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🔒Q&A: ‘Giving startups a reason to choose Worcester’

Worcester accelerator Auxilium is partnering with 44 Maple Group to open a 3,000-square-foot materials science lab.
Economy

Mass. unemployment rose in February

Massachusetts' four-month streak of job gains ended in February.
Government & Politics

🔒Cannabis firms focus on reforms beyond CCC overhaul

While dysfunction at the state’s CCC has captured headlines, Central Massachusetts cannabis business owners are more focused on other reforms.
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Education

will.i.am, Alliant CEO to headline WPI commencement

Grammy Award-winning artist will.i.am and Lisa Barton, CEO of Wisconsin-based Alliant Energy, will be featured speakers at the 2026 Worcester Polytechnic Institute commencement.
Real Estate

🔒PulteGroup buys into Marlborough office-to-housing project for $4.8M

A shared maintenance and amenity agreement submitted to the registry shows both firms continue to develop their own residential condominiums at the site. 
Arts & Entertainment

🔒Railers name next president

One day after the end of their 2025-26 season, the Worcester Railers named a new team president.
Government & Politics

Healey signs bill to reform CCC, tweak cannabis business rules

Gov. Maura Healey on Sunday signed a law reforming the state’s cannabis regulations and rebooting the Cannabis Control Commission. Under the legislation (H 5350), the current CCC...
News

🔒Real Estate Insider Briefs for April 20, 2026

Tufts University has received Grafton Planning Board approval to construct a 30,000-square-foot learning center at its Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine campus in Grafton, replacing an existing administrative building.
Economy

🔒Economic engine: With MBTA ridership rebounding, planned improvements are needed to keep pace with housing and business growth

More than 2,600 housing units have been built within a half-mile radius of Commuter Rail stations in Central Massachusetts over the past 10 years, with at least 1,000 more units planned.

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Education

🔒The housing crisis’ labor problem: Facing an aging workforce, construction firms are now recruiting traditional high school students

For Central Massachusetts’ construction industry, the question isn’t whether students can handle the tools. It’s whether enough of them will choose to.
Health Care

🔒Fast, accurate drug development: Rentschler Biopharma is harnessing AI-driven automation to stay competitive

For a process that can be repeated thousands of times in bringing a single therapy to market, even small efficiency gains can ripple outward.
Banking & Finance

🔒A $250M cost: Insurers say prior authorizations reduce unnecessary care. Hospital leaders say new reforms could ease the administrative burden.

Healthcare leaders across Central Massachusetts are looking to Gov. Maura Healey’s reforms announced in January for relief from insurers’ requirements.
Economy

🔒Business Leads for April 20, 2026

In January, 1,421 new businesses filed incorporation paperwork with the Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, in order to do business in the state.
Education

🔒Movers & Shakers for April 20, 2026

Employees at Reliant Foundation, the Worcester Regional Chamber of Commerce, and ERA Key Realty Services are advancing in their careers.
Opinion

Viewpoint: When crypto comes for your savings account

At the heart of the fight is whether crypto companies should be allowed to offer yield-like rewards on stablecoins that function, in every practical sense, like interest on a savings account.
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Latest Poll

Should the state government do more to support private colleges?

On April 10, the Massachusetts Department of Higher Education announced Anna Maria College, a private Paxton institution, may not have enough funds to remain open for the next 18 months. Days later, private Amherst school Hampshire College announced it would close after the fall 2026 semester after struggling financially for years. Private institutions do not receive direct funding from the state, and instead depend on tuition and endowments to sustain operations.

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Regional News

Blackstone Valley

Cannabis Control Commission to be dissolved, restructured under proposed legislative deal

The current Cannabis Control Commission will be dissolved and downsized from five members to three, all to be appointed by the governor, under marijuana industry reform legislation expected to pass both chambers of the Legislature this week.
Central Mass. South

Real Estate Insider: Briefs

Here are the latest real estate developments across Central Massachusetts.
MetroWest

🔒Peters & Sowyrda merging with Marlborough law firm

The new firm will be known as Peters, Mitrakas & LaForce. The merger did not include any financial exchange.
North County

AquaBounty raises $4.8M, considers selling remaining assets

Nine investors were involved in the equity raise.

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