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Thursday, January 11, 2018
Miles Press, last commercial printer in Printers Building, moves to Auburn
The industry giving Worcester's Printers Building its name more than 80 years ago is now completely absent from the 44 Portland St. building.
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Boost Fitness acquired by NYC fitness chain
Hudson-based Boost Fitness and its eight Massachusetts locations have been acquired by a New York City-based nationwide chain of gyms.
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Best of Business: Best Events & Venues for 2018
Our readers voted for the best venues and what are the best events in Central Massachusetts.
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WPI, QCC get $4M for new photonics lab
Worcester Polytechnic Institute and Quinsigamond Community College announced Thursday they'll start a new photonics lab thanks to a $4-million Massachusetts Manufacturing Innovation Initiative grant.
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Federal changes cause medical pot dispensaries to nix card transactions
As state regulators, investors and entrepreneurs ponder what a shift in federal marijuana law enforcement might mean for the burgeoning recreational pot industry here, medical marijuana patients have already felt its effects and are organizing to push back.
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Primetals names new president and CEO of U.S. operation
Metal manufacturer Primetals Technologies on Wednesday named Yoshiharu Ikeda as its new president and CEO for the company's U.S. headquarters based in Worcester.
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Best of Business: Peppers plans for precision
Peppers Artful Events' ambition was too large, even from the beginning, to stay confined to a prepared-foods operation based in a Victorian home on Main Street in the center of Northborough.
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Georgia man sentenced for $900K Staples fraud
A Georgia man has been sentenced to nearly two years in prison and must pay nearly $900,000 for defrauding Framingham office supply retailer Staples.
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Regional Roundup
Question of the Week
Tuesday we asked: U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions rescinded the Cole Memo, a federal guideline suggesting the federal government not enforce federal marijuana laws in states with legalized marijuana. In Massachusetts, medical marijuana is already legal, and companies can begin applying to open recreational marijuana shops in April. Those stores can open in July. The Massachusetts marijuana business is projected to be a $1.1-billion industry by 2020.
Should federal marijuana laws be enforced in Massachusetts as sales of recreational cannabis are expected to begin in just a few months?
  • Where are our reps in Congress? With so many states relaxing the prohibitions on Pot, Congress should change/update the federal laws. States that want to prohibit Pot can still do so. Another example where Congress needs to get off their lazy, butts and do something. The federal government should not be choosing which laws to enforce and which laws to look the otherway, just because our law makers are incompetent.
  • I personally did not vote in favor of legalizing marijuana. However, since the state did pass it into law, the state's rights should matter.
  • The voters have spoken in MA. The federal government has more important issues to address -- like the opioid epidemic!
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