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    Worcester City Council seeks public hearing on Community Healthlink closures

    Isabel Tehan June 19, 2023

    City of Worcester Mayor Joe Petty is requesting a public hearing on the April closure of several Community Healthlink programs, according to the agenda for Tuesday’s City Council meeting.

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    Long-term care bill emerges from elder affairs

    Chris Lisinski | State House News Service June 19, 2023

    A wide-reaching long-term care reform bill is on the move in the Legislature, and it could soon emerge in the House after Speaker Ron Mariano named it one of his early priorities for the session.

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    Mass. unemployment drops below 3%, bucking national trend

    Isabel Tehan June 16, 2023

    The Massachusetts unemployment rate for May fell to 2.8%, down 0.3 of a percentage point from April. This is the third month in a row that the unemployment rate has decreased, and the first time it has dipped below the 3.0% percent mark in 2023,…

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    Executive search firm moves to Worcester’s Glass Tower after 21 years in historic home

    Timothy Doyle June 16, 2023

    Worcester staffing and executive recruiting company Partnership Employment is moving its offices from Elm Street after 21 years at the location to the 18th floor of The Glass Tower, at 446 Main St.

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    Senate leader sees different path to competitive edge

    Alison Kuznitz | State House News Service June 16, 2023

    Amid debate over how to keep Massachusetts competitive and how tax cuts figure into that goal, Senate President Karen Spilka emphasized Thursday the importance of "shoring up and expanding" the state's middle class.

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    Worcester smart-building firm receives $3.8M MassDevelopment loan to more than double workforce

    Timothy Doyle June 15, 2023

    Embue, a Worcester-based technology company, has received a $3.8-million loan from MassDevelopment’s Emerging Technology Fund to help hire approximately 23 new full-time employees for the growing company.

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    WPI researcher awarded $600K to develop surgical robots

    Timothy Doyle June 15, 2023

    The National Science Foundation awarded Worcester Polytechnic Institute Professor Loris Fichera $599,663 to develop robots to treat disease without touching human tissue.

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    The Cove development in Worcester has awarded $7.7M to diverse subcontractors

    Timothy Doyle June 15, 2023

    The Cove, a seven-story development abutting Polar Park in Worcester, has awarded 18% of its contracts so far going to subcontractors run by women or people of color.

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    Fed agency deals blow to right-to-repair law

    Chris Lisinski | State House News Service June 15, 2023

    Federal transportation officials dealt a major blow to a voter-approved Massachusetts law boosting access to motor vehicle telematic data, warning that the measure on the state's books "poses significant safety concerns."

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    Cities and towns in local aid limbo

    Chris Lisinski | State House News Service June 15, 2023

    Cities and towns will likely need to wait weeks longer to find out how much state aid they'll receive in the next year, and the answers they get will have spillover effects on municipal budgets and possibly even local property taxes.

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Today's Poll

Do you support the effort to raise the charges to the felony level for anyone found guilty of assaulting a healthcare worker?
Poll Description

Three Massachusetts associations have come together to try to pass a bill to make intentional assault and battery against a healthcare worker a felony, as the Massachusetts Health & Hospital Association reports a hospital care worker in the state is assaulted every 36 minutes. 

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