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Fields Corner, a Vietnamese enclave, boasts locally owned businesses. But as development continues, rising costs threaten to displace residents. (Shelby Lum/Globe Staf)

Known for its diversity, Fields Corner now must make room for development

Residents have come to know Dorchester’s Fields Corner as a place where newcomers can find a home. From Vietnamese to Haitian Creole to Spanish to Portuguese, signs in the store windows and chatter on the street reflect a neighborhood like few others in Boston.
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A Vietnamese enclave faces growing pressure

As new developments spring up around Fields Corner, the same displacement challenges facing Vietnamese residents also face its business owners.

Creating small-scale solutions to a big housing crunch

Experiments in a different sort of affordable housing are cropping up in Fields Corner as local developers grapple with rising demand to live in a neighborhood where the median income is 50 percent lower than the city as a whole.

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Congresswoman Katherine Clark meets with small business owners about relief funds

Local business owners joined a roundtable in Waltham to discuss their experiences with federal relief programs. Meanwhile, the $28.6 billion Restaurant Revitalization Fund began accepting applications this week.

Boston business leaders launch campaign to raise $10 million for Latino Equity Fund

Eastern Bank and State Street have each committed $1 million to address health and economic inequities in Latino communities in Massachusetts.

Deadline for Top Places to Work nominations is extended

Any company with 50 or more employees in Massachusetts — public, private, nonprofit, or government — is eligible to participate in the Globe’s annual Top Places to Work survey. You just have to sign up by June 18.
A rendering of the outpatient surgery center that Mass General Brigham is planning to build in Westborough.

Mass General Brigham’s plan for surgical centers in suburbs stirs controversy

An ambitious plan by Mass General Brigham to build surgery centers in Westborough, Westwood, and Woburn has set off a fight about the future of outpatient health care in Massachusetts. Competitors worry that the already dominant health care provider could become even more powerful.
Sales of Titleist-branded gear rose 51 percent, year over year, and 38 percent from 2019.

Golfers’ return to the links bolsters Acushnet

Investors sure liked the swing of Acushnet Holdings Corp. during its first quarter, and sent the stock up 20.25 percent Thursday.
New York State Attorney General Letitia James's office said in a new report Thursday that a campaign funded by the broadband industry submitted millions of fake comments supporting the 2017 repeal of net neutrality.

NY AG: ISPs behind millions of fake net neutrality comments

A new report said a campaign funded by the broadband industry submitted millions of fake comments supporting the 2017 repeal of net neutrality.
A tractor-trailer rig pulled into a terminal for a trucking company that has a $10,000 hiring bonus offer posted on a trailer at their facility in Harmony, Pa., on Wednesday. Many employers are having trouble finding workers, with some blaming enhanced unemployment benefits for discouraging people from returning to work

Unemployment claims fell sharply last week

About 505,000 people filed first-time applications for state jobless benefits, the Labor Department said Thursday, down more than 100,000 from a week earlier.

inequality at work

"It was such a toxic, damaging culture. It made me feel like a commodity, considering I was out selling this program. And in a lot of ways I felt like I was selling myself," said Angela Chan O'Donnell.

‘He asked me if I wanted to date a board member’: An Asian American grant writer on being treated like a commodity at work

Event planner Myriam Michel.

A Black event planner on standing out in a mostly white industry

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‘I felt liberated knowing I didn’t have to try to sound like a white executive’

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Isabel Miranda drank coffee in the rental apartment where she lives with her partner and two sons, in Haverhill. A federal judge late Wednesday said she would impose a temporary administrative stay on her own ruling that the Centers for Disease Control exceeded its authority when it imposed a federal eviction moratorium during the pandemic.

US eviction moratorium reinstated while judge considers case

Judge Dabney Friedrich said she would impose a temporary administrative stay on her own ruling “to give the court time to consider the merits” of the arguments on both sides.

French fishing vessels protested at the port of Saint Helier on the UK island of Jersey in the English Channel on Thursday.

France sends patrol boats as fishing tensions flare with UK

The irate mariners set off flares and entered Jersey's main harbor, in the first major dispute between France and Britain over fishing rights in the wake of Brexit.

David Swensen, chief investment officer of the Yale University Investments Office, speaks at the John C. Bogle Legacy Forum in New York.

Yale endowment chief David Swensen dies at 67

David Swensen, the chief investment officer at Yale University who helped revolutionize how college endowments are managed, has died.

Fitness tech company Whoop is leasing 121,000 square feet in a new building under construction in Kenmore Square.

Fast-growing tech firm Whoop signs big lease in Kenmore

The deal is a sign that Boston’s office market is beginning to perk up from its pandemic doldrums, which have brought vacancy rates to their highest level in a decade. Whoop’s lease is one of the biggest expansions signed in the city since COVID-19 hit last spring.

A rendering of the 25-story tower — mostly dorm space, with classrooms on the lower floors — that Northeastern would co-develop with private student housing builder American Campus Communities.

Northeastern’s plan for a 25-story dorm on the edge of Roxbury poses a test for Janey

When Northeastern filed plans in 2019 to build a massive dormitory at Columbus Avenue and Melnea Cass Boulevard, Kim Janey was not a fan of the proposal. Now she runs the city as acting mayor, and the school’s plans for its dorm are about to land on her desk.

Dyno Therapeutics chief executive Eric Kelsic.

Dyno raises $100 million to bring artificial intelligence to gene therapy

Cambridge-based Dyno remained in stealth mode until March 2020, then quickly made a splashy debut, inking deals with Novartis, Sarepta, and Roche.

Mother’s Day can be hard. These companies want to make it easier

They’re allowing customers to opt out of e-mails promoting a holiday that stirs grief and stress for some.

Animal Crossing: New Horizons on the Nintendo Switch game console became a hit during the pandemic.

Animal Crossing among four inductees to Video Game Hall of Fame

The World Video Game Hall of Fame Thursday inducted the groundbreaking Microsoft Flight Simulator, franchise-inspiring Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?, award-winning StarCraft and Animal Crossing, whose popularity has surged during the pandemic.

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See all the Mass. companies approved for PPP loans

A full list of the local companies and non profits that have been awarded money from the federal government’s small business loan program.
Most PPP money in Mass. went to a small number of companies What we know about PPP in the federal stimulus bill