Faneuil Hall?s promised retail revolution? We?re still waiting

The company that manages the marketplace wants to make its shops and restaurants more reflective of Boston, but says the changes will take time.

From left: Sean Cunningham, Jennifer Carp, and Joe Tormo dined at Durgin-Park in its final days.

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Obituary

Durgin-Park, a sassy classic, at 192. In lieu of flowers, leave a bigger tip

The Faneuil Hall landmark known for Yankee pot roast and salty servers died on Jan. 12.

Dave Epstein

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We are looking at one of the slowest snow starts recorded since 1872, when record-keeping began in Boston.

Thomas Peipert/associated press

Yvonne Abraham

Miss your government yet?

Could absence make the heart grow fonder (of the federal government) when it comes to this idiotic shutdown?

President Donald Trump listens during a roundtable discussion on border security with local leaders, Friday, Jan. 11, 2019, in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Trump responded to word of FBI probe, and it wasn?t nice

President Trump lashed out on Twitter, and he later criticized former FBI officials during a Fox News Channel interview.

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The development signals that the scandal is now part of the broader law enforcement investigation into sex abuse and cover-up in the Catholic Church.

Senator Elizabeth Warren spoke to potential supporters Saturday in Concord, N.H., at the home of former state Senator Silvia Larsen.

John Tlumacki/Globe Staff

Warren?s N.H. swing is about poaching Sanders? base

The Mass. Democrat made her first stops in the state Saturday. Nearby, others were urging Vermont?s Sanders to announce his candidacy.

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Mr. Phillips, of Weston, helped turn Raytheon into a billion-dollar business, then a multibillion-dollar enterprise, with a gentlemanly style.

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The man was stabbed late Saturday night and his injuries are believed to be life threatening, police said.

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The first-term US representative returned to her district for Saturday?s event.

CareWell Urgent Care operates 16 centers in the state, including this one in Framingham.

Barry Chin/Globe Staff

Urgent care centers are all over, except where the poor live

Companies have not rushed to open the facilities in Dorchester, Roxbury, or other lower-income neighborhoods in Boston.

BRUINS 3, MAPLE LEAFS 2

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Sean Kuraly had a goal and two assists and Tuukka Rask finished with 30 saves to help the Bruins take the season series, 3-1.

MAGIC 105, CELTICS 103

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Irving scored 15 of his 25 points in the fourth quarter and appeared intent on willing his team to a comeback win, but in the end he was not afforded the final chance.

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The Chargers defensive end?s father, John, was a star at Boston College before embarking on an NFL career. His brother, Nick, is a major talent at Ohio State.

Editorial

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It?s high time the Legislature freed communities, including Boston, from a post-Prohibition licensing law and treated local officials like grownups.

Letters

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Without even formally announcing her candidacy for president, Elizabeth Warren has everyone talking about 2020.

Will Gilson is the chef-owner of Puritan & Company in Cambridge.

JON CHASE FOR THE BOSTON GLOBE

OPINION | WILL GILSON

Confessions of a Boston-area restaurant owner

As more restaurants close, here?s one New Year?s resolution: Go out and eat at your favorite places. If you don?t, then you can?t be shocked when they close.

COMMENTARY | JENEE OSTERHELDT

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The congresswoman is not afraid of the facts or scared to speak her mind. And that frightens people across party lines.

 Chancellor Kumble  Subbaswamy at UMass Amherst?s new Mount Ida campus in Newton.

Photo illustration/Globe staff and Photographs by Webb Chappell for the Boston Globe

Globe Magazine

?ZooMass? no more. Is turning UMass Amherst into an elite university what the state needs?

Inside Chancellor Kumble Subbaswamy?s savvy plan to transform Massachusetts? flagship university into ?Cambridge West.?

Michelle Singletary | The Color of Money

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Even if you?re not affected, the government shutdown is a reminder of how important it is to have an emergency fund, which you can?t have if you don?t budget.

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The grandfather of a Wisconsin girl who was abducted during a home invasion that left her parents dead said the family has no connection to the suspect.

Special reports

Boston, MA - 1/16/1919: Looking across North End Park on Jan. 16, 1919, the day after a giant tank at the Purity Distilling Co. on Commercial Street collapsed, sending a wave of an estimated 2.3 million gallons of molasses through the streets of Boston. The great molasses tank was located in the center of this picture. Sections of the metal may be seen at the extreme left and right in the picture. Twenty-one people perished, including two 10-year-olds, Pasquale Iantosca and Maria Distasio, who were collecting firewood near the molasses tank while home from school for lunch. (Boston Globe Archive/) --- BGPA Reference: 150115_MJ_001

Boston Globe Archive

Globe Magazine

The day Boston was swamped by a deadly wave of molasses

One hundred years ago this month an enormous steel tank ruptured, sending a torrent of brown syrup on a deadly path through the North End.

The Big Picture

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The Big Picture

The year 2018 in pictures: Part II

Here are the photos from July to December that summed up the year.

Podcasts

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/12/18/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/gladiator%20pic5.jpg Aaron Hernandez and Football Inc.

The story of a profoundly troubled young man and the ugly underside of America?s most popular sport.

Newsletters

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Follow the Celtics? quest for a title and other NBA news both on and off the court. Sign up here.

STAT

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A whole slate of Democratic hopefuls are suddenly fixating on the same policy target: high prescription drug prices.

Love Letters: The Podcast

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In a special bonus episode, Meredith Goldstein explores what happens to summer romance when the summer ends, and ?Wet Hot American Summer? creator David Wain shares a girl-crazy memory from his own camp days.

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