, a look at local news in the great New England area.

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July 17, 2025 79 mins

(July 17, 2025) Today Tom had a discussion with Lawrence City Council President Jeovanny Rodriguez about the future of Lawrence, the homeless, the crime and drug problem in the city, his relationship with the mayor, and MORE> 

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(July 10, 2025) Today Tom was joined by Massachusetts State Rep. Francisco Paulino who represents Lawrence and Methuen. A pretty candid discussion about Illegal Aliens, Abortion, Gun Rights (or lack thereof) The City of Lawrence's renewed control of their school system, and MORE!

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June 25, 2025 Today Tom expressed outrage at the Lawrence Police Chief and the Eagle Tribune for shamefully releasing derogatory information about deceased Lawrence Police Officer Tommy Cuddy before he is even buried. Tom Also talked about the Lawrence City Council not doing their job, the process of getting things passed by the council, and MORE!

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Dave-ID Consoli and Dawn Pease join Tom today to talk about The incompetence and corruption of the corporate news media in Boston as they deliberately mislead people about the Karen Read murder trial, Methuen Schools are a failure! MORE

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Mark Roberge and Edgar Troncoso from the band Prospect Hill joined Tom today to talk about their rise to fame, changes in the band, their new sound, new releases and helping local artists!

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5-29-25

Explosive and contrary to the national narrative this interview has Democrats in Massachusetts beside themselves!

Valley Patriot publisher  Tom Duggan interviewed the mayor of Lawrence, Massachusetts about the daily ICE raids in his city where dozens of illegal alien criminals are rounded up daily and deported. DePena, a democrat, says he CHEERS when Ice raids his city and that "everyone" in the community is happy! Lawrence...

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Paying Attention Podcast with Tom Duggan May 23, 2025 Today Tom interviewed Republican candidate for governor Brian Shortsleeve about taxes, gun laws, education, homelessness, the MBTA Housing Act, and MORE
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May 15,  2025

Why was the former homeless coordinator in Lawrence getting overtime when she was a nonunion salary employee? And who approved overtime? The plot thickens on our Public Records request out of Lawrence Lawrence police assault a woman engaged in a peaceful protest … the woman finally had her day in court this week…

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May 8, 2025

 

Today on the Paying Attention Podcast ... how the Lawrence City Attorney is purposely concealing public records and lying to the city council about it, Lawrence City Council Candidate John Rigal joins us to talk about his campaign, and republican State Rep. Brad Jones under fire for selling his party out to the democrats.   PLUS ... did you know that with only a phone call from a police officer.... no due process. ....
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Today Tom and intern girl talked about illegal immigration, voter fraud in Lawrence, the Lawrence Mayor and Council Race, Trump tolling the democrats like a MASTER, and MORE!

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The corrupt Boston Media, know your rights at public meeting, former Methuen Town Manager  Bob  Leblanc arrested for Child rape, the bogus scandal in Lawrence about the mayor supposedly threatening a firefighters job, more!

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Today Tom talked about what happened at the Valley Patriot BASH, corruption at the Massachusetts State House, illegal aliens, Lawrence City Attorneys Tim Houten and Kevin Foley are purposely concealing public records, and MORE!  

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Today Tom is talking about this years Annual Valley Patriot Bash, his “fake business “and he also talks about the constant scandal and controversy in Lawrence.

 

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January 23, 2025 47 mins

On today's show, we are going to talk about the new private investigators report on Lawrence police chief William Castro, Elon Musk’s “Nazi salute” and the president’s first weekend in office.

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Today former state representative Lenny Mirra will be joining us to talk about the fake William Castro “scandal” in Lawrence, and the MBTA housing mandate in Massachusetts

 

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Today Tom is going live at 2 o’clock with former estate representative Lenny Mirra to talk about how the Democrat party has failed the homeless and the poor, the failure of local churches to help the poor, increasing taxes in the Merrimack Valley, and our state politicians are lying about the MBTA housing act.

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January 2, 2025 48 mins

Today Tom will be talking about the top 10 valley patriot news stories and the best podcasts of 2024.

 

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Today we have Chris Alvarado from Chris’s barbershop in Salem, New Hampshire, joining us, together, he and Tom will be talking about how the Merrimack Valley is reacting to the latest Supreme Court decision on homelessness and what is being done at the local level not to come back homelessness but to screw over the Homeless.

 

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December 12, 2024 38 mins

Today we are talking about the passing of Methuen mayor Neil Perry and Zaka from AFC urgent care joins us to talk about immigrating to America and the immigration physicals being offered by AFC.

 

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