Nov. 25, 2019 - Worcester Business Journal

Nonprofits

🔒Former Obama official wants to grow the influence of the Greater Worcester Community Foundation

Barbara Fields took over at the Greater Worcester Community Foundation on Aug. 15, succeeding long-time CEO Ann Lisi.

Opinion

🔒A Thousand Words: GateHouse-Gannett merger

News

🔒Massachusetts needs to lean into public transit

As state legislators go behind closed doors to understand the issue better before arriving at a comprehensive strategy, we urge them to consider a solution placing high priority on public transit.

Opinion

🔒Worcester needs a single-tax rate

The Worcester Regional Chamber of Commerce has argued reducing the gap between commercial/industrial/personal tax rates and residential tax rates will lead to a fair and equitable system.

Arts & Entertainment

Movers & Shakers for Nov. 25, 2019

Check out the latest promotions and hires in Central Massachusetts.

Advice

🔒101: Workplace ageism

Age discrimination has negative effects on all employees, no matter their age.

Advice

🔒Marketing is an investment, not an expense

Although today’s business owners are inclined to see marketing as an expense, the view of marketing as an investment needed to drive results is more accurate.

Advice

🔒10 Things I know about … Improving business outcomes through analytics

As organizations aspire to become more data-driven, many still struggle to combine their data assets with analytics to improve their business outcomes.

Advice

🔒I lost my entrepreneurial drive. Therapy helps me get it back.

Since I have admitted to myself and others I have been dealing with depression, it has brought a sense of calming to my life at home and work.

Economy

🔒UMass Memorial ramping up interpretation services for non-English-speaking patients

As the population in and around Worcester has diversified in recent years, with more newcomers not so fluent in English, the medical community has taken what was once almost an afterthought – interpreter assistance – and made it an essential service.

Health Care

🔒Spectrum has evolved for 50 years to treat addiction

When Spectrum Health Systems got its start half a century ago, the agency was located in Methuen, was named the Challenge House, and the addiction treatment industry thought little of the complex ways people could be helped.

Government & Politics

🔒Three Natick businesses rise from the ashes of July fire

The overnight fire was devastating to Natick, but the community was generous in helping those affected.

Agriculture

🔒Marijuana subpoenas cause a stir among Central Mass. communities

When they looked in their email a few weeks ago and found subpoenas from U.S. Attorney Andrew Lelling's office looking into their relationships with marijuana businesses, leaders in communities across Central Massachusetts, and the rest of the state, were surprised.

News

🔒The jobless heroes of a dead sports blog

Oct. 30, 2019 marked a profound and great day in the history of American ideals, which left the heroes at the center of this story unemployed.

Agriculture

Cannabis Control Commission to move to Worcester this week

The staff for the board, which has been temporarily based in Boston during its short tenure since 2017 overseeing the state's cannabis cultivation and retail sales industry, will start working in the new location on Nov. 26.

Nov. 25, 2019Edition

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