Tomorrow, Tuesday, WBUR will broadcast part 2 of a five-parter series on the local economies along Route 9 - from East to West - Wusta is stop number 2.
WBUR reports — what retail means for Framingham, how Worcester is banking on bio-tech, and whether struggling small-town Ware can live up to its nickname, “The Town That Can’t Be Licked.”
In Amherst, we hear about the pressure UMass is feeling to boost its academic profile in the face of budget cuts. And we learn about Pittsfield’s turn to the creative class to emerge from the long shadow cast after General Electric shuttered its plant there.
Their week-long tour, “Finding A Way Along Route 9,” is an attempt to understand the struggles of the whole state, not just Greater Boston, and to try to find where the solutions may lie.
