Hate Cape traffic? Join the (Bay) Club

Like the Cape but hate the bridge traffic? Waltham builder/developer Paul Abelite has a solution. He's building moderate-sized single-families priced in the mid-$500,000 to mid-$600,000 range on the grounds of the toney Bay Club at Mattapoisett, a...

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GM recalling Camaros for ignition switch problem

DETROIT — Ignition switches once again are causing problems for General Motors. This time the company is recalling nearly 512,000 Chevrolet Camaro muscle cars from the 2010 to 2014 model years because a driver's knee can bump the key and knock the switch...

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The Ticker

House approves state sales tax holiday The Massachusetts House voted 132-13 late Wednesday in favor of holding a state sales tax holiday on Aug. 16-17 — a week earlier than tradition — as part of an economic development package. The proposal must be...

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State senate OKs $11 minimum wage

Business groups fear it will be harder to make it in Massachusetts if a compromise bill passed by the Senate that would hike the state's minimum wage to the highest in the country is signed into law. Top House and Senate negotiators struck a deal Wednesday...

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Let’s Face it, selling your data beats fee

A big fat cry-me-a-river to all the outrage over Facebook's announcement that it will sell your web-browsing data to advertisers. Did people think Facebook was collecting data about your every move on the Web just to keep itself warm at night? Either...

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Firm fixing Health Connector site says it’s on target

The head of the company brought on to fix the Bay State's failed Obamacare website told the Herald he's sure his company can get the Health Connector portal ready for a crucial fall relaunch — but stopped short of a guarantee. "Our confidence level...

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Elizabeth Arden's Maine estate on the market

ROME, Maine — The former summer home in Maine of beauty magnate Elizabeth Arden is on the market for $765,000. Arden built the main house in the town of Rome as her summer estate in the 1920s then later established the Maine Chance Spa at the site....

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Senate approves $1B convention center expansion

BOSTON — The Massachusetts Senate has approved a bill that would allow for a $1 billion expansion of the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center. Supporters of the bill that passed 31-6 on Thursday say it is necessary to keep the facility competitive...

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Stocks open higher after string of down days

The stock market is inching higher in early trading following three days of declines. The Standard & Poor's 500 index is up three points, or 0.2 percent, to 1,933 shortly after the U.S. market opened Friday. The Dow Jones industrial average is higher...

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In transformation, One Fund to make last pay-outs to individual victims

The One Fund will make its final disbursement to victims this summer, awarding millions more to survivors of the Boston Marathon bombings and relatives of those killed, before transitioning to a fund supporting programs rather than individuals, a spokeswoman...

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