Sun Spots with Hitch [Vol. 242]: Sign of the (high) times in Canal District
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Let’s get one thing straight: Smoking marijuana — inside, outside, wherever — is not a new phenomenon for this or any other neighborhood in the city.
Inbox [Feb. 7]: News and notes about Worcester Economic Index and Massachusetts Small Business Development Center
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Worcester’s affordable housing gap
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Seventy-four percent of renters who made below $35,000 a year paid more than 30 percent of their income in rent and utilities. Only 21 percent of renters making above $35,000 had such a heavy rent burden.
Worcester’s Power Players, a more definitive list
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If we are going to honor the developers, we also have to acknowledge the role of those who create the crucial infrastructure of a vital built environment – the artists, the preservationists, the tree huggers and the tree planters. … They too are the “power players.”
Worcester’s low-income renters bear heavy burden
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When it comes to rent affordability, Worcester as a whole is a fairly ordinary American city. But, also like other American cities, Worcester has some problematic trends in its rental markets.
Sun Spots with Hitch [Vol. 235]: Worcester trash solutions? Bin there, done that.
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In most cities and towns, all you have to do is fill a plastic bin and leave it someplace conspicuous once a week.
For Worcester’s three-deckers, it’s an old story
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In his recent inaugural address, Mayor Joseph M. Petty said, “As a city, we need to have a conversation about housing.” If the age of Worcester’s three-deckers is any indication, the mayor is absolutely right to make this a priority.