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    Manufacturers look to avoid layoffs as Trump's tariffs eat into their bottom line

    Zachary Comeau

    The impacts of tariffs have been swift and immediate for Central Massachusetts manufacturers, who are seeing raw material costs spike while they remain locked in deals for goods.

  • Advice
    Advice

    101: Managing high performers

    Susan Shalhoub

    It isn't enough to just recruit high-performing employees onto your team and announce their hires. Managers must ensure they remain happy, challenged and rewarded in their work.

  • Shop Talk
    Shop Talk

    Their honeymoon startup

    Two weeks after their wedding, Dave and Deb LeRiche bought Batch Ice Cream and moved the company from Boston to the LeRiches' New Braintree home.

  • Opinion
    Opinion

    Column: Running out of time and energy

    Roy Nascimento

    Even as we celebrate all that our business community contributes to the region, we can see a cloud on the horizon. Energy costs are rising quickly in an already expensive state.

  • Briefing
    Briefing

    Three healthcare leaders to leave their positions

    Zachary Comeau

    Three women, all high-profile healthcare leaders in Central Massachusetts, will step down from their positions over the next several months, their respective organizations announced in July.

  • Editorial
    Editorial

    Say nice things about Trump

    Personally, I find the way Trump conducts himself to be shameful, and his policies are mean-spirited and self-serving; but as professional journalists, we need to understand both sides and tell our stories fairly.

  • Editorial
    Editorial

    The best defense is a good offense

    The state's affordable housing laws create a nightmare scenario for Central Massachusetts cities and towns who can see added density and out-of-place developments come into their community with little restriction.

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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.