Ex-special needs chief is penalized
The embattled John Barranco was ordered to forfeit more than $750,000 in public pension money.
Novartis jobs cuts won’t affect Cambridge
The Swiss drug maker had unveiled a plan yesterday to eliminate 2,000 jobs, but none of the cuts will be made at its Cambridge sites, which employ 2,100 people.
Warren walks fine line on Occupy movement
Despite sharing similar anti-Wall Street rhetoric, Elizabeth Warren’s relationship with the Occupy Wall Street movement has been hard to pin down.
Ex-Goldman director surrenders to face charges
Rajat Gupta will face insider trading charges, making him the highest-ranking executive to be arrested in a federal probe.
food
If they grow it, they will eat it
In Lynn, members of the new program FoodCorps use a school garden to help fight childhood obesity.
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Norris Guscott (left) and Andy Harding are FoodCorps participants at the Robert L. Ford School garden program in Lynn.
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"If America doesn't embrace healthy eating, the future of the kids is going to be in jeopardy," said Harding.
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Kallista Vega-Alobaidi shows off one of the garden's tomatoes.
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Carrots are just some of the many vegetables that FoodCorps members grow at their garden in Lynn.
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Children rush to harvest bell peppers, the last of the season’s tomatoes, and eggplants, for which they have won prizes at the Topsfield Fair.
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From left, Ariel Garcia, 11, and Kevin Tes, 10, look through a wheelbarrow full of soil while tending to their school's garden.
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From left, Tatiana Louis, 11, Emely Florian, 11, and DiAvyon Sneed, 11, try to guess the plants that Guscott held up.
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FoodCorps service members taught students how to prepare a salsa with fresh ingredients.
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Emely Florian, 11, eats some of the the salsa they made fresh from the garden ingredients.
Brian McGrory
Off course at golf club
Though Willowbend Country Club on Cape Cod lost an age discrimination suit, there’s no indication of when their former employee will be paid.
Bob Ryan
Ben Cherington knows the territory
If Cherington has any illusions about the magnitude of being the GM for this team, Larry Lucchino will always be there to remind him.
“At this point, we see it as a systemic problem that needs to be addressed. It’s a crisis.”
The Rev. Gregory Groover, on busing for Boston schools
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Columnists
Metro
Veteran Flaherty seeks return to council
Michael Flaherty may be on the ballot for City Council, but more than anything Flaherty’s candidacy focuses on the mayor he lost to in a bitter fight.
Business
State economic chief's casino holdings raising questions
The state's top economic development official, who has pushed lawmakers to legalize gaming, bought stock in two Las Vegas gaming companies last year, according to records.
Politics
Campaign 2012
Perry includes flat-tax option in economic plan
GOP presidential candidate Rick Perry’s plan embraces a flat-tax option and proposals to slash federal spending and overhaul Medicare and Social Security.
Nation & World
Current, ex-N.Y. police accused of gun trafficking
Eight current and former N.Y. officers were arrested and charged in federal court with accepting thousands of dollars in cash to drive a caravan of firearms into the state.
Sports
On football
Why does Tom Brady own the Steelers?
Brady is 6-1 in his career against the Steelers, including two AFC title-game wins. He usually makes the Steelers’ pass defense look like the Patriots’ this year.
Food and dining
BY THE GLASS
Shopping one tier down: a fruitful decision on wine
Savvy wine buyers know that all vineyards may not be created equal, but some are distinctly more equal than others.
Arts
arts
O’Reilly’s photomontages meet Hartley’s drawings
“John O’Reilly, Marsden Hartley: Two Kindred Spirits’’ is a moving and provocative exhibit at Howard Yezerski Gallery.
Opinion
“Whipping up resentment against foreign trading partners is a time-honored way for candidates of both parties to score cheap political points.”
Jeff Jacoby
Ideas
“Warren has spent her career trying to coax more legal scholars to conduct the kind of hands-on research that has driven her own work, which remains relatively rare in the field.”
Leon Neyfakh, on the career of Elizabeth Warren