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Fox News Tea Bags America (Warning: No Tea-Bagging Jokes Included)

Steve Young | Posted 05.15.2009 | Media


Steve Young

(Note: Given the context of the story, not referring to the double entendre comic effect of tea-bagging is perhaps the most difficult, yet most prodig...

Tea And Sympathy

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.14.2009 | Politics


Chris Weigant

If the modern-day Tea Parties are smart, they would try to educate the public and hang their whole protest on the "anti-bailout" hook.

Caroline Kennedy Can't Catch a Break

Michael Wolff | Posted 05.11.2009 | Politics


Michael Wolff

Now there's a mini-movement to make Caroline the ambassador to the Vatican, which, given the Kennedys' place in the history of American Catholicism, is rather a nice touch.

Google Launches Venture Capital Subsidiary

Dygest.net | Dygest.net | Posted 05.02.2009 | Home


The unit may help Google tap technologies that benefit the Mountain View, Calif., company's business, said Rich Miner, also a managing director of th...

After Facebook And The Obama Campaign, Chris Hughes Takes a Post At General Catalyst

Dygest.net Green | Dygest.net | Posted 04.18.2009 | Home


Chris Hughes, a founder of Facebook Inc. who later deployed the website My.BarackObama.com to build an online network for the presidential campaign, w...

I've Decided to Move to Print... for a Day

Arianna Huffington | Posted 04.17.2009 | Media


Arianna Huffington

When Metro US asked me to be guest editor of their daily newspapers in New York, Boston, and Philadelphia, it immediately reawakened my early love affair with print, going back to my school years in Athens when my father was a newspaper editor and paper after paper that he ran kept going out of business -- but that's another story. It was great fun working with the Metro staff picking which stories to feature. Here are links to some of the stories we selected, and my take on them. READ MORE What If Jon Stewart, Instead of John King, Interviewed Dick Cheney Someone needs to kidnap King and take him to a journalism deprogramming center -- preferably one run by Jon Stewart and his team. READ MORE

Northeast US to suffer most from future sea rise

AP | SETH BORENSTEIN | Posted 04.15.2009 | Green


WASHINGTON — The northeastern U.S. coast is likely to see the world's biggest sea level rise from man-made global warming, a new study predicts....

Great U.S. Destinations for a Romantic Weekend

Kim Mance | Posted 02.27.2009 | Living


Kim Mance

If you were going to take your spouse somewhere in the USA for a 25th wedding anniversary in May, where would you go?

One Year Later: Heath Ledger's Tragic Overdose Death Reminds Us More Must Be Done

Isaac Skelton and Meghan Ralston | Posted 02.22.2009 | Living


Isaac Skelton and Meghan Ralston

Drug overdose now ranks as a leading cause of preventable death, second only to motor-vehicle accidents. Accidental overdoses killed more Americans last year than did firearms.

Recession Leadership: Don't Kick the Cat

Margaret Heffernan | Posted 02.13.2009 | Business


Margaret Heffernan

I watched the President of a Fortune 100 company chew out a junior exec for a technical glitch. It was a 'kick the cat' moment: a powerful person taking their anxiety out on someone vulnerable.

Damn Yankees!

Tom Cosgrove | Posted 01.15.2009 | Politics


Tom Cosgrove

Obama's election night challenge to "look after not only ourselves, but each other" does a better good job of describing what public interest lawyers at Legal Services NYC do every day.

"Travelnomics" - What Travelers Might Expect for 2009

Stefanie Michaels | Posted 01.10.2009 | World


Stefanie Michaels

Travel Industry Leaders and Influencers, FAA, DOT, Virgin America, Share '09 Predictions in Latest Report by Cheapflights.com We're all asking ourse...

Obama and "The Chicago Way"

Martin Nolan | Posted 01.08.2009 | Chicago


Martin Nolan

How does Barack Obama fit into political Chicago? I found out at another convention, Boston's in 2004.

Woman in Labor Received Ticket, Forced to "Prove" She's Pregnant

Brett Ashley McKenzie | Posted 01.05.2009 | Living


Brett Ashley McKenzie

The couple actually pulled over in the breakdown lane to ask permission to use said lane, which is reserved for emergencies. And he expects her to prove that she's pregnant? How humiliating!

State Trooper Gives Traffic Ticket To Woman In Labor

The Boston Globe | Stephanie Ebbert | Posted 01.04.2009 | Home


All too often, the congested roads of Greater Boston conspire with the vagaries of childbirth to leave a mother-to-be in a car on the roadside at one ...

Social Return on Investment Remains Strong Despite Lagging Economy

Michelle Cote | Posted 12.12.2008 | Living


Michelle Cote

The Pan-Massachusetts Challenge was born 29 years ago when a young adventure athlete named Billy Starr decided to bring together a group of his friends to raise money to fight cancer.

Beantown Politics PHOTO SLIDESHOW

Rebecca Shapiro | Posted 11.28.2008 | Home


Rebecca Shapiro

Beantown may be the home for all things Red Sox, but with the race to the World Series falling short of the finish line, Bostonians are now focusing o...

A Classy Place To Meet, With A Bonus

New York Times | Perry Garfinkel | Posted 09.20.2008 | Business


Allan Kassirer makes frequent business trips to Boston -- eight in the last year -- and has back-to-back meetings in each one. His company is buildin...

Eyes in My Eyes

Terry Marotta | Posted 07.12.2008 | Living


Terry Marotta

I had a lesson in diversity last week in New Orleans, where I found myself so completely out of my element that when a couple of young women kept calling me "Ma'am" I took their tone for sarcastic.

Rocker Tells Huckabee to Lay Off Song

AP | HOLLY RAMER | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment


CONCORD, N.H. — The chief songwriter and founder of the band Boston has more than a feeling that he's being ripped off by Mike Huckabee. In a l...

Boston Phoenix Basks In The Spotlight

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media


What makes a trend again? Today the Boston Phoenix is getting the media love, with not one, not two, but three stories getting link love in medialand....

Report: Boston Is The New Silicon Valley

CNNMoney | Paul R. La Monica | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


Silicon Valley venture capitalists are looking far beyond their backyards for hot new dot-com startups according to figures from data provider Dow Jon...

Computers, Television Stolen From Romney Campaign HQ

Associated Press | GLEN JOHNSON | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home


A campaign spokesman for the former Massachusetts governor described the crime as "a routine burglary" and did not believe it was politically motivate...