Parklets a work in progress after underwhelming debut

Gioivanny Valencia checked out the Jamaica Plain public parklet at 351 Centre St. in Hyde Square.

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Officials at the Boston Transportation Department plan to make the new minispaces more welcoming.

Marty Walsh, the mayor-elect, often doesn’t just skip the Y or the R in his new job title. He skips them both and says, “maeh.”

In Walsh, students of Bostonese have found their avatah

Martin Walsh demonstrates what many believe to be the strongest Boston dialect in the city’s mayoral history.

JOANNA WEISS

Gun debate hate

The obstacle to a constructive conversation about guns is not a lack of public interest, ideas, and legal boundaries; it’s that the subject can’t be broached without people going insane.

The Patriots’ Stephen Gostkowski was a starter and reliever on Memphis’s baseball team.

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Patriots’ Gostkowski pulls from baseball experience

Patriots kicker Stephen Gostkowski was a starter and reliever on Memphis’s baseball team.

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Fans sought shelter in the concourse area at Soldier Field during a severe storm  during the first half of the Ravens-Bears game.

2 are killed by tornado in Illinois

Two people died as intense tornadoes and storms swept across the Midwest, causing extensive damage and prompting officials to delay a football game in Chicago.

Sybrina Fulton, mother of Trayvon Martin, spoke at St. Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church in Cambridge.

Mother of Trayvon Martin speaks at Cambridge church

Sybrina Fulton spoke at St. Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church of the grief she felt after her son was killed.

Boston medical teams going to the aid of typhoon victims

Doctors and nurses from Boston hospitals have joined the disaster relief effort in the Philippines following last week’s devastating Typhoon Haiyan.

British novelist Doris Lessing was photographed sitting on the doorstep of her house after she had won the 2007 Nobel Prize for literature, in London in this Oct. 11, 2007, file photograph.

Nobel author Doris Lessing dies at 94

Lessing explored topics ranging from colonial Africa to dystopian Britain, from the mystery of being female to the unknown worlds of science fiction.

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JEFF JACOBY

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Thanks to the changes already produced by the marketplace, a significant addition to the Civil Rights Act is superfluous.

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The Old Constitution House in Windsor was originally a tavern.

Stories to tell: Vermont’s African American Heritage Trail

The Heritage Trail comprises 11 sites including nine museums with exhibits featuring video, audio, and guided, or self-guided, tours.