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Editorial

  • Editorial

    Editorial: This problem impacts everybody

    Updated: May 16, 2022

    Inflation has had uneven impacts across the country and in different sectors of the economy.

    Updated: May 16, 2022
  • Editorial

    Editorial: Time to re-embrace the immigrant workforce

    Updated: April 18, 2022

    The one reliable source of working-age adults has essentially been shut off for the past five years: immigration.

    Updated: April 18, 2022
  • Editorial

    Editorial: Manufacturing’s steady excellence

    Updated: April 4, 2022

    While several manufacturers received attention for jumping into support the personal protective equipment pipeline, most have kept their heads down, adjusting and innovating fresh approaches to keep the trains, and our local economy, running steady.

    Updated: April 4, 2022
  • From the Editor

    From the Editor: Moving the conversation forward

    Brad Kane Updated: April 4, 2022

    What I missed in my editing and publishing of the "Infiltrating Worcester's inner circle" story was the very obvious fact that underrepresented groups – people of color, women, LGBTQ+ and others – are still struggling to be heard within circles of

    Brad Kane Updated: April 4, 2022
  • From the Editor

    From the Editor: Make your voice heard

    Brad Kane Updated: March 21, 2022

    Impact is made by people who show up. It isn’t always easy, but the first step is making your voice heard. The NAACP certainly is.

    Brad Kane Updated: March 21, 2022
  • Editorial

    Editorial: Changing of the guard in higher ed

    Updated: March 21, 2022

    Finding suitable candidates for a top job in higher education is far from easy, given the variety of constituencies who want a say in the search, the necessity for confidentiality, and understanding the present and future needs of the institution.

    Updated: March 21, 2022
  • From the Editor

    This is my face

    Brad Kane Updated: March 7, 2022

    The core values of WBJ are honesty and integrity, and publishing a heavily altered photo would be disingenuous.

    Brad Kane Updated: March 7, 2022
  • Editorial

    Editorial: There’s reason to have confidence

    Updated: March 7, 2022

    Central Massachusetts businesses have been nimble and figured out ways to survive and thrive, despite the many challenges. They are likely to do so regardless of the challenges ahead.

    Updated: March 7, 2022
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    Editorial: Colleges are in for a reckoning

    Updated: February 21, 2022

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

    Updated: February 21, 2022
  • Letter from the Editor

    Editorial: Our view from inside, as WBJ reporters

    Monica Benevides, Katherine Hamilton and Sloane M. Perron Updated: February 7, 2022

    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?

    Monica Benevides, Katherine Hamilton and Sloane M. Perron Updated: February 7, 2022
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    Editorial: Thanking a generation of women leaders

    Updated: February 7, 2022

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

    Updated: February 7, 2022
  • editorial

    Editorial: The year of the entrepreneur

    Updated: January 24, 2022

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

    Updated: January 24, 2022
  • From the Editor

    From the editor: Why we give extra scrutiny to Polar Park

    Brad Kane Updated: January 24, 2022

    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

    Brad Kane Updated: January 24, 2022
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    Editorial: The price of a hot market

    Updated: January 10, 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.

    Updated: January 10, 2022
  • From the Editor

    I wish we could live in Worcester

    Brad Kane January 10, 2022

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

    Brad Kane January 10, 2022
  • opinion

    Editorial: Adapt or die

    Updated: December 6, 2021

    If the coronavirus pandemic has taught the Central Massachusetts business community anything, it is the need for owners and executives to stay on their toes, don’t panic, act decisively, and take advantage of new opportunities as the landscape

    Updated: December 6, 2021