Every year at this time I share books that that may interest my readers. What I have discovered in year two of the Trump administration is how I often have I sought escape into fiction, though it is fiction with a political edge. Waking Lions by Israeli writer Ayelet Gundar-Goshen is a thriller about a …
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"I'm a capitalist to my bones," Senator Elizabeth Warren this week told a New England Council audience of business leaders, adding, "We have to make markets strong so everyone can do better." Addressing an arcane and often dry subject, she made an impassioned pitch that good bankruptcy laws are essential to well-functioning markets. She was …
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Massachusetts voters voted in 2016 to allow the growing and sale of marijuana for recreational purposes, and last week the state's Cannabis Control Commission issued its first permit for a retail outlet. The doors are not yet open because the dispensary still faces another level of inspections and background checks. Statewide implementation was initially delayed …
Marjorie Arons-Barron 