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While some of the data and sentiment have improved, the key challenges we entered the year facing still linger.

WBJ decided to publish a Midyear Economic Update on the local business community, to see how all the major events so far in 2023 impacted people’s feelings about the rest of this year.

Massachusetts needs housing. As one of her main efforts to alleviate the increasingly unaffordable cost of buying and renting housing, Gov. Maura Healey has prioritized building new homes throughout Mass.

Dispensaries would be as common as liquor stores, discussion around cannabis use would be as tolerated as drinking wine, and cannabis cafes would dot the landscape as bars do now.

With no magic bullet on the horizon, achieving the Massachusetts clean energy objectives will require a multi-pronged approach, with a blend of carrots and sticks to massively accelerate the rate of change.

With energy at the forefront of Central Mass. business leaders’ minds as prices have spiked in the last two years, WBJ decided to renew its focus on sustainability.

The City of Worcester is stepping up its commitment with an important vote of support: increasing the money behind its DEI efforts.

There’s a lot to like in hobbyist-turned-entrepreneur Chuck Brown’s quest to turn his home businesses into a sustainable retail shop, particularly because he provides a product that’s seemingly everywhere but at the same time very difficult to find in high quality.

The problems with staffing shortages in the healthcare industry stretch back decades.

Central Massachusetts is well positioned to grow its life sciences sector with its proximity to the industry’s leading global hub in Boston and Cambridge.