The Patriot Ledger Satch Sanders headed for Basketball Hall of Fame As a player, he was a top-notch defender who was part of eight NBA championship teams with the Boston Celtics.
The Orlando Sentinel Ralph Nader plan to abolish athletic scholarships makes some sense Bob Ley of ESPN’s Outside the Lines hosted a fascinating round table debate based on Ralph Nader’s plan to abolish college athletic scholarships Monday afternoon.
Grist Magazine Mimicking Big Tobacco, Big Soda blows smoke in Philadelphia For years now, numerous commentators (myself included) have made comparisons of the food industry with Big Tobacco. The most recent example should become the poster child for how the most egregious tactics of tobacco companies are alive and well. Last month came the announcement that the American Beverage Association (the lobbying arm of soft drink […]
Roanoke Times Board wishes it could fine Virginia Tech more The fines levied last week on Virginia Tech for failing to raise an immediate alarm about a shooter on campus on April 16, 2007, have been criticized as low, even by the disciplinary panel that assessed them.
Columbus Dispatch New college grads find few jobs in their fields Since he got his bachelor’s degree in May, Kirk Devezin II has worked a little more than six months. He has freelanced. He has never made more than the $10.36 an hour he earned as a barista at Starbucks while he was a student at Eastern Connecticut State University.
Patrick zeroes in on alleged pension abuses The Patrick administration has asked the commission that oversees public employee retirement benefits to look at possible abuse of the pension system by longtime Boston firefighters who tried to calculate all their years on the force into their pensions, including times when they were not working.
Red Orbit President Obama Highlights Success Of Technology-Driven TechBoston Academy On March 8, President Obama paid a visit to TechBoston Academy in Dorchester, Mass.–a technology-driven, 6th-12th grade pilot school within the Boston Public School System (BPS)–to promote the importance of education in today’s society and to highlight TechBoston as a model school for student success.
MetroWest Daily News Experts say housing costs, schools key to job creation in Massachusetts A commission charged with finding ways of creating new jobs was warned the state’s job creation will continue to lag unless Massachusetts improves the quality of its public schools and lowers the cost of housing.
A Revolution in the Streets of Boston It’s hard to see that you are in the middle of a revolution while it’s happening.
State’s home sales worst in 20 years Massachusetts home sales went into a deep freeze last month with the worst numbers in more than 20 years, according to data released yesterday.
CBS MoneyWatch The Rich Are Different: They Have Jobs And Can Pay Down Their Credit Cards Borrowing by U.S. consumers has been falling since the middle of the recession – in the aggregate, anyway. Beneath the surface, people at the high end of the income scale have been paying down their loans, but the little guy is not making any progress, and in fact is facing higher credit card balances. But […]
CNET News Privacy: Facebook’s Achilles heel The folks who run Facebook are laughing all the way to the bank. They’re making money hand over fist, and all they have to do is sit back and watch as the people who comprise their product volunteer tons of incredibly personal information. Then they sell access to that information to any advertiser or other […]