Sox and the Recession

As part of an occasional series of conversations to gauge the impact of the recession on Massachusetts, WBUR's Bob Oakes visited Fenway as crews were putting the finishing touches on the ballpark, and spoke in the bleachers to Red Sox C.E.O and President Larry Lucchino about how deeply the economy is affecting the team.

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Boston Globe's Future

The future of the Boston Globe is very much up in the air.



The struggling newspaper's corporate parent the New York Times said Friday that unless it got $20 million worth of union concessions in the next month, it would shut down the Globe altogether.



Is that a real possibility? To try and answer that question, Bob Oakes speaks with Lou Urenick, the head of the Journalism department at Boston University.

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Economy: Change won't be so fast

President-elect Barack Obama warned on Friday that economic recovery won’t be as fast as he completed his Cabinet, after naming the secretaries of transportation, labor, trade and small business policy.

“It will take longer than any of us would like — years, not months. It will get worse before it gets better. But it will get better if we are willing to act boldly and swiftly,” Obama said — and he promised to do just that.

Obama declined to put a price tag on an economic stimulus plan he will propose, but signaled that it could be huge because of his priorities: creating jobs, getting the economy back on track and fixing financial markets among them. “That is going to cost a significant amount of money on the front end,” he said.

Black Friday

Now that the Presidential election is over and the Obama/ Biden team have been elected, I've been in somewhat of a rut, now having to deal with the lack of back-handed b*tch slapping that I had been subjected to for the past 8 months.

Some folks, particularly Blacks and Hispanics, have an extra bop in their step and I even witnessed a White gentleman, probably in his late 50s, give the universal 'Black Power'--clinched fist held in the sky and head bowed-- to a Black gentleman dressed in Army fatigues near City Hall.

Black Friday, the day after the Thanksgiving, is the day where many retailers hope to sell their way out of the red. This year, the landscape is very different and from a recent trip to the Wrentham Premium Outlets, one would not think that we're in the midst of a recession.

As many folks plan their attack on what stores they're going hit up, here is a little gift that should make that planned attack that much better.

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