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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4 days ago |
bostonglobe.com | Jon Chesto |Shirley Leung
With the Trustees, music was a part of the bigger job. Now, as executive director of Passim, one of the country’s most prominent folk music venues, it’s his entire job. He oversees a $1.5 million annual budget with 10 full- and part-time administrative staffers, as well as a roster of around 40 part-time servers, teachers, and event workers — with shows and classes happening almost every day of the year.
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4 days ago |
bostonglobe.com | Jon Chesto
Pioneer Law president Frank BaileyPhoto courtesy of PioneerFor the past few years, Boston has essentially had two free-market-oriented, nonprofit law firms, the Pioneer Public Interest Law Center and the New England Legal Foundation. Now, there will be only one, as the Pioneer law center acquires some of NELF’s assets, including the brand name.
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5 days ago |
bostonglobe.com | Jon Chesto
Somewhere, Joseph Welch must be smiling. The bow-tied Boston lawyer at Hale and Dorr died in 1960 knowing he helped turn the tide against McCarthyism, by standing up to Senator Joseph McCarthy during a nationally televised hearing and berating the politician with the now-famous line “Have you no sense of decency, sir?”This time, it’s a Washington federal judge’s turn to do the berating, on behalf of Welch’s old firm, now called WilmerHale. The target of the judge’s scorn? The Trump administration.
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1 week ago |
bostonglobe.com | Jon Chesto
Today, Donohue estimates Arbella collects about $1.2 billion in premiums each year, across four New England states, compared with $200 million at its outset. While Donohue chaired the Arbella board since the company’s inception, he didn’t step in as chief executive until 2001, taking over for Richard Brewer.
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bostonglobe.com | Jon Chesto
Demoulas, his son and daughter, and a few top lieutenants were suspended by a three-member executive committee after months of tension over what the board members said was Demoulas’s refusal to cooperate on multiple business matters. The committee said it is also investigating whether Demoulas was plotting a possible walkout in retaliation. “The accusation that the management team . . .
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