Posted: Monday, June 30, 2014 11:05 pm Poll: State voters favor retaining gambling law ...barely BY JIM HAND SUN CHRONICLE STAFF The Sun Chronicle | 0 comments By a narrow margin, Greater Boston voters favor retaining the state's new gambling law that allows for three Continue reading >>>

Wynn Resorts has a suggestion for Suffolk Downs employees worried that the East Boston racetrack may close: Come work for us. In the latest jab between rival Boston-area casino proposals, Wynn has pledged to give hiring preferences to Suffolk Downs employees, if Wynn’s $1.6 billion Everett casino proposal wins the Greater Boston resort casino license. “Our commitment of jobs to Suffolk Downs workers is further proof that a five-star Wynn Resort in Everett will have the most positive employment and economic impact in the region,” Robert DeSalvio, senior vice president of development at Wynn, Continue reading >>>

The Boston Ballet has received a total of $135,000 from the Cultural Facilities Fund. One award for $45,000 went toward repairing the roof of its headquarters and the dancers' practice space and to address additional weatherization issues. Mary Moore Reporter- Boston Business Journal Email Continue reading >>>

Mensa is, according to their website, has 110,000 members and is “the high IQ society” that “provides a forum for intellectual exchange among its members. There are members in more than 100 countries around the world.” Ok, that doesn’t sound like more than a bunch of people grabbing coffee talking politics. However, it’s more than that, and Mensa is not for everyone: “Membership of Mensa is open to persons who have attained a score within the upper two percent of the general population on an approved intelligence test that has been properly administered and supervised.” Are Continue reading >>>

BOSTON, June 30, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Eight members of the Greater Boston Association of REALTORS® (GBAR) are among the latest real estate brokers and agents nationwide to be conferred with the REALTOR® Emeritus membership status by the National Association of REALTORS® (NAR). This prestigious honor is awarded to licensed real estate professionals who have held membership in the REALTOR® organization for a minimum of 40 years. Currently, less than 2,500 brokers and agents across the U.S. have earned this distinguished designation. Each of the GBAR members who achieved REALTOR® Continue reading >>>

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Mohegan - With the fate of Massachusetts casinos now uncertain, a deadline for the resolution of "surrounding community" talks between the City of Boston and Mohegan Sun, which hopes to build a $1.3 billion resort in Revere, passed Friday without a deal, a sign the negotiations are likely to enter an arbitration phase.The stalled talks came on the heels of Boston Mayor Martin Walsh's call Thursday for the Massachusetts Gaming Commission to delay the awarding of the Greater Boston casino license until after a November referendum aimed at repealing the 2011 law that authorized Bay State Continue reading >>>

A thick green field of bright rainbow chard gleams in the sun, backed by a chain-link fence and a row of triple-deckers. Tomato vines as tall as a fairy-tale beanstalk climb up an ingenious pulley system in a greenhouse flanked by garages and a disused basketball hoop. The vanguard of Greater Boston’s locavore movement may well be in places like this small Roxbury farm, where abandoned lots and pocket plots train tomorrow’s farmers, feed the hungry, and supply some of the city’s trendiest restaurants. The Food Project, a Roxbury nonprofit in its 23rd growing season, operates all along the Continue reading >>>