For some reason of late, I’ve noticed the tagline of the automobile insurance company, Esurance. In case you haven’t seen it, it goes like this: “Technology when you want it, people when you don’t.” When I first heard this, I thought it would be a good tagline for connected health. Then I pondered further and […]

The law firm of Brookline resident and Boston attorney Howard Friedman was honored with the Pro Bono Award for Law Firms from the Massachusetts Bar Association at the Access to Justice Awards last month.

Rumor has it that humans are predisposed to gossip. Now, research has it, too.

Former Massachussetts governor–and former presidential candidate–Michael Dukakis tells Eliot that former Gov. Mitt Romney is the proverbial weather vane. Dukakis says, “He’s smart, he’s slick–unfortuntately, he’s slippery.”

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.