City of Boston
Boston?s 218-page pitch leans hard on the region?s intellectual firepower and offers up Suffolk Downs as a site whose ease of development outweighs its distance from the heart of the city.
Shirley Leung
For Amazon, is Suffolk Downs the right fit? The mayor made the soon-to-be shuttered horse track that straddles East Boston and Revere the prime location for Amazon?s second corporate headquarters in Boston?s pitch to the online giant.
Five things you should know about Boston?s Amazon bid You might not have time to read all 218 pages of the bid that Boston submitted to land Amazon?s second headquarters. So here?s a rundown of some of the key points.
Boston?s Amazon bid relies in part on nonexistent transit options The city?s pitch to bring Amazon?s second headquarters to Suffolk Downs relies in part on transit projects that are not even in the pipeline.
Christopher Muther
Three N.E. airports top list of nation?s best. Logan isn?t one of them Logan has been making strides, but was still denied entry into this exclusive clique of top airports, decided by the readers of Condé Nast Traveler.
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Your Home | Kitchens & Baths
What to look for, what to ask, and what to expect when searching for an interior designer or decorator who can deliver the look you want.
Watertown-based athenahealth laying off about 500 employees The company said the job reductions would amount to 9 percent of its workforce, but it did not say how many of the cuts would come from Watertown.
Megyn Kelly tries dancing for ratings as her ?Today? show continues to falter On Thursday, Hoda Kotb appeared as a guest. They chatted. They danced. But critics hated the moment.
Julian Edelman?s memoir hitting stores Tuesday While he recovers from a season-ending injury, Patriots WR Julian Edelman is continuing his literary blitz with his memoir, entitled ?Relentless.?
Taylor Swift releases new track from upcoming album The Grammy-winning artist dropped another new single to precede her ?Reputation,? a new album coming November 10.
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TNT brought the viewer into the arena and captured the emotions of those in the building.
Alex Rodriguez tried to put a Yankees jacket on David Ortiz. It didn?t go so well David Ortiz and Alex Rodriguez may be colleagues now, but Ortiz has no intentions of supporting his former rival?s team any time soon.
The suit claims the Methuen Police Department had known for more than three years that a translation of drivers? rights given to OUI suspects was incorrect.
Mixed reviews for Walsh on handling of opioid crisis Does having a Mayor?s Office of Recovery Services make an appreciable difference?
Trump blames ?radical Islam? for uptick in crime in Britain President Donald Trump is misrepresenting a report on British crime statistics by blaming an uptick in police-reported incidents on ?Radical Islamic terror.?
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Paul Ryan?s Trump zingers spice up fund-raiser ?Enough with the applause,? he told the welcoming crowd. ?You sound like the Cabinet when Donald Trump walks into the room.?
Renée Graham
Spreading Trump Salt in every wound President Trump continues to demonstrate his complete lack of empathy.
SCOT LEHIGH
Forget the snows of yesteryear. Where are the deficits hawks of yesterday?
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A New York shipping company and its affiliates would shell out the money to pay for devastating wildlife damages incurred in a massive 2003 oil spill.
Framingham six-year-old, inspiration for #WhyNotDevin, dies of rare brain cancer Devin Suau, the Framingham boy who battled a rare brain tumor since his diagnosis earlier this year, died Friday morning.
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Why buying 20 boxes of pasta can be a smart financial strategy Taking advantage of deals to their fullest is key to a personal savings plan.
Photo of leashed black child prompts apology from Bridgewater officials School officials in Bridgewater apologized Thursday after a classroom photo that appeared to show two white third-graders holding a black child by leashes caused outrage.
Lupita Nyong?o recounts Weinstein massage encounter The Oscar-winning actress says she had an encounter with Harvey Weinstein in 2011 at his home in Connecticut.
Quentin Tarantino now feels ashamed he did not take a stronger stand towards Harvey Weinstein and stop working with him, he said in an interview.
The Season Ticket podcast Host Chris Gasper joins Pete Abraham to discuss the search for the new Red Sox manager and presents a special report on corruption in the NCAA.
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Nurse?s aide plays video games while a vet dies at VA hospital The Bedford VA hospital admitted its care for Bill Nutter was not ?up to our standards,? but the reality was uglier. Now, the FBI is investigating.
EDITORIAL
EU must intervene in Spain?s ?Catalexit? crisis Spain took steps on Thursday to crush Catalonia?s destabilizing bid for independence, one of the most severe political crises the country has faced in the last four decades.
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Dear Jeff Bezos: Come and help us build a better Boston together An open letter to the owner of Amazon, proposing a true partnership that rewrites the relationship between a city and the big companies that call it home.
Meet the animal scientist trying to grow human organs ? in pigs Without Dr. Pablo Juan Ross the groundbreaking creation of a part-human, part-animal chimera might not have been possible.
In his first game of the season, the Bruins? top center had a goal and three assists.
Every Thursday the Fairway Restaurant plays host to a group of older aviators from the Cape Area Pilots Association.
The town Nathaniel Hawthorne once described as a ?bare, bleak spot fit, for nothing but sheep?? is still largely off the grid (broadband is available only in town buildings).
Families who have lost loved ones in combat are asking America?s politicians on both sides of the aisle to stand down.
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It may lack the fit-and-finish of rivals, but there?s no replacing an American V8 and a drop-top.
By Wednesday afternoon, Philando Feeds the Children had collected more than $80,000, money that will be used to help students at several schools.
A quarterly earnings report from the 125-year-old industrial giant shows that the path back to sustained growth could be really rough.
In ?Smile,? Roddy Doyle spins the swift and devastating tale of a man who comes to know the consequences of laughing it off.
Andy Serkis?s directorial debut is a based-on-truth drama about a man who overcame the limitations of his disability.
Couple has teamed up with educators from Harvard and MIT to change the way dyslexia is viewed and create a better way to teach.
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More than half a million Rohingya refugees have flooded into Bangladesh to flee an offensive by Myanmar?s military that the United Nations has called ?a textbook example of ethnic cleansing.?
