Medford housing chief faces scrutiny over hirings

The Medford Housing Authority has been under siege since last June when officials first began investigating allegations of favoritism in hiring and contracting under Robert Covelle.

Advocates seeking more Boston charter schools

Boston charter school operators and advocates are urging state education officials to lift a moratorium on new charter schools in the city.

Scientist’s death halts unique research at UMass

The circumstances of Lynn Margulis’s career and death provide a window on just how difficult the passing of a working scientist can be for a research university.

President Obama spoke at the Holocaust Museum in Washington on Monday, but the president has visited New Hampshire twice in the last five months. Mitt Romney campaigned in Pennsylvania on Monday, but the former Massachusetts governor will be in New Hampshire on Tuesday for a speech and victory party.

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Romney, Obama set to square off in New Hampshire

President Obama and Mitt Romney are fiercely pursuing the hearts and minds of the state’s notoriously finicky electorate in a race that could come down to the wire in November.

ATMs for the blind can be hard to find

Many Boston area ATMs and MBTA fare machines cannot be used by people who are blind, despite federal rules that went into effect last month requiring more accessibility.

ATMs adapted for the blind can be elusive

Despite new federal rules, many ATMs and MBTA fare machines don't serve the blind.

BOSTON CAPITAL

Europe’s economic agonies

The economic problems for the region remain far from solved, and the politics of austerity are increasingly difficult to sell.

John Maguire, the new Friendly’s CEO, grew up in Weymouth and frequented his local Friendly’s.

Friendly’s CEO goes from panini to patty melts

Hired away from Panera Bread Co., Weymouth native John Maguire hopes to revive the recipe that made the ice cream parlors such a successful chain once upon a time.

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Tooth Fairy economics

How much is a tooth worth these days? Some parents feel pressure to give an amount equal to their child’s peers. It’s keeping up with the Fairy Joneses.

Timothy Kostka, 26, spoke to attorney Bradford R. Stanton during his arraignment in South Boston Municipal Court Monday in the April 16 stabbing death of Barbara Coyne. He was ordered held without bail on the homicide charge.

Stabbing suspect wanted fishing gear, police say

Prosecutors say Timothy Kostka broke into Barbara Coyne’s South Boston home to steal high-end fishing equipment, fatally stabbing the 67-year-old during the break-in.

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Carrie Moyer’s “Frieze’’ (2009), acrylic and glitter on canvas, from “Interstellar’’ at the Worcester Art Museum.

art review

Carrie Moyer’s arts of seduction

On Baseball

Daniel Bard still views himself as a starter
Dan Kremer as a novelist and Rebecca Harris as his assistant in Merrimack Rep’s production of “Ghost-Writer.’’

STAGE REVIEW

‘Ghost-Writer’ muses on imagination, memory

Boston selects winning design to honor Poe

From Sunday’s Globe

Boston’s 10 largest hedge fund managers
The Lanzettas with the family’s newest member, Irene, last September at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, where Irene’s siblings witnessed her birth.

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Bring the kids into the delivery room?
Alpha Omega

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Return of the Alpha Omega family
The latest example of the seek-and-destroy culture in the NHL was the repulsive, crushing blow repeat offender Raffi Torres dealt to Marian Hossa’s head Tuesday night.

Sunday Hockey notes

NHL being ruined by violence and silence
“My intent is making sure the students who are identified are truly disabled,” said Mitchell Chester, the state’s commissioner of elementary and secondary education.

Special education policies in Mass. reviewed
“Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious” was made famous by the 1964 film “Mary Poppins.”

Ideas | The Word

America’s longest word is a contentious subject

Harvard Yard transformed by colorful chairs

Bicycle deliveries are on the rise in Boston

Metro

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Roxbury school gets arts boost

The Orchard Gardens K-8 pilot school in Roxbury has been selected to take part in a federal initiative designed to help turn around schools through the arts.

Business

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Walmart faces bribery fallout

The investigation by Walmart Stores of possible bribery in Mexico may prompt executive departures and steep US government fines.

Columnists

Joanna Weiss

Attacking drinking on campus

Adrian Walker

No room at Senator Brown’s office

BOSTON CAPITAL

Europe’s economic agonies

james carroll

Memorial overstates president’s innocence

innovation economy

Mass. game industry’s energy lures a veteran

Yvonne Abraham

Reducing weighty obstacles

juliette kayyem

The military’s persistent gender divide
Isolated long stem red rose bud. Focus = front of rosebud. 12MP camera.

joanna weiss

‘Bachelor’ lawsuit shows reality TV is behind the times

Jeff Jacoby

Obama a unifying force? Hardly

Dan Shaughnessy

So far, nothing but bad times for Red Sox

Joan Vennochi

Vatican targets nuns, not enablers of clergy sexual abuse scandal
Outside Fenway Park on its first Opening Day in 1912.

Bob Ryan

For longtime foes, nothing rivals in comparison

Politics

Political Notebook

Study: Romney getting better press than Obama

A study published Monday revealed that presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney has enjoyed more positive press coverage than President Obama in recent months.

Nation & World

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April northeaster dumps rain, snow on East Coast

A late-April northeaster unleashed a burst of winter in parts of New York and Pennsylvania on Monday, closing some schools and triggering power outages.

Sports

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Red Sox 6, Twins 5

The Red Sox had to hand it to Cody Ross after the first of his two home runs tied it in the seventh. His homer in the ninth won it.

Cody Ross powers the Red Sox

Ross hit a two-run upper-deck blast in the seventh to tie the game and a solo shot in the ninth to help the Red Sox beat the Twins and end a five-game losing streak.

Arts

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Book Review

Meredith Goldstein’s debut novel of the vicissitudes of friends at a wedding has been optioned for a movie.

‘The Singles’ by Meredith Goldstein

Meredith Goldstein’s debut novel, “The Singles,” is an engrossing, funny, and sometimes tear-jerking story.

Lifestyle

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A voice that inspires

Justin Hines, a Canadian singer-songwriter who has a top-30 hit on the Billboard charts, is considered a role model for others with disabilities.

“This technology is so damn liberating for someone who has lived most of his life having to rely on other people for bank transactions.”

Paul Parravano, 60,  who is blind

Magazine

The cover for the April 22 2012 issue

144 free things to do around Boston
The cover for the April 15 2012 issue

In an artist’s garden
The cover for the April 8 2012 issue

Are fat baseball players a problem?
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45 best breakfast joints around Boston

Opinion

“Today, about 80 percent of the world’s smokers live in low- and middle-income countries — places that can ill afford the health costs of the habit.”

Farah Stockman 

Ideas

“John Singleton Copley’s life, his works, and his words defined him as a subject of the British empire, not a citizen of the American republic.”

Jane Kamensky,  on the great American painter who wasn’t American