
Jon Chesto
Business Reporter at The Boston Globe
Boston-based journalist on the hunt for Bay State business news, the perfect marathon, long-lost '80s tunes, and the planet's best chocolate frappe.
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3 days ago |
bostonglobe.com | Jon Chesto |Aaron Pressman
Governor Maura Healey has tapped prominent venture capitalist Eric Paley to lead the state’s economic development efforts and make the most of a $4 billion bond bill that lawmakers passed last year to support several of Massachusetts’ most promising industries. Healey on Tuesday announced that Paley, managing partner at Cambridge VC firm Founder Collective, will take over for Yvonne Hao as economic development secretary.
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1 week ago |
bostonglobe.com | Jon Chesto
Union leaders and three members of New England’s congressional delegation are heading to Boston’s industrial waterfront on Tuesday to push for federal policies that will promote domestic shipbuilding and ship repair work.
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1 week ago |
bostonglobe.com | Jon Chesto
Scott Eckert likes to call his new employer the “coolest tech unicorn that you haven’t heard of.”Eckert is referring to Mirakl, a Parisian e-commerce company that tapped him to be its first chief executive of the Americas as it pushes for growth on this side of the Atlantic.
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1 week ago |
bostonglobe.com | Jon Chesto
As President Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney talked at the G7 summit in Alberta on Monday, New England governors gathered with Canadian premiers in Boston to discuss cooperation amid Trump’s tariffs and talk of making Canada the 51st state. Governor Maura Healey hosted several New England governors and emissaries, along with New York Governor Kathy Hochul, at the State House, along with several Canadian premiers.
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1 week ago |
bostonglobe.com | Jon Chesto
Of the six bidders for the state’s big service-plaza redevelopment lease, only two are based in Massachusetts. And now one of those local bidders, Waltham-based petroleum supplier Global Partners, is fuming because it was passed over in favor of Applegreen, an Irish company backed by private equity giant Blackstone, for the hefty 35-year contract to redo the state’s 18 highway service plazas.
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