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Report: Disney to give DraftKings $250M Boston fantasy sports startup DraftKings reportedly is getting a $250 million shot in the arm from the Walt Disney Co. In return for the investment, DraftKings will spend more than $500 million in advertising...

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Church to host conversion

A landmark Beacon Hill church has been sold, and early redevelopment plans call for a conversion to residential condos and office space. Boston real estate investment firm Ad Meliora and Rhino Capital managing principal Michael Olson bought the Church...

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Marty Walsh, Stephen Lynch want feds to nix local pipeline OK

Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh and elected officials representing West Roxbury are asking federal regulators to reconsider their approval of a natural gas pipeline proposed near an active quarry, saying it's a potential public safety nightmare and they...

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B.R.A. joins digital world

The Boston Redevelopment Authority has converted its 108 property leases into digital files and is preparing to audit if it has received all of the money it was owed after a scathing report last year faulted the agency for losing track of delinquent...

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Test drives city to expand ParkBoston

The city is expanding its ParkBoston app to all 8,000-plus parking meters, letting drivers pay remotely with their cellphones, after a successful pilot of the program in the Back Bay. "Thousands of Bostonians have already embraced this new and convenient...

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Clouds on horizon for solar projects

Municipal and large commercial solar projects in Massachusetts are being stymied by caps on net metering, which gives a credit for any unused energy they provide to the electrical grid, and incentive to install new panel arrays, advocates said yesterday....

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Dot proposal could aid ill with housing needs A 39-unit apartment building that would allow people with multiple sclerosis and other neurological diseases to live independently is being proposed in Dorchester. The Boston Home Inc., which operates a...

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Discount Chromebooks spur laptop war

The release of Google's cheapest Chromebook laptops yet — two versions priced at $149 each — is good news for students, and the cost will likely go even lower in the company's ongoing price war with Microsoft, analysts said. "It really is excellent...

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Keolis trumpets return, silent on fine payments

The head of commuter rail operator Keolis yesterday ducked questions about whether his company will pay its fines for its delays and cancelled service this winter, letting MBTA General Manager Frank DePaola answer for him at a press event announcing...

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BU business school gets $50M gift from graduate Boston University received $50 million, its largest gift ever, for its management school from retailing executive Allen Questrom and his wife, Kelli. The renamed Questrom School of Business will use the...

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Autodesk headed to Boston

Silicon Valley software design giant Autodesk is moving into Boston, and will open up its new Seaport District office to startups and researchers, focused on the construction industry's innovation needs. "The Seaport area for us is a perfect location...

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Lincoln Continental, the car of presidents, is returning

DEARBORN, Mich. — Elvis Presley had one; so did Clark Gable. It was even the sedan of presidents. Then the name vanished amid an invasion of newer luxury cars from Europe and Asia. Now, the Lincoln Continental is back. Thirteen years after the last...

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Revamped prayer book offers 
modern take for Reform Jews

Hundreds of thousands of Reform Jews will celebrate the High Holidays of Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur this fall with a revamped prayer book that puts a new emphasis on inclusiveness toward gays, lesbians and atheists, according to a Boston rabbi who was...

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AG developing online claims system for consumers

The state Attorney General's office is working on an online system for people to file claims when its Consumer Protection Division obtains judgments or settlements calling for restitution to consumers. The idea of an online claims system was broached...

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