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Movers & Shakers for March 24, 2025

Employees are being hired, promoted, and elected to boards throughout Mirick O’Connell, Fletcher Tilton, and MutualOne Bank.

🔒United force: Central Mass. business leaders are standing by their DEI initiatives amid federal funding threats

In Central Massachusetts, a group of top business executives are taking a public stance, sticking with DEI while at the risk of losing federal revenue.

🔒Cashing in on cannabis: Worcester County communities collected $6.4M in cannabis taxes last year, with border communities realizing new windfalls

For communities that have welcomed recreational sales, this newly created industry and the sales associated with it have been a boon for their municipal budgets.

Massport approves driving fee increase for Logan Airport

The costs of getting to or from Logan International Airport by car, including via Uber and Lyft, will get more expensive this summer under a package of fee increases approved by the Massachusetts Port Authority that are intended to raise $1.1 billion over five years.
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Analyst predicts possible paths for Medicaid cuts and how they would impact Mass.

Boozang said Manatt's estimate is that states would have to increase their own spending by 20% to maintain the current program level spending if deep federal cuts are enacted.

Clark, WPI game design programs named among best in nation

The game design programs at Clark University and Worcester Polytechnic Institute have been named among the nation’s best on The Princeton Review’s lists ranking the top 50 game design college programs and top 25 graduate programs for 2025.

WBDC rebrands former Saint-Gobain property, largest revitalization project in its history

The Worcester Business Development Corp. has branded the 51 acres of the former Saint-Gobain Abrasives southern campus in Worcester.

Trump Administration backtracks Central Mass. lease terminations for IRS offices

The five other Central Massachusetts properties included on DOGE’s list of terminations remain on the website as of Wednesday.
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Central Mass. home prices, total sales continue to climb

Single-family home prices and the total number of sales in Central Massachusetts continued to climb in February, a persistent trend expected to continue into March.

Legislature bring rules negotiations into public view with open meeting

In recent years, negotiators offered opening remarks about their work's importance, then voted to move their deliberations behind closed doors.
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