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U.S. Rep. Richard Neal of Massachusetts’s 1st District said Thursday that the House vote to advance the impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump to the public phase was “not done lightly" and came at a time when the nation found itself “at the intersection of history.” “The resolution provides the path forward for public hearings,” Neal said in a… Read more »

A member of the United States House of Representatives has warned that US Congress will not pass a trade deal with Britain if the Belfast Agreement is undermined. Richard Neal, the chair of the Ways and Means committee, spoke at an event at the Irish embassy in Washington on Tuesday evening, saying: “My committee handles trade, that is not going to happen. Period,” noting… Read more »

The effort to secure a Brexit deal moved past a midnight deadline Tuesday and into today with reports indicating progress on a package that the British government will present to the European Union in advance of a two day EU summit beginning tomorrow. Any deal formulated by British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will also have to survive the unpredictable attention of the British… Read more »

PITTSFIELD — Greylock Federal Credit Union is deepening its commitment to provide access to financial services and tools for those in the community who are under-served or don't bank. Greylock has opened its new Community Empowerment Center at its multimillion-dollar, remodeled original branch at 75 Kellogg St. "The CEC will be a space where anyone in our community can access the… Read more »

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 »