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Today we have a look at home-grown manufacturing in Worcester — and what impacts tariffs can have on made in America products.

Four Things to Know

1. The Massachusetts senate’s $61 billion budget, which legislators passed in a 38-2 vote last week, would take state lawmakers out of city and towns’ liquor license processes. Right now municipalities have a cap on the number of liquor licenses they can issue to bars or restaurants. To exceed it, they need permission from representatives and senators on Beacon Hill. The new bill would let cities and town officials decide themselves how many liquor licenses their communities should have.

“Our current process was born out of the process of the repeal of Prohibition with the 21st Amendment nearly a hundred years ago,” said Sen. Jake Oliveira, a Ludlow Democrat who wrote the amendment. “Certainly our economy has changed since then.” The budget members of the state House passed does not address liquor licenses.

2. Community groups in Boston are handing out small booklets, about the size of a passport, with basic information about civil rights and what to do if police officers or federal immigration agents violate those rights.

“I lived through a couple of decades where there was sort of the stop-and-frisk concept,” said Richard Claytor, program director of the Boston-based Family Nurturing Center. “It’s just something that has come back again in a cycle with a different group of people as the focus.”

3. Harvard has stripped a business school professor accused of falsifying data of her tenue. It is the only example GBH News could find of Harvard taking such a step. Francesca Gino, who researched honesty and ethical behavior, was accused of changing data to fit her conclusions in at least four published studies. She had been on unpaid leave since a blog called Data Colada first published allegations against her in 2023.

Harvard declined to comment on her case, and Gino did not respond to a request for comment.

4. The latest play in playwright Mfoniso Udofia’s Ufot Family Cycle is not a stage production, but a free podcast. The piece, “runboyrun,” is the third play in the Ufot family’s story and focuses on Disciple, the man who eventually becomes main character Abasiama’s husband and the family’s patriarch.

The story flashes back between 2012 Worcester and his childhood in 1968 Nigeria, at the start of the Biafran War.

Worcester aims to reclaim manufacturing leadership, but tariffs may stand in the way

Multiscale Systems manufactures its products — custom, 3D printed machine parts for precision manufacturing — right here in Worcester. But the company’s CEO says the Trump administration’s tariffs are still a cause for concern for him. The parts they make help other businesses create maple syrup molds and nuclear reactors, GBH’s Liz Neisloss reports.

To do that, they use raw materials, tools, minerals and special metals that come from other countries: 80% of the world’s tungsten, an element used in cutting tools Multiscale Systems uses, comes from China. Nickel, used in making parts for aerospace and energy manufacturing, often comes from Indonesia and the Philippines.

“The reality is that supply chains are global,” CEO Jesse Silverberg said. “There is an important interaction there that gets overlooked by something as coarse as just a flat tariff across the board.”

Paul Lavallee, a Multiscale Systems employee who has worked in manufacturing for four decades, said things in the industry have changed a lot and public perception hasn’t kept up.

“I don’t think they always think of how many things it takes to make a product,” Lavallee said. “Things are coming across the world. It wasn’t always that way.”

Worcester’s manufacturing landscape includes things like food and beverages — shoutout to Polar Seltzer and Table Talk Pies. There are also companies that specialize in things like biomanufacturing, which uses living cells from microorganisms, plants or animals to create products.

And while President Donald Trump has said his tariffs are meant to bring more manufacturing to the U.S., Timothy Murray, CEO of the Worcester Regional Chamber of Commerce, said he thinks the country needs workforce development instead of tariffs and uncertainty.

“There is a real nervousness and, I think, caution that is taking place among our manufacturers, which is not likely to lead to significant growth in jobs,’’ Murray said.

Read Liz Neisloss’ full reporting here.