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Government & Politics
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Batista agrees to two-year Worcester city manager contract, gets $50K raise
December 7, 2022The Worcester City Council voted unanimously on Tuesday evening to approve Eric Batista’s contract to become the city’s permanent city manager.
December 7, 2022
Mass. to offer $169M for small businesses and startups
December 6, 2022Massachusetts will steer nearly $169 million in U.S. Treasury funding toward loans and seed money for small businesses and entrepreneurs, the Baker administration announced Tuesday.
December 6, 2022
Unions call to invest in public higher ed
December 2, 2022After winning a long fight to impose a surtax on the state's highest earners designed to fund education and transportation, unions and educators from across Massachusetts are making it clear that public higher education is on the top of their
December 2, 2022
Losses pile up at state pension fund
December 2, 2022Officials at the state pension fund expect economic cycles and market downturns will periodically affect their investments and the quarter that ended in September "was one of those periods, unfortunately," the head of MassPRIM said as the agency
December 2, 2022
MassDevelopment grants $1.5M to Central Mass. for transit initiatives
December 1, 2022MassDevelopment made 18 grants totalling more than $1.5 million to businesses, cities, towns, and nonprofit organizations in Central Mass.
December 1, 2022
UMass Memorial receives $5M more from FEMA, totaling $31M for COVID costs
December 1, 2022The Federal Emergency Management Agency has awarded $4.7 million to Worceste healthcare provider UMass Memorial Health for costs of testing, new equipment, and new staff due to COVID-19.
December 1, 2022
Lottery fretting over instant tickets, ad budget
November 30, 2022Massachusetts Lottery sales have improved in the past two months thanks in large part to interest in a huge Powerball jackpot, but officials remain worried a broader slowdown that left the agency tens of millions of dollars behind last year's pace
November 30, 2022
Report: Infrastructure aid generous In New England
November 30, 2022Every state in New England is poised to receive an above-average injection of federal infrastructure money, funding that could play a key role after years where the region's rate of investment lagged other states, a new report concluded.
November 30, 2022
Worcester shifts more property tax burden onto businesses
November 30, 2022The Worcester City Council voted at its Tuesday meeting to offer residential property owners the lowest available tax rate, at the expense of a higher commercial tax rate than business leaders would like.
November 30, 2022
Fitchburg granted $10K for pop-up shops
November 29, 2022The North Central Massachusetts Development Corp. granted $10,000 to the City of Fitchburg for the development of pop-up shops for local artisans, crafters, and entrepreneurs.
November 29, 2022-
Commission eyes vote on rules for sports betting vetting
November 28, 2022Regulators at the Mass. Gaming Commission can shift from hypotheticals to actual applications now that they have more than a dozen requests for sports betting licenses in hand, and the public scrubbing of those applications looks poised to kick off
November 28, 2022 
The next president: Grace Wang has spent a career focused on innovation, academics, and impact
Updated: November 28, 2022“Grace” Jinliu Wang, who on Nov. 7 was selected by WPI to be its 17th president, believes in and embodies this concept of combining theory and practice to fuel innovation and to apply that innovation to have maximum impact on the world.
Updated: November 28, 2022
Q&A: The legacy of Sena's Barbershop
Updated: November 28, 2022Brenda Tomasetta closed her father's Sena's Barbershop on Grafton Hill and has now moved and joined forces with Kelly Collins at her barbershop, Studio C Hair Artistry, on Massasoit Road in Worcester.
Updated: November 28, 2022
Paying Polar Park’s debt: For the second year, underwhelming tax collections were saved by a public property sale
Updated: November 28, 2022When Polar Park was first announced in August 2018, Worcester's pay-for-itself plan for it was centered around six proposed buildings from Boston developer Madison Properties. But that development has since significantly shrunk in size and been
Updated: November 28, 2022
Avoiding startup costs: Diddy's foray in Central Mass. cannabis
Updated: November 28, 2022By purchasing well-established marijuana stores, Sean "Diddy" Combs is buying into already profitable establishments with a proven track record. His investment creates the first minority-owned, vertically-integrated multi-state cannabis operator in
Updated: November 28, 2022
Passing costs onto customers: Restaurants' solution to rising credit card usage
Updated: November 28, 2022The Massachusetts Restaurant Association wants to give restaurants and other small businesses the opportunity to push some of the credit card costs for restaurants onto consumers.
Updated: November 28, 2022
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