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State looking for consultant to assess convention properties

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March Madness brings legions of fans, and big business, to bars around TD Garden

Hosting NCAA tournament games will bring in an estimated $17.6 million of direct economic benefits for Greater Boston.

Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in prison for defrauding FTX investors

A judge delivered a blistering analysis of Bankman-Fried and his crimes before announcing a sentence that was half of what prosecutors sought.

In 2005, this downtown office tower sold for $121.7 million. It just resold for $78 million.

It’s another example of declining values for office buildings as pandemic-era shift towards working from home solidifies, a change that has pushed vacancy rates in downtown office towers to their highest level in decades.

Biden administration restores threatened species protections dropped by Trump

The blanket protections regulation was dropped in 2019 as part of a suite of changes to the application of the species law under former president Donald Trump that were encouraged by industry.

Cambridge-based government contractor Draper is set to grow in Lowell

The not-for-profit government contractor, based in Cambridge, is negotiating a lease for a new 200,000-square-foot building on UMass Lowell’s East Campus, near the Tsongas Arena.

Applications for US unemployment benefits dip to 210,000 in strong job market

Massachusetts reported 4,648 “advance” initial claims for unemployment insurance last week.

Milton fires back on state lawsuit over MBTA housing law

Town officials filed a response to Attorney General Andrea Campbell's lawsuit that challenges the validity of the ambitious housing law itself, and the attorney general’s ability to enforce it.


Larry Edelman | Trendlines

Combating crooks delays handling of Massachusetts jobless claims

The state has ramped up benefits processing, but its performance is not back to where it was before the pandemic.

Four Canadian school boards sue Snapchat, TikTok and Meta for disrupting students’ education

The lawsuits claim platforms like Facebook and Instagram "designed for compulsive use, have rewired the way children think, behave, and learn."

RI FOOD CLUB

‘Uyghur food is art’: In Providence, Jahunger is this unlikely chef’s taste of home

Subat Dilmurat, the owner of Jahunger, was named a semifinalist for the 2024 James Beard Restaurant and Chef awards earlier this year.

COLUMN | DAN MCGOWAN

‘It has created a life for me’: A Rhode Island TikTok star worries about the fate of the popular app

Ian Brownhill has gone from being a struggling actor to a well-paid social media content creator in the past four years.

Its beach nearly gone, waterfront home on Nantucket sells for just $600k. What does the sale say about the island’s future?

The property was first listed in September for nearly $2.3 million. But after the shoreline lost a stunning 70 feet to erosion in just a matter of weeks, putting the home at imminent risk, the price plunged to $600,000 by year’s end.

VP Harris says US agencies must show their AI tools aren’t harming people’s safety or rights

Each agency by December must have a set of concrete safeguards that guide everything from facial recognition screenings at airports to AI tools that help control the electric grid or determine mortgages and home insurance.

Steward plan to sell doctors network comes under scrutiny from federal and state lawmakers

Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell pledged to “use every tool available” to address problems that might arise from the sale.

Settlement reached in lawsuit between Disney and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’ allies

The settlement ends almost two years of litigation that was sparked by DeSantis’ takeover of Walt Disney World’s governing district from Disney supporters following the company’s opposition to Florida’s so-called “Don’t Say Gay” law.