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Editorial
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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 
Letter from the EditorThis 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- 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
Updated: October 12, 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 -
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
Let's get smarter
Updated: August 17, 2020When weighed against countries where higher education is highly prioritized, and mostly free, our system is mediocre.
Updated: August 17, 2020 -
Letter from the editor
Remember, we need to take this seriously
Updated: August 3, 2020If we are going to get to a full-throated reopening, we first must get the pandemic under control.
Updated: August 3, 2020 - Editorial
Editorial: Schools must be top priority now
Updated: August 3, 2020Today, with a summer surge across much of the country, the reality is settling in the coronavirus will be with us well into next year, even if the aggressive development of a vaccine is completed this winter.
Updated: August 3, 2020 - Editorial
Editorial: Stay the course on the phased Mass. reopening
Updated: July 6, 2020For businesses out there still closed under Gov. Charlie Baker’s March 24 shutdown order, we feel your pain.
Updated: July 6, 2020 -
Letter from the Editor
The WooSox’s first season should be 2022
July 6, 2020When officials from the City of Worcester and the Pawtucket Red Sox gleefully announced in August 2018 the minor league baseball team would move to the Canal District, the planned inaugural season of 2021 seemed like a long way off. Now, it is just
July 6, 2020 
Letter from WBJ's Publisher & EditorA letter from WBJ: Picking up the fight against institutional racism
Updated: June 22, 2020The killing of George Floyd at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer, filmed for us all to witness, was truly horrific. The nation, and for that matter the world, has borne witness to the senselessness of his death, and responded with a call to
Updated: June 22, 2020
