Emily’s List: Wendy Murphy

After hosting Greater Boston the past 18 years, I’ll be stepping away from the anchor desk in just about five weeks. And before I go, we're inviting people back on the show who have special perspectives and who have elevated the discourse over the years. We’re calling it the Greater Boston version of "Emily’s List." Wendy Murphy is an adjunct professor of sexual violence law at New England Law in Boston and a fierce advocate for women and children. She is also a former prosecutor and is never at a loss for words or without an opinion. Continue reading >>>

Warehouse and factory demand rises in Boston

Nearly 800,000 square feet of industrial real estate was snapped up in Greater Boston from July through September, according to a report from the brokerage firm Transwestern RBJ.Rents rose slightly last quarter, but no new construction of warehouses or manufacturing sites was planned. Over the past year, warehouse rents have risen 6.8 percent in the Boston area, while asking prices for manufacturing space have gone up by 9.2 percent. Continue reading below Just two leases -- by Max Finkelstein Tire and Industrial Packaging Supply Inc. -- amounted to 182,000 square Continue reading >>>

Dukakis: Thanks for naming South Station after me, but no one will call it that

Former Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis accepted the honor yesterday of having Boston’s South Station named after him, but he doesn’t expect anyone to call it anything but South Station and seemed to wonder why people even bothered to give him the honor. South Station is the largest railroad station and bus terminal in the Greater Boston area, and its second-largest transportation center after Logan International Airport. Officially, it has been renamed “The Governor Michael S. Dukakis Transportation Center at South Station.” As it turns out, not even the maps and station signage Continue reading >>>

Gaming Commission Chair Steve Crosby Back In Public Eye

It’s been a while since the Chairman of the State Gaming Commission has been out and about and in action. That’s because back in May, Steve Crosby recused himself from the process of selecting the Greater Boston casino site because he was once friends with a partial owner of the Everett parcel that was under consideration.   Crosby’s four colleagues on the commission settled on the Everett site on their own, and now that the casino law has cleared the referendum hurdle, Crosby is back to active duty.  Continue reading >>>

Parkmobile, LLC to Establish Center for Parking Innovation in Boston

Copyright 2014 PR Newswire. All Rights Reserved2014-11-10 ATLANTA, Nov. 10, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Parkmobile, LLC announced Monday its plans to open its first U.S. - based Parking Innovation Center in Boston during the first quarter of 2015. The center's core mission is to collaborate with other local technology start-ups to integrate the latest technology and tools helping consumers streamline the process of identifying and paying for parking in the greater Boston area. The Boston facility will be the first of a series of new Parking Innovation Centers to be established across the United States, Continue reading >>>

Premier Boston Courier Service, USGround, Launches First Mobile App – Virtual

The new app allows USGround to provide better and faster service to the Greater Boston area. Boston, MA (PRWEB) November 10, 2014 Today, Boston courier service USGround announces their newest technology, Hypership. The complimentary mobile app allows anyone, even those without pre-existing accounts, to use USGround. Convenient, fast, and easy, Hypership enables customers to enter new shipments on the fly in just 9 seconds. The app allows users to ship anything at the touch of a button, a capability made possible by on-the-road access. Customers will be able to enter new shipments wherever, Continue reading >>>

Big night for the Big Sister Association of Greater Boston

Continue reading below Governor-elect Charlie Baker and Mayor Marty Walsh were at the Museum of Fine Arts on Saturday night for the Big Sister Association of Greater Boston gala. The “Big in Boston” event raised money for the mentoring organization, and honored supporter Jack Connors Jr. with the “Believe in Girls” award. Continue reading >>>

Boston’s parking attendants unionizing

Parking attendants around Boston, many of them from East Africa, say they face third-world conditions performing one of the faceless jobs of a first-world economy: parking cars for office workers and visitors in Boston’s booming downtown.Paid just a dollar or two above minimum wage, the attendants say they are confined to tiny booths, alternately freezing or sweltering with the weather and enduring long shifts with little or no chance for a bathroom break. Continue reading below Now, Teamsters Local 25 is working to organize the roughly 1,600 parking workers in Continue reading >>>