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The past year has been filled with human and economic loss, but looking back at the way the world and the local economy seemed to be falling apart at the end of March 2020, the fact the regional economy weathered the storm is clearly a sign of our
New business startups thrive in times of stress and change, making this – hopefully, the back end of the coronavirus pandemic – the time the Central Massachusetts business community can bring its resources to bear to support our newest entrepreneurs.
In a year with a lot of bad news, we have some good to share.
With the incoming President Joe Biden Administration, fresh resources will be brought to bear to accelerate testing and tracing programs, as well as new plans for mass inoculations.
For a few weeks in late March and early April, the entire global economy appeared to be grinding to a halt in the face of the coronavirus pandemic, and small business owners were rightly concerned the fallout might drive their companies out of
This year has taught us many lessons, but perhaps one of the biggest takeaways from 2020 is the need to support our local businesses and nonprofits, particularly as the Central Massachusetts economy strives to recover its footing from the
Even after the first surge of the virus spread across the country, the initial deadly surge left the Bay State ranking in the top seven states for coronavirus deaths, and the highest unemployment rate in the nation over the summer. It took a while
Restaurants help attract other businesses, and they are vital in keeping workers at those companies out and about past working hours.
At the end of September, the historic Worcester performance venue Mechanics Hall decided it will add the first portraits of Black Americans to its Great Hall gallery, a move falling about 20 years after the first portraits of women were placed on
If diversity and inclusion commitments are to ever go beyond nice statements and small symbolic gestures, the efforts are going to have to get uncomfortable.
Two downtown residential projects making news this month in Worcester – one from a Boston-based developer, the other from a New York City firm – are at near opposite ends of the development spectrum, but show how the future of real estate in the
Rather than placing the blame of the terrible institution of slavery on a handful of people and businesses, WBJ's story on slavery shows how slavery is part of the shared history of our region and our nation, and we all must address how the legacy
When weighed against countries where higher education is highly prioritized, and mostly free, our system is mediocre.
If we are going to get to a full-throated reopening, we first must get the pandemic under control.
Today, with a summer surge across much of the country, the reality is settling in the coronavirus will be with us well into next year, even if the aggressive development of a vaccine is completed this winter.
When officials from the City of Worcester and the Pawtucket Red Sox gleefully announced in August 2018 the minor league baseball team would move to the Canal District, the planned inaugural season of 2021 seemed like a long way off. Now, it is just