Government & Politics

Sutton-based UN1F1ED² Global Packaging Group and the Town of Sutton have renegotiated a new $46.1-million tax-increment financing agreement for the company’s $475-million expansion.

The state plans to open 25 community behavioral health centers early next year as Massachusetts residents continue to struggle with increased mental health challenges exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic.

The NCAA announced Thursday morning it picked Baker, a two-term Republican who opted not to seek reelection, as its next top leader to succeed Mark Emmert.

MassHealth chief Amanda Cassel Kraft will depart her role in the new year, just days before Gov.-elect Maura Healey takes over the executive branch, the Baker administration announced Tuesday.

The state's economic development finance agency board has extended the contract of its president to keep the Gov. Charlie Baker appointee in place through most of Gov.-elect Maura Healey's term.

Doubling the amount of state-funded financial aid for public higher education students to $400 million a year is among the recommendations a state board is making to capitalize on a "unique moment of opportunity" in education funding.

Massachusetts stands to receive $230 million under agreements reached with CVS and Walgreens resolving allegations that the companies contributed to the opioid crisis by failing to properly oversee the dispensing of opioids at their stores.

The Worcester Business Journal partnered with the nonprofit Worcester Regional Research Bureau on a new project examining how rent increases over the last decade have impacted the city and its businesses, as well as an historic look at how financial decisions rooted in racism 86 years ago have exacerbated the housing and workforce problems today.

As part of the then-new Federal Housing Administration’s effort to give out more home loans, a 1936 assessment of the neighborhoods in Worcester was commissioned by the Home Owners' Loan Corp.

In 1936, seven white men judged which neighborhoods of Worcester were not viable for real estate financing. Today, as rising costs overburden half of renters in the city, those impacted the most are from those neighborhoods still suffering from lack of investment.