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From the EditorFrom the Editor: The Best from WBJ in 2024
Updated: January 13, 2025As we look forward to the best for 2025, I’d like to take this moment to reflect back on 2024 and highlight some of what WBJ offered last year.
Updated: January 13, 2025- Editorial
Editorial: Hospitals need more than increased oversight
Updated: January 13, 2025While we applaud both the governor and the Massachusetts Legislature on the new oversight bill, they should have noticed the alarm bells ringing well before Steward and Heywood declared bankruptcy.
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From the Editor: If you know real estate, you know the economy
Updated: December 23, 2024The real estate industry, particularly commercial real estate, is at the heart of all business journal coverage, including at Worcester Business Journal. More than just a collection of simple listings of property transactions and proposed
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From the Editor: The business of nonprofits
Updated: December 9, 2024Most general media coverage of nonprofits, particularly human services nonprofits, tends to focus on their missions, the need for their services, and the community good they achieve. This type of coverage is important, as it raises a nonprofit’s
Updated: December 9, 2024 - Editorial
Editorial: Worcester needs to move toward a single tax rate
Updated: December 9, 2024Commercial property owners in Worcester pay a higher tax rate than those in any other Central Massachusetts city or town. The rate of $30.04 per $1,000 of assessed property value is the only one in the region higher than $30. Worcester’s commercial
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From the Editor: This one moved me to tears
Updated: November 25, 2024Rarely ever does anything produced by WBJ’s very talented writers move me to tears. This edition’s Champions of Health Care awards hits different, and one story in particular.
Updated: November 25, 2024 - Editorial
Editorial: The WPI-Worcester detente
Updated: November 25, 2024Shortly before Thanksgiving, it was nice to see Worcester Polytechnic Institute and the City of Worcester sign a peace deal over WPI’s purchase of two Gateway Park hotels in September, in a way where WPI acknowledges the negative impact the deal
Updated: November 25, 2024 - Editorial
Editorial: Transparency at the Mass. Legislature
Updated: November 25, 2024Massachusetts state Auditor Diana DiZoglio got a huge win on Election Day, when 72% of voters passed a ballot measure granting her office the authority to audit the state Legislature and its operations.
Updated: November 25, 2024 - Editorial
Editorial: Worcester's state agency needs to change
Updated: November 11, 2024When the Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission decided to establish its headquarters in Worcester’s Union Station, it was quite the win for the city and Central Massachusetts.
Updated: November 11, 2024 
EditorialFrom the Editor: A note about anonymous sources
October 29, 2024At WBJ, we only will use anonymous sources when there is a realistic chance the people providing us with information will face repercussions to their safety and livelihoods if they are identified.
October 29, 2024- Editorial
Editorial: Central Mass. banks find way to compete & stay local
Updated: October 14, 2024In an ultra competitive environment, smaller local banks have two main things going for them: brand recognition and community connections.
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From the Editor: The start of something new
Updated: October 14, 2024After the U.S. and Central Massachusetts got through the initial phases of the COVID pandemic, the economy was largely strong by traditional standards, with low unemployment and GDP growth. Yet, due to rapid inflation and the lingering effects of
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Opinion
From the Editor: An ode to women making a difference
Updated: September 30, 2024As a news organization, WBJ can’t dictate the gender of the people making news every day. However, a point of pride during my nine-year tenure as editor has been WBJ’s coverage of all aspects of the Central Massachusetts business community,
Updated: September 30, 2024 - Opinion
Editorial: The continuing need to honor women professionals
Updated: September 30, 2024Despite slow and steady progress toward addressing gender disparities in the professional world, much work remains to be done toward equality in the workplace.
Updated: September 30, 2024 -
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From the Editor: Standing against the anti-DEI wave
Updated: September 16, 2024Four years ago, in the wake of George Floyd’s murder at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer and the ensuing national reckoning on race, business and political leaders in Central Massachusetts and across the nation were falling over themselves
Updated: September 16, 2024 - Editorial
Editorial: Keep life sciences as a cornerstone of economic development
Updated: September 16, 2024The life sciences industry is in the middle of a rough patch. Following a frenzied expansion in the wake of the COVID pandemic, the industry centered around the Cambridge-Boston global hub is experiencing a right sizing, leading to layoffs and
Updated: September 16, 2024
