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Boston?s 218-page pitch leans hard on the region?s intellectual firepower and offers up Suffolk Downs as a site whose ease of development outweighs its distance from the heart of the city.
Shirley Leung
For Amazon, is Suffolk Downs the right fit? The mayor made the soon-to-be shuttered horse track that straddles East Boston and Revere the prime location for Amazon?s second corporate headquarters in Boston?s pitch to the online giant.
In East Boston, Amazon bid stirs anxiety as well as excitement As Boston and Revere bid to bring Amazon to Suffolk Downs, there?s a sense of excitement ? but also worry about gentrification and congestion.
Could the Amazon bid finally connect the T?s Red and Blue lines? The city?s pitch to bring Amazon?s second headquarters to Suffolk Downs relies in part on transit projects that are not even in the pipeline.
Gerald Herbert/AP/file 2011
While kids, on average, are spending about the same amount of time with screens as they did in 2011 ? about 2 hours and 20 minutes ? the big change is which screen they?re watching.
A Puerto Rican family gets sick baby to Boston for treatment Amaia Isabel Garcia Andino, 14 months, arrived in Boston Friday to undergo treatment for a serious heart ailment at Boston Children?s Hospital.
Veteran pilots swap war stories, barbs over weekly breakfast Every Thursday the Fairway Restaurant plays host to a group of older aviators from the Cape Area Pilots Association.
Watertown-based athenahealth laying off about 500 employees The company said the job reductions would amount to 9 percent of its workforce, but it did not say how many of the cuts would come from Watertown.
KEVIN CULLEN
The sweet, long life and sad, inevitable death of Elwood Adams Hardware The city of Worcester is pulling out all the stops to lure Amazon here. But there are no tax breaks, no big wet kiss, for the Elwood Adams hardware store. And so it will close.
BRUINS 6, CANUCKS 3
Bruins break out to beat Canucks Patrice Bergeron had a goal and three assists in his first game of the season.
CHAD FINN I SPORTS MEDIA
TNT covered Gordon Hayward?s injury with utmost professionalism TNT brought the viewer into the arena and captured the emotions of those in the building.
Alex Rodriguez tried to put a Yankees jacket on David Ortiz. It didn?t go so well David Ortiz and Alex Rodriguez may be colleagues now, but Ortiz has no intentions of supporting his former rival?s team any time soon.
White nationalist Richard Spencer drowned out by protesters Counter demonstrators greatly outnumbered white nationalist Richard Spencer?s supporters on Thursday at the University of Florida.
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Families who have lost loved ones in combat are asking America?s politicians on both sides of the aisle to stand down.
Charlie Baker slams Trump over comments on fallen soldier The governor said the exchange president had with the family of Sgt. La David Johnson and the follow-up ?was incredibly disgraceful and discouraging and depressing.?
George W. Bush?s unmistakable takedown of Trump Speaking at the George W. Bush Institute in New York, the former president didn?t use President Trump?s name, but his target was clear.
Trump on his Puerto Rico response: ?I?d say it was a 10? President Trump said that a ??fantastic job?? was done under the circumstances: ??I would give a 10,?? he repeated.
Obama tells Democrats to reject politics of division, fear ??Some of the politics we see now we thought we put that to bed,?? President Barack Obama said. ??That?s folks looking 50 years back. It?s the 21st century, not the 19th century.??
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School officials in Bridgewater apologized Thursday after a classroom photo that appeared to show two white third-graders holding a black child by leashes caused outrage.
Yvonne Abraham
They raised $24,000 for a friend with cancer. Turns out, she wasn?t actually sick When a Brookline woman told her friends and family she had cancer, they mobilized, at one point raising $24,000 for her. But it turns out she made it all up.
State Health Connector sharply raises 2018 rates Before President Trump?s announcement last week, the increase had been set at about 8.7 percent. Now, it will be rising 24 percent next year.
Lupita Nyong?o recounts Weinstein massage encounter The Oscar-winning actress says she had an encounter with Harvey Weinstein in 2011 at his home in Connecticut.
Quentin Tarantino now feels ashamed he did not take a stronger stand towards Harvey Weinstein and stop working with him, he said in an interview.
The Season Ticket podcast Host Chris Gasper joins Pete Abraham to discuss the search for the new Red Sox manager and presents a special report on corruption in the NCAA.
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Nurse?s aide plays video games while a vet dies at VA hospital The Bedford VA hospital admitted its care for Bill Nutter was not ?up to our standards,? but the reality was uglier. Now, the FBI is investigating.
EDITORIAL
EU must intervene in Spain?s ?Catalexit? crisis Spain took steps on Thursday to crush Catalonia?s destabilizing bid for independence, one of the most severe political crises the country has faced in the last four decades.
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newsroom commentary
Dear Jeff Bezos: Come and help us build a better Boston together An open letter to the owner of Amazon, proposing a true partnership that rewrites the relationship between a city and the big companies that call it home.
How a kidney stone taught me that medicine has changed me To me, a kidney stone wasn?t really a big deal. But to my husband, it was a family crisis.
Patrice Bergeron had a goal and three assists in his first game of the season.
Dr. Kathleen Mogul was a pioneering psychiatrist in women?s mental health.
The town Nathaniel Hawthorne once described as a ?bare, bleak spot fit, for nothing but sheep?? is still largely off the grid (broadband is available only in town buildings).
President Trump brought up the loss of John Kelly?s son as part of an attack on Barack Obama, dragging the family?s searing loss into a political fight.
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It may lack the fit-and-finish of rivals, but there?s no replacing an American V8 and a drop-top.
By Wednesday afternoon, Philando Feeds the Children had collected more than $80,000, money that will be used to help students at several schools.
Social innovation summit, entrepreneur meetup, and other notable events and things to know.
In ?Smile,? Roddy Doyle spins the swift and devastating tale of a man who comes to know the consequences of laughing it off.
Andy Serkis?s directorial debut is a based-on-truth drama about a man who overcame the limitations of his disability.
Couple has teamed up with educators from Harvard and MIT to change the way dyslexia is viewed and create a better way to teach.
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The big Picture
Here?s what a Globe photographer saw while documenting the devastation in Puerto Rico.
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