US Attorney Carmen Ortiz Named The Boston Globe Magazine’s “Bostonian Of The Year”

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The Boston Globe Magazine announced today that it has selected US Attorney Carmen Ortiz as “Bostonian of the Year” for 2011. She will be featured in a special edition of The Sunday Globe magazine on January 1, and online at www.bostonglobe.com/magazine and boston.com. The magazine will also include profiles of several other Bostonians notable for their achievements in 2011. Ms. Ortiz most Continue reading >>>

Facebook gets ready for New Year’s Eve

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Click photo to enlargeAs 2011 gradually checks out this New Year's Eve in time zones from Sydney to Mumbai, to London, New York and on to the Bay Area, people will pull out their phones, shoot a photo and -- probably more than 1 billion times -- they will share it on Facebook.The holiday season is a dead zone for things like freeway traffic, stock exchange trades and real estate transactions, but for social networks like Facebook and Twitter, holidays like New Year's Eve and even Halloween unleash a tsunami of traffic, as people use their smartphones to share photos and post holiday greetings to Continue reading >>>

Pro-Huntsman Super PAC hits Romney in ad

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 EXETER, NH -- As Jon Huntsman campaigns in New Hampshire for votes one handshake at a time, the pro-Huntsman Super PAC Our Destiny has purchased $218,000 of air time in the Granite State labeling Mitt Romney a "chameleon." It is the first TV ad of the cycle to single out and criticize Romney, the front-runner for the GOP presidential nomination.The ad, which will appear in both New Hampshire and the greater Boston area, attempts to paint a narrative that Huntsman and Romney are the "two serious candidates" left in the race. "Two serious candidates remain. One willing to say anything; be anything. Continue reading >>>

Food banks seek state help to address rising demand, USDA cutbacks

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Hundreds of food pantries, soup kitchens and shelters in Massachusetts face unprecedented demand for meals from cash-strapped, struggling residents and are asking state officials to step in to help address the problem. The state’s four non-profit food banks – which supply food to organizations around the commonwealth – have asked the Patrick administration to increase state funding to $15 million in fiscal year 2013 – a $3.5 million bump from fiscal year 2012. Recent cutbacks in food supplied by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and increased prices make it harder to feed the hungry, according Continue reading >>>

US Attorney Carmen Ortiz Named the Boston Globe Magazine’s “Bostonian of the Year”

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BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Boston Globe Magazine announced today that it has selected US Attorney Carmen Ortiz as “Bostonian of the Year” for 2011. She will be featured in a special edition of The Sunday Globe magazine on January 1, and online at www.bostonglobe.com/magazine and boston.com. The magazine will also include profiles of several other Bostonians notable for their achievements in 2011. “We are excited to honor a woman who has faced, and cleared, many hurdles – she is Boston’s first female and first Hispanic US attorney Continue reading >>>

Bostonian of the Year: Carmen Ortiz

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Then, in 1992, Morisi, who was just 34, was diagnosed with a rare form of pancreatic cancer. For eight years, Morisi, Ortiz, and their two young daughters battled through ups and downs, as he underwent various treatments. He made it to August 2000, when his body finally gave out. Their daughters were 8 and 13. Ortiz, now faced with raising a family alone, wasn’t sure she could continue in her legal career, despite all the work she’d done to get there. “The thought of being a lawyer – I had no energy,” she says. “It was hard for me to pick up the pieces.” But she did, and those around her Continue reading >>>

US Attorney Carmen Ortiz Named the Boston Globe Magazine’s “Bostonian of the Year”

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BOSTON--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--The Boston Globe Magazine announced today that it has selected US Attorney Carmen Ortiz as “Bostonian of the Year” for 2011. She will be featured in a special edition of The Sunday Globe magazine on January 1, and online at www.bostonglobe.com/magazine and boston.com. The magazine will also include profiles of several other Bostonians notable for their achievements in 2011. “We are excited to honor a woman who has faced, and cleared, many hurdles – she is Boston’s first female and first Hispanic Continue reading >>>

US Attorney Carmen Ortiz Named the Boston Globe Magazine’s “Bostonian of the Year”

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US Attorney Carmen Ortiz Named the Boston Globe Magazine’s “Bostonian of the Year” Published on Friday, 30 December 2011 08:34 Written by TradersHuddle Staff BOSTON-( Business Wire )- The Boston Globe Magazine announced today that it has selected US Attorney Carmen Ortiz as “Bostonian of the Year” for 2011. She will be featured in a special edition of The Sunday Globe magazine on January 1, and online at www.bostonglobe.com/magazine and boston.com. The magazine will also Continue reading >>>

US Attorney Carmen Ortiz Named the Boston Globe Magazine’s "Bostonian of the Year"

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BOSTON, Dec 30, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- The Boston Globe Magazine announced today that it has selected US Attorney Carmen Ortiz as "Bostonian of the Year" for 2011. She will be featured in a special edition of The Sunday Globe magazine on January 1, and online at www.bostonglobe.com/magazine and boston.com. The magazine will also include profiles of several other Bostonians notable for their achievements in 2011. Ms. Continue reading >>>