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How Massachusetts communities are celebrating the state’s first official Juneteenth

For more than a century, Juneteenth was a Texan holiday, then a Southern holiday, commemorating the anniversary of June 19, 1865, when General Gordon Granger of the Union Army told formerly enslaved people in Galveston they were free. Now it will be celebrated for the first time across the Commonwealth as an official state holiday. Continue reading →

Innovation economy

Life sciences is poised to be Boston’s dominant industry. Has the area become the Silicon Valley of biotech?

Since December, you can find six major indications that Boston is the undisputed center of the life sciences industry, a place where ideas and products that change ― and save ― people’s lives around the world originate. Continue reading →

Boston Mayoral Race

With housing at center of Boston mayor’s race, labor and developers are organizing to push candidates

A group of pro-development forces, led by one of Boston’s biggest construction unions, is marshaling resources and at least $500,000 to try to influence the mayoral race, in which housing has emerged as a major issue with little consensus on how to tackle it. Continue reading →

Crime & Courts

Death penalty should be reinstated for Tsarnaev in Boston Marathon bombings case, Biden administration tells Supreme Court

The Biden administration is asking the Supreme Court to reinstate the death penalty against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev for the Boston Marathon terror bombings. Continue reading →

Politics

After Dennis White, Boston could launch its first external search for a new police commissioner in 15 years. It won’t be easy

Acting Mayor Kim Janey, who fired White four months after he was placed on leave following the re-emergence of decades-old domestic abuse allegations, said Tuesday she will not make a permanent appointment before the November election. Continue reading →

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How Massachusetts communities are celebrating the state’s first official Juneteenth

For more than a century, Juneteenth was a Texan holiday, then a Southern holiday, commemorating the anniversary of June 19, 1865, when General Gordon Granger of the Union Army told formerly enslaved people in Galveston they were free. Now it will be celebrated for the first time across the Commonwealth as an official state holiday. Continue reading →

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Innovation economy

Life sciences is poised to be Boston’s dominant industry. Has the area become the Silicon Valley of biotech?

Since December, you can find six major indications that Boston is the undisputed center of the life sciences industry, a place where ideas and products that change ― and save ― people’s lives around the world originate. Continue reading →

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