After two weeks of delays, the Worcester City Council last week approved a deal to sell the former county courthouse to a New Hampshire developer for $1.2 million. But the deal now includes language that calls for, among other things, the hiring of at least half the construction workforce by contractors and subcontractors from within a 30-mile radius. The language was inserted after community and labor advocates pressed the council to review the deal. Just hours before the council’s vote, we posed this question:
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