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Boston Business Journal. Co-author of We Are Market Basket. UConn Journalism.
Boston, MA
Joined May 2012
Sam Adams? Harpoon? Night Shift? Untold? How these Massachusetts breweries picked their names. https://t.co/vK99w3sh7D
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Seven Boston-area brewery founders reveal what's behind the names they chose for their breweries.
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The official campus bookstore for Harvard and MIT, @harvardcoop, will undergo its first leadership change in more than three decades in September. https://t.co/d1EaQAcw7D
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The official campus bookstore for Harvard and MIT will undergo its first leadership change in more than three decades in September.
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🧵One year ago today, Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich was detained in Russia for doing his job. He remains in a Moscow prison. We’re offering resources for those who want to show their support for him. #IStandWithEvan
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Two Boston-area schools are the first local higher education institutions to break $90,000 in annual student costs. https://t.co/LjBe6ICS2B
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Two Boston-area schools are the first local higher education institutions to break $90,000 in annual student costs.
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Boston is getting its third direct flight to the Middle East later this month, and first to Abu Dhabi, when Etihad begins flying out of Logan. https://t.co/zNrqpHZscx
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Boston is getting its third direct flight to the Middle East later this month, and first to Abu Dhabi, when Etihad begins flying out of Logan.
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"I knew that what I didn't want to do was create a store that was exactly like everybody else's." The head of Waltham-based Alltown Fresh talks about the upscale convenience stores — marketplaces, as they put it — and what's next. https://t.co/Mv4SEFN2YP
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The five-year-old Waltham-based chain Alltown Fresh is looking to expand its locations, which serve a niche of higher-quality and freshly made food at a gas station market.
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A former piece of UMass Lowell's campus on the Lowell-Chelmsford line is being developed into 340 units of housing. https://t.co/RpYrrltpkO
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The 30-acre site in Chelmsford will soon become a 340-unit housing development, with a completion expected late next year.
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@wentworthinst And how @MCPHS and the nonprofit Bioversity have teamed up to give life sciences labs more workers to make safety compliance checks, supply equipment or fulfill other tasks. https://t.co/uyLmFXgZlY
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The Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences has formed a workforce development program with a nonprofit spinoff of the Massachusetts Biotechnology Council.
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How @wentworthinst and its new Industry Corps program is working to connect more Boston residents to the growing construction industry. https://t.co/m5hOMl5pYj
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The first cohort of Industry Corps will complete the two-year program in April.
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Today is the BBJ's first Boston Works event, the first of four workforce events and special sections this year. Here's a look at some notable initiatives in higher education: How the state universities are shifting to more midcareer education. https://t.co/NxsNyjjUC0
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State universities across Massachusetts are enrolling far fewer students than they did a decade ago, but they’re playing a larger role in helping area employers add to their workforce.
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A Formula 1 racing simulator arcade is set to open in the Seaport next month— the latest indoor activity venue to open in the neighborhood. https://t.co/lhynE6ZlTM
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A Formula 1 racing simulator arcade is opening in the Seaport next month, the latest in a series of new indoor activity venues opening in the neighborhood.
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Two small faith-based colleges in Massachusetts have come under stricter financial oversight by the state’s Department of Higher Education, which has warned it "cannot confirm" that either school has enough resources to last through next school year. https://t.co/0uUJGC5AdZ
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Two small faith-based colleges in Massachusetts have come under stricter financial oversight by the state’s Department of Higher Education, which has warned it can’t confirm that either school has...
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Boston Beer Co. is marking its 40th anniversary this weekend. Sam Adams founder Jim Koch says he doesn't like looking back, but he did for just the occasion. https://t.co/PQIS3UNp5O
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Jim Koch says he only wants to look forward, and not backwards. But the company he founded, the brewer of Samuel Adams beer, is marking its 40th anniversary, and so Koch is being asked about the past...
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Amid a big housing shortage in the Boston area, take a look at the largest residential developments under construction, along with others soon to come. https://t.co/4rkBotpyiU
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There isn’t enough new housing being built in the Boston area to suddenly make the region affordable. But builders are finding places to build. Here's where.
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Take a look at endowments of the 20 richest Massachusetts colleges and how they've trended in recent years. https://t.co/yVMVCL5nsO
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Endowments at the state's 20 richest colleges rose nearly 30% in three years.
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QR codes? Paper menus? Self check-in? Four years after the pandemic hit, the hospitality industry is still figuring out how best to tech, including the odd circumstance of taking some tech away in favor of personal service. https://t.co/NNe7xfD3LJ
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Hotels and restaurants rushed to put in place new tech, like QR codes, when the pandemic hit. Now the hospitality industry is in the odd position of rolling some of that back in the name of personal...
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"We’ve got great darts. We know how to make darts. We have great indoor entertainment games. What is the next logical expansion from there?" A Lynn-based dart maker sees growth opportunity, both in darts and other games. https://t.co/bBs7vHD69m
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The CEO of a longtime dart distributor in Lynn aims to broaden his company's reach beyond darts to other games, including pickleball and cornhole.
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Boston's @boloco planned to close its last two city restaurants at the end of 2023. It has gotten a reprieve, but its founder doesn't expect a return to Boloco's heyday. https://t.co/QBSHdRbGiN
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Boloco's final two Boston restaurants, and a third in New Hampshire, were scheduled to close at the end of 2023. But they have been given a reprieve. Owner John Pepper spoke to the Business Journal...
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The unveiling of The Embrace monument on Boston Common a year ago was not just a milestone, but the start of a broader effort by a nonprofit that will now be spun out on its own. https://t.co/3vmLIqrKKM
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The unveiling of The Embrace monument on Boston Common a year ago was not just a milestone, but the start of a broader effort by a nonprofit that will now be spun out on its own.
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"When our back is up against the wall, we’ll make sure that we’re fighting hard to preserve everything that we hold dear in our country, starting with our democratic institutions.." Boston's @EMKInstitute moves further beyond a field trip destination. https://t.co/t8ZZykVAHy
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Adam Hinds, the Kennedy Institute’s CEO for just over a year, sees a vital role for the organization during a time of deep political divisions.
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