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WBJ editor seeks to evolve publication's DEI coverage.

For the last 10 years, WBJ readers have voted for the best companies, venues, people, and services in Central Massachusetts, for our annual Best of Business awards.

Solutions like government money do help address these issues, but the real struggle is the effort to win over hearts and minds of businesspeople.

Problems like unaffordable housing, uneducated people, pollution, and lack of neighborhood sustainability – each putting a drag on businesses and the economy – can be connected directly to HOLC's racist decisions 86 years ago.

Increased values make renting or purchasing a commercial building more expensive, and rising housing costs make purchasing or renting less affordable, driving some long-time community residents and businesses out of the city.

The nationwide $370-billion investment in the clean economy of the future will create tens of thousands of jobs in every state. Massachusetts will see more jobs created than the entire populations of Auburn and Holden combined.

The next generation of leaders in Central Mass. higher education is taking shape, and the region appears strongly positioned with great talent.

A list of all the organization helping businesses grow and adapt in Massachusetts

A restaurant only open for two days a week hardly seems like a model for the future of the hospitality industry, but maybe its owners realize something the rest of the world is just catching onto: Pre-pandemic life will never fully return, and it’s time for businesses to innovate in ways they may not have thought of before, embracing a changed future where they find success in new ways.