HOLYOKE, Mass.--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--Under normal weather and system conditions, New England’s electric power supplies are expected to be adequate to meet regional demand this summer, according to ISO New England Inc., the operator of the region’s bulk power system and wholesale electricity markets. “On the regional level, the outlook for power system operations this summer is good” However, reduced and uncertain supplies of liquefied natural gas (LNG) to power generation in the Northeast Massachusetts/Greater Boston Continue reading >>>

BOSTON (CBS) – A local community leader is getting national recognition, and families all over Boston are applauding. Randal Rucker is the CEO of Family Service of Greater Boston. He’s been working to help at-risk kids and families for more than 20 years. Including a father and son we profiled a few years back. Rucker’s a big believer in the power of community centers and how they unite people. That’s partly why he’s getting the Peter B. Goldberg award for community leadership. There were 70 national finalists. Continue reading >>>

FRIDAY, May 4 (HealthDay News) -- Patients with mental health emergencies wait an average of 11.5 hours -- nearly half a day -- in hospital emergency departments, and those who are older, uninsured or intoxicated wait even longer, a new study says. Overall, patients with psychiatric emergencies wait about 42 percent longer in the emergency department than other patients, according to the findings published online May 1 in the Annals of Emergency Medicine."These patients are waiting the longest for care, and shrinking resources Continue reading >>>

With this imagery in mind, we headed to Venture Café—a vivacious, physical representation of the Kendall coral reef. Harkening back to the collaborative experiences of both Pixability and CoachUp.com, this weekly get-together is where game- and life-changing companies begin. “The real value for the entrepreneur,” Executive Director Chris Myles says, “is coming to the Venture Café and meeting people who bring a different type of value, either in skill set or perspective, to their business” which he terms “cross-pollinating the bump.” Would you believe that the Venture Café has Continue reading >>>

LYNN — The upscale Blue Ox Restaurant on Oxford Street has taken notice. When Arts After Hours is producing a show at the Rantoul Black Box Theatre at LynnArts on nearby Exchange Street, business is up, even on a weekday. That makes Corey Jackson happy. “It’s part of the creative economy we’re trying to grow in downtown Lynn,” he said. Jackson, 35, pays his bills by working as a software project manager for the computer security firm NetIQ. But he’s still chasing his dream as a professional director and actor, and serving as the managing director of Continue reading >>>

ISO New England has well-established procedures in place to bring the system back into balance if electricity supplies get tight as a result of an unexpected resource outage, or if an extended heat wave causes consumer demand for electricity to spike. These actions could include calling on demand-response resources to curtail their energy use, importing emergency power from neighboring regions, and asking businesses and residents to voluntarily conserve energy.New England is a summer-peaking system, which means that consumer demand for electricity peaks during the hot summer months, Continue reading >>>

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Medford's unemployment rate dropped about 1 percent from February to March, comparable to state trends. The state's unemployment rate dropped to 6.4 percent in March, down significantly from the 7.5 percent mark posted in February, according to numbers released by the Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development, while Medford's rate fell from 6 percent to 5.2 percent. The compares to a 5.5 percent rate in Boston, 3.3 percent in Cambridge, 3.7 percent in Arlington, 5.4 percent in Malden and 3.9 percent in Somerville, according to the data. The table below shows the unemployment rates for Continue reading >>>

Greater Boston asking prices, for example, rose 2.3 percent in the first part of the spring market through the end of March, compared to the last three months of 2011. Asking rents, though, are rising at four times that rate, jumping 9.3 percent in the Boston area through March compared to the end of 2011. In fact, asking rents in Middlesex County, home to the western suburbs, jumped 9.7 percent during the first quarter, making it No. 8 in the country. We are outpacing the rest of the country now in terms of price and rent increases - nationally Trulia reported a 1.9 percent first quarter increase Continue reading >>>