WOBURN, Mass., Jun 11, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- DiCicco, Gulman Company LLP (DGC), a CPA and business consulting firm that specializes in non-profit organizations, today announced that the firm will once again offer its pro bono Summer of Service program beginning June 15, 2012. To date, the firm has donated close to 1,000 hours and assisted more than 35 nonprofit Continue reading >>>

The economy and the collapse of the housing bubble gets much of the blame in yesterday's Globe piece, but there is more too it then that. If anything, home prices are still extravagantly high in Greater Boston, with some suburbs almost back to bubble years' levels and others having seen declines far short the big drops common elsewhere in the country. It just takes a lot to get onto the first rung of the housing ladder in the Boston area - you have to be bringing in, individually or collectively, six figures to afford the median-priced home. The median sale price in Middlesex Country, covering Continue reading >>>

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Nevertheless, he added, whenever his father “wanted to campaign again, she did not ­always say, ‘OK, let’s do another one.’ She’d say, ‘Are you kidding me?’ She’d push him very hard to give her a good reason why he should do it, why he should put his family through this again. My mother always had the urge to serve her family first.”

Pressley believes many women of color assume they’re not “mentor material.’’ She recalls meeting one black woman, a hairstylist, who was concerned about whether she could make the cut. “In her mind, she felt there was a very specific sort of profile that makes someone fit to be a mentor . . .; a very specific kind of a professional, a lawyer or someone with a PhD,’’ Pressley explains. “I told her, ‘You are appropriate, and you are worthy, and you are good enough.’ ’’

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The big-picture battle for survival that Mandarini addressed so passionately looks even more dire now, after labor failed to oust Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker from office. Walker cut collective bargaining rights for most public workers and lived to fight another day. With his triumph, the political ground shifts. But how much?Don’t count labor’s political influence out just yet. In the Massachusetts Senate race, at least, both sides want the votes of union members. But the Democratic and Republican camps are both recalibrating how to secure them.Democrats are still seeking union support Continue reading >>>

The war of words between Mayor Thomas M. Menino and clothing mogul Greg Selkoe heated up this week after a media report said Menino administration officials claimed the young entrepreneur was once fired by the city. Selkoe demanded an apology from the mayor after WGBH-TV host Emily Rooney said on her show “Greater Boston” that “the mayor’s office” told her Selkoe was fired by the Boston Redevelopment Authority. “He can’t go around saying things that are completely false,” Selkoe told the Herald. “It’s an attempt to damage my reputation. The mayor should apologize to me.” Selkoe Continue reading >>>

TEWKSBURY (CBS) – A 22-year-old woman is facing criminal charges over the disappearance of a 14-year-old Tewksbury boy. The boy, Anthony McNeil, was found safe Friday night, more than 24 hours after his father reported him missing. Police have charged Elenie Vazquez of Chelmsford, Anthony McNeil’s biological sister, with Custodial Kidnapping and Misleading a Police Officer. Officials did not provide any specific details on the circumstances surrounding Vazquez’s arrest. McNeil, an 8th grader at the Wynn School told his father on Thursday that he was going to walk over to a Tewksbury Continue reading >>>

Debt-collection lawsuits dominated the civil caseload at Quincy District Court last year, accounting for 80 percent of the 3,376 cases heard there. And in upwards of 90 percent of those cases, the debt collectors won, getting judgments to garnish wages and put liens on cars and homes, said assistant court clerk John Dalton. Consumer protection lawyers say the reason is simple: Defendants are too confused by the process, too poor to hire a lawyer or too scared to show up in court. Now, some debtors and consumer advocates are fighting what they call unfair and illegal practices by the debt Continue reading >>>