Bloomberg Baystate Business for Wednesday, September 1st, 2021


- State House News Service reporter Colin Young on the 16 ballot question approved to go on the ballot by the Attorney General (3:57 )

- Dr. Paul Sax, Clinical Director, Infectious Disease Clinic, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, on the increase in breakthrough Covid cases in Massachusetts (14:42 )

- Bloomberg 106.1 meteorologist Rob Carolan on Ida turning into a Nor’easter as it crosses southern New England (28:05 )

- Bloomberg News reporter Jeremy Hill on the Purdue Pharma settlement (33:34 )

- Jared Dillian, editor and publisher of The Daily Dirtnap, and Bloomberg Opinion columnist, on Fidelity’s hiring spree (42:13 )

- Bloomberg News reporter Spencer Soper on Amazon recruiting pot smokers to meet their staffing needs (54:15 )

- John Regan, President and CEO of AIM, on the 30th anniversary of the Business Confidence Index, and his thoughts about mask and vaccine mandates (1:02:06 )

- Boston City Councilor Julia Mejia on the imposition of an eviction moratorium in Boston (1:15:46 )

- Boston Globe reporter Peter Abraham on the outbreak of Covid cases among Red Sox players who are not vaccinated, and how vaccine status is impacting employer/employee relations and productivity (1:25:40 )

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