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Thursday, March 1, 2018

Worcester Wares growing into business adolescence

In less than three years, Jessica Walsh has gone from selling “I Love Worcester” pins at area stores and festivals to running a retail store out of the DCU Center, feeding off the passion residents and visitors have for the city.

The City of Worcester said it will file a lawsuit against companies making and distributing opioids, seeking damages for the cost of opioid treatment and prevention.

Fitchburg contract manufacturer Micron Solutions on Wednesday announced a multi-year agreement worth at least $3 million annually with it's largest customer.

Tufts expands to Connecticut with Medicare joint venture

Tufts Health Plan of Watertown, which has an office in Worcester, is extending its reach in New England in a joint venture with a Hartford healthcare system.

Viewpoint: Nonprofits and for-profits should collaborate

Profits vs. prophets. That is a simplistic way to view the difference between for-profit businesses and nonprofit organizations. The purpose of a business is to make money for investors, while the purpose of a nonprofit is altruistic, if not spiritual: to help people in need.

Spectrum names two new board members

Cheryl Gallant, of Coghlin Companies Inc. in Worcester, is one of two new board members at Spectrum Health Systems.

People with a prior conviction for trafficking in drugs other than marijuana will be barred from working in jobs that include access to the plant in the newly-legal marijuana industry, a decision made after about an hour of tense between state pot regulators.

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Regional Roundup

Framingham to tackle downtown transit (MetroWest Daily News)

More Amazon to come in Boston? (Boston Globe)

Eversource pulls plans for Hopkinton station (MetroWest Daily News)

Worcester's PawSox tab over $54K (MassLive)

Question of the Week

Tuesday we asked: New York media company GateHouse Media, the parent company of the Worcester Telegram and Gazette and the MetroWest Daily News, will purchase Millbury-based Holden Landmark Corp., which includes Worcester Magazine, the Landmark in Holden, baystateparent magazine, Grafton News, Millbury-Sutton Chronicle and Leominster Champion. GateHouse's move follows Denver-based Digital First Media, the parent company of the Fitchburg Sentinel and Enterprise, buying the Boston Herald.

Has media consolidation by a handful of large corporations impacted local journalism?

The newspapers as we knew them are a thing of the past. The internet, podcasts and cable TV have changed how news is delivered. The biggest losers are local news stories.
Small town community weeklies are filling the void that large company subscription based papers no longer fill.
News has been replaced by biased journalism. There is no more true news.

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