It is hard to believe that about eighteen months have passed since The Research Bureau re-located to the campus of Assumption College. This annual report provides a fitting occasion to illustrate through photographs and text the nature of the partnership that is developing with the College.

Each year, every year for the past twenty-three years, The Research Bureau has enlivened our local marketplace of ideas. Forums have been presented that are meant to educate, illuminate or provoke. Reports have been researched and drafted that aim to cogently explain issues which are or should be on the radar screens of our reigning Zeitgeist.

For many years, the Bureau has been analyzing the delivery of municipal services and identifying unsustainable cost structures. In the pages that follow, we identify some of those issues and the public policies we advocated to address them.

We have chosen to focus this message on two specific projects of the past year that capture the essence of what we have been working toward all these years.

The secret of The Research Bureau’s success is its ability to forge relationships with diverse constituencies and to collaborate with others who share common goals of revitalizing and restoring prosperity to the Worcester region.

Each year, every year for the past twenty-three years, The Research Bureau has enlivened our local marketplace of ideas. Forums have been presented that are meant to educate, illuminate or provoke. Reports have been researched and drafted that aim to cogently explain issues which are or should be on the radar screens of our reigning Zeitgeist.

A simple phrase often used is: “If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.” For almost 22 years, the Worcester Regional Research Bureau has provided the public with access to “the measures” that serve as the basis for debate and discussion… all leading to decisions that make our community a better place in which to live, work and play.