Check-cashing stores allow a customer to cash a check without a bank account, but often charge fees to do so. Check-cashing stores can charge these fees because many of their customers don’t have a real choice.
Do cannabis regulators need to rein in focus? Concerns grow at State House
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House Speaker Robert DeLeo said he agrees with many of the concerns Gov. Charlie Baker and his administration have raised with the Cannabis Control Commission’s draft industry regulations, including the worry that regulators have bitten off more than they can chew by trying to simultaneously launch several different categories of marijuana businesses.
Baker eyes $200M for roads, Warren nets endorsement
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It’s pothole season in Massachusetts, and Gov. Charlie Baker said he’ll soon be filing legislation to fix the winter-battered pavement. Also, Setti Warren’s gubernatorial campaign accepted the backing of the firefighters’ association in Newton.
Inbox [Feb. 14]: News and notes about Action! Worcester and Behavioral Concepts
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With Blue Shades, Park Ave. is hot on the waffle trend
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It could be argued that Worcester lacked one main foodie attraction: an Instagram-worthy restaurant with a cult-like following specializing in a single, signature dish.
Love and the machine: Invasive algorithms help make ‘perfect’ match
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“L.T.R.’s programming has regularly evolved to identify users’ best dating experience. As breakthroughs are made in Artificial Intelligence and data-mining techniques, we’re ready to perfect those advances and pass them on to our users.”
Ed Hyder, the shopkeeper who won Worcester’s heart
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Through his work ethic, kindliness and shelves of staples and surprises, Ed Hyder built — day by day, customer by customer — such a successful life. His unexpected death Tuesday is a big loss for the family he so obviously cherished, and that includes all of us.
Inbox [Feb. 10-17]: News and notes from Bravehearts, Fallon Health, Webster Five and more
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The Balancing Act: Owning your place among entrepreneurs
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‘An entrepreneur is someone who rarely wants things to stay the same. Entrepreneurs want to disrupt the market, while small business owners tend to adopt the business styles and structures of pre-existing businesses.’
Inbox [Feb. 7]: News and notes about Worcester Economic Index and Massachusetts Small Business Development Center
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Worcester Sun, Feb. 7: Rosenberg on the hot seat, Hitch on a worthy crusade, owning your place in the business world + more
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