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The Phantom Gourmet’s Not-So-Phantom Agenda (Field Notes from the Minimum...

You’ve probably seen the Phantom Gourmet television show. It’s a half-hour of infomercials for local restaurants, and it’s actually kind of enjoyable. I have learned useful information, like where the...

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UPDATED – Get Ready: More Minimum Wage and Unemployment Insurance Talk

After a very slow start in 2014, the minimum wage debate is heating up again. Tomorrow, U.S. Labor Secretary Tom Perez will be in town to talk about President Obama’s plans to raise the federal minimum...

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Casinos’ Newest Ask: Let Us Take Food From the Mouths of Children

You’re probably thinking that I’ve got to be exaggerating with the headline on this post. But I’m not – here’s the story. Some of the corporations pursuing casino licenses in the state say that in...

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Our Corporate Citizens: Electric Utilities Edition

Earlier this month, the state’s Supreme Judicial Court pulled the plug on a legal challenge electric utility companies had brought to fines that the state had imposed on them. The fines were levied...

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Boston 2024: Dispatch From High Up Mount Olympus

I’m up here on Mount Olympus to check in on the gods who are behind the effort to bring the 2024 Olympic games to Boston. The air is a little thin for those of us who are oxygen breathers, but the...

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Dear Boston 2024: Just Be Your Rich, Well-connected Selves

After their initial public relations effort was panned as the work of a secretive, hubristic cabal, the folks who want to bring the Olympics to Boston in 2024 have gone back to the huddle to plan a...

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Boston 2024: “Gullibility, What’s Your Policy?”

By now it’s clear to everybody that Boston 2024 is having a public relations crisis over its plan to bring the Olympics here. You’re having a public relations crisis when you need to reverse yourself...

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In Other Sunu-news…A Question of Journalistic Ethics

Hey, you journos out there — a question: A columnist pens a denunciation of new federal policy. The new policy also happens to be contrary to the interests of a former client. Is disclosure required?...

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Who’s Going to Get Fulfilled at Amazon’s New Fulfillment Center?

Amazon is coming to Fall River. The on-line giant announced yesterday that it will occupy a million-square-foot building that’s going to be built on the Fall River-Freetown line. The new warehouse,...

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What Drives Us Crazy about Bank of America’s Chad Gifford

Globe business columnist Shirley Leung, on whom we can always rely to be highly attuned to the sensitivities of corporate executives, recently shared with us what drives retiring Bank of America board...

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