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Visit The Boston Globe Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Comment on this Scroll to top of page Jon Chesto Globe Staff  November 14, 2018 The toll that the opioid epidemic is taking on the Massachusetts economy now has a cost in dollars: $2.7 billion a year in lost business productivity from employees who aren’t functioning at full capacity, and $5.9 billion in lost productivity from people who aren’t even in the workforce.Then there are the costs to government: roughly $1.9 billion a year spread among various state agencies, and more than $500 million in public safety costs for cities and towns.These are just a few of the estimates in a new study from the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation that was funded by the new anti-addiction nonprofit, Rize Massachusetts. It marks the first accounting, according to its authors, of the economic toll of the opioid epidemic in Massachusetts. Advertisement The taxpayers foundation is hosting an event Friday … [Read more...] about Report shows opioid crisis is costing Mass. workforce billions in lost productivity

Tracy Jan and Kathy Orton, The Washington Post Published 4:10 pm PST, Tuesday, November 13, 2018 A pedestrian walks past a sign for the Crystal City Metro station in Arlington, Va., on Wednesday, Nov. 7. A pedestrian walks past a sign for the Crystal City Metro station in Arlington, Va., on Wednesday, Nov. 7. Photo: Bloomberg Photo By Andrew Harrer Photo: Bloomberg Photo By Andrew Harrer Image 1 of / 1 Caption Close Image 1 of 1 A pedestrian walks past a sign for the Crystal City Metro station in Arlington, Va., on Wednesday, Nov. 7. A pedestrian walks past a sign for the Crystal City Metro station in Arlington, Va., on Wednesday, Nov. 7. Photo: Bloomberg Photo By Andrew Harrer Some fear Amazon's arrival could … [Read more...] about Some fear Amazon’s arrival could deepen inequality in Washington, D.C., region

Lauran Neergaard, Ap Medical Writer Updated 9:32 pm PST, Tuesday, November 13, 2018 Fred Gmitter, a geneticist at the University of Florida Citrus Research and Education Center, right, visits a citrus grower in an orange grove affected by citrus greening disease in Fort Meade, Fla., on Sept. 27, 2018. "If we can go in and edit the gene, change the DNA sequence ever so slightly by one or two letters, potentially we'd have a way to defeat this disease," says Gmitter. less Fred Gmitter, a geneticist at the University of Florida Citrus Research and Education Center, right, visits a citrus grower in an orange grove affected by citrus greening disease in Fort Meade, Fla., on Sept. ... more Photo: Federica Narancio, AP Photo: Federica Narancio, AP Image 1 of / 7 Caption Close Image 1 of … [Read more...] about Gene-edited food is coming, but will shoppers buy?

Sections SEARCH Skip to content Skip to site index Business Subscribe Log In Log In Today’s Paper Business | Brexit Could Leave Wedding Bouquets Stuck at the Border Supported by From greenhouses in Kenya to auction houses in the Netherlands to florists in London, the shipment of flowers highlights Brexit’s potential disruption to trade. ByPeter S. Goodman Nov. 14, 2018 Far removed from the political posturing and brinkmanship that capture most of the attention in Britain’s long and tedious departure from the European Union, Yme Pasma is deeply enmeshed in the mother of all logistical problems. He is the chief operating officer of Royal FloraHolland, a marketplace where some 12 billion flowers and plants are sold a year — more than one-third of the worldwide trade in Inside hulking warehouses near Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport in the town of Aalsmeer, Royal FloraHolland operates a flower … [Read more...] about Brexit Could Leave Wedding Bouquets Stuck at the Border

Visit The Boston Globe Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Comment on this Scroll to top of page Tim Logan Globe Staff  November 14, 2018 After 14 months, dozens of site visits, and seemingly endless analysis from all quarters, Amazon on Tuesday confirmed that it will split its second headquarters between two places that many had predicted would make the most sense all along: the Washington, D.C., region, and New York City.The e-commerce giant plans to build one campus for up to 25,000 employees in Long Island City, Queens, and another in the Crystal City neighborhood of Arlington, Va. — newly rechristened “National Landing’’ – just outside Washington, close to the Pentagon and Reagan National Airport. A smaller complex, with up to 5,000 workers focused on logistics, will go to Nashville.Amazon — which initially launched a nationwide search for a single, region-transforming campus to supplement its Seattle base— said it … [Read more...] about Boston just not big enough for Amazon?