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🔒A Thousand Words: Unum’s tax break decertification

Worcester City Council voted to decertify Unum's property tax break. The state still has to make it official.

🔒Viewpoint: Mortgage rates are heading modestly lower

Thirty-year fixed mortgage rates have risen more than 260% since the year 2020, when the year ended with an average rate of 2.67%. But what can we expect moving forward?

🔒Viewpoint: Worcester’s DEI project and the transformative power of transparency

Viewpoint: My team consulted with the City of Worcester on a racial equity audit and strategic implementation for 15 months. Despite significant disruption, this diversity, equity, and inclusion culture-change project was successful. Your DEI project can be too, if leaders pay attention to three details.

Viewpoint: Worcester County is at the center of a successful cannabis industry in Massachusetts

It has been a historic summer for adult-use cannabis sales in Massachusetts with back-to-back record-setting months in June, July, and August, followed by Marijuana Establishments surpassing $5 billion in gross sales.
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🔒A Thousand Words: Community Healthlink’s shuttered programs

Community Healthlink says it will take 8-12 months to restore its suspended programming.

🔒Viewpoint: Pride means business: the economics of inclusivity

For the first time in Worcester’s LGBTQ+ history, the City of Worcester has given its full support to Pride.

🔒A Thousand Words: Leominster maternity closure proposal

In response to UMass Memorial Health's plan to closure the maternity ward at HealthAlliance-Clinton Hospital in Leominster, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health has determined maternity care in the region is an essential service, and UMass Memorial has to come up with plans on how to help those impacted by the closure.

🔒Viewpoint: 7 Things you should know about … Community health centers during National Health Center Week

For National Health Center Week, the leader of the Family Health Center of Worcester -- Louis Brady -- provides insight as to the vital role these organizations play in the healthcare system.
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🔒A Thousand Words: Pessimism about the economy

Amid continuing economic concerns, business pessimism is on the rise in the Central Massachusetts Business Confidence Index.

🔒Viewpoint: Franchises offer vital economic opportunities

As small businesses continue to navigate the post-COVID economic landscape, there is an often-overlooked sector of the economy potentially key to the revitalization of Main Street America: franchises.
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