September 26, 2011 - Worcester Business Journal

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Mass. Oil Dealers Add Biofuel To Product Lines

Some heating oil dealers are selling bioheat fuel oil in Massachusetts, but by choice, not by requirement....

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A Canine’s Best Friend | At Manilow’s Canine Playground & Doggie Daycare, dog owners place their cherished pets in trusted hands

Barbara Drury sells a product that’s hard to package and impossible to mass produce. As a...

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Issue Highlights

On Page One ADAPTING TO CHANGE — Amid declining oil consumption and the rise in energy...

Economy

Central Mass. Staffing Firms See Continued Hiring Rebound

Jamal Mahijibhai’s small staffing agency recently doubled the size of its staff, and business volume has increased...

Economy

Employers Weigh Merits And Risks Of Hiring Long-Term Unemployed

In 2008, there were 183,000 unemployed workers in Massachusetts, with 9 percent of them having been out...

Manufacturing

Envelope Maker’s Expansion Prompts Move To Douglas Site

Walking through the Classic Envelope plant in Whitinsville is like taking a step back in time....

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Behind The Sound Bite: Smart Grid

Top officials from National Grid visited Worcester last week to hype a long-delayed pilot program that would...

Advice

101: Workplace Bullying

School anti-bullying policies are now commonplace. But what if you feel unfairly targeted by a supervisor or...

Advice

10 Things I Know About Recruiting

Corey Adams is a metro market manager with Robert Half International, the global specialized staffing firm, in...

News

Mass. Should Consider Tax Break For Businesses

The economy may still need a booster shot, but State Senate President Therese Murray indicated this month...

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Holliston Could House Large Solar Farm

A Cambridge-based renewable energy company has proposed a 2.5-megawatt solar project at a...

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Analysts Praise Recent Ameresco Purchases

In the past three months, Ameresco, the Framingham-based energy efficiency company, has made two strategic acquisitions that...

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Briefing: Fair Share Health Insurance Contributions

For employers, the most significant aspect of the 2006 Massachusetts health care reform law was the requirement...

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Innovations Ignite Rise In Patent Filings

Patents are big money. In December 2010, a federal court in Texas awarded SynQor, a...

Economy

Putting America Back To Work

Two recent studies by The Council on Competitiveness asked business leaders, university presidents and national lab directors...

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Power To The Communities? | Debate about creating more municipal electric utilities is not new, but is intense

Electricity is a touchy subject in Fitchburg. Perhaps it goes back to a 2008 ice storm...

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Incorporations

These Central Massachusetts businesses filed incorporation papers with the Massachusetts Secretary of State's Office between June 16-30,...

Transportation

North Brookfield Seeks Freight Rail Revival | Investor sees market potential for train transport

Daniel M. Bigda wants to bring a five-mile stretch of railroad bed in North Brookfield and East...

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WBJ Talk Back

CASINOS IN MASS. Our editorial from the Sept. 12 issue, in which we argued against casinos in...

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Photo Finish

OF NOTEWorcester-based People’s United Bank awarded $30,000 in grants to nonprofits, including some in the Worcester area....

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Why We Must Pay More Taxes

The perfect economic storm is forming before our eyes and it seems everyone, including our politicians in...

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The Other Solar Industry? | As manufacturing woes make headlines, Central Mass. installers thrive

Harvard is a town of about 1,800 households. In the past few months, according to Kristen Ferguson,...

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Oil Dealers Adapt To Change | Businesses Diversify Amid Declining Consumption, Push For Energy Efficiency

When David Brunell began working in the 1970s for his family’s Worcester-based heating oil business, Pioneer Oil,...

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Auto Insurance Measure: A Collision Course For Agents, Carriers

Can your car insurance premium be set higher than your neighbor’s just because he’s a college professor...

Technology

Password Protection For The Office

Where do you keep your passwords? You have a list somewhere, don’t you? Perhaps you’re brazen...

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Fitchburg Businesses Weigh Bad Roads Vs. Higher Taxes

For Lisa Bramante, president of City Cab Co. Inc. in Fitchburg, the state of the city’s roads...

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Studies Weigh Green Energy Investments Payback

Are investments in green energy programs worth it? Two studies each released within the last...

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Taking His Knowledge To School

DAVID EASSONTitle: Director, WPI Life Sciences & Bioengineering CenterHometown: Wilmington, Del.Residence: ShrewsburyEducation: Bachelor's, University of South Carolina;...

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Lease To Win | Know the 5 crucial aspects of a commercial lease agreement

To lease or buy. This tagline -- so prevalent in the housing and automobile industries -- holds...

September 26, 2011Edition

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