This year, NHPR's GOP primary coverage took on a strong national flavor, broadcasting to listeners all over the country. Among the network's expanded audience were WNYC listeners in, well...NYC. And in the spirit of inter-station cooperation, the good folks at WNYC and Patchwork Nation used AP polling data to put together a county-by-county map of election results. What interested StateImpact about this map is that it also classified each county according to its main economic drivers. Before we get rolling, though, just one brief note about the map. To see statewide totals, move your cursor Continue reading >>>

Foxborough Ahern Middle School student, Brenden Johnson, will be one of over 250 eighth graders representing the Commonwealth's 351 cities and towns this Saturday, Jan. 14 for a second annual day of service. These student “ambassadors” from across Massachusetts will meet to volunteer and celebrate the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr as part of Project 351. Launched during Governor Deval Patrick’s inaugural in 2010, Project 351 celebrates youth leadership. The project brings together young students who are committed to serving their communities through leadership skills and critical Continue reading >>>

By Matt Byrne, Town Correspondent

Home / Citybiznews / General Business / We Recommend... Identifies Four Cornerstones for Economic and Job Growth across RegionBoston, MA - The Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce today released its 2012 Business Continue reading >>>

Press Release From Boston Pride Launches the second stop on our statewide tour in Western Massachusetts The newly formed Human Rights and Education (HRE) Committee of Boston Pride, proudly announces its next stop on our 2011 - 2012 Community Forum Road Tour.  Wednesday, January 18 at the Unitarian Society in Northampton, the committee will continue its outreach in an effort to talk with members of the LGBT Community and allies to gather data on how it can best serve its constituents. At 6:30 pm, there will be refreshments and a welcoming statement by the LGBT Coalition of Western Massachusetts, Continue reading >>>

(Adds Food Bank for New York City survey of college-degree holders in the 10th paragraph.) Jan. 11 (Bloomberg) -- After losing her job as a consultant for nonprofits, Martha Heassler and her husband, a graphic artist, no longer had money for their daughter's college education, new clothing or groceries. "We're waiting for my husband's paycheck, and we probably have less than $200 to our name," Heassler, 55, said by phone. She now makes weekly trips to the Open Door Food Pantry in Gloucester, Massachusetts, to pick up bags of food that include meat, eggs, yogurt and vegetables. "Without the network Continue reading >>>

Every week, it seems another company lands in Western Massachusetts to join in the fight over the casino license that will be up for grabs in that region. The race for the Greater Boston license generates headlines almost every day, as Bob Kraft and Steve Wynn try to charm the reluctant folks in Foxboro while outmaneuvering proposals in East Boston and Milford. But it sure has been quiet lately in the Southeastern Massachusetts area where a third resort casino could be built under the state’s new gambling law.  The reason? The state Legislature gave the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe a head start Continue reading >>>

Condos are still cheaper, with a median price statewide of just under $260,000, according to The Warren Group, the Boston-based real estate publisher and data firm. But they are not that much cheaper, with the median price of a single-family home falling to $271,000 in November. Now let's be realistic here - the Boston area is terrible when it comes to starter homes. The few new homes that are still getting built or more likely than not to be overpriced, ugly McMansions. (You couldn't pay me enough to live in some of these cold looking boxes.) You are probably still talking about something that Continue reading >>>

The United States Postal Service (USPS) will hold a meeting Wednesday, Jan. 18 regarding the future of the processing center on Main Street. The processing center is on a list along with seven others throughout the state being studied due to budget cuts. The meeting will take place on Jan. 18 from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Walter S. Parker Middle School, 45 Temple St., in Reading. At the meeting, USPS managers will provide an overview of a proposal to move mail processing operations from the Main Street processing center into the Boston Processing and Distribution facility. They will also listen to Continue reading >>>

(NECN: Peter Howe, Boston) - Is the middle of Boston the right place for a maximum-security laboratory where researchers would handle and research some of the world’s deadliest bacteria and microbes?Boston University’s been arguing for years that its medical center campus can be, and three-and-a-half years after completing construction of the new facility on Albany Street, as BU continues to seek federal regulatory and court approvals to open the facility, it invited neighbors and media in for a tour Tuesday.Massachusetts Energy and Environmental Affairs Secretary Richard Continue reading >>>