Politics
Manufacturing in Massachusetts faces a threat to its survival as older manufacturing workers retire without younger workers in line to replace them, according to a recent study.
During the next decade, approximately 100,000 manufacturing jobs will open... Read more
Gov. Deval Patrick on Tuesday authorized a file-by-file review of cases processed by the Hinton state drug laboratory over the past nine years to make sure no individuals have been overlooked by the state’s probe of those impacted by an indicted chemist’s... Read more
Mayor Thomas M. Menino: Transferred to rehab hospitalNewly diagnosed with diabetes, Boston Mayor Thomas Menino has been transferred to Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital following a month-long stay at Brigham and Women's Hospital where he was treated for a... Read more
Democratic leaders on Monday put the issue of offering in-state tuition rates to undocumented immigrants into economic terms, while the House’s Republican leadership called for implementation of the new policy on tuition to “be stopped immediately.”
Both... Read more
Senator-elect Elizabeth WarrenIt seems that everyone has free advice to offer Senator-elect Elizabeth Warren now that she is, well, a senator-elect.
The Globe’s Brian McGrory wants her to speak up and be more glib in answering reporters’ questions during... Read more
Mayor Thomas M. MeninoIt took reporters two dozen questions until they finally raised the one that people inside and outside City Hall had been privately asking ever since Mayor Thomas Menino checked himself into Brigham and Women’s Hospital nearly three... Read more
Describing a housing market on the upswing in Massachusetts, researchers on Wednesday released a report calling for a surge in housing production and predicting that young workers saddled by college debt and again Baby Boomers looking to downsize will... Read more
An hour before he was scheduled to meet with US Sen.-elect Elizabeth Warren at the State House on Thursday morning, Gov. Deval Patrick swung through the offices of Service Employees International Union (SEIU) 1199 in Dorchester.
“We have work still to do... Read more
Elizabeth Warren ran an awesome, grassroots campaign — particularly in Dorchester, where she won all but two precincts against a still-popular (in many quarters) incumbent, Scott Brown.
Many people can, and will, get credit locally, led by powerhouse... Read more
Whether Dorchester voters pulled the lever for Scott Brown or Elizabeth Warren – and the numbers indicate most picked the Harvard Law professor and consumer advocate – it’s worth noting that much of the credit for her candidacy should go to a local... Read more
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