The Massachusetts Gaming Commission faces an unusual level of public scrutiny as it decides whether, and to whom, to award the potentially lucrative Greater Boston casino license this week. Voters are watching, and in less than two months they’ll decide in a statewide referendum whether to undo the commission’s handiwork by repealing the 2011 casino law. The commission also faces pressure to award the license to a plan at Suffolk Downs, the struggling East Boston racetrack that lobbied heavily to legalize casino gambling in Massachusetts. But the public has repeatedly been told that the law’s Continue reading >>>

Over the next five days, the state’s top gambling regulators will tackle their most important assignment: weigh the merits of competing casino plans for Greater Boston, and pick a winner for the state’s most lucrative gambling license. If the decision tilts on financial issues, the smart bet is Wynn Resorts Ltd., proposing a five-star slice of Las Vegas on the Mystic River waterfront in Everett. The prosperous international gambling company stands on firmer financial ground, and would spend substantially more on the bricks and mortar of its development, according to a Globe analysis. Continue Continue reading >>>

SUNDAY Andra Watkins (“To Live Forever: An Afterlife Journey of Meriwether Lewis”) reads at 1 p.m. at Tatnuck Bookseller, 18 Lyman St., Westborough ... Toni Buzzeo (“My Bibi Always Remembers”) reads at 2 p.m. at Bestsellers Cafe, 24 High St., Medford MONDAY Matthew Gilbert (“Off the Leash: A Year at the Dog Park”) reads at 6:30 p.m. at Stellina Restaurant, 47 Main St., Watertown ... Faye George (“Voices of King Philip’s War”), Denise Bergman (“A Woman in Pieces Crossed a Sea”), and Dennis Daly (“Night Walking With Nathaniel”) read at 7 p.m. at the Harvard-Yenching Continue reading >>>

It could take as many as eight more business days for the Massachusetts Gaming Commission to award a casino license for the Greater Boston area, considered the last major untapped gaming market in the Northeast.At the end of the process, which could now extend as late as Sept. 17, the commission is expected to bestow the license on either Mohegan Sun, which has proposed a $1.3 billion project in Revere, or Wynn Resorts, for a $1.6 billion project in Everett.The commission plans to deliberate Monday through Friday next week and the following Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, if necessary. Continue reading >>>

Boston – announced today that for the first time in its 99-year history it had net assets totaling more than $1 billion, and that the Foundation and its donors shattered Foundation records for grantmaking with $112 million in grants paid out in the 2014 fiscal year, which ended June 30. “This is truly a remarkable milestone in the long and illustrious history of this foundation,” said Paul S. Grogan, President and CEO of the Boston Foundation. “But the billion-dollar milestone would be meaningless if it weren't generating millions of dollars in grants to organizations that extend Continue reading >>>

Supt. of Everett Schools Frederick Foresteire said the GBL-NEC Jamboree Friday night was the first step in a renewal of the Greater Boston League’s bid to create a merger with the Northeastern Conference. Currently there are four GBL schools (Everett, Malden, Medford, and Somerville) and 12 NEC schools (Saugus is returning to the NEC from the Cape Ann League in 2015). Foresteire rolled out the red carpet for the visiting NEC schools, their administrators, and their students. EHS student ambassadors welcomed fans at the stadium’s gates while  students in the culinary arts catered a meal that Continue reading >>>

BOSTON (Sept. 5, 2014) — Goodyear will be among companies presenting at the upcoming Northeast L.E.A.N. Conference, Oct. 1 and 2 at the Mass Mutual Center in Springfield, Mass.Hosting the 10th annual L.E.A.N. Conference is the Greater Boston Manufacturing Partnership (GBMP Inc.), a not-for-profit organization with the mission to help U.S. companies “implement the philosophies and tools of continuous improvement to enable them to compete profitably in the global economy,” according to GBMP.Billy Ray Taylor, director of Commercial Continue reading >>>

The following is a list of questions The Republican/MassLive.com sent to each candidate running to be the next state treasurer this election season, with their responses, verbatim, as submitted. This posts and the others like it are part of the news organization's collective intention to further deliver the candidates straight to the voters to help inform their decisions on election day. The following is the response of Mike Heffernan, the founder of a mobile technology company. Springfield will be the host city for MGM’s resort casino, unless the state’s gambling law is repealed. How will Continue reading >>>

Rates of international student attendance at Boston University have significantly climbed in recent years. GRAPHIC BY EMILY ZABOSKI/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF With a record-breaking number of international students housed on Boston University’s campus for the 2014-15 academic year, the incoming freshman class includes 900 international students, amounting to about 23 percent of the Class of 2018 and representing 72 countries. International undergraduates currently enrolled at BU represent a fraction of those in the Greater Boston area, recently named the third-most popular college destination Continue reading >>>

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