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January 25, 2020Edition

🔒Q&A: Building out life sciences at The Reactory

When Matt Zicaro joined forces with Michael O’Brien of Galaxy Development, they launched a new development firm – Galaxy Life Sciences – committed to building out the bioscience industry in Central Massachusetts.

🔒Editorial: Massachusetts needs to recruit a vaccination army

With the incoming President Joe Biden Administration, fresh resources will be brought to bear to accelerate testing and tracing programs, as well as new plans for mass inoculations.

🔒Small business relief must focus on actual small businesses

It comes down to the definitions of small businesses and the favoritism banks – notably Bank of America, which is now facing multiple lawsuits – have shown to the biggest of small businesses.

🔒Movers & Shakers for Jan. 25, 2021

People are on the move at UMass Medical School, North Central Massachusetts Chamber of Commerce and more.
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🔒101: Workplace bias

Workplace bias might be overt (a comment such as, “You do such good work for a woman”) or less so, such as a team member surprised an older colleague is adept at technology.

🔒How to legally market your cannabis business

The cannabis business is exploding. The worldwide market will grow to $57 billion by 2027, up from $9.2 billion currently.

🔒The COVID reality has set in, and it sucks

The last 10 months finally caught up to me in December, and I was over everything.
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🔒Zero malls: Worcester is no longer a regional indoor shopping destination

Worcester may have improbably managed to keep shoppers coming into the city in the age of new highways and suburbanization, but it didn’t last. In the past decade or two, Worcester has seemed to lose its place as the shopping heart of Worcester County.

🔒Coworking centers adapt to the pandemic and look to regain growth

Coworking spaces and the coronavirus pandemic were never going to be a great match.

🔒The influencer economy: Using social media to launch a one-person marketing shop

If you’re part of a tech-savvy company launching a consumer-oriented product or service, one unconventional, yet increasingly popular, marketing strategy might have crossed your desk in the last several years: working with influencers to promote or review your brand on social media.

🔒UMass vaccination effort, a sign of what might be

Massachusetts has millions of residents to vaccinate in hopes of ending the coronavirus pandemic. UMass Medical School hopes it can serve as a testing ground for how to quickly administer doses statewide – and potentially beyond.
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JetBlue deal with American provides out for Worcester nonstop flight

JetBlue and American Airlines have reached an agreement to coordinate their service to the Northeastern United States, which includes a caveat relinquishing JetBlue of the need to maintain service to the Worcester Regional Airport as part of the newly formalized relationship between the two airlines.
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