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Business columnist and associate editor at @BostonGlobe. Host of @GlobeOpinion podcast "Say More." @GBH @BosPublicRadio contributor

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Boston Globe: Biotech is back, baby! A wave of life science deals is pumping cash into the sector.

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By Jon Chesto Verified, Shirley Leung Verified
| massbio.org
The following is an excerpt from Jon Chesto and Shirley Leung’s Power Play newsletter on July 23, 2026: Now, head up to the 40th floor at 53 State St. Drop in on Jeff Leerink and his merry band of health care investment bankers. Leerink Partners just handled its first pair of $10 billion transactions, representing Crinetics in its sale to Boston’s Vertex Pharmaceuticals, and GSK in its purchase of Cambridge-based Nuvalent. Everyone is bustling and hustling.
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Meet the Media 2026

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By Shirley Leung Verified, Jon Chesto Verified, Jon Keller
| Humanitix
Note: Doors open for networking at 8 AM. The program will run from 9 to 10:30 AM. Innovating. Pivoting. Creating niches in a fractured landscape. The regional media market continues to adapt and evolve to economic pressures, searching for sustainable models and launching new platforms within legacy media. Meanwhile, the challenges for local journalists only intensify. Their work is more essential than ever and yet they see their ranks diminishing and more disruption around the corner.
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Mayor Wu has been settling scores all winter. She could come to regret it.

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By Shirley Leung Verified
| EIN News
Could there be another reason? Well, the conservancy dared to sue Wu to stop the redevelopment of White Stadium in Franklin Park. That’s where the city is helping to build a $325 million stadium that will be shared with Boston Public School students and the new professional women’s soccer team, Boston Legacy. Some will argue that Wu is entitled to her grudges and has earnedas many as she wants after trouncing Josh Kraft, her only real opponent, by 49 points in last year’s mayoral race.
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