Economy
Inside Rhode Island’s Quahog Industry, A Shrinking Workforce
Connecticut Residents Bet In Rhode Island As Local Lawmakers Look For Ways To Cash In
Last year, the United States Supreme Court opened the door for states to make it legal to bet on sports. More recently, Connecticut lawmakers voted to send a bill that would legalize sports betting to the floor of the state legislature. But what could legalized sports betting look like here in the Land of Steady Habits? To answer that question, let’s take a look first at neighboring Rhode Island, which debuted sports betting in November.
Read MoreCleanup On Aisle 9: Robots Arrive At Grocery Stores Near You
Stop & Shop’s parent company, the Dutch food retailer Ahold Delhaize, has started deploying robots named Marty to more than 100 Massachusetts locations.
Read MoreOld-School Snow Sports Push Through ‘Winter Whiplash’ of Climate Change
The melty weather in New Hampshire this winter has been a big problem for some kinds of seasonal recreation — and it’s all part of a long-term warming trend.
Read MoreHistoric Willimantic, Connecticut To Demolish Rough Reputation
Two grand hotels on historic Main Street of Willimantic, Connecticut, hosted movers and shakers from New York and Boston during the golden age of train travel. The hotels fell into disrepair when travelers took to the highways. Cheap rooms, cheap heroin and social services drew addicts, sex workers and the unemployed. A plan to demolish the buildings may force the town to reconcile its grand history and troubled past.
Read MoreTolls Are A Familiar, And Unpopular, Road For Connecticut
It was 1983. Toll booths in Connecticut had already experienced decades of problems like accidents and traffic jams.
Read MoreExoneree Runs Smoothie Chain, Making Up For 27 Years Of Lost Entrepreneurship
From his prison cot, for 27 years, Mark Schand plotted out a retail empire he’d been envisioning since well before his arrest.
Read MoreHampshire College Looking For ‘Long-Term Strategic Partner’
Hampshire College said Tuesday it is looking for what it calls a “strategic partner” to help ensure the viability of the institution going forward.
Read MoreVermont Worries Dairy Insurance Program Will Be Affected If Shutdown Drags On
Farmers needing government loans confront empty offices and unanswered calls as the partial government shutdown drags into the fourth week. State officials are also concerned that the shutdown will result in a delay in developing a program designed to help struggling dairy farmers.
Read MoreFederal Shutdown Halts Some Environmental Conservation Efforts, Slows Others
Federal researchers in western Massachusetts study ways to protect migrating fish, backyard birds and urban trees. The government shutdown is keeping them home and away from their research.
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