Posted Oct. 13, 2014 @ 12:01 am

(Photo : Boston Globe) An ambulance sat in the parking lot outside the Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates building in Braintree, Greater Boston, where a possible case of Ebola was reported. A medical facility in Braintree in Greater Boston is now under quarantine after a patient was isolated outside of the facility with a possible case of Ebola. Harvard Vanguard Medical Center was quarantined after the patient exhibited Ebola-like symptoms Sunday.Like Continue reading >>>

As more people in Massachusetts take to the road on bicycles, the number of reported bike accidents has risen in recent years, and fatalities in Greater Boston’s suburbs have more than tripled.Collisions involving bicycles in the Greater Boston suburban area increased by 9 percent from 2010 to 2012, while statewide the number jumped 13 percent during the same three-year period, according to a Globe analysis of accident data provided by the Massachusetts Department of Transportation. Nearly 70 percent of the crashes resulted in injuries. Continue reading below The Continue reading >>>

By Rob Duca


Posted Oct. 11, 2014 @ 8:00 am

Sunday, October 12, 2014, 3:00am By Scott Van Voorhis Banker Tradesman Columnist Blame it on the being the egghead capital of the world, but from Fan Pier to new ballparks, the Hub would rather debate grand projects to death rather than actually build them. And the same pattern now appears to be emerging with what to do about Greater Boston’s newfound vulnerability to our ever angrier and more Continue reading >>>

Joel S. Marcus, founder, chairman, and chief executive of Alexandria Real Estate Equities, has focused the real estate investment trust on developing properties for the life sciences industry. While it operates in other biotechnology and medical technology hubs from New York to San Francisco, the Pasadena, Calif., company’s largest cluster of properties is in Greater Boston, where it owns 3.5 million square feet of space in Cambridge’s Kendall Square, along Route 128, and in Boston’s Longwood Medical Area. On a visit to Cambridge, the 67-year-old Marcus spoke with Continue reading >>>

Eight days of exhausting, cross-country travel. Four newly-made multi-millionaires. Two local companies. It was a momentous week for Greater Boston’s tech startup world. For a region determined to show the heavyweights in Silicon Valley and New York that this is a technology force to be reckoned with, having the executives of Wayfair and HubSpot ring the New York Stock Exchange bell one week apart, signaling that their companies were now publicly traded, was no small achievement. The two companies raised a combined $444 million in their final, frenzied pushes, earning their cofounders and top Continue reading >>>

By Rob Duca


Posted Oct. 11, 2014 @ 8:00 am

Posted Oct. 11, 2014 @ 1:00 pm

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Defenders of the state casino law will release a new television ad Saturday, highlighting the money Massachusetts gamblers spend in out-of-state casinos, according to a copy of the ad shared with the Globe.“We’re creating jobs and revenue for Connecticut and Rhode Island, but not for ourselves,” says the ad’s narrator, Paul Guzzi, president of the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce. “We need to create jobs here.” Continue reading below The argument is a staple among the political talking points of casino supporters. Massachusetts residents gamble in large Continue reading >>>