As the job market finally starts to show signs of improvement, it might seem natural to want to take a closer look at the €œ”Best Jobs”€ and “€œHot Careers€” lists that media outlets of all stripes produce like clockwork every year. After all, who wants to stay stuck in a dying industry?

Finding Qatar on a map may be as difficult as learning how to pronounce the country’s name.

As a player, he was a top-notch defender who was part of eight NBA championship teams with the Boston Celtics.

Bob Ley of ESPN’s Outside the Lines hosted a fascinating round table debate based on Ralph Nader’s plan to abolish college athletic scholarships Monday afternoon.

For years now, numerous commentators (myself included) have made comparisons of the food industry with Big Tobacco. The most recent example should become the poster child for how the most egregious tactics of tobacco companies are alive and well. Last month came the announcement that the American Beverage Association (the lobbying arm of soft drink […]

The fines levied last week on Virginia Tech for failing to raise an immediate alarm about a shooter on campus on April 16, 2007, have been criticized as low, even by the disciplinary panel that assessed them.

Since he got his bachelor’s degree in May, Kirk Devezin II has worked a little more than six months. He has freelanced. He has never made more than the $10.36 an hour he earned as a barista at Starbucks while he was a student at Eastern Connecticut State University.

The Patrick administration has asked the commission that oversees public employee retirement benefits to look at possible abuse of the pension system by longtime Boston firefighters who tried to calculate all their years on the force into their pensions, including times when they were not working.

On March 8, President Obama paid a visit to TechBoston Academy in Dorchester, Mass.–a technology-driven, 6th-12th grade pilot school within the Boston Public School System (BPS)–to promote the importance of education in today’s society and to highlight TechBoston as a model school for student success.

A commission charged with finding ways of creating new jobs was warned the state’s job creation will continue to lag unless Massachusetts improves the quality of its public schools and lowers the cost of housing.

It’s hard to see that you are in the middle of a revolution while it’s happening.

Massachusetts home sales went into a deep freeze last month with the worst numbers in more than 20 years, according to data released yesterday.