Brad Kane

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.

Diversity & Inclusion

🔒Diversity, equity & inclusion 2023 economic forecast: Slow, but steady, success

Continued DEI efforts by committed companies will yield high-profile hires and partnerships in 2023

Diversity & Inclusion

🔒Our annual look forward

At the end of 2019, no one could have predicted what the following year would bring: a worldwide pandemic, an economic shutdown, the highest unemployment since the Great Depression, massive government intervention, empty offices, and the start of a recovery.

News

🔒From the editor: Looking back, so we can move forward

Problems like unaffordable housing, uneducated people, pollution, and lack of neighborhood sustainability – each putting a drag on businesses and the economy – can be connected directly to HOLC's racist decisions 86 years ago.

Agriculture

🔒Q&A: New England Botanic Garden goes electric

On Nov. 3, New England Botanic Garden was honored as the first botanic garden in the nation to be certified a Green Zone by the American Green Zone Alliance, as the Boylston garden is now performing all routine maintenance with electric lawn and garden equipment.

Opinion

🔒My son, in crisis, one year later

Today, when people discuss solutions to fix the systemic problems in behavioral health care, my thoughts drift to those who already sought out help and couldn’t find it: the homeless, the incarcerated, those suffering in silence at home, those who died. I think of my son.

Arts & Entertainment

Maddi’s Cookery becomes fifth Canal District restaurant to close in three months

Worcester restaurant Maddi’s Cookery and Taphouse, the second location from the owner of the Depot Street Tavern in Milford, will close on Saturday, becoming the fifth Canal District eatery to close in a few months.

Banking & Finance

🔒Q&A: AAFCPAs’ diversity efforts seek to create an inclusive culture

As its client base has gotten more diverse, accounting firm AAFCPAs has sought to make its work environment more inclusive to people of different backgrounds, cultures, and religions.

Banking & Finance

🔒WBJ names the 2022 Outstanding Women in Business

Each one of these winners is a gold mine in how to improve your business and your life.

Diversity & Inclusion

Worcester turns down UMass Chan request to rename Plantation streets

In a 6-4 vote on Wednesday, the Worcester City Council rejected the effort by UMass Chan Medical School to rename the Plantation streets, due to the name’s connection to slavery.

Banking & Finance

🔒Q&A: Solvus Global aims to solve the world’s problems

Newlywed Sean Kelly co-founded Solvus Global with Aaron Birt to research solutions to problems plaguing the business world, by spinning off companies addressing those specific needs.

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