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Many brave choices led to Worcester's seminal Red Sox moment
Updated: May 24, 2021All the attention this spring around the arrival of WooSox has been a win for Worcester. That victory, though, was set up by a long line of brave innovators who took a chance and reinvented the Canal District into one of the hottest development
Updated: May 24, 2021 
From the EditorIn the year since George Floyd’s murder
Updated: May 24, 2021The aftermath of the Minneapolis police murder of George Floyd, an unarmed Black man, on May 25, 2020, brought pledges from Central Massachusetts business leaders to work to address institutional racism in society, as well as examine their own
Updated: May 24, 2021- editorial
Editorial: Our recovering economy needs a healthy restaurant industry
Updated: April 26, 2021The hospitality industry is filled with small businesses who often employ a handful of people and are important to their communities, offering high-profile and well-known locations for people to gather and rally around.
Updated: April 26, 2021 - editorial
Editorial: The hope springing from Becker's closure
Updated: April 12, 2021While none of the area schools provided a bailout to Becker, they did step up to find homes for key programs, with the biggest move from Clark University in Worcester.
Updated: April 12, 2021 - editorial
Editorial: Admirable crisis leadership
Updated: March 15, 2021The past year has been filled with human and economic loss, but looking back at the way the world and the local economy seemed to be falling apart at the end of March 2020, the fact the regional economy weathered the storm is clearly a sign of our
Updated: March 15, 2021 - editorial
Editorial: Now is the time for entrepreneurship
Updated: February 22, 2021New business startups thrive in times of stress and change, making this – hopefully, the back end of the coronavirus pandemic – the time the Central Massachusetts business community can bring its resources to bear to support our newest entrepreneurs.
Updated: February 22, 2021 - Editorial
Editorial: Working families need business support
Updated: February 8, 2021In a year with a lot of bad news, we have some good to share.
Updated: February 8, 2021 - editorial
Editorial: Massachusetts needs to recruit a vaccination army
Updated: January 25, 2021With the incoming President Joe Biden Administration, fresh resources will be brought to bear to accelerate testing and tracing programs, as well as new plans for mass inoculations.
Updated: January 25, 2021 - editorial
Editorial: Know your pandemic relief options
Updated: January 11, 2021For a few weeks in late March and early April, the entire global economy appeared to be grinding to a halt in the face of the coronavirus pandemic, and small business owners were rightly concerned the fallout might drive their companies out of
Updated: January 11, 2021 - editorial
#ShopLocal and #GiveLocal this holiday season
Updated: December 7, 2020This year has taught us many lessons, but perhaps one of the biggest takeaways from 2020 is the need to support our local businesses and nonprofits, particularly as the Central Massachusetts economy strives to recover its footing from the
Updated: December 7, 2020 - editorial
Editorial: Remember what we learned in the pandemic's first phase
Updated: November 23, 2020Even after the first surge of the virus spread across the country, the initial deadly surge left the Bay State ranking in the top seven states for coronavirus deaths, and the highest unemployment rate in the nation over the summer. It took a while
Updated: November 23, 2020 - editorial
Editorial: Pull out all the stops for the restaurant industry
Updated: October 26, 2020Restaurants help attract other businesses, and they are vital in keeping workers at those companies out and about past working hours.
Updated: October 26, 2020 - editorial
Editorial: Achieving racial equity requires little steps, and some big ones
Updated: October 12, 2020At the end of September, the historic Worcester performance venue Mechanics Hall decided it will add the first portraits of Black Americans to its Great Hall gallery, a move falling about 20 years after the first portraits of women were placed on
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Letter from the Editor
This is going to get messy
October 12, 2020If diversity and inclusion commitments are to ever go beyond nice statements and small symbolic gestures, the efforts are going to have to get uncomfortable.
October 12, 2020 -
Letter from the Editor
You can’t change the past, just the future
September 28, 2020Rather than placing the blame of the terrible institution of slavery on a handful of people and businesses, WBJ's story on slavery shows how slavery is part of the shared history of our region and our nation, and we all must address how the legacy
September 28, 2020 - Editorial
Bring on the residential units
Updated: September 28, 2020Two downtown residential projects making news this month in Worcester – one from a Boston-based developer, the other from a New York City firm – are at near opposite ends of the development spectrum, but show how the future of real estate in the
Updated: September 28, 2020
