Former Massachusetts governor and presidential aspirant Mitt Romney's campaign is flush with cash--his own. He has lent his campaign $17.5 million from his own substantial fortune. Buying the presidency is nothing new. But Romney must be surprised that he's having to dig deep into his pockets this early in the game. Jim Kuhnhenn of the AP writes, This year, Romney's personal contributions have been increasing as his fundraising has been declining. In the first......

Rumors have been blowing around in the windy Back Bay streets by their corporate headquarters for weeks. In 2002 the company was purchased for about $1.7 by three private equity firms, two of Boston, Thomas H. Lee Partners and Bain Capital, and the Blackstone Group of London and New York from the then French owners, Vivendi Universal. The publisher came back to the Boston roots they put down in the mid-eighteen hundreds. Today a deal......

. . . what will he do? Yes, it's true, the least surprising political news in the Commonwealth this year has finally broken, or half of it, anyway. Mitt Romney announced this afternoon that he will not seek reelection for a second term as Mass. governor. He declined, however, to go ahead and declare that he will run for President, saying instead that because he's accomplished all he set out to do, there's no point......

Just as Krispy Kreme starts to make an ignominious exit from the Commonwealth due to insufficient profits, mighty Dunkin' Donuts is at the height of its profitability and power, which is apparently the best time for its French owners, Pernod Ricard S.A., to sell it, along with its corporate siblings Baskin Robbins and Togo's (pronounced like the country, not like "to go"), a sandwich chain with two Mass. locations and many more on the west......