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  • WBJ names the Power 100, the most influential Central Mass. professionals in 2024

    Brad Kane Updated: April 29, 2024

    In this first-time expansion of the previous power players list, WBJ names the professionals in Central Massachusetts who most effectively wield their power to have an outsized influence on the economy and community.

    Brad Kane Updated: April 29, 2024
  • 2024 Power 100: Clifford Rucker

    Eric Casey Updated: April 29, 2024

    It’s fair to say Clifford Rucker has a well-diversified portfolio. As the founder of Rucker Investments, he has his hands in a number of high-profile ventures in Worcester, including the Worcester Railers minor league hockey team, Off The Rails

    Eric Casey Updated: April 29, 2024
  • 2024 Power 100: David Bagdon

    Eric Casey Updated: April 29, 2024

    As local news outlets are struggling just to stay alive, the Community Advocate excels at the important service of providing Central Mass. communities with the information they need, under the longtime leadership of David Bagdon.

    Eric Casey Updated: April 29, 2024
  • 2024 Power 100: Jon Weaver

    Nancy Campbell Updated: April 29, 2024

    MBI is the state’s oldest life sciences incubator, working with early stage companies from concept to clinical trials. Since 2000, the nonprofit fostered 188 companies, which have created more than 1,800 jobs and raised $1.4 billion.

    Nancy Campbell Updated: April 29, 2024
  • 2024 Power 100: Eric Busenburg

    Emily Micucci Updated: April 29, 2024

    As the Central Massachusetts life sciences industry looks to grow, Busenburg and Euro-American provide an important link to the rest of the world.

    Emily Micucci Updated: April 29, 2024
  • 2024 Power 100: Jason Reposa

    Eric Casey Updated: April 29, 2024

    Reposa’s innovation stands out in the increasingly competitive and financially strained Massachusetts cannabis industry, where he is one of the few actively working to help other entrepreneurs succeed in the space.

    Eric Casey Updated: April 29, 2024
  • 2024 Power 100: Stephen Genatossio

    Nancy Campbell Updated: April 29, 2024

    Stephen Genatossio not only talks the talk, he walks the walk, in sneakers. Sneakerama was founded with his father in 1978 in a small storefront in Webster Square.

    Nancy Campbell Updated: April 29, 2024
  • 2024 Power 100: Elizabeth Cruz

    Mica Kanner-Mascolo Updated: April 29, 2024

    Cruz founded LABO in 2013 driven by a passion for community empowerment.

    Mica Kanner-Mascolo Updated: April 29, 2024
  • 2024 Power 100: Debra Maddox

    Emily Micucci Updated: April 29, 2024

    Central Massachusetts born and educated, Debra Maddox has a firm hand on the pulse of the people she and her team serve at the Multicultural Wellness Center, founded in 2005.

    Emily Micucci Updated: April 29, 2024
  • 2024 Power 100: Caroline Frankel

    Eric Casey Updated: April 29, 2024

    Caroline Frankel has been breaking down barriers in the legal Massachusetts cannabis industry since its beginning, and her latest breakthrough will make it easier for entrepreneurs and small businesses to find a foothold in an industry.

    Eric Casey Updated: April 29, 2024
  • 2024 Power 100: Travis Duda

    Emily Micucci Updated: April 29, 2024

    Travis Duda is leading something of a counterculture business movement in Worcester. Made up of like-minded Worcester company owners, professionals, and residents who want to network and collaborate, the No Jerks Network pokes a bit of fun at the

    Emily Micucci Updated: April 29, 2024
  • 2024 Power 100: Gloria Hall

    Eric Casey Updated: April 29, 2024

    Worcester’s art scene wouldn’t be what it is today, if not for the impact of Gloria Hall.

    Eric Casey Updated: April 29, 2024
  • 2024 Power 100: Danielle Spring and Julie Toupin-Spring

    Emily Micucci Updated: April 29, 2024

    Although it is a lesbian bar, Femme is open to everyone and seeks to be a safe space at a time when the LGBTQ+ community is increasingly under fire locally and nationally.

    Emily Micucci Updated: April 29, 2024
  • Wormtown Brewery sold to Jack’s Abby

    Eric Casey April 26, 2024

    The sale, announced in a Jack’s Abby Instagram post on Friday, will see both companies operate under the name Hendler Family Brewing Co.

    Eric Casey April 26, 2024
  • Seventh annual Latin American Business Expo to be held at DCU Center

    Mica Kanner-Mascolo April 26, 2024

    With the theme of launch, grow and thrive, the Latin American Business Organization’s seventh annual Latin American Business Expo will be held Saturday to highlight the efforts of Latinos, women, and minority-owned businesses. 

    Mica Kanner-Mascolo April 26, 2024
  • Clinton cannabis delivery firm expands services as industry awaits driver rule change

    Eric Casey April 22, 2024

    Current rules require two employees to be in any vehicle that is transporting cannabis, but commissioners voted in December three to one to approve a change to eliminate that requirement. Business owners are waiting for the commission to formally

    Eric Casey April 22, 2024

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Which of the City of Worcester's priorities for its new chief equity officer is most important?
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On Oct. 28, Kevin Lovaincy assumed his new role as chief equity officer for the City of Worcester, a position that had remained vacant for more than two and a half years since Stephanie Williams’ resignation. Since then, the City’s Executive Office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion had undergone an overhaul reorganization spearheaded by City Manager Eric Batista. Batista has outlined six key commitments to be fulfilled by both Lovaincy and the restructured EODEI in an effort to make Worcester a more equitable and accessible city.