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Worcester · Massachusetts
Because getting older should come with better information, not less of it.
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Benefits · Health · Retirement
Social Security ·
Kiplinger ·
Financial advisers shouldn't fear being replaced by AI. Instead, embrace the role of a trusted guide who helps clients apply information they get from AI tools.
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Wall Street Journal · Subscribers
Having retirement dollars mainly in traditional savings plans can handcuff older workers.
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Hint: You may need to buy new shoes.
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KFF Health News ·
KFF Health News ·
AARP ·
AARP ·
AARP ·
Kiplinger ·
Wall Street Journal · Subscribers
The city, the county, the neighborhoods
Boston Globe · Subscribers
The crash happened at Cape Newenham Long Range Radar Site Airport, approximately 450 miles west of Anchorage.
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A coalition of voting rights groups this week formed a committee to give the long-serving election chief’s ballot question a boost.
Read the full storyMassLive · Subscribers
An additional quarter- to half-inch of rain is possible in some areas by the end of the day.
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Most Southwick residents would be surprised to learn that despite the town government paying for IT services that help with budgeting, human resources, and general ledger accounting, the...
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The Red Sox rotation is fine - for now. But there's no margin for error if injury strikes any one of the five starters.
Read the full storyWorcester Telegram · Subscribers
Worcester Telegram · Subscribers
Worcester Telegram · Subscribers
Worcester Magazine ·
WBUR ·
WBUR ·
Worcester Business Journal ·
Worcester Business Journal ·
City of Worcester ·
City of Worcester ·
Wire reports & foreign desks
The Guardian ·
Head of foreign affairs select committee urges government to adopt ban amid rising settler violence, after foreign secretary rebukes Israel over construction tender It is a national scandal...
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Authorities believe handguns found in forest near Berlin were to be used to carry out assassinations for Russian intelligence, Sueddeutsche reports German security authorities discovered handguns stashed in...
Read the full storyAl Jazeera ·
German authorities allege that Ukrainian scuba diver Volodymyr Zhuravlev was involved in the Nord Stream explosions.
Read the full storyBBC ·
Officials say the bodies of the two Belgians, who went missing in 1992, were discovered after the Trift Glacier receded.
Read the full storyAl Jazeera ·
Weeks of monsoon rain have flooded northern Philippines, where residents are demanding answers over alleged corruption.
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BBC ·
Axios ·
Axios ·
NPR ·
NPR ·
BBC ·
Elder Voices
Somewhere along the way the news got small. Not less important — smaller. The type shrank, the buttons moved, and the story you wanted sat behind three taps and a video that started playing on its own. A lot of people in this city simply stopped trying.
This page is built the other way around. One screen. Big type, and a control at the top to make it bigger still. Every item is a headline, a couple of sentences telling you what happened, and a link to the people who reported it. No slideshow. No autoplay. No guessing where to click.
The middle column is Worcester, because that is where you live and that is what actually changes your week — the elevator at Union Station, the deferral deadline at City Hall, the shuttle at Green Hill Park. The left column carries the news that follows you into retirement: Social Security, Medicare, housing, the scams that target this city hardest. The right column keeps the wider world in view, because getting older did not make anyone less curious.
And the list of services stays pinned in place, every day, whether or not there is news attached to it. That is the part we consider the real front page.
Senior Report Today publishes every morning from Worcester, Massachusetts.
Puzzle Page
Every answer comes from a story on yesterday’s page.
Every answer is here. Each one crosses itself off once it is correctly filled in.
Puzzle Page
A new puzzle every morning. Fill each row, column and box with the numbers 1 to 9.
Missed a day? Every paper from the past week is here, just as it was printed.
Is there a story we are missing, a paper we ought to be reading, or something on this page that is hard to use? Tell us. A person reads every one of these.
