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10 Weekend Reads - The Big Picture

10 Weekend Reads May 22, 2021 6:30am by Barry Ritholtz The weekend is here! Pour yourself a mug of French Press coffee, grab a seat by the pool, and get ready for our longer-form weekend reads: • Can Horse Racing Survive? In a time of changing sensitivities, an ancient sport struggles to justify itself. Thoroughbred racing, once the most popular spectator sport in America, has been in decline. In the past two decades, the over-all national betting handle at racetracks has fallen by nearly fifty per cent. Dozens of tracks have closed. Racing is still a fifteen-billion-dollar industry, but the number of races and the size of the thoroughbred-foal crop are less than half what they were in 1990.  (New Yorker)

Boston s hospital chiefs moonlight on corporate boards at rates far beyond the national rate

Boston’s hospital chiefs moonlight on corporate boards at rates far beyond the national level Hospital chiefs and trustees defend this as boosting public-private partnerships, but critics say these board positions - some paying millions of dollars - raise troubling issues of conflict of interest and hospital priorities. By Liz Kowalczyk, Spotlight fellow Sarah L. Ryley, Mark Arsenault and Spotlight editor Patricia Wen Globe Staff and Globe Staff,Updated April 3, 2021, 4:54 p.m. Email to a Friend Globe Staff/Photo Illustration by Globe Staff As chief of Boston Children’s Hospital, one of the most esteemed pediatric hospitals in the world, Sandra Fenwick had outsized influence. After the pandemic struck last spring, she used that clout to lobby Massachusetts legislators for more money for telemedicine, a suddenly essential alternative to in-person visits.

At Mass General Brigham, a sweeping effort to unify hospitals and shed old rivalries

At Mass General Brigham, a sweeping effort to unify hospitals and shed old rivalries
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