Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick has volunteered with Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn in Chicago to pay up on their Stanley Cup championship bet. Donning smocks, the two sorted pears at the Greater Chicago Food Depository on Tuesday. Patrick and Quinn had bet on the National Hockey League finals featuring the Chicago Blackhawks and the Boston Bruins. If the Bruins won, Quinn would have volunteered at the Greater Boston Food Bank. The Bruins dropped the series in six games. Patrick, who grew up in Chicago, says it's Continue reading >>>

NORTH OF BOSTON – U.S. News World Report has named the North Shore Medical Center has been ranked as one of the best hospitals in Greater Boston and Massachusetts. North Shore Medical Center was also designated as a high-performing hospital in both Geriatrics and Pulmonology based on patient survival, safety and volume. “It is the dedication and achievement of our nurses, physicians and staff who make the care at NSMC so exceptional,” says Robert G. Norton, NSMC President and CEO.  Continue reading >>>

Gov. Deval Patrick traveled to his hometown of Chicago Tuesday to make good on the wager he lost against Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn after the Boston Bruins lost to the Chicago Blackhawks in the Stanley Cup Final last month.According to an Associated Press report published here by the Boston Herald, Patrick sorted pears at the Greater Chicago Food Depository alongside Quinn Tuesday.Patrick posted the above picture from his official Twitter account Tuesday, saying: "Governor Patrick makes good on his #Stanleycup bet with @GovernorQuinn. Both still hard at work."If the Bruins has won, Continue reading >>>

CHICAGO (AP) — Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick has volunteered with Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn in Chicago to pay up on their Stanley Cup championship bet.Donning smocks, the two sorted pears at the Greater Chicago Food Depository on Tuesday.Patrick and Quinn had bet on the National Hockey League finals featuring the Chicago Blackhawks and the Boston Bruins. If the Bruins won, Quinn would have volunteered at the Greater Boston Food Bank.The Bruins dropped the series in six games.Patrick, who grew up in Chicago, says it's a good lesson in the importance of service. But he says he couldn't Continue reading >>>

The writer, a Harvard economist, is director of the Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston. He wrote this for the Boston Globe.Detroit’s decision to file for bankruptcy last week is a landmark moment in America’s greatest urban tragedy. It’s the necessary next step to bring fiscal sanity to an awful mess created by 50 years of private- sector decline and public-sector irresponsibility.Yet the public policies that helped bring Detroit to this precipice were hardly unique, and the city’s bankruptcy is a warning to the many local governments that pay their workers today with unfunded promises Continue reading >>>

If you’re looking for a home in the Bay State, particularly in Greater Boston, good luck. A tight market is driving up prices, experts say, and houses are selling fast.Statewide, 5,591 single-family homes sold in June, up 1 percent over the same period last year, making it the best month for sales since June 2010, according to The Warren Group.“There’s pent-up demand among buyers, people who didn’t do anything during the recession because they were scared,” said CEO Timothy M. Warren Jr. “Now those people are feeling more optimistic, and what they’re finding is when they go to an Continue reading >>>

CHICAGO (AP) — Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick is volunteering with Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn in Chicago to pay up on their Stanley Cup championship bet.Donning smocks, the two sorted pears at the Greater Chicago Food Depository on Tuesday.Patrick and Quinn had bet on the National Hockey League finals featuring the Chicago Blackhawks and the Boston Bruins. If the Bruins won, Quinn would have volunteered at the Greater Boston Food Bank.The Bruins dropped the series in six games.Patrick, who grew up in Chicago, says it's a good lesson in the importance of service. He says he couldn't agree Continue reading >>>

Photos by Habitat for Humanity Greater Boston, K. GalloHabitat for Humanity Greater Boston dedicated two new Habitat homes on Bradeen Street in Roslindale this past weekend.On Saturday’s home dedications occurred at 65 and 65A Bradeen St., for Lucia Audate and her two children, Sahadia, 13, and Jimmy, 12; and Khatisia Goode and her two children, Raheem, 22, and Princess, 13. The six are now happily neighbors in new homes.    The two new homes are part of a summer 2011 donation from Fred and Rose Salvucci, who donated for the entire project on Bradeen Street in Roslindale Continue reading >>>

Fiber Connection Will Help Flexible Office Provider Offer Reliable, High-Bandwidth Internet Access for Cloud Computing, Online Back-up and other Applications to High Tech and Life Science Tenants CAMBRIDGE, Mass., July 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Comcast Business, a unit of Comcast Cable, the nation's largest video, high-speed Internet and phone provider to business and residential customers, today announced that the Cambridge Innovation Center, the largest flexible office facility for growing technology and life sciences companies in the Greater Boston area, is the latest East Coast tech hub Continue reading >>>

BOSTON — Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick is planning to head to his hometown of Chicago to make good on a bet on the outcome of the Stanley Cup championship.Patrick and Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn had agreed to a wager on the National Hockey League finals featuring the Chicago Blackhawks and the Boston Bruins.Under the deal, Patrick agreed to volunteer at the Greater Chicago Food Depository if the Blackhawks won while Quinn agreed to volunteer at the Greater Boston Food Bank if the Bruins were victorious.The Bruins dropped the series in six games.Patrick, Continue reading >>>