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UMass Chan to form working group to address Trump Administration’s anti-DEI demands
March 7, 2025In response to the President Donald Trump Administration’s threat to potentially cut off federal funding, UMass Chan Medical School is assembling a committee to navigate the rapidly changing and uncertain DEI landscape of higher education.
March 7, 2025
Auxilium, chamber to launch StartUp Week Worcester
March 7, 2025StartUp Week Worcester will kick off on April 8.
March 7, 2025
Healey: Municipalities putting grants at risk by not complying with MBTA housing law
March 7, 2025Gov. Maura Healey said Thursday her administration will continue to withhold state funding from cities and towns that fail to comply with a controversial -- but constitutional -- zoning reform law, describing the latest challenges to the measure as
March 7, 2025
WuXi construction at $300M Worcester facility moving slowly
March 6, 2025WuXi has disputed an early WBJ report saying construction at the Worcester site has stopped, although the company declined to provide specifics or give an updated timeline.
March 6, 2025
Federal judge blocks billions in NIH cuts
March 6, 2025A federal judge issued a nationwide preliminary injunction Wednesday that temporarily blocks the Trump administration from slashing federal health and research dollars, Attorney General Andrea Campbell's office announced.
March 6, 2025-
State watchdogs take aim at Keolis management of commuter rail
March 5, 2025In separate publications, Inspector General Jeffrey Shapiro and Auditor Diana DiZoglio each detailed overlapping concerns with the relationship between the T and Keolis, which for more than a decade has been under contract to run the commuter rail
March 5, 2025
State report: Cannabis potency up, prices down
March 5, 2025The report, which was due to be filed in 2023 but was only presented to CCC members last week, is intended to let lawmakers "see and understand what's happening throughout the industry," Commissioner Nurys Camargo said.
March 5, 2025
Fitchburg nonprofit to close two shelters, layoff 20 staff
March 4, 2025Human services provider Making Opportunity Count will lay off 20 employees by April 30 as the Fitchburg-based nonprofit will shutter two of its shelter locations.
March 4, 2025
Parents advocate for mandatory bereavement leave after child loss
March 4, 2025The feeling of losing a young child is unimaginable, parents said Monday as they pushed for mandatory bereavement time and sought to boost understanding of a rare category of childhood deaths.
March 4, 2025
Trump Administration cancels leases for 37% of Central Mass. commercial space used by federal agencies
March 3, 2025“We’ve been DOGE-ed,” said Christopher Egan, president of Carruth Capital in Westborough, which owns one of the impacted properties.
March 3, 2025
Senate budget chief: Business community fight against MCAS repeal was lackluster
February 28, 2025Most of the money that drove the No on 2 campaign came from a small group of business executives and groups.
February 28, 2025
Healey: GOP budget cuts could leave 2M without health care
February 27, 2025Gov. Maura Healey said the tax breaks that U.S. House Republicans envision in the budget blueprint approved Tuesday night could "devastate" a slew of government programs, and that nearly 2 million Bay Staters are at risk of losing health care
February 27, 2025
House rules implement some transparency-related reform but stop short of embracing voter-approved audit
February 26, 2025The two and a half hours of debate in the House Chamber on Tuesday also provided an opportunity for Republican representatives to push, unsuccessfully, for a greater say over how the House responds to Auditor Diana DiZoglio's push to audit the
February 26, 2025
Healey: Trump plans to cut NIH funding a matter of life and death
February 26, 2025The governor's remarks add, "The only one benefiting here is China – which, we hear, is already recruiting our faculty members who are losing funds."
February 26, 2025
U.S. Department of Education grants Mount Wachusett Community College $874K for students’ basic needs
February 25, 2025As Mount Wachusett Community College is experiencing record-high enrollment numbers, the Gardner school has received nearly $1 million from the U.S. Department of Education to address basic needs within its student population.
February 25, 2025
Following outcry, Healey pauses closure of two state-owned hospitals
February 25, 2025The Massachusetts Board of Education could advance draft regulations Tuesday in response to a voter-approved law that removed the requirement that students to pass the MCAS exam to graduate.
February 25, 2025
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