Greater Boston is famous for its medical facilities, several of which offer emergency care. But anyone who’s gone to the ER on the South Shore knows it can take a while before you get back home.

The chart above compares various emergency room wait times in Greater Boston and the South Shore. The data used comes from the center for Medicare Medicaid Center’s Hospital Compare web site.

MONDAY: Mary Beth Keane (“Fever”) and Jeanine Cummins (“The Crooked Branch”) read at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith … Ben Nugent (“Good Kids”) reads at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books TUESDAY: Mari Passananti ("The K Street Affair") reads at 6:30 p.m. at the South End Library, 685 Tremont St. … Sabin Willett (“Abide With Me”) reads at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books … Miriam Katin (“Letting It Go”) reads at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith … Joseph Gallo ("Boston Bronze and Stone Speak To Us") reads at 7 p.m. at Tewksbury Public Library, 300 Chandler St., Tewksbury … Elizabeth Continue reading >>>

  Do men grieve differently? According to Laurence Akins, M.A., certified pastoral chaplain for Hospice of the North Shore Greater Boston, they do. “The way men grieve is not often accepted as a mode of healing for the loss of a loved one,” Atkins said. “Women tend to use a traditional verbal and emotional expression for a grief model. Men tend to be quieter and less visible. They may appear less connected with the past and more aligned with action.” Atkins will lead an upcoming class for men focusing on a practical guide to the mechanics of grief and ritual. Continue reading >>>

Starting April 5, senior product executives from throughout the Greater Boston Area will participate in facilitated discussions about the opportunities and issues they face. Networking groups in the Greater Boston Area cater to the leaders of a variety of functions such as HR, sales, finance, and marketing, yet until now there has been no equivalent group for senior product executives. The Boston Product Management Association (BPMA) has addressed this need in the form of a new, once a month breakfast meeting for senior Continue reading >>>

BOSTON --  Starting April 5, senior product executives from throughout the Greater Boston Area will participate in facilitated discussions about the opportunities and issues they face. Networking groups in the Greater Boston Area cater to the leaders of a variety of functions such as HR, sales, finance, and marketing, yet until now there has been no equivalent group for senior product executives.The Boston Product Management Association (BPMA) has addressed this need in the form of a new, once a month breakfast meeting for senior product executives. Named the Product Executives Forum, each Continue reading >>>

Although spring officially begins Wednesday, it will be arriving on the heels of yet another winter walloping, with forecasters predicting up to 7 inches of snow in Boston tonight.“Oh boy, it’s coming,” said Eleanor Vallier-Talbot of the National Weather Service. “Snow, sleet and freezing rain, all coming our way.”The greater Boston area can expect 4 to 7 inches of snow late tonight, according to the National Weather Service. A winter storm remains in effect tonight into tomorrow morning. “It looks like its going to be a nasty morning commute” tomorrow, Vallier-Talbot said. Continue reading >>>

This week marks an important civic anniversary — the start of a movement that gave the people of Greater Boston a say in what happens in their neighborhoods, and gave many of those neighborhoods a second life. Thirty years ago a group of local visionaries looked around and saw a Boston crumbling under the weight of urban blight — rising crime, vacant lots, abandoned houses. Corruption plagued the city programs that were supposed to come to the rescue and community groups had little voice. Those far-sighted leaders looked outside to a newly formed national corporation based in New York whose Continue reading >>>

Hub business leaders are less optimistic about the national and local economies than they were a year ago, but more expect to ramp up hiring in the year ahead, according to a new survey.Of the roughly 400 business leaders who attended the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce’s annual economic outlook breakfast yesterday, more than half — 57 percent — said they expect either a significant or a slight increase in their hiring plans for this region in 2013, compared to 50 percent last year.“There’s ample reason to be optimistic,” state Treasurer Steve Grossman told the group. “We have Continue reading >>>

Matthew L. Brown Reporter- Boston Business Journal Email  | Twitter Boston area executives feel much the same way about the local and national economies today as they did a year ago, according to the results of an instant survey conducted Thursday morning by the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce and Sovereign Bank. Participants in the survey, which was conducted over breakfast at the Westin Copley Continue reading >>>

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