On Saturday, for the third day in a row, only a smattering of the House's 135 sitting Democrats attended a session where Speaker Ron Mariano's leadership team hoped to push through a $3.1 billion spending bill featuring critical funds for emergency family shelter, public employee pay raises, and special education.
Dozens of Central Massachusetts nonprofits have received funds ranging from $5,000 to $30,000, as part of the Worcester-based Reliant Foundation’s 2023 community grants.
Tenet Healthcare has named a new chief nursing officer to oversee its hospitals in Worcester, Framingham, and Natick, while its former nursing executive departs to take on a role at ForHealth Consulting at UMass Chan Medical School.
The workforce shortage that has left employers across sectors scrambling to keep operations running in recent years isn't likely to let up "any time, in the rest of anybody's lifetime," one of the nation's leading economists said Thursday.