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  View in browser   BY  LISA KASHINSKY COMPOUNDING INTERESTS —  Small businesses are worried about inflation, supply chain problems and hiring enough employees, according to a new survey. But even as they pledge to help, the gubernatorial candidates' plans only address those issues in broad strokes. Seventy-four percent of small businesses are worried about inflation  driving up their operating costs and 61 percent are worried about their wages keeping up with inflation, according to the new MassINC Polling Group, Coalition for an Equitable Economy and Massachusetts Growth Capital Corporation  survey of 3,243 small businesses with under 500 employees,  conducted June 30 through Aug. 9. Some more stats:  60 percent of respondents were concerned about getting capital, and far more so for businesses owned by people of color. Fifty-four percent of small businesses cited difficulties finding qualified and reliable employees, 46 percent were worried abo...

  Two Mass. politicians named in  Oath Keepers’ membership lists FILE - A man wearing an Oath Keepers shirt stands outside the Kenosha County Courthouse, Nov. 19, 2021 in Kenosha, Wis. A new report says that the names of hundreds of U.S. law enforcement officers, elected officials and military members appear on the leaked membership rolls of a far-right extremist group that's accused of playing a key role in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol. Paul Sancya/AP By  Phillip Martin September 9, 2 Updated Sept. 10 at 11:14 a.m. A candidate looking to retake his post as a Barnstable County Commissioner and a Wilbraham Republican Town Committee member were included on the Oath Keepers’ membership database, a far-right paramilitary group that rioted at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 last year. Republican candidate Ron Beaty of Barnstable and Committeeman David A. Sanders of Wilbraham were both included on an Oath Keeper membership list obtained by the nonprofit journalist col...