Later on, aspects like school systems, tax rates, and, yes, public transportation come into play, but by then, many people have either moved or settled in for the long haul.

By Daniel B. Kline, Globe Staff Retro-style fast food chain Checkers, known for its double drive-thrus, plans to bring its brand of fast food to the the Greater Boston area in 2014. The Tampa-based chain, which has 783 stores across the country, said it plans to open up five stores in Greater Boston over the next 18 months. After that, they plan to add five to seven stores in the area annually over the next couple of years. The company has just one New England location currently, in Bristol, Conn. Jennifer Durham, Checkers’ executive vice president of franchise development, Continue reading >>>

(NECN: Josh Brogadir, Boston) - There are thousands of Korean immigrants and Korean Americans living in greater Boston, and there is strong support for the South but there is some mixed reaction about what the North might do.Endless lines of soldiers are among the images of the North Korean military released to the public by state-run TV amid recent threats by 30-year-old leader Kim Jong Un about nuclear violence against South Korea and the United States.But are warnings about re-starting its plutonium reactor real or just posturing?"For Continue reading >>>

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Checkers, the drive through burger joint based in Florida,  hopes to open soon in Greater Boston. Thomas Grillo Real Estate Editor- Boston Business Journal Email  | Twitter Is there room for another burger joint in Boston? Jennifer Durham, vice president Continue reading >>>

A sub-4:00 miler in college at the University of Michigan, Greg Meyer moved to Boston in the early 1980s to learn distance running from Bill Rodgers, coach Bill Squires, and the Greater Boston Track Club clan. The lessons took several years to stick, but paid off handsomely when Meyer won the 1983 Boston Marathon in 2:09:00. That makes him the last American male to have won Boston. The 1983 Boston was amazing in other ways: 84 guys, mostly Americans, ran sub-2:20, and 164 ran sub-2:25. Meyer, 57, will run Boston on April 15 with three of his children, and remains active in the sport as elite athlete Continue reading >>>

Braintree is known as being a "gateway" to the South Shore, and is a diverse community filled with large corporate parks, retail corridors and smaller, local business hubs. Therefore it is no suprise the town is fairly split among occupational classes. The “service class” has the highest share in Braintree, followed by the “creative class” and finally a small “working class” share, according to a report by The Atlantic Cities, which uses a map to show how class lines divide within and among Census tracts. The service sector fills in around a largely "creative" population in the Greater Continue reading >>>

Greater Boston has never had a problem attracting talent. The region’s 76 colleges and universities and almost 350,000 students virtually guarantee a steady stream of knowledge-workers-in-training. Our bigger challenge is keeping this young, educated population from leaving Massachusetts once they’ve crossed the stage and received their diplomas. Data presented from WCCP’s new Talent Magnets report show that too often we lump together all of these various reasons that push people out of the Commonwealth without regard for importance, timing, or life needs. We give each reason equal weight, Continue reading >>>

STONEHAM – Since its inception in 1897, the Boston Marathon has become more than just a race.  The 26.2 mile run is not just an opportunity for individuals to reach personal goals or a day to celebrate the Greater Boston community.  For some, it means much more. Stoneham Theatre began participating in the Boston Marathon four years ago in memory of Producing Artistic Director Weylin Symes’ twin brother, Gavin. “I ran my first Marathon in 2010, less than a year after Gavin’s death,” Continue reading >>>

When he came to office in 1993 Thomas Menino, may have understood better than many that Boston had to change. He was, after all, a member of an ethnic minority and Boston’s first Italian-American mayor. He understood that the old battles across the fault lines of Yankee and Irish, town and gown, black and white, native and immigrant, Catholic and Protestant, Southie and Roxbury, public and parochial (and now charter), gay and straight, downtown and neighborhood were making Boston increasingly dysfunctional. Lots of people were working on building bridges across those divides; but it made a major Continue reading >>>