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Revs stadium plan will finally get public airing on Beacon Hill Tuesday
Revolution fans will get their chance to speak up now that a bill that would pave the way for a new soccer stadium in Everett has a public hearing date on Beacon Hill.
A Woburn bar could be going to court over playing ‘Take Me Home, Country Roads.’ Here’s why.
The American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers has accused Scoreboard Sports Bar and Grill of playing copyrighted music without paying royalties.
It’s a bittersweet Easter for chocolate lovers and African cocoa farmers but big brands see profits
Chocolate eggs and bunnies are more expensive than ever as changing climate patterns eat into global cocoa supplies and the earnings of farmers in West Africa.
As office market struggles, Wu seeks commercial tax rate hike to bolster city budget
The mayor says falling commercial values could force the city to hike residential property taxes, or make painful cuts
Home Depot buying supplier to professional contractors in a deal valued at about $18.25 billion
It is Home Depot’s largest acquisition in its history and with it, it steps more aggressively into the fast-growing professional builder and contractor business.
4 takeaways about Boeing’s quality problems
Interviews with more than two dozen current and former employees reveal long-standing concerns about quality, particularly as pressure increased to keep production going in the company’s factories.
Warren, Markey seek information on Citigroup’s role in Steward transactions
The senators are focusing on a financial adviser that helped facilitate sale-leaseback deals involving hospital buildings.
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March Madness brings legions of fans, and big business, to bars around TD Garden
Hosting NCAA tournament games will bring in an estimated $17.6 million of direct economic benefits for Greater Boston.
Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in prison for defrauding FTX investors
A judge delivered a blistering analysis of Bankman-Fried and his crimes before announcing a sentence that was half of what prosecutors sought.
In 2005, this downtown office tower sold for $121.7 million. It just resold for $78 million.
It’s another example of declining values for office buildings as pandemic-era shift towards working from home solidifies, a change that has pushed vacancy rates in downtown office towers to their highest level in decades.
Biden administration restores threatened species protections dropped by Trump
The blanket protections regulation was dropped in 2019 as part of a suite of changes to the application of the species law under former president Donald Trump that were encouraged by industry.
Cambridge-based government contractor Draper is set to grow in Lowell
The not-for-profit government contractor, based in Cambridge, is negotiating a lease for a new 200,000-square-foot building on UMass Lowell’s East Campus, near the Tsongas Arena.
Applications for US unemployment benefits dip to 210,000 in strong job market
Massachusetts reported 4,648 “advance” initial claims for unemployment insurance last week.
Milton fires back on state lawsuit over MBTA housing law
Town officials filed a response to Attorney General Andrea Campbell's lawsuit that challenges the validity of the ambitious housing law itself, and the attorney general’s ability to enforce it.
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