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Feb. 20, 2023Edition

🔒From the editor: Single-parent fantasy camp

WBJ editor Brad Kane writes about the challenges of balancing work while standing in as a single parent for a week.

🔒Q&A: Northborough coffee shop features local ownership, with a corporate feel

Aero Coffee Roasters was supposed to open in February of 2020, but, like everything that happened in 2020, the COVID pandemic had other plans

🔒A Thousand Words: Waning business confidence

Although still in optimistic territory, the Central Massachusetts Business Confidence Index has fallen for the past three months.

🔒Editorial: A moonshot, in Devens

Rarely ever do you see Bill Gates, Joe Biden, and the community of Devens all in one story, but the palpable excitement around the opening of a $2-billion energy company in Central Massachusetts is creating just such that buzz, with the future of the world’s energy sources and climate on the line.
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🔒Viewpoint: Sending out a small business SOS

I don’t pretend to be the voice of small businesses; but I am a voice, and I’m telling you what I see. What’s happening is complicated and not caused by any one big reason. I wish it were that simple.

Movers & Shakers for Feb. 20, 2023

People are on the moved at Fidelity Bank, GFA Federal Credit Union, and Waters Corp.

🔒101: Leadership failures

The irony in leadership is traits that make a strong leader can eventually – if taken to the extreme – produce failure.

🔒Managing investments during today’s economic uncertainty

With today’s current economic climate full of unknowns, many people have questions on managing their investments. Here is how to plan ahead for the new year in the current market.
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🔒5 Things I Know about … Being the dumbest person in the room

“If you’re the smartest person in the room, you are in the wrong room.”This quote has been...

🔒Hustle culture vs. The Great Resignation

Selling our souls to corporate America and letting our professional lives dictate our time is not the answer. It is unreasonable to expect millions of capable adults not earn an income or contribute to the collective workforce. We must find a middle ground that might not have a catchy or trending name but will undoubtably create more balance and holistic fulfillment for us all.

🔒Worcester nonprofit Edward Street pushing for structural change to child care funding

When Worcester child care advocacy nonprofit Edward Street received a $75,000 grant, it was an example of essential funding for early childhood organizations, which rely on foundational funding in the absence of adequate federal funding.

🔒Even as VC funding abounds in Mass., local entrepreneurs must rely on their own money and time to grow startups

To move on from the garage to the real world isn’t as easy as “I have an idea!” In the world, we cherish ideas and people who bring them to life, but what is often lost is to make something, to start a company, to build something new, money is required.
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🔒After surviving the perils of 2020, Worcester retailers are closing up shop and reducing operations as 2023’s problems mount

After surviving 2020, Worcester retailers are closing their business or reducing operations in the face of mounting problems in 2023.

🔒What tech companies like about downtown Worcester

Inside of these downtown Worcester century-old structures, and some contemporary ones, businesses from one of the most cutting-edge industries – technology – have been setting up shop

Amid national and political fanfare, $2B fusion energy company opens in Devens

In a ribbon-cutting event attended by the top energy official in President Joe Biden’s administration and both...
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