By Nathan Lamb


Posted Oct. 22, 2014 @ 8:50 am
Updated at 8:51 AM

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Through the first 9 months of 2014, January through September, Greater Boston area managers and executives in a career transition found new jobs in an average of 15.5 weeks – more than a month less than the 21 weeks it took them to find new employment during the same period in 2010. Laid-off employees want to get back to work and take advantage of the improved job market. They are being more flexible and expanding job possibilities to other industries, taking jobs that will leverage their core expertise, while broadening their knowledge-base and their network, even if it’s a Continue reading >>>

Republican gubernatorial candidate Charlie Baker talks with reporters after speaking to members of The Black Ministerial Alliance of Greater Boston in Roxbury Monday. (Elise Amendola/AP) BOSTON — Charlie Baker is trying to become the first Republican to win the Massachusetts governor’s office since Mitt Romney. But Baker is wooing a far different electorate than the one Romney won over in 2002. In the dozen years since Romney took the Corner Office, Massachusetts voters have become significantly less white overall. This demographic shift looms large, since nonwhite voters tend Continue reading >>>

George Donnelly Executive Editor- Boston Business Journal Email  |  Twitter Some of Massachusetts' leading business groups are chipping in big-time to preserve a provision that would raise the gas tax annually by the rate of inflation, a measure that is being challenged in Question 1 on the Nov. 4 ballot. In the latest filing on the Massachusetts Office of Political and Campaign Finance, the Greater Boston Continue reading >>>

Posted Oct. 20, 2014 @ 11:43 pm

George Donnelly Executive Editor- Boston Business Journal Email  |  Twitter Some of Massachusetts' leading business groups are chipping in big-time to preserve a provision that would raise the gas tax annually by the rate of inflation, a measure that is being challenged in Question 1 on the Nov. 4 ballot. In the latest filing on the Massachusetts Office of Political and Campaign Finance, the Greater Boston Continue reading >>>

Working to strengthen their support in communities of color, Martha Coakley and Charlie Baker met separately Monday with the Black Ministerial Alliance of Greater Boston.After the closed-door meetings at Twelfth Baptist Church in Roxbury, Coakley said she had spoken with the group about a range of issues, from boosting educational opportunities to supporting programs aimed at helping boys and young men of color get ahead. Continue reading below Coakley, who attended the meeting with Governor Deval Patrick, offered a knock on her Republican opponent, saying, in essence, Continue reading >>>

Comcast Cable has announced the opening of a new customer support centre in Hudson, New Hampshire. The facility will hold approximately 600 people and currently has more than 100 employees.  Comcast plans to have 200 employees working in this facility by year-end, which includes nearly 100 new positions. With the new positions, Comcast will have more than 1,700 employees across the state, and more than 5,000 across its Greater Boston footprint.  Employees at the new call centre provide support for all Comcast residential products and services, handling calls from across the Greater Continue reading >>>

BOSTON, Oct. 20, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Foley Hoag Partner and Boston Bar Association President Julia Huston announced last week the release of a major report detailing severe shortfalls in funding for legal aid agencies. The 37‑page report, issued by the BBA Statewide Task Force to Expand Civil Legal Aid in Massachusetts, calls for a $30 million boost in the annual appropriation from the state. The report states that investing in civil legal aid will ultimately save the government money by reducing the need for more expensive social services such as housing the homeless, providing foster care Continue reading >>>