It would be easy to give in to the weather and to conclude that Worcester is a bleak winter wasteland with nothing going on but the sounds of snow-removal operations that will last for what feels like 30 more years.

Professor Tom White reviewed his “Worcester Economic Index,” which has been in development since the summer of 2012, this evening at Assumption College as the first of a year long series called the Fairman Cowan Collegiate Lecture Series.

PAXTON — On Feb. 24, join the Worcester Regional Research Bureau and Anna Maria College for the second Fairman Cowan Collegiate Lecture, which will highlight national, regional and local concerns regarding domestic violence and recent efforts to help victims in the Commonwealth and beyond.

The Worcester Regional Research Bureau today announced the 2015 recipients of the Thomas S. Green Public Service Award

Enough already with all the snow and cold.

Enough with all the talk at Worcester City Hall about plowing streets and shoveling sidewalks — topics that have dominated recent City Council meetings.

WORCESTER — The Worcester Regional Research Bureau has announced the 2015 recipients of the Thomas S. Green Public Service Award, which are given each year to public employees who have made outstanding contributions to public service.

The Research Bureau has released the Worcester Almanac: 2015. the Bureau's inaugural effort to capture key data points about the city and region.

WORCESTER — The Worcester Regional Research Bureau has released its inaugural edition of the "Worcester Almanac: 2015," a new publication the organization calls "a compendium of useful information about the city and the region."

The Telegram & Gazette editorial board may have more questions after the Worcester Regional Research Bureau's recent forum on Common Core featuring Superintendent Melinda Boone, Commissioner Mitchell Chester, Professor Richard Bisk and English Language Arts Curriculum Liaison Phyllis Goldstein ("Disconnected rhetoric," editorial, Dec. 15, Telegram & Gazette), but the answers shine more light on local flexibility of the standards.