Friday, August 28, 2020
On Friday, MGM Resort International announced that the company is laying off 18,000 workers.
The person directing the shots? MGM chairman Paul Salem, one of the founders of Providence Equity -- and one of the owners of the WooSox.
Friday, August 28, 2020
The invitation comes in the day’s mail.
It looks legitimate and it promises a prompt no-pressure follow-up call before week’s end.
The call comes in as scheduled and the caller is courteous, professional, and prepared.
Friday, August 21, 2020
Former Vice President Joe Biden gave a highly confident speech on the final night of the Democratic convention. Biden's tone was grandfatherly and created a stark contrast to sitting president Donald Trump.
With just 74 days until the election, Biden offered a difference, but failed to discuss policies.
Friday, August 21, 2020
Accusation.
Such a bitter word.
Indulging in it seems to have become America’s favorite pastime.
Everyone is angry. Everyone is nasty. Everyone is guilty of some unforgivable social injustice. Except of course for those wonderfully tolerant folks without sin, who readily hurl the charge of bigotry, hatred, and intolerance at anyone who might disagree with them.
Friday, August 21, 2020
Audrey Strauss, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Philip R. Bartlett, Inspector-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the United States Postal Inspection Service (“USPIS”), announced the unsealing of an indictment charging Brian Kolfage, Steve Bannon, Andrew Badolato and Tim Shea "for their roles in defrauding hundreds of thousands of donors in connection with an online crowdfunding campaign known as 'We Build the Wall' that raised more than $25 million."
Friday, August 14, 2020
The owner of a deli shop in Massachusetts faced swift backlash after commenting online that U.S. Senator Kamala Harris made her way to the top through sex.
Michael Bartosiewicz, who owns Bushel ’N Peck in Grafton, posted to an anti-liberal page that the way Harris climbed to the top was “sucking c—k."
Friday, August 14, 2020
The catalogues arrive in the dead of winter. It’s quite cold, it’s very dark, and there’s usually another storm bearing down on us. It’s then that I immediately decide to forego cleaning the basement and I curl up on the sofa with the gardeners’ version of the Bible.
The catalogues bring hope. They bring excitement. They bring the promise of Spring, of better and brighter days. For gardeners, the arrival of the catalogues is their Opening Day, filled with the promise of a new and exciting season.
Friday, August 07, 2020
The largest newspaper group in the United States -- Gannett -- saw a massive decline in revenue in the 2nd quarter in 2020.
Gannett, which owns the Telegram and hundreds of other daily and weekly newspapers across the country, has been laying off reporters and editors, including two high profile members of the Journal’s newsroom -- sports columnist Kevin McNamara and editorial page editor Ed Achorn.
Friday, August 07, 2020
State Senator Michael Moore (D-Millbury) and a bipartisan group of Senators sent a letter to the MBTA to gain clarity on why the Transit SWAT unit was disbanded. The team, which captured one of the Boston Marathon bombers, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, was dissolved earlier this week.
Friday, August 07, 2020
It’s a peaceful early morning walk. The man walks slowly, deliberately, but purposefully.
Talk about solitude. Other than the occasional deer or coyote, he has the world all to himself.
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