Mass. tech sector flourishing with challenges ahead

The state?s technology sector is thriving, but a dearth of talent is holding companies back, according to a new report.

Boston 2024 chairman John Fish (far left) said there were ?some mistakes in communication.? Pictured: Fish, Richard Davey, and David Manfredi at a hearing in Boston earlier this month.

Shirley Leung

The secrets boomerang on Boston 2024 organizers

The Olympic movement hit a new low this week, and even ringleader John Fish would have a hard time arguing with that.

House Speaker Robert DeLeo (left) doesn?t send e-mail. Meanwhile Governor Charlie Baker e-mails at all hours, texts staff, uses Twitter, and sometimes whips out an iPhone for selfies.

Globe Photos

On Beacon Hill, a digital divide exists

Send an e-mail to Speaker Robert DeLeo and he?ll probably read it ? after aides print it out for him. Meanwhile, Governor Baker e-mails at all hours.

Plastic sheeting protected a Roman sarcophagus called ?Revelers Gathering Grapes??  from water dripping  from the glass roof over the Isabella Stewart Gardner  Museum courtyard.

Sebastian Smee | Critic?s notebook

Gardner?s leaky roofs imperil art treasures

Leaky roofs have been the story of this cruel winter, but it turns out they are nothing new at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.

Ronald L. Walker II, former board chairman at the shuttered Roxbury Comprehensive Community Health Center, is now the state?s secretary of labor.

Adrian Walker

Ronald Walker?s baffling soft landing

Roxbury Comprehensive Community Health Center employees are still suffering, while Walker has a Cabinet-level post on Beacon Hill.

Dean Smart (far left) spoke Thursday during a parole hearing at the state prison in Concord, N.H., for William ?Billy? Flynn.

Parole board in N.H. frees triggerman in Pamela Smart case

In 1990, 16-year-old ??Billy?? Flynn and three friends carried out what prosecutors said was Smart?s plot to murder her husband.

DAN SHAUGHNESSY

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The same people who told us Revis liked it here are telling us that ? all things being equal ? Revis was going to go back to the Jets no matter what.

In N.H., a critical US Senate race is already taking shape

If Governor Hassan challenges Senator Ayotte, it could be the most prominent Senate campaign among two women in the nation?s history.

Boston Marathon bombing trial

Tsarnaevs? captive recounts fears, his pivotal escape

?This was the most terrifying moment, the most difficult decision in my life,? Dun Meng said in testimony Thursday of bolting from his stolen car.

KEVIN CULLEN

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/03/12/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/Kevin_Cullen_150px-8142.jpg For Dun Meng, a moment of responsibility led to a night of terror

If Meng hadn?t pulled over to text, he would have never fallen into the clutches of the Tsarnaev brothers.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2014/03/19/BostonGlobe.com/Magazine/Images/519072350.jpg Surgeon recalls when Tsarnaev was rushed into hospital

Dr. Stephen Odom was chief of trauma at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center when Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was rushed there.

A rendering of the Krystle Campbell Peace Garden in Medford.

Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff

Support bolsters Marathon victim?s kin

Hundreds attended an event in Medford that raised thousands of dollars for a peace garden in Krystle Campbell?s honor.

Ty Burr

Xerox mentality leaking into all forms of pop culture

For years, Hollywood has raided its past. Now other mediums are using the rinse-repeat playbook.

Hebrew Rehabilitation Center resident Pearl Daley was in favor of reducing the amount of alarms.

Nursing homes find bed, chair alarms do more harm than good

Hebrew Rehabilitation Center in Roslindale has virtually eliminated the alarms, used since the 1990s.

Lily James and Richard Madden.

Movie Review

Branagh?s ?Cinderella? remake has class

A new live-action attempt by Disney to revive one of Walt?s oldest fairy-tale adaptations with care, class, and Britishness.

The bold work reflects the creative spirit of the 82-year-old physicist turned biologist.

A physicist, biologist, Nobel laureate, CEO, and now, artist

Wally Gilbert?s life demonstrates the potential benefits of wandering deeply through different fields.

Not again.

Two straight months with a Friday the 13th? It?s not just bad luck

Triskaidekaphobics, your luck has dried up. And what?s worse, we?re getting another one in November.

Marathon trial podcast

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/02/28/BostonGlobe.com/Special/Advance/Images/podcast.jpg Days 5 & 6: The fourth murder and a carjacking victim?s harrowing account

This interactive timeline highlights trial coverage and a podcast featuring Globe columnist Kevin Cullen and WBUR reporter David Boeri.

Opinion

SCOT LEHIGH

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/03/12/BostonGlobe.com/EditorialOpinion/Images/Scot_Lehigh_150px-1120.jpg MBTA?s path forward

Massachusetts can?t allow the T simply to lurch along at its current winter-jinxed pace.

The Big Picture

A skier heads down a slope on Seegrube mountain above the western Austrian city of Innsbruck on March 10.

Dominic Ebenbichler/Reuters

The big picture

Hitting the Slopes

Here?s a look at some of those people competing in or enjoying the winter sport of skiing since the beginning of the year.