Ticker: Mortgage rates hit 10-week high; Jobless applications fall
The average long-term U.S. mortgage rate rose this week to its highest level in 10 weeks, a setback for prospective homebuyers ahead of the spring...
Bill O’Brien introduced as 37th football coach at Boston College
Bill O’Brien had personal and professional reasons for making Boston College his destination football job. Eagles’ Athletic Director Blake James officially welcomed O’Brien, his wife,...
Other voices: Don’t give up on border security
The glimmer of hope that Congress might pass a bipartisan border-security bill has been extinguished, at least for now. In killing immigration reforms that their...
Bruce Yandle: Bread and circuses, American style. Distraction and debt.
Primary season is fully underway and the election year is heating up. Then again, do campaigns ever really stop nowadays? There was a time when...
Dennis O’Hare: Why we doctors oppose legalization of physician-assisted suicide
Death ̶ the life event we will all experience, but no one likes thinking about. Proposed legislation in Minnesota, however, is forcing us to contemplate...
Lisa Jarvis: A cure for some kinds of hearing loss? Gene therapies are getting closer
Every once in a while, modern medicine can feel like a bit of magic. Like when a vaccine is shown to eliminate cases of cervical...