Court upholds Cape Wind power plan
The state’s highest court upheld a Department of Public Utilities review in favor of a deal for National Grid to buy 50 percent of the electricity generated by the Nantucket Sound wind farm.
Foxborough votes against casino proposal
The 3-to-2 vote does not formally kill the proposal but signals that the board will not enter into negotiations with Steve Wynn over terms for having a casino in Foxborough.
Newt Gingrich hailed Mass. health law in ’06 paper
Now critical of the law, the GOP presidential candidate expressed support for universal health care in an April 2006 newsletter.
opinion
Union doors are slowly pried open in Boston
A new crop of union leaders are pushing to change the way unions do business by expanding the pool of new recruits, writes Farah Stockman.
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11 favorite dishes of 2011
The year began with a wave of tequila and yuppie tacos as half a dozen new upscale Mexican restaurants appeared on the scene.
City supermarkets shrink to fit
The convergence of major food chains zeroing in on the urban landscape presents a host of challenges, including having to work with less real estate.
Local theaters ready to bow to tweeters in the audience
“Tweet seats’’ for live-performance patrons to tweet about what they are seeing are gaining a fingerhold in Massachusetts.
“Put simply, a casino would be a permanent stain on the fabric on our town. A casino will not leave Foxborough better off for generations to come.”
Foxborough resident Greg MacKinnon
Inside The Boston Globe
Columnists
Metro
South Hadley paid Prince family $225,000 in settlement
The family of Phoebe Prince, who took her life allegedly in response to bullying, agreed not to sue the school district as part of the settlement.
Business
Harvard economist to be nominated to Fed
President Obama will nominate Harvard economist Jeremy Stein and another former Treasury official, Jerome H. ‘‘Jay’’ Powell, to the Federal Reserve Board.
Politics
On candidates, N.H. evangelicals finding little unity
The GOP race is notable for the number of candidates appealing to fundamentalist voters — and the inability of voters to coalesce around any of them.
Nation & World
Syrian army suspends its attacks on protesters
Crowds poured into the streets in the restive city of Homs after the Syrian Army suspended its attacks and Arab League monitors arrived.
Sports
Heat 115, Celtics 107
Celtics fall short against Heat
As they did in New York two days before, the Celtics valiantly rallied from a large deficit, but again they were bested by big shots down the stretch.
Food and dining
The French restaurant that inspired Julia Child
La Couronne has played host to many luminaries over the years.
Arts
MUSIC REVIEW
The Roots reign supreme at House of Blues
Though ostensibly promoting the group’s acclaimed Dec. 6 release, “undun,’’ the Roots’ sold-out, one-off show spanned the decades.
Opinion
“Children learn an important lesson when they see adults treat the joy of others as a priority worth spending time, money, and thought on.”
Jeff Jacoby
Ideas
The practice of sending commercially printed cards soon became wildly popular. It reached the United States in 1875…By 1958, the average US family mailed 100 Christmas cards.
Mark Feeney on the history of Christmas cards