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On The Roof & In The Living Room, Startups Tackle Urban Farming
It took Courtney Hennessy and John Stoddard two years to find the right Boston rooftop for a farm — one that was big enough, could take enough weight,… -
BPR: The Donald, The Duckboot, The Door Jamb
CNN's John King joins us to go over the latest developments on the campaign trail, the budget deadline and the migrant crisisCongressman Mike Capuano was… -
The Sales-Tax Holiday: A Life Preserver For A Bigger Tax Issue
Last week, the Massachusetts Legislature overwhelmingly passed the 11th sales-tax holiday held over the past 12 years. For that action, countless… -
At Gravity Payments, No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
Gravity Payments CEO Dan Price made headlines in April by setting his company's standard annual salary at a very respectable $70,000. That meant that… -
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Friday News Quiz: Beez In The Trap
On the Friday News Quiz, Noah Wilson-Rich and Sean Cahill -- cofounders of Best Bees -- went head-to-head over the week's news. The two make it their… -
BPR's 2024 Postmortem
John King joins us to round up national politics, focusing on the ongoing candidacies of Donald Trump and Hilary Clinton, plus more from the national… -
Friday News Quiz Rematch: The Founders Of Taza Chocolate
Alex Whitmore and Kathleen Fulton co-founded Taza Chocolate in 2005, after Whitmore took a trip to Oaxaca, Mexico, and tried stone-ground chocolate… -
The Market Basket Uprising, One Year On
In June of 2014, Tewksbury-based Market Basket made national headlines with the strangest of occurrences — a worker walk-out in one of the region's most… -
Nail Salons And The High Cost Of Conspicuous Consumption
Harvard Business School historian Nancy Koehn joined Boston Public Radio on Tuesday, and she spoke about New York Times writer Sarah Maslin Nir's…