| Breakthrough |
| WORCESTER - Lt. Gov. Timothy P. Murray invited the crowd yesterday to do something people had not been able to do for more than 40 years - walk down a part of Front Street that had been obliterated by the construction of Worcester Center in the late 1960s. |
| 05/25/2012 |
| Worcester-Boston: A tale of two cities |
| Five years ago, rising real estate prices near Boston raised an interesting idea: People who worked there could buy affordable houses in Worcester, and work in Boston. Today, that idea is dead. At least that's what I found from asking a handful of Massachusetts and Worcester policymakers. |
| 05/06/2012 |
| Battle shapes up over Worcester tax burden |
| WORCESTER - The Worcester Regional Chamber of Commerce is asking the City Council to adopt a set of tax rates for this fiscal year that would result in a 2.8 percent increase in tax bills for residential and business property owners. |
| 05/22/2012 |
| Tax leaves grumbles in its wake |
| WORCESTER - For the second fiscal year in a row, the City Council has narrowed the gap between the city's residential and commercial-industrial tax rates. |
| 05/23/2012 |
| Worcester liquor department instills trust |
| Shawn Harman, owner of Fishtales, stocks shelves at the bar on 23rd Street in Ocean City. Harman says the recently formed Worcester County Department of Liquor Control is an improvement, although he continues to push for the ability to purchase liquor on the open market. |
| 05/12/2012 |
| Mass. home prices are up |
| The median price for a single-family home in Massachusetts rose last month, the first time that measure has increased since September 2011, the Massachusetts Association of Realtors reported yesterday. |
| 05/23/2012 |
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