A Stand-up Guy, The Boston Globe, January 10, 2010 (watch his Letterman performance)
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STATE PREDICTS BRIGHT FUTURE FOR JOBS IN SOLAR ENERGY, Boston Globe, September 9, 2009
The number of jobs in the state’s solar energy industry nearly doubled from 2007 to 2008 – and the numbers are on pace to grow sharply again this year, according to Massachusetts officials.
High-end or low, the area’s consignment shops offer a recession-era alternative to pricey malls
Boston Globe, March 26, 2009
Sarah Stedt of Hopkinton looks through items for sale at Still Life, a consignment shop in Hudson. (Michele McDonald/Globe Staff)
With every household item she puts up for sale at the Still Life Home Consignment shop in Hudson, Kathy Clark is confronting her economic fears, saving for the future, and simplifying her busy life.
Cashing out
Buyers and sellers seek relief in consignment shops
Boston Globe, March 12, 2009
Owner Annette Gray (left) of Options Home Consignment checked the price of a sofa with Ann Glannon. Business is booming, Gray said. (Photos by Bill Greene/Globe Staff)It was her husband Charlie’s job loss in December that spurred Laura Carroll to pull the beautiful Wedgwood Christmas plates from their Groton attic and bring them to the Home-Chic-Home Consignment shop in Westford last month.
AUTISM PROGRAMS TAKE A HIT, Boston Globe, February 15, 2009
Special-needs administrators are scrambling to replace funding for the next fiscal year as a state grant designed to help teachers deal with the increasing numbers of autism-spectrum students dries up this school year.
GLIMMER OF HOPE FOR TOWNS SHUT OUT OF ICE STORM, Boston Globe, January 18, 2009
Local and state officials were optimistic after a meeting Wednesday in Westford that Middlesex County communities would receive disaster relief that appeared to be out of reach after a mid-December ice storm downed trees, punched out power, and caused roadways to close across New England and upstate New York for several days.
COMPUTER STARTUP IS BRIMMING WITH CONFIDENCE, Boston Globe, December 28, 2008
WESTFORD – Alisher Fatykhov has spent his career dodging economic crises and landing on his feet.
AUTO DEALERS REVVING UP FOR FOREIGN CARS, Boston Globe, 12/7/08
Flush with cash while many car dealers are clinging to life, Ernie Boch Jr. has embarked on another safari.
IT’S ALMOST CLOSING TIME – FOR GOOD,
Boston Globe, 11/16/08
With every sale, workers at six area Linens ‘N Things are one step closer to the unemployment line as the national retailer liquidates its inventory and prepares to permanently shut its doors, despite the approaching holidays.
CAR DEALERS SEE ‘CLOSED’ IN THE FUTURE,
Boston Globe, 11/06/08
Ford, General Motors, and Dodge dealerships northwest of Boston are among the latest casualties in an industry hit hard by tightened credit markets and plummeting car sales.
ON WESTFORD’S ROUTE 110, BUSINESS BURSTS PAST THE BUST, Boston Globe, 10/26/08
Defying national economic trends, a 3-mile stretch of Route 110 is on the verge of a boom in commercial development, as a major car dealership and thousands of IBM software employees move into the area, a major developer pushes to build a lifestyle village, and another weighs his options.
LOCAL HIGH DEFINITION BROADCASTS REMAIN OUT OF REACH, Boston Globe, 9/15/08
Cable Access viewers in Chelmsford with wide screen television sets can compare Wolf Blitzer’s pearly whites with Anderson Cooper’s on CNN, but they’re unlikely to see the rich hues of the wading blue heron at the Crooked Spring Brook without petitioning Comcast.
, Boston Globe, 10/07/07
Bill Burr was shy. Steven Wright avoided the limelight. Henry Winkler struggled to read. Eddie Brill worried about his small-town upbringing.
