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  • Opinion
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    Alex Guardiola

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  • Editorial
    Editorial

    No room for error

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    Laura Dibenedetto

    Building a positive online reputation takes time, effort, and unfortunately can be damaged in minutes.

  • Advice
    Advice

    10 Things I Know About … Engaging the immigrant business community

    Take inventory of the communities and ethnic cultural neighborhoods your employees represent.

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    Advice

    101: Peer learning

    Susan Shalhoub

    Business training sessions, whether for cybersecurity policy, new technology, sales practices or customer service, can be hosted by software companies, corporate leaders or outsourced experts.

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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.