Blue Cross-Blue Shield re-filed its base rate increases for the 3rd quarter, cutting its increase for its HMO from 1.2 percent to 0.2 percent and the increase for its non-HMO product from 2.7 percent to 1.4 percent, the Massachusetts Division of Insurance announced today. This cut by the largest health insurers in Massachusetts dropped the [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Communications Commission voted Friday to require broadcast TV stations to post online the advertising rates they charge political candidates and advocacy groups. The vote came despite strong opposition from many broadcasters, who have argued that making sensitive advertising rate information so publically available will undermine stations’ competitiveness and give advertisers [...]
LANDING THAT FIRST JOB Passionate pleas, social media management, the real deal on Career Services and more QUICK TIPS ON LANDING A FIRST JOB From Stephanie Kaplan – Her Campus Media Co-Founder, CEO & Editor-in-Chief 1) Have a passion for the job you are applying for 2) Crowd-source your resume 3) Never turn down an [...]
Mayor Thomas M. Menino announced that the Boston Redevelopment Authority’s Board of Directors approved several projects at its meeting last week. The 411D Street project in the Innovation District will add two new buildings with approximately 197 units of new rental housing, including 26 innovation units to the neighborhood. A former nursing home in Brighton, [...]
The FamilyBiz Q&A column provides answers to your family business-oriented questions from the subject matter experts at Thomas D. Davidow & Associates. I just worked with a partnership of four where one of the partners had gone off the “reservation” and they were stuck. They had asked him to resign and he had refused. There [...]
The FamilyBiz Q&A column provides answers to your family business-oriented questions from the subject matter experts at Thomas D. Davidow & Associates. What is the biggest obstacle to inter-generational dialogue about succession? Actually, there are two obstacles – starting the dialogue and then sustaining it. Starting the dialogue: The question is: where do you begin? [...]
The Detroit News has published an extensive report on tax identity theft that is well worth reading, and more than a little scary. This is not the kind of fraud that results from credit card theft; instead, it is the result of stealing social security numbers, most usually, from the deceased. The federal Social Security Administration publishes [...]
Energy and Environmental Affairs Secretary Richard K. Sullivan Jr. announced $200,000 in grants for energy efficiency projects to municipal power companies serving four communities: Chicopee, Ipswich, Reading and Westfield. “Massachusetts is No. 1 in the nation for energy efficiency because we continue to support energy saving programs that help businesses, residents, and municipalities save energy [...]
A new report from McGraw Hill this week shows non-building construction in Massachusetts dropped 87% in one year, underscoring again the clear need for infrastructure investment in the commonwealth. The study found overall spending on roads, bridges, tunnels and other projects has hit a new low of $84 million, down from nearly $630 million in [...]
In his annual State of the Commonwealth address tonight, Governor Deval Patrick will propose a set of reforms to help Massachusetts community colleges provide residents looking for work with the skills they need to help fill the estimated 120,000 current job openings in the state. The proposal calls for the fifteen individual community college campuses [...]
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