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🔒A Thousand Words: Hologic’s international layoffs

Hologic expects layoffs at international facilities in 2024, totaling up to $8 million in severance.

🔒Viewpoint: Leveraging intelligence for a smarter community

The implications from the use of artificial intelligence, or AI, is a pressing question facing every consumer, employer, and policymaker.

🔒A Thousand Words: Caroline’s Cannabis legal victory

Marijuana dispensary Caroline's Cannabis won a $1.2-million settlement from the Town of Uxbridge over excess community-impact fees the local government collected, spurring industry leaders to call for a refund of excess fees statewide.

🔒Viewpoint: The broken rung in the corporate ladder

For her sixth annual column on the status of women of color in corporate leadership, Melanie Bonsu says a lack of opportunities for entry-level employees shrinks the talent pool for top business positions.
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🔒Viewpoint: Liberal arts’ impact on the economy

The liberal arts are often afterthoughts in the conversation about workforce development, but employers want to hire liberally educated people. That appears most clearly in the skills employers say they value.

🔒A Thousand Words: Worcester’s aging housing stock

A study from the San Diego research firm Construction Coverage has found the Greater Worcester metro area has the nation’s eighth oldest housing stock among all midsize metropolitan areas.

🔒Viewpoint: IRA’s impact on medical innovation

Finding a balance between making lifesaving medications affordable while sustaining the incentives for innovation is critical.

🔒A Thousand Words: UMass Memorial reinstates mask mandate

UMass Memorial Health reinstated a caregiver mask mandate at its medical center campuses.
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🔒A Thousand Words: Heywood lawsuits piling up

Heywood Healthcare and its general contractor, Consigli Construction, are facing a number of lawsuits over the unfinished work at the $29-million surgical pavilion in Gardner.

🔒Viewpoint: Local business is good business

Supporting local and small businesses is crucial to a healthy economy and a symbiotic community. We have the collective power to sustain other businesses in our region, help them offset rising taxes and rental costs, and keep their lights on.
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