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The executive director who has steered the Massachusetts Lottery through its most profitable years and pushed to modernize the agency is departing next month for a job in the private sector.

While some industries have thrived, the pandemic certainly hasn’t made life any easier for Central Massachusetts colleges and universities.

People are on the move at Central One Federal Credit Union, Country Bank, and more.

Progress is slow. Progress is painful. Progress happens in fits and starts.

So while we applaud women leaders in business, we can’t help but ask: What about all the others? What about women workers like us?

Last year was quite the year for new business startups in Central Massachusetts.

If a government is going to give $160 million toward enticing one single business, particularly a small company with less than 50 full-time employees operating seasonally, there needs to be transparency and accountability for that deal, to ensure it fulfills its promises to the public.

Collectively, WBJ’s readership of business owners, executives, and managers have hundreds – if not thousands – of years of experience fulfilling their own company needs and making recommendations to the people they trust.

While we could have afforded an appropriate Worcester home in 2015, the market is out of reach for us in 2022.

Over the last few decades, waiting for housing prices to rise any more than the low single digits in Worcester was like waiting for Godot. But that’s not true anymore.