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 >>>

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 >>>

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 >>>

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 >>>

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 >>>

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K evin Washington had been president of Greater Boston YMCA for just six months when he startled trustees and branch directors with plan to cut membership fees by an average of 11 percent. Their reaction: “Are you crazy?”Washington forged ahead, confident in market research that projected lower dues would increase membership by 10,000 households and ultimately increase revenues. That estimate, however, proved wrong: The Y added 20,000. Continue reading below Washington “is somebody who would make a bet and take a step outside what the comfort zone would be Continue reading >>>

SUNDAY Barbara S. Carlson (“Fire Road”) and Elizabeth McKim (“The Read Thread”) read at noon at Plymouth Center for the Arts, 11 North St., Plymouth …Paul E. Fallon (“Architecture By Moonlight: Rebuilding Haiti, Redrafting a Life”) reads at 3 p.m. at Book Ends, 559 Main St., Winchester … Yoram Vodovotz and Gary An (“Translational Systems Biology”) read at 6 p.m. at the Harvard Coop … Maureen Meister (“Arts and Crafts Architecture: History and Heritage in New England”) reads at 3 p.m. at Concord Bookshop, 65 Main St., Concord MONDAY Juliette Continue reading >>>

The Greater Boston Sjögren's Syndrome Support Group invites you to the next meeting on Saturday, December 6, 2014 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon at Tufts Medical Center *Sackler Building, Room 114* 145 Harrison Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts Please join us as Dr. David J. Greenblatt and Dr. Lynn C. Epstein present their team's now published study "Characterization of Cognitive Dysfunction in Sjögren's Syndrome Patients" (Clinical Rheumatology) (Lynn C. Epstein, Gina Masse, Jerold M. Harmatz, Tammy M. Scott, Athena S. Papas, David J. Greenblatt) Dr. David J. Greenblatt is the Louis Lasagna Professor Continue reading >>>