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Don Seiffert

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Managing editor of the Boston Business Journal. Dad. (he/him) #mapoli #SalemMA

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Don Seiffert @donseiffert.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Two people suffered “life-threatening” injuries after being shot by a gunman Monday afternoon as he walked down the middle of Memorial Drive firing off between 50 and 60 rounds with an assault-style rifle. www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...
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Two shot on Memorial Drive in Cambridge have ‘life-threatening’ injuries; gunman apprehended
The gunman was shot by a Massachusetts State Police officer and a former Marine, and was in a Boston hospital on Monday evening.
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Don Seiffert @donseiffert.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
"Many Gen Xers say they operated on the belief that if they paid their dues, their time would come. But as they enter what is usually the prime, C-suite career stage, more businesses are retaining their aging leaders or skipping a generation in search of the next ones." www.wsj.com/lifestyle/ca...
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The Gen Xers Who Waited Their Turn to Be CEO Are Getting Passed Over
More companies are holding on to older leaders or passing over a generation in search of the next ones.
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Don Seiffert @donseiffert.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
👏👏👏 For Shane O’Neill of @washingtonpost for coining the genius phrase “Björk Dörks” of which I know a few.
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ACLU of Massachusetts @aclum.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
BREAKING: A federal judge ruled transgender, nonbinary, and intersex people can obtain passports that align with their gender identity while the case against President Trump's executive order proceeds. We will continue the fight to stop this unlawful policy once and for all.
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Don Seiffert @donseiffert.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
This is purely anecdotal, but the Salem Market Basket seems surprisingly empty for a Sunday morning at 10:30.
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Don Seiffert @donseiffert.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
A board member of the parent company of Market Basket told the Boston Business Journal after news broke that CEO Arthur T. Demoulas was placed on administrative leave: “In some ways, the CEO made it a little more about him... he kind of took the company hostage.” www.bizjournals.com/boston/news/...
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Don Seiffert @donseiffert.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
A Boston company that converted shipping containers into greenhouse farms has gone bankrupt and shut down. www.bizjournals.com/boston/news/...
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Don Seiffert @donseiffert.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
“Extreme fear is driving the market”
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Don Seiffert @donseiffert.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
The Boston Business Journal newsroom was honored with the General Excellence award — the highest regional journalism award for newspapers of its size — for the eighth time in nine years by the New England Newspaper and Press Association. www.bizjournals.com/boston/news/...
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Don Seiffert @donseiffert.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
“With just a few weeks to go until Tax Day, Treasury Department and IRS officials are predicting a decrease of more than 10 percent in tax receipts by the April 15 deadline compared with 2024. That would amount to more than $500 billion in lost federal revenue.” podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...
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The IRS is in turmoil. Taxpayers are taking notice.
Podcast Episode · Post Reports · 03/26/2025 · 24m
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Don Seiffert @donseiffert.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Jay Fitzgerald of Hub Blog appropriately questions why the @bostonglobe.com @bosbizjournal.bsky.social's longtime "Fast 50" list with its new "50 fastest growing companies in New England," coincidentally announced the same week. hubblog.com/2025/03/20/t...
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The Globe drifts further into BBJ’s list territory
It’s not a big deal, but, as a former ink-stained-era wretch for both the BBJ and Globe, I find it curious the Globe has come out with its inaugural list of the 50 fastest growing companies in New …
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Don Seiffert @donseiffert.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
The Cybertrucks are falling apart. www.reuters.com/business/aut...
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Tesla recalls most Cybertrucks due to trim detaching from vehicle
Tesla said Thursday it is recalling nearly all Cybertrucks in the United States to fix an exterior panel that could detach while driving, the latest in a series of call-backs for the pickup truck.
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Don Seiffert @donseiffert.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
The Mass Department of Public Health has approved Dana-Farber Cancer Institute's plan to build its new $1.7 billion cancer hospital bizj.us/1qnayg
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Don Seiffert @donseiffert.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Huh, I wonder why that might be?
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Don Seiffert @donseiffert.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Big Balls, 19, is now in charge of the nation's cybersecurity efforts. www.wired.com/story/doge-c...
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DOGE Now Has Access to the Top US Cybersecurity Agency
DOGE technologists Edward Coristine—the 19-year-old known online as “Big Balls”—and Kyle Schutt are now listed as staff at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.
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Don Seiffert @donseiffert.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
As Salem State looks to finalize its designation as a Hispanic Serving Institution, the Trump administration is eliminating benefits for minority-serving institutions through executive order, reports @ditikohli.bsky.social www.bostonglobe.com/2025/02/19/b...
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Salem State was poised to receive federal funding to support its Latino students. Now that money is under threat. - The Boston Globe
The public university is looking to tap federal funding to support Latino students at a time when that may be more politically challenging than ever.
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Don Seiffert @donseiffert.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Plummer Youth Promise, a nonprofit that serves young people in the foster care system in Boston and the North Shore, will open a new facility on Winter Island in Salem this spring. It's a milestone on a $25 million project to expand and modernize the facility. www.bizjournals.com/boston/news/...
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Jess Aloe @jessaloe.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
My colleague @donseiffert.bsky.social looked at the annual reports of several big companies, including GE, RTX, CVS and more. He found that they’re quietly removing the word “diversity”
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Don Seiffert @donseiffert.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Public companies started filing annual reports a couple weeks ago, and several major Massachusetts employers have eliminated the word "diversity" entirely this year, although some of them said nothing has changed in their commitment to DEI goals. www.bizjournals.com/boston/news/...
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Don Seiffert @donseiffert.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
“It took less than a month for the second Trump administration to cool the enthusiasm of chief executives and dealmakers… Consumer sentiment is down and inflation expectations are rising.” www.wsj.com/business/dea...
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For CEOs and Bankers, the Trump Euphoria Is Fading Fast
The deals market had its quietest January in a decade, curtailed by the uncertainty delivered in the president’s first weeks.
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Don Seiffert @donseiffert.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
On Thursday, the threat intelligence team at one of the department's agencies recommended that DOGE members be monitored as an “insider threat.” www.wired.com/story/treasu...
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A US Treasury Threat Intelligence Analysis Designates DOGE Staff as ‘Insider Threat’
An internal email reviewed by WIRED calls DOGE staff's access to federal payments systems “the single biggest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.”
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Don Seiffert @donseiffert.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
"We’re seeing the repeated weaponization of even the most standard acts of journalism — an asymmetric kind of information warfare aimed at inventing clouds of controversy. But it’s hard to get stupider than the latest round," writes @joshuabenton.com www.niemanlab.org/2025/02/the-...
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The Trump war on the news media takes an even stupider turn
Now even a paid subscription is tantamount to bribery for some.
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Don Seiffert @donseiffert.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Experts question whether Edward Coristine, a DOGE staffer who has gone by “Big Balls” online, would pass the background check typically required for access to sensitive US government systems. www.wired.com/story/edward...
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DOGE Teen Owns ‘Tesla.Sexy LLC’ and Worked at Startup That Has Hired Convicted Hackers
Experts question whether Edward Coristine, a DOGE staffer who has gone by “Big Balls” online, would pass the background check typically required for access to sensitive US government systems.
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Don Seiffert @donseiffert.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Thousands Protest Trump Policies Across the U.S. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/u...
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Anti-Trump Protesters Across the U.S. Gather to Condemn White House’s Policies
In a grass-roots effort to kick off a national movement, organizers encouraged those opposed to President Trump’s actions on immigration, transgender rights and more to gather at state capitals and ci...
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Don Seiffert @donseiffert.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
This is the most consequential thing Trump has done since taking office. Don't let it be forgotten in all his bluster.
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Don Seiffert @donseiffert.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
"My political views on most issues are far from Budde’s. But I cannot fault her decision ... to gently remind the new president of a teaching as old as the Beatitudes: 'Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.'" @jeffjacoby.bsky.social www.bostonglobe.com/2025/02/02/o...
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What MAGA really hated about Bishop Budde’s homily - The Boston Globe
A religious leader has the right to politely challenge Trump to his face.
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Don Seiffert @donseiffert.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
In a roughly 40-minute news conference, President Donald Trump claimed without evidence that the deadly airline collision was a result of diversity initiatives and the Federal Aviation Administration’s hiring of people with “severe intellectual and psychiatric disabilities.”
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Don Seiffert @donseiffert.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Tonight I spoke to Erin McAleer, president and CEO of Project Bread, about how she heard the news that federal funds would be cut off the following day. Here’s a look at 24 hours of chaos in one Boston nonprofit in wake of Trump’s freeze on federal funding. www.bizjournals.com/boston/news/...
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Local nonprofit’s 24 hours of ‘chaos’ in wake of federal funding freeze - Boston Business Journal
“I think now we know that there's a little bit of a bullseye on these programs, so we can't sit on our laurels,” said Erin McAleer, president and CEO of Project Bread.
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Don Seiffert @donseiffert.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
"Don't give in to the lies. Don't give in to the fear. Hold on the the truth. And to hope."
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Don Seiffert @donseiffert.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
"In the event that an ICE agent asks to question or remove a student from their classroom, schools must obtain the 'specific, informed written consent of a parent or guardian' or a 'valid, judicial warrant signed by a federal or state judge.'” #immigration #Trump www.masslive.com/news/2025/01...
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Can ICE arrest students in school? What the law says and how districts are preparing
President Donald Trump reversed longstanding policy restricting Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrests in schools. Here's what that means for Massachusetts schools.
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Don Seiffert @donseiffert.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
"Like many things Trump is attacking or attempting to dismantle, in the end, he may be doing DEI a service by ... reminding Americans why ensuring equal opportunity is good not just for some Americans, but for all of us." @colettephillips.bsky.social www.bostonglobe.com/2025/01/24/o...
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Did Trump just save DEI? - The Boston Globe
DEI isn’t going away. Not because of the moral imperative but out of economic necessity.
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Don Seiffert @donseiffert.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
On Wednesday, Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorganChase, said the company would not back away from its #DEI efforts in response to activists. “Bring them on,” he said in an interview with CNBC. (via The New York Times) www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/b...
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As D.E.I. Programs Come Under Attack, Companies Like Costco and Microsoft Forge Ahead (Gift Article)
As racial and gender equity programs come under attack, many companies have scaled back. But Costco, Microsoft and others have forged ahead.
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Don Seiffert @donseiffert.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Budget cuts proposed today by Gov. Maura Healey would result in layoffs of 170 mental health case workers employed by the state — half of the total — who help thousands of the state's "most vulnerable residents," according to the union representing the workers. www.bizjournals.com/boston/news/...
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Don Seiffert @donseiffert.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
A N.H. man who got a 90-day prison term for his role in the Jan. 6 attack on the US Capitol said he’s declining the pardon that Trump issued. He said he’s a recovering alcoholic who did “stupid things” that day and got “involved with the wrong people.” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/01/23/m...
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N.H. man convicted of Jan. 6 crimes declines Trump pardon - The Boston Globe
Jason Riddle, who chugged from a bottle of wine inside the Capitol and also stole a book on Senate procedure, told CBS he would decline Trump's pardon.
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Don Seiffert @donseiffert.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Budget cuts proposed today by Gov. Maura Healey would result in layoffs of 170 mental health case workers employed by the state — half of the total — who help thousands of the state's "most vulnerable residents," according to the union representing the workers. www.bizjournals.com/boston/news/...
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Don Seiffert @donseiffert.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
"Trump’s popularity is probably at its peak — and modern presidents tend to start off their terms with high support before the public gets disillusioned... But there’s a difference between what the public supports and the mandate Trump claims." www.vox.com/trump-admini...
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Is Donald Trump’s agenda actually popular?
Here’s what the data says.
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Don Seiffert @donseiffert.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
I can't believe a whole industry supported Trump hoping he would give them something in return but are now feeling scammed. www.wsj.com/finance/curr...
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Crypto Thought Trump Would Bring It Legitimacy. Then He Launched a Meme Coin.
Industry players are concerned that the success of the president’s meme coin will undermine the credibility they have worked hard to cultivate.
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Don Seiffert @donseiffert.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
The Biden administration late last week took steps to ensure that two New England offshore wind farm proposals — Vineyard Wind and Southcoast Wind — would have all federal permits in hand ahead of President Donald Trump's inauguration. www.bizjournals.com/rhodeisland/...
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Biden OK'd two New England offshore wind farms at 11th hour - Providence Business First
Biden threw an 11th-hour lifeline to two New England offshore wind projects. But is it enough to save them, given Trump's executive order?
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Don Seiffert @donseiffert.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Biotech IPO window opens: A Waltham biotech focused on cystic fibrosis and a Boston biotech led by serial founder Gary Glick are the first Massachusetts hopefuls in 2025. www.bizjournals.com/boston/news/...
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget INSURRECTIONIST TRUMP!
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Don Seiffert @donseiffert.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
I might suggest that the big takeaway is not that Trump's having a "busy first day" or he's "reshaping the government" but that he's saying it's OK to assault police in support of him.
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Don Seiffert @donseiffert.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Just because Trump was inaugurated yesterday doesn't mean the media is not allowed to talk to the 48% of the voters who are still against him & his policies. Pretending the opposition doesn't exist is not journalism.
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Don Seiffert @donseiffert.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
It’s a double-reverse merger: Cambridge-based Decoy Therapeutics to reverse merge with a Houston-based biotech which initially went public in 2019 by a reverse merger with Boston-based Flex Pharma. www.bizjournals.com/boston/news/...
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a gymnast performs on a balance beam in front of a tokyo 2020 banner
ALT: a gymnast performs on a balance beam in front of a tokyo 2020 banner
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Don Seiffert @donseiffert.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
In Needham, ‘it’s neighbor versus neighbor’ ahead of MBTA Act zoning vote www.bizjournals.com/boston/news/...
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Don Seiffert @donseiffert.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Can we please all get on the same page here with Massachusetts population trends.
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Don Seiffert @donseiffert.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
This is a truly insensitive headline @barrons.com
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Don Seiffert @donseiffert.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
The lull in Massachusetts bankruptcies is over, recent data shows. Over, done, finito. www.bizjournals.com/boston/news/...
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Don Seiffert @donseiffert.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Call the roller of the big cigars! The muscular one, and bid him whip in kitchen cups concupiscent curds! Boston's Ice Cream Museum is open. www.bizjournals.com/boston/news/...
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Don Seiffert @donseiffert.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Apparently I spent two whole days listening to Cage the Elephant sometime this year and have no recollection.
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Don Seiffert @donseiffert.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Suffolk University adjunct professors have filed a complaint against the university to the National Labor Relations Board regarding unfair compensation (read: no pay) for mandatory faculty training and seminars. thesuffolkjournal.com/46176/news/a...
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Adjunct professors union files labor complaint against Suffolk
Suffolk University adjunct professors submitted an official complaint against the university to the National Labor Relations Board mid-November regarding unfair compensation for mandatory faculty trai...
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