Gannett CEO Mike Reed has cut staff at Massachusetts papers like he has everywhere else. So why are unions at the Ledger, Enterprise, Standard Times, etc. sitting out this strike? Perhaps because the employees are young and idealistic and focused on working to get ahead as journalists, and not on the profession as a whole. Which, I get it. But still: nothing will ever get better. https://www.bizjournals.com/boston/news/2023/06/02/most-gannett-unions-in-mass-won-t-take-part-monda.html

A Cambridge company that makes devices to help keep organs alive over long distances, called Paragonix Technologies, has made possible the longest-distance heart transplant ever.
https://www.bizjournals.com/boston/news/2023/05/25/paragonix-mgh-record-breaking-heart-transplant.html

Now is the time for public officials to tell us that if we're planning to travel this weekend, just give ourselves extra time. #mapoli

#Floridaman arrested after being clocked going 171 mph on a motorcycle in New Hampshire on Sunday https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/05/23/metro/motorcyclist-arrested-driving-171-miles-per-hour-new-hampshire-police-say/

Me: You're watching Monty Python?
Wife: This is King Charles coronation.
Me: It sounds exactly the same.

BREAKING NEWS: First-ever "poop pill" designed to work by rebalancing the gut microbiome has been approved by the FDA. A Cambridge company took more than a decade to develop it. https://www.bizjournals.com/boston/news/2023/04/26/seres-therapeutics-ser-109-fda-approval-poop-pill.html

If no one else has yet made the Dr Seuss/Sneeches analogy to what's going on at Twitter now, with people begging Musk to please remove the blue check from their account so that everyone doesn't think they're an idiot for paying for it, I would like to be the first. #drseuss #sneeches #twitter #mapoli