Summer job hiring is off to a slow start for people ages 16-19, according to new employment numbers from the government.

Doris Bunte’s home overlooks Harbor Point, the old Columbia Point housing project, and there is something appropriate about that.

Just a decade ago, snagging a summer job was the thing to do. Nearly half of all teens nationwide either had a job or was busy filling out applications in 2000.

They’re in everything from Philip Roth novels to Woody Allen films.

The Massachusetts Amateur Sports Foundation has announced that Carlos Pena has been named to the Bay State Games Hall of Fame as a member of the Class of 2011.

Dave Portnoy, the blogger and would-be media tycoon, spends most of his life under very tight deadlines. Every 30 minutes or so, he has to feed the Stoolies, as his devout readers are known, so he spends his days searching for things to savage.

As the battered Bruins fan Blair Lekstrom can attest, mixing hockey and politics isn’€™t always a good idea.

Boston Globe writer James Alan Fox has yet another refutation of the claim by economists John Donohue and Steven Levitt in their infamous book Freakonomics that legalizing abortion led to a drop in crime rates.

Everybody who’s anybody in B.C. was getting his or her wager in before the puck dropped Wednesday night in the opener of the Stanley Cup final -and they were all confident of the outcome.

Though it has been part of the retirement investing landscape for more than a decade now, many people still don’t really understand the Roth IRA, or what it can do for them.

The college campus where the Boston Bruins’ legacy began has formed a rivalry with a Vancouver school for the Stanley Cup Finals.

Cross-city, good-natured natured bets are old hat in the NHL playoffs, with mayors and city officials often trading barbs and regional goods as they wager over the home team’s good fortunes.