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☆ 3 seafoods that are only popular because of marketing schemes
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-14 | by ( Grace Eliza Goodwin | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Lobster used to be served as prison food and used as fish bait. Here's how some savvy marketing schemes in the 1800s and 1900s gave lobster, calamari, and Chilean sea bass the glow-ups they needed to become so loved. AdvertisementChilean sea bass is actually called Patagonian toothfishChilean sea bass is a top-dollar fish typically sold at ritzy restaurants alongside other luxury items like foie gras and caviar. But the name "toothfish" wasn't very marketable, so Lantz gave it a much more exclusive-sounding name: the Chilean sea bass — and Americans ate it right up. AdvertisementAnd when more popular fish became less available in the early 1970s, politicians and conservationists realized they needed a way to convince Americans to eat more plentiful fish like squid, the Times reported.

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☆ Why the Kennedys keep going back to their Hyannis Port compound after generations of tragedy
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-03 | by ( Raquel Laneri | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

In 1928, Joseph Kennedy bought a white-shingled cottage in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, for $25,000. The main home in the Kennedy family compound in Hyannis Port, Mass. AP/Stew MilneHyannis Port became a homeBefore the Kennedys rolled into Hyannis Port, they had trouble establishing a summer home in coastal Massachusetts. Eunice Kennedy, Jacqueline Bouvier, Edward Kennedy, John F. Kennedy and Jean Kennedy play footballl while on vacation at the Kennedy compound in June 1953 in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts. (His father stayed in his Hyannis Port bedroom for five days listening to classical music when he heard the news.)

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☆ First woman and LGBTQ person elected Massachusetts governor sworn in
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-06 | by ( Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +4 min

Maura Healey, the first woman and first open member of the LGBTQ community to be elected governor of Massachusetts, was sworn into office at the Statehouse Thursday, pledging to lead “with empathy and with equity.”Healey’s elevation to governor signals a political shift in the state’s top elected office from GOP to Democratic hands. Kim Driscoll, who served as mayor of Salem, was elected lieutenant governor with Healey and was also sworn in on Thursday. She acknowledged the soaring cost of housing in Massachusetts and vowed in her first 100 days to create a new secretary of housing. She’s only the second Democrat in the past three decades to be elected governor in Massachusetts. Nancy Lane / The Boston Herald via APThe new governor is also part of a record number of women occupying top state elected offices in Massachusetts.

☆ Why going into work five days a week is a thing of the past
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-28 | by ( Chris Cillizza | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

Though it feels like the five-day, 40-hour work week has always been with us, it’s actually a relatively new invention. As far back as 1866, Congress considered mandating a 40-hour work week, but the legislation stalled. In 1926, Henry Ford instituted a 40-hour work week for his employees, believing that was the optimal amount of time for someone to work in a week. But the 40-hour work week was – and is – routinely violated by salaried employees (and their bosses) who believe that working more is working better. “If you think about it, your contract with your employee is not just buying time,” Charlotte Lockhart, an advocate for a four-day work week, told me.

☆ Mayor Michelle Wu Wants to Change Boston. But Can Boston Change?
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-17 | by ( David Marchese | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +14 min

Mamadi Doumbouya for The New York Times Talk Mayor Michelle Wu Wants to Change Boston. “I was sworn in and immediately was trying to navigate Boston through the Omicron surge,” says Wu, who is 37. So the question is: How do we ensure that we can be a green and growing city that’s healthy and affordable for everyone? Does that rethinking involve abolishing the Boston Planning and Development Agency? For example, if you take the school system, there are a lot of structural challenges that our Boston public schools have been facing.

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