$6.25M Union Station repairs | N.E. employer costs high

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Monday, December 12, 2016

WRA approves $6.25M for Union Station repairs

The Worcester Redevelopment Authority voted Friday to approve up to $6.25 million for a full-scale repair of leaks in the Union Station roof.

The employer cost in New England leads the rest of the country at nearly $40 per hour worked.

UMass researcher gets $788K

A researcher at UMass Medical School has received a $788,000 grant to investigate a protein that could direct the development of new chemotherapy drugs.

Clark launches analytics masters

Clark University is offering a new Master of Science in Business Analytics (MSBA) program the school says will prepare graduates for the growing fields of data analysis and big data.

Legal marijuana on track for Dec. 15

While uncertainty remains around federal enforcement, Massachusetts is set to forge ahead on its own legalization of marijuana.

Hopkinton biomedical company Arteriocyte, Inc. announced Monday it has changed its name to Compass Biomedical as part of a reorganization.

Numerous state-funded agencies and organizations are feeling the effects of the state's financial troubles last week as the governor cut $67 million in earmarked spending from this year's budget.

The largest regional transit authority in Massachusetts has purchased three 40-foot buses that produce no tailpipe emissions from the company that sold similar buses to Worcester in 2013.