The Massachusetts Gaming Commission, in its latest timetable revision, expects to award a lucrative Greater Boston resort casino license by mid-September.

Boston neighborhoods like Dorchester and Roxbury, with their farmhouses, fields, and orchards, were known for producing some of the tastiest fruit in 19th-century America, including the famous Roxbury russet apple still prized for taste and disease-resistance. Today, with the fresh emphasis on local food and sustainability, experts say they are seeing a renewed interest in planting backyard orchards. For an investment of about $400 for a 10-tree orchard and a little time, urban and suburban dwellers can discover the joys of growing their own fruit — even in small backyards. Continue reading Continue reading >>>

Following is a contributed piece by Philip Budden, who works in RBS Citizens’ Foreign Corporate Team in Boston. He has also served as the UK Consul General in Boston. In the world of foreign direct investment (FDI), Greater Boston is one of the places that attracts more FDI than one might expect. At one level, Boston – and the Greater Boston region – benefits from being part of the United States’ market. Setting up a ‘foreign corporate’ enterprise anywhere within the U.S. offers access to a huge and competitive market with a wide range of both affluent consumers and talented Continue reading >>>

Bay State foreclosure rates fell in Boston in March. Thomas Grillo Real Estate Editor- Boston Business Journal Email  |  Twitter Foreclosure rates in Boston Continue reading >>>

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Nor was he the only one to have this reaction. Here's mfunk: I don't understand why everyone spouts off numbers like in this article about the price a family can afford on a house based on some income. I just bought a house for high $300k's on my family's $150k income and that's basically the upper end of what we can comfortably afford. We pay our mortgage, all other bills, and still manage to save some money every month so maybe that is the discrepancy. But no way in h e l l is a family with an income of $68k affording the mortgage on a $300k house in anything remotely resembling a comfortable Continue reading >>>

By Mike Burke

The Enterprise


Posted May. 27, 2014 @ 3:03 am
Updated at 6:58 AM

There is no central database of D-day survivors. Here are others in Greater Boston we found with the help of veterans groups and senior communities. Paul Burke, 87, of Norwood The Newton Highlands native served as coxswain on a landing craft, delivering troops from a Wendy Maeda/ Globe Staff D-Day veterans Bernard Glassman (left), 98, and David Rosenthal, 94, of Revere large transport ship offshore to beaches in the British zone. Often under fire, he narrowly escaped death twice: once from shellfire while beached in Normandy, and the other time when a German submarine torpedoed the ship Continue reading >>>

ADL's Foxman's Armenian genocide remark "disingenuous" Published: Monday May 26, 2014 At the May 17, 2014 Suffolk Law School commencement at the Wang Theatre in Boston, Massachusetts, the Ad Hoc Greater Boston Committee for Human Rights distributed 1000 flyers (please see the attached document) to the graduates and their families and guests. The flyer protested Suffolk University President James McCarthy's invitation to Abraham Foxman, the Anti-Defamation League's national director, to be its keynote speaker and receive an honorary law degree.The main reasons cited by the flyer were Mr. Continue reading >>>

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