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  • Shop Talk
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    Craning toward schools for workforce boost

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    Livia Gershon Special To The Worcester Business Journal

    On the face of it, the arrival of a CVS store in a local town might not sound like a big deal.

  • Advice
    Advice

    Should you go for it in the 4th quarter?

    Paul Dion Special To The Worcester Business Journal

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  • Advice
    Advice

    Managing a merger

    Susan Shalhoub Special To The Worcester Business Journal

    Companies merge all the time, and the reasons vary. Some may “have their eggs all in one basket,” or too much of its business in one area, and seek to diversify to reduce risk.

  • Focus On Energy and Manufacturing
    Focus On Energy and Manufacturing

    Central Mass. ramps up for Manufacturing Day

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  • Advice
    Advice

    10 Things I Know About... Workplace ergonomics

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  • Senior housing choices on the rise in Mass.

    Christina P. O'neill Special To The Worcester Business Journal

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  • The Rainmaker
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    Three ways your product can fit in the customer's business

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  • Opinion
    Opinion

    eVisiting the electronic MD

    William Corbett, Md Special To The Worcester Business Journal

    If you have ever suffered with conjunctivitis, you know the symptoms are hard to miss.

  • Briefing
    Briefing

    Fred Eppinger's mark

    One of the first key-player names any newcomer to the Worcester business community learns is Frederick H. Eppinger.

  • Page One Story
    Page One Story

    Airbnb fills the hotel void in Worcester

    Sam Bonacci

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Today's Poll

Should Mass. officials be allowed to force local communities to zone for multifamily housing?
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On March 19, a judge ruled the showdown between the Massachusetts attorney general and the Town of Milton will go before the full Supreme Judicial Court in October. The dispute is over the MBTA Communities Act, which requires cities and towns near T service to adopt zoning allowing multifamily housing by right in certain areas. Some Massachusetts local governments, including Holden, have pushed back against the requirement, saying such zoning doesn't fit in their communities. 

Gov. Maura Healey and Attorney General Andrea Campbell have cracked down on non-compliant communities with lawsuits and by reducing state funding, as part of a larger effort to address the statewide affordable housing crisis. The MBTA Communities Act is one of a handful of laws designed to increase housing construction by having at least one zoning district of reasonable size where multifamily housing is permitted.