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  • Focus On Workforce Development
    Focus On Workforce Development

    Voke/tech new focus of skills gap

    Laura Finaldi

    The demand for voke/tech schools grows as students focus on on-the-job training and the region attempts to close the skills gap.

  • MetroWest creating economic points of contact

    Sam Bonacci

    As economic competition heightens among MetroWest communities vying for businesses fleeing Boston's skyrocketing prices or coming into the area for the first time, cities and towns are putting an increasing emphasis on economic development to reel in businesses.

  • Incorporations
    Incorporations

    Incorporations

    These businesses incorporated with Massachusetts Secretary of State from Feb. 1-15. Listed are corporate name, address, ZIP & president.Fitchburg

  • Talk Back

    SOLAR EXPANSION

  • Briefing
    Briefing

    Niche expands Fix; looks at new venture on Shrewsbury Street

    Sam Bonacci

    Niche Hospitality will open its new location for the Fix Burger Bar in the former Northworks Bar & Grille space this June but the plans for the organization's Shrewsbury Street location have yet to be revealed.

  • Advice
    Advice

    Starting a business

    Andy And Emiy Proos

    Here are ten steps to starting a business from a father and daughter team that founded a technology startup.

  • Advice
    Advice

    Creating a client-centric culture

    Laura Herman-strohecker Special To The Worcester Business Journal

    At Insurance Marketing Agencies, we take pride in our strong, client-centric culture. The agency was founded in 1924 in Worcester.

  • Page One Story
    Page One Story

    Outsourced Ideology: Sending the dirty work of clean energy north

    Laura Finaldi

    Unable and unwilling to install the necessary infrastructure for renewable energy, Central Mass. has teamed with the rest of southern New England to pay far-flung locations to help meet the region's lofty goals for emissions-free electricity.

  • Advice
    Advice

    101: QUELLING CONFLICT

    Susan Shalhoub Special To The Worcester Business Journal

    With four generations now in the workplace, the 2016 work environment may seem ripe for conflict and with that communication takes on a whole new importance.

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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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Poll Description

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.