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Even a reduced T&G – our story reports it has about 20 journalists on staff these days – far outweighs the next closest media organization.

The T&G remains the Central Massachusetts paper of record. Since Michael McDermott started as executive editor in 2022, the T&G has started to get its groove back.

Before the state legislative session ends this year, lawmakers need to turn Gov. Maura Healey’s economic development proposal into reality.

The Central Massachusetts business community loves movies just as much as anyone, but the industry just doesn’t have much of an impact here.

We can’t afford an exodus of younger workers, and key to prevent that is to make housing more affordable. NIMBY may be a proud Massachusetts tradition, but leaving development of more affordable housing options up to each town is insufficient.

For the second part of the Canal District Transformation series, we had to place a lot of trust in what people were telling us, particularly Amy Chase from the small business Crompton Collective

While it’s hard to argue against Polar Park’s economic impact on the neighborhood, the Worcester Red Sox will be the first to admit the Canal District was already trending upward as a funky urban center before they decided to move.

Steward Health Care and Dr. Ralph de la Torre may be deserving of this public thrashing, but it risks overlooking the much larger issues in Massachusetts health care: COVID funding masked structural funding issues for hospitals, especially the smaller ones relying more heavily on Medicare and Mass Health to pay the bills.

Ulysses Youngblood was the star of the Worcester Homecoming panel, largely because he disagreed with everyone in a very constructive way.

Now that the Central Massachusetts craft beer industry has grown up, it has entered the next phase of its evolution: corporatization.