Greater Boston’s evangelical Haitian community prayed yesterday for the safe return of a Dorchester pastor and an Everett woman who were kidnapped in Egypt while on a religious mission to Israel, apparently by a 32-year-old truck driver demanding his uncle’s release from jail. The Rev. Michel Louis, 61, pastor of the Free Pentecostal Church of God on Harvard Street and a woman Louis’ family and multiple reports identified as Lisa Alphonse, 39, of Everett were captured along with their tour guide Friday. Authorities said the kidnapper stopped their bus on its way to Mount Sinai — an area Continue reading >>>

Boston, MA, July 14, 2012 --(PR.com)-- Transplants to Boston, MA will quickly find that living in the city is very expensive. But just over the city lines is a hidden treasure...Winthrop, MA.Maureen Reddy, of DaVinci Designer Gallery, has been staging properties in the greater Boston area for 15+ years. “ I have worked in every community on the edge of the city and find that the value Winthrop affords is exceptional by comparison,” says Reddy. Recently, Reddy staged a 4 bedroom home just over the city line, “It is bright and cheery, steps away from protected wetlands, a 2 minute walk to Continue reading >>>

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NO, BOSTONIANS shouldn’t expect much deference from Medford native Michael Bloomberg. Long before he was mayor of NewYork, Bloomberg had made his name and fortune in the nation’s largest city. Some biographical accounts indicate that he found his hometown — and maybe Greater Boston more generally — too constricting for his considerable ambitions. Yet the glee with which he greeted a recent Boston Globe Magazine story about New York’s efforts to elbow into Boston’s lead in science and technology was still a little surprising. Somewhat overstating the point of the story, his Twitter Continue reading >>>

One Bay State Tea Party leader said the best chance to repeal Obamacare is after the November elections. “I don’t think it’s in our best interests for it to come up right now,” said Christine Morabito, president of the Greater Boston Tea Party. “First, I don’t think Harry Reid would allow that, but I don’t think it’s in our best interest because it wouldn’t pass. It’s best to wait for the election and hope things turn out in our favor.” Morabito was responding to U.S. Sen. Scott Brown’s comment that the Senate likely would not vote anytime soon on repealing the Affordable Continue reading >>>

The Circuit Theatre Company will present the Boston premiere of Sarah Ruhl's Passion Play, touring the Greater Boston area, July 28-August 12. Skylar Fox directs the production, with musical direction by Linda Bard and design by Christopher-Annas Lee. The play will open at the Davis Sqaure Theatre, July 28-29, and then move to the Central Square YMCA, Old South Church's Gordon Chapel, and Oberon. Passion Play tells the story of three communities producing the Passion: one in Elizabethan England, one in Oberammergau, Germany during Hitler's rise to power, and one in South Dakora from 1970-today. The Continue reading >>>