Baker wants to give you $4,000 to help fill that open job
Still struggling to fill open positions? Gov. Charlie Baker wants to give you $4,000 to offer that job to a candidate who doesn't quite have the skills, degree or experience you're looking for. Then he hopes you'll spend that money training your new hire to get them up to speed.
Greg Reibman
Ready for lunchflation?
Returning to the office requires all kinds of adjustments. Including expectations about the cost of lunch. Lunchflation is causing sticker shock for workers and the another challenge for restaurants.
Greg Reibman
We've lost our local newspapers. Now what?
“There’s a big misperception out there that there’s a big hole in local journalism, and I think that narrative’s been created by people who aren’t sitting in local markets. That’s what Mike Reed, CEO at Gannett, told the New York Times last month.
Greg Reibman
Local newspapers aren't dying. They're dead.
Local newspapers aren’t dying. They’re dead. The Newton Tab, Needham Times and Watertown Tab & Press will stop publishing in May, their parent company Gannett quietly announced yesterday.
Greg Reibman
A familiar player brings amenity back to Wells Ave
Could the days of applicants scheduling job interviews just to qualify for unemployment benefits be behind us? In order to qualify for UI in Massachusetts, applicants are required to schedule interviews with prospective employers and report their interviews weekly to the state.
Greg Reibman
No place for this
The vast majority of American business run by Russians and other Eastern European immigrants have been loudly declaring they stand with Ukraine and denouncing Putin’s invasion. That hasn’t stopped harassment at some of those business -- including in Newton, as Annie Probert at the Globe reported earlier this week -- and across the nation.
Greg Reibman
The day I asked you to not shake hands
Two years ago today, Gov. Charlie Baker declared a state of emergency due to the outbreak of COVID-19. On that day, March 10, 2020, the number of cases statewide had spiked to 92, up from the 41 cases announced 24 hours earlier.
Greg Reibman
When emails aren't color blind
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Northland's next project
Northland Investment Corp. will be submitting plans for a 410-apartment complex located on seven acres directly behind the Marshalls store on Needham Street in Newton. The eight-story building will be proposed under the state’s 40B law and could enable the city to -- at long last -- be in compliance with the law’s 10 percent affordable housing mandate.
Greg Reibman
We're running out of everything
By the end of this year, 175 communities across Massachusetts (including the four served by our chamber) must have in place a plan for complying with a new housing law that aims to make it easier to build smaller, multi-family homes close to public transit. The new MBTA Communities Law could go a long way towards untangling the local zoning restrictions that have contributed to a housing crisis that undermines our region’s competitiveness and diversity and contributes to traffic, sprawl and carbon
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