March 10, 2025Edition

Located in Downtown Fitchburg, Gallery Marquee is a hub where artists can showcase their pieces, attend workshops, and network.

Republicans in Congress, along with the Trump Administration, have suggested $880 billion in cuts over the next 10 years to the U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce, which oversees Medicaid. Medicaid provides more than 70 million with healthcare nationwide. The Trump Administration also is attempting to cut National Institutes of Health grants for medical research.

Even though Dell EMC still has a substantial presence in the region, particularly in Hopkinton, the company is a far cry from when EMC was being run by its founders and was a more engaged partner in the community.

To our city leadership: We plead with you to support these spaces and the humans behind them.

Worcester, we must reawaken the traits of good leaders born during COVID. Employees and clients are feeling betrayed by organizations taking back commitments. Reawaken your courage, curiosity, commitment, conscientiousness, and empathy.

Employees at Vision Advertising, Thrive Support & Advocacy, and Main Street Bank are advancing in their careers.

Businesses use social media to create public engagement externally, but they often overlook the effectiveness of using social media internally.

In Worcester, mentorship fuels the startup ecosystem, guiding entrepreneurs through the challenges of building a business; but they often give back to the programs and organizations that helped them, whether it be through teaching a workshop or mentoring themselves.

Your website is your firm’s digital front door. It’s the first impression you make on customers, clients, donors, and job seekers. If it’s slow, clunky, or outdated, people won’t stick around to see what you have to offer.

It was once common business wisdom that you had to be in a major U.S. city to successfully attract venture capital for a startup. Not anymore, according to key figures in Worcester's entrepreneurial scene.

In Central Massachusetts, the confidence banking executives have in the brick-and-mortar model is unwavering.

Dell still has a presence in Hopkinton, owning three properties which feature about 1.28 million square feet of office space. However, since the 2015 merger announcement, the company has off-loaded more than 1.2 million square feet.

These private donations may soon become significantly more important as the federal government is weighing funding cuts to health research.

Banking tends not to be the most exciting industry in the world, but its influence is everywhere. From small startups to trillion-dollar public companies, access to capital and the banking system can literally make or break hopes and dreams.

“We’ve been DOGE-ed,” said Christopher Egan, president of Carruth Capital in Westborough, which owns one of the impacted properties.