Federal emergency response coordinators said they handed out more than $3.5 million in disaster aid to residents after storms left roads and homes damaged last fall in Bristol and Worcester counties, according to newly released data.
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Editorial: Fragmented Mass. grocery market fills basket of local chain
It’s painfully obvious to anyone responsible for a family’s supermarket shopping that grocery bills in Massachusetts, especially the Boston area, have been rising at a faster clip than in most of the country, even as overall inflation has abated somewhat. Consumers who live in cities with higher costs of living tend to pay more for […]
Boston Marathon surges to record-breaking $71.2M raised for charity
This year’s Boston Marathon will go down in the record books. The Boston Athletic Association, marathon organizer, raised a record total of $71.9 million in funds that will be directed towards charitable causes across the region.
Mass. economists mindful of signs of softening
The economists at MassBenchmarks are taking a more dim view of the state’s economy almost halfway through 2024 and said Thursday that a recent slowdown in growth revives questions of whether the economy is headed for a recession or a soft landing. “The economy is not as strong as first thought and there is a […]
DCU reaches agreement to extend naming rights
WORCESTER — ASM Global, the city, and Digital Credit Union reached an agreement on Tuesday to extend the naming rights partnership of the DCU Center arena and convention center through the end of June 2027. DCU agreed to become the facility’s naming rights partner in October 2004 with the official launch on March 1, 2005. […]
Media News Group sues OpenAI, Microsoft
By Ethan Baron ebaron@bayareanewsgroup.com The Mercury News and seven other newspapers sued Microsoft and OpenAI on Tuesday, claiming the technology giants illegally harvested millions of copyrighted articles to create their cutting-edge “generative” artificial intelligence products including OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Microsoft’s Copilot. While the newspapers’ publishers have spent billions of dollars to send “real people to […]
