Study backs Hanscom, Natick site
Hanscom Air Force Base and the Natick Soldier Systems Center pump more than $3 billion into the Massachusetts economy, and their closure would damage the state's vital technology and research cluster, according to a study released yesterday.
Insurance brokerage Marsh &amp; McLennan Cos., backing away from a February statement that it was committed to keeping its Boston mutual fund division Putnam Investments, yesterday said it was seeking to determine how much Putnam could fetch in the current environment.