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Brad Kane is the Editor for Worcester Business Journal. Kane came to Worcester from its sister publication Hartford Business Journal, where he most recently served as managing editor. Kane talked his way onto HBJ’s staff in May 2010, previously working as a Boston Globe correspondent and a staff writer for the Patriot Ledger in Quincy. In another journalism life, he covered local politics in northern Ohio and southwest Florida. Kane has been honored for his work by the Alliance of Area Business Publications, the Florida Press Club, Ohio Associated Press and the National Society of Professional Journalists. He graduated from The Ohio State University, with an honor’s degree in journalism. He lives a calm, sleep-filled life in Wilbraham, Mass. with his wife, five young children and Texas heeler. In his 42 minutes of weekly free time, Kane runs the sidewalks, streets and trails of Western Massachusetts.

🔒WBJ launches Senior Resource Guide publication

Venturing into the unknown of life’s later stages can be daunting. However, if we are armed with the right information, support, and advisors along the way, we can all end up winning at life.

🔒From the Editor: This is not 2020

Editor Brad Kane responds to rising COVID levels and introduces the Sept. 18 print issue.

🔒From the Editor: The 40 Under Forty awards have been postponed

Originally slated to be announced in this Aug. 21 edition of WBJ followed by a Sept. 13 ceremony, everything is being pushed to still unspecified dates.

🔒From the Editor: Reporting on month-old news

When the news of the Supreme Court’s decision broke, we in the WBJ newsroom wrote it up for WBJournal.com. Even though we pride ourselves in being intensely focused on local business news, the decision was too massive for us not to mention it.
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🔒Rough start: Midyear survey reveals WBJ readers are increasingly pessimistic about 2023

At the end of 2022, WBJ readers were more pessimistic about the future of the Central Massachusetts economy than they had been at any point in the previous 10 years. The first five months of this year only made them more pessimistic.

🔒From the Editor: Everything is going to be ok

WBJ decided to publish a Midyear Economic Update on the local business community, to see how all the major events so far in 2023 impacted people’s feelings about the rest of this year.

Local unemployment drops in Leominster, Athol, holds steady in Worcester, Framingham

The local unemployment rate in Central Massachusetts communities remained low in May, including falling further from April figures in the North Worcester County region.

Madison begins $4.3M lease on Polar Park parking garage, buys land for Left Field Building

Across the street from its first near-complete apartment building, Boston developer Madison Properties has begun a lease on the Polar Park parking garage that will pay the City of Worcester $4.3 million in base rent over the next 20 years.
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🔒From the Editor: A cannabis future without stigma

Dispensaries would be as common as liquor stores, discussion around cannabis use would be as tolerated as drinking wine, and cannabis cafes would dot the landscape as bars do now.

Despite shortfalls, Worcester anticipates making Polar Park debt payments as promised

As was the case for the first two years of debt payments, the saving grace for the current fiscal year 2023 and the next fiscal year 2024 is a $3-million property sale from 2021.
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