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Around the city, local politicians and everyday residents said they were pleased that the Massachusetts Gaming Commission deemed the huge company suitable to keep its casino license.
The ruling by the Massachusetts Gaming Commission appears to lift a cloud of uncertainty over the company?s $2.6 billion casino, set to open June 23 with a workforce of more than 5,000 people.
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DAN SHAUGHNESSY
A sweep of the 60-win Bucks did not seem out of the realm of possibility. And then reality happened.
Gary Washburn | On basketball
Miserable night by Celtics gives Bucks the momentum Kyrie Irving played his worst game with the Celtics and worst statistical playoff game of his career.
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TARA SULLIVAN
The Bruins would be wise to figure it out by Thursday night and Game 4.
KEVIN PAUL DUPONT I ON HOCKEY
This isn?t a previously sad-sack bunch of expansioneers.
ALEX SPEIER | ON BASEBALL
It?s been more than 80 years since a team won the World Series after an April as bad as Boston?s, but the team?s progress is unquestionable.
Fabian Wagner defended his filming following reactions from fans and critics that the episode was too dark, making it hard to see what was happening.
Jeneé Osterheldt | Appreciation
John Singleton never forgot the ?Boyz n the Hood? Filmmaker John Singleton, who gave us ?Boyz n the Hood,? understood black people didn?t need to be angels to deserve dignity and fair representation on the screen.
Harvard exhibit details the rise and demise of Lehman Brothers Harvard Business School exhibit traces the financial firm?s storied history.
Here?s a look at who is speaking at Boston-area commencements this spring Spring is here and so is commencement season, which will include dozens of speeches from noted leaders, academics, actors, and activists.
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SCOT LEHIGH
It feels as though Democrats are losing sight of the greenest, tallest tree for the broader public-policy forest.
Editorial
Thinking big on DCF reforms Charlie Baker can point to improvements at the Department of Children and Families, but he?s far from achieving systemic reforms.
OPINION | STAN ROSENBERG
Being a foster child is traumatic enough. Let?s stop making it worse We need to do better by our foster children.
We asked readers if they trusted the State Police. Here?s what they said Massachusetts State Police Colonel Kerry Gilpin and Governor Charlie Baker vowed last April to reform the agency. One year later, results are mixed.
We?re digging into climate change on the Cape. We want your help Climate change has changed Cape Cod, and it?s only going to become more apparent as the years progress. Tell us your experiences, what worries you, how you?re already affected.
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The attorney general appears before the Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday and may meet with the House Judiciary Committee Thursday.
Educators, parents, and community activists are coalescing around one candidate: Brenda Cassellius, a former Minnesota commissioner of education.
The school?s dean of enrollment at first thought its second-best ranking was a joke.
Fired Environmental Police colonel claims he was ousted for reporting misconduct An internal state review found former colonel James McGinn fixed two tickets, installed unauthorized surveillance cameras, and hired a private investigator to follow an officer.
New Hampshire is closer to abolishing the death penalty than advocates have seen in a generation Democrats and Republicans are building momentum in the state Legislature to abolish the death penalty in New Hampshire.
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Adrian Walker
As expected, Joe Biden has immediately entered the Democratic race leading the polls. But will his promise to restore dignity to our politics have staying power?
The stakes are high: Only one Massachusetts Democrat mounting a presidential campaign has ever lost the neighboring New Hampshire presidential primary.
Harvard, MIT share $9 million gift to study marijuana Described as the largest donation to cannabis research, the money ? from an investor in the marijuana industry ? aims to fill huge gaps in knowledge of the drug?s effects.
Clintons talk marriage, Mueller, and a little politics at the Opera House The former president and the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee spoke for 80 minutes about their past life in politics and even delved into their personal life.
Residents, advocates, work to save Chinatown row houses They are vestiges of Chinatown?s working-class immigrant community, the small brick row houses that line one of the last untouched pockets of a neighborhood that has been roiled by development.
As managing director of the Bain Capital Double Impact Fund, Greg Shell works to identify and fund companies that offer profitable models for addressing critical social problems.
The Needham house was assessed at $549,300, but sold for nearly a million dollars. The buyer, who never lived a day there, would sell it 17 months later at a substantial loss in what may become the next chapter in the national debate over fairness in college admissions.
Munch Madness | Final
And the Munch Madness winner is . . . Beloved Boston bakery Flour takes the cake over Sarma to clinch Munch Madness 2019.
Dating in 2019 is?complicated. Frustrating. Sometimes completely exhilarating. In Season 2 of the podcast, Meredith Goldstein goes deep on one of her most-asked questions.
108 Stitches Follow the Sox as they try to repeat as world champs, with insight and analysis from the Globe?s beat writers and columnists. Sign up here.
No player on the roster is more important over the long term than the reigning AL MVP.
One provision of the settlement calls for the company to provide a motorized wheelchair for a daughter who was severely injured in the blasts.
Senator Chuck Schumer said the two sides agreed that infrastructure investments create jobs and make the United States more competitive economically with the rest of the world.
But since 2000, the arrival of white residents is now changing nonwhite communities in cities of all sizes. Read more on realestate.boston.com.
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Edmunds highlights five of the best drop-tops on sale today.
Also, President Trump is threatening a ??full and complete embargo?? and sanctions on Cuba if its troops do not ??immediately?? cease operations in Venezuela.
Shares of General Electric jumped 10 percent before the opening bell after the company reported better-than-expected earnings and revenue for its second straight solid quarter.
Her musical led the field when nominations were announced Tuesday morning.
Activism is at the base of everything Provincetown Brewing plans to do.
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The Big Picture
In celebration of Earth Day, a look at photographs depicting the beautiful transformation of spring landscapes all over the globe.
The things home sellers do that can turn off buyers or kill a sale A hot housing market forgives a lot of mistakes, but that doesn?t stop sellers from undermining their own home sale.
The entrepreneur behind the cancer immunotherapy revolution Nils Lonberg didn?t win a Nobel for developing some of the drugs that changed cancer medicine. But they might not have happened without him.
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