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Government & Politics

  • 2024 Power 100: Mary Craig Ritter

    Emily Micucci Updated: April 29, 2024

    Today, Ritter plans products and pricing fitting with Fallon’s ever-increasing focus on serving vulnerable populations. Fallon has 200,000+ members, making it a small but important link in the Mass. health plan market.

    Emily Micucci Updated: April 29, 2024
  • 2024 Power 100: Sam Hendler

    Eric Casey Updated: April 29, 2024

    Sam Hendler sees his influence in the Central Massachusetts business community as providing a critical component of any well-lived life: fun.

    Eric Casey Updated: April 29, 2024
  • 2024 Power 100: Timothy Murray

    Emily Micucci Updated: April 29, 2024

    A longtime inside power broker in Worcester and beyond, Timothy Murray pushes hard for economic development, with his latest efforts including the launch of a news organization and the development of a fund for workforce development.

    Emily Micucci Updated: April 29, 2024
  • 2024 Power 100: Bob Mumgaard

    Nancy Campbell Updated: April 29, 2024

    As the world races to find clean, renewable energy, Bob Mumgaard envisions CFS and Devens becoming the center of the global fusion industry.

    Nancy Campbell Updated: April 29, 2024
  • 2024 Power 100: Michael Jacobs

    Eric Casey Updated: April 29, 2024

    Jacob’s fingerprints are all over Central Massachusetts, but he has played a particularly important role in the redevelopment of Worcester’s Canal District in the wake of the construction of the $160-million Polar Park baseball stadium.

    Eric Casey Updated: April 29, 2024
  • 2024 Power 100: Mike Nicholson

    Emily Micucci Updated: April 29, 2024

    Nicholson, a Gardner native who is the city’s first Latino mayor, has met the problems of blight and economic depression head on.

    Emily Micucci Updated: April 29, 2024
  • 2024 Power 100: Steve Kerrigan

    Mica Kanner-Mascolo Updated: April 29, 2024

    Just three years after joining the health center, Kerrigan reported in his 2022 “From the Desk” letter it had provided care to a then record-breaking 31,356 patients in 85 languages, issuing 137,707 prescriptions.

    Mica Kanner-Mascolo Updated: April 29, 2024
  • 2024 Power 100: Angela Bovill

    Emily Micucci Updated: April 29, 2024

    Bovill manages revenue of $126 million, according to an Internal Revenue Service filing, to run programs reaching new immigrants as well as many others serving children in foster care, the elderly, and people with developmental disabilities to offer

    Emily Micucci Updated: April 29, 2024
  • 2024 Power 100: Meredith Harris

    Emily Micucci Updated: April 29, 2024

    When you’re leading economic development in a bustling hub like Marlborough with ideal highway access and plenty of amenities, you can afford to be picky. For Meredith Harris, adhering to a vision is the driving force, and the efforts pay off in

    Emily Micucci Updated: April 29, 2024
  • Senate Dems back wholesale extinction of competitive electric suppliers

    Alison Kuznitz and Sam Doran | State House News Service April 26, 2024

    Senate Democrats passed legislation Thursday to crack down on the competitive electric supply market and shield residential consumers from potentially expensive contracts, overcoming opposition from Republicans who offered reform measures for the

    Alison Kuznitz and Sam Doran | State House News Service April 26, 2024
  • MBTA extends Commuter Rail contract until 2027

    Sam Drysdale | State House News Service April 26, 2024

    The MBTA Board voted unanimously Thursday to extend the agency's contract with Keolis Commuter Services, which operates the authority's commuter rail network, for one year to mid-2027.

    Sam Drysdale | State House News Service April 26, 2024
  • Developer who purchased Becker College properties sells two in five-parcel $6M sale

    Eric Casey April 25, 2024

    Five Elm Park neighborhood properties in Worcester, including two purchased as Becker College was heading toward closure in 2021, have switched hands from one property management company to another.

    Eric Casey April 25, 2024
  • Mass. surpasses $6B in cannabis sales as unofficial 4/20 holiday breaks singe-day sale record

    Eric Casey April 24, 2024

    While the Massachusetts cannabis industry continues to feel growing pains, consumers’ appetite for cannabis has shown no signs of slowing. 

    Eric Casey April 24, 2024
  • Healey dismisses transportation secretary's suggestion of NH border tolls

    Chris Lisinski | State House News Service April 24, 2024

    "I am focused on affordability, I am focused on competitiveness. I'm not putting tolls at the border," Healey said. "I am focused on working with the T and the secretary on ensuring what we are doing so that we improve our transit system."

    Chris Lisinski | State House News Service April 24, 2024
  • Central Mass. unemployment rates drop in March

    Mica Kanner-Mascolo April 24, 2024

    Central Massachusetts has experienced a decrease in unemployment rates from February to March as the four local metropolitan areas reported on by the Massachusetts Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development all saw drops. 

    Mica Kanner-Mascolo April 24, 2024
  • Mass. unemployment rate in March remained below national rate

    Mica Kanner-Mascolo April 23, 2024

    The March unemployment rate remained unchanged from February’s revised estimate, according to a Friday press release from he Massachusetts Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development, which sited U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data.

    Mica Kanner-Mascolo April 23, 2024

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Should Central Massachusetts' local governments establish a program to provide property tax breaks to small locally-owned businesses or their landlords?
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Poll Description

After six years in business, Worcester craft brewery Redemption Rock Brewing permanently closed its doors on Dec. 29. In the wake of its closure, CEO Dani Babineau said the City of Worcester could be doing more to support small businesses. Brian Treitman expressed a similar sentiment when he announced he would close his B.T.’s Fried Chicken & BBQ in Worcester after the influx of chain restaurants in the region in part had forced him to close up shop. 


Local governments will often offer property tax breaks to businesses and new property developments in an effort to spur economic growth. Nearly all these tax breaks go to large corporations and companies with the connections and resources to advocate for a reduction in their taxes.