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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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    Mass. study: Health inequities have a $6B economic toll

    Isabel Tehan June 14, 2023

    Health inequities experienced by communities of color have an economic burden of $5.9 billion annually, according to a newly released study from the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation.

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    Worcester to allocate $2M to United Way of Central Mass. for food insecurity

    Isabel Tehan June 14, 2023

    The City of Worcester is set to allocate $2 million in American Rescue Plan Act funding to the United Way of Central Massachusetts, which the nonprofit will use to support its food insecurity programs.

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    Madison begins $4.3M lease on Polar Park parking garage, buys land for Left Field Building

    Brad Kane June 14, 2023

    Across the street from its first near-complete apartment building, Boston developer Madison Properties has begun a lease on the Polar Park parking garage that will pay the City of Worcester $4.3 million in base rent over the next 20 years.

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    State's new green bank will focus on housing retrofits

    Colin A. Young June 14, 2023

    Gov. Maura Healey announced Tuesday the launch of a "green bank" that she hopes will attract private investment and federal money to pay for building retrofits and new construction of decarbonized buildings in Massachusetts.

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    Thomson taking reins of business group AIM

    Colin A. Young | State House News Service June 14, 2023

    A leadership transition is underway at Associated Industries of Massachusetts, one that will see president and CEO John Regan hand the reins of one of the state's leading business groups to Executive Vice President for Government Affairs Brooke…

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Should Massachusetts eventually ban the sale of tobacco products?
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A proposed bill moving through the Massachusetts legislature would prohibit tobacco and nicotine product sales to anyone born after Jan. 1, 2006, eventually phasing out legal sales in the state. Supporters of the bill say it will protect the next generation from harmful tobacco and nicotine addictions while opponents argue the legislation would infringe upon adult autonomy and hurt small businesses reliant on product sales. 

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