Archive for August 2020

Massachusetts marijuana regulators are releasing hundreds of thousands of vaporizers plucked from store shelves during the vaping crisis, saying that dispensaries around the state can resell the products if they submit them to be retested. Read More

MassHealth is threatening to cut off three nursing homes from reimbursement, saying all had failed to provide infection control during the coronavirus pandemic. Read More

The latest boost comes after a $200M round of financing in January. Read More

Higher education faculty and staff across Massachusetts have launched a campaign claiming that public campuses are unprepared for students to return this fall amid the pandemic. Read More

How has the SBA’s forgivable loan program worked out so far? Read More

Two locally based businesses had been hoping to bring a specially made, crane-lifted, 22-person table to the city as a fun pandemic-time attraction. Read More

Wayfair Inc. is set to report its second-quarter earnings early Wednesday morning, with investors hoping to see another uptick in sales of home goods driven by the pandemic. Read More

Massachusetts’ largest group of tech companies is calling on its members to double the percentage of Black and Latinx employees in the state by the end of the decade. Read More

Companies that empowered consumers to protect their own health during the pandemic flourished as health and hygiene became America’s top priority. Read More

Most of the state’s major health insurers — including the state’s own MassHealth — only provide free tests when they are “medically necessary” and ordered by a doctor. That doesn’t include travel. Read More