Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker joined other officials in Pittsfield today to mark the opening of Wayfair’s corporate call center.
Several state leaders gathered at the Clock Tower building where online home furnishing giant Wayfair plans to bring more than 300 jobs.
Wayfair’s billionaire CEO Niraj Shah is a Pittsfield native.
“When we transformed the way… Read more »
PITTSFIELD, Mass. — The welcome wagon was rolled out in earnest for Wayfair on Thursday as state and local leaders celebrated the "homecoming" of the Massachusetts venture to its founder's hometown.
The international home decor company's new $5 million call center will employ upwards of 300 people in the coming months in a newly renovated section of the Clock Tower Building… Read more »
PITTSFIELD — Mayor Linda Tyer introduced Wayfair co-founder and CEO Niraj Shah as "our new and old friend," during a ceremony Thursday welcoming the online furniture retailer's newest customer service center.
Shah told The Eagle that this homecoming has been a trip down memory lane: He drove by the homes he lived in while growing up in Pittsfield — on Williams Street and… Read more »
A congressional delegation led by Massachusetts Democratic Representative Richard Neal, who chairs the Ways and Means Committee, traveled to Mexico earlier this week.
Their mission was to continue work on a renegotiated North American Free Trade Agreement.
The group on Tuesday met with the president of Mexico.
A short time ago, WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Paul Tuthill… Read more »
House Ways and Mean Chair Richard E. Neal, D-Mass., joined both Republican and Democrats on Wednesday in criticizing President Donald Trump’s abrupt decision to pull back American troops and allow Turkey to move into northern Syria.
Turkey launched airstrikes and fired artillery aimed at crushing Kurdish fighters in northern Syria on Wednesday after U.S. troops pulled back, paving… Read more »
Escobar said she receives phone calls all the time, "people saying, I bless you, I bless you for doing this for us. Thank you so much."
Neal noted that some of the first types of credit institutions grew out of minority and ethnic populations because there were language and social barriers, and then gradually moved to workplaces. But the need hasn't changed.
"So it's the whole… Read more »
On November 12, 1985, two Springfield police officers made a routine traffic stop on State Street not far from the Friendlys restaurant. It was like any number of stops cops make many times a shift. Maybe they suspected something about the people in the car. Maybe not. Within hours one was dead, the other barely clinging to life.
Michael Schiavina and Alain Beauregard were just doing… Read more »
Rhetoric on both sides of the Atlantic has turned against free trade and against international cooperation, according to Stavros Lambrinidis, ambassador from the European Union to the United States.
"In practice, on the ground? No way," said Lambrinidis, a Greek lawyer and politician who also served as his country's minister of foreign affairs for three months in 2011 during the worst of… Read more »
The CEO of online retail giant Wayfair talked taxes, trade, and immigration with Massachusetts Congressman Richard Neal in Pittsfield Wednesday.
Niraj Shah – a Pittsfield native turned billionaire businessman – sat down with Neal at an economic summit at Berkshire Community College. His home furnishings company, Wayfair, is opening up a call center in Pittsfield that it says… Read more »
SPRINGFIELD — Revitalize Community Development Corp. and its JoinedForces initiative announced they were awarded a $730,000 grant from the Department of Housing and Urban Development to continue their mission to support military veteran families.
“We are one of 10 nonprofits nationwide [to receive] this particular grant that we were awarded,” said Colleen Loveless,… Read more »
