Chelsea housing director leaves ‘with a bag of cash’
Michael E. McLaughlin instructed the Chelsea Housing Authority’s accountant to write him checks for more than $200,000 right before he left the office for good.
Romney proposes wide cuts to budget
Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney unveiled a sweeping plan yesterday that would cut at least $500 billion per year from the federal budget as of 2016.
A lottery gambit wins approval
Over the past decade, Clarance W. Jones redeemed more than $18 million worth of lottery tickets, and recently won a case in which the state wanted to tax his winnings.
Deaderick is now able to help the Patriots
Brandon Deaderick began this season on the physically unable to perform list after shoulder surgery, but coach Bill Belichick said yesterday he is off to a solid start.
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Residents find power to persevere
Nearly a week after a ferocious storm cut power to the small town of North Brookfield, residents bereft of power remain, defiantly, in their homes.
Autumn snow days set schools back
School administrators are now playing a numbers game with the academic calendar to anticipate how many school days might need to be added through the rest of the year.
Halloween in Wrentham
Halloween came to Wrentham four days late, thanks to the bizarre early snowstorm that downed tree limbs and led to power outages last weekend.
Stretch of Boylston awaits transformation
The bankruptcies of Filene’s Basement and Borders resulted in a retail dead spot along mostly thriving Boylston Street.
“The idea that he would be riding off into the sunset with a bag of cash is completely contrary to the interests of taxpayers.”
Inspector General Gregory W. Sullivan, on Michael E. McLaughlin
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Columnists
Metro
Defense depicts Mehanna as a scholar
A defense lawyer for Tarek Mehanna sought yesterday to portray him as a budding scholar who was devoted to Islam and not the young radical that prosecutors have described.
Top Places to Work
Special section
Top Places to Work - 2011
The Globe’s 2011 Top Places to Work survey ranks 100 of the best workplaces in Massachusetts.
Business
UMass students in race to increase NASCAR’s base
Can Nascar, wildly popular in the South and other regions, catch on in New England? That’s the challenge for sport management students at UMass Amherst.
Politics
Accuser’s lawyer says Cain lied
The lawyer for one of the women who accused Herman Cain of sexual harassment declared that the Republican presidential candidate is not telling the truth about the episodes.
Nation & World
Unions urge Kerry to drive hard bargain on deficit
Labor union leaders accused Senator John Kerry of turning his back on working people as he and members of the congressional supercommittee deliberate over trimming the country’s deficit.
Sports
Giants fortifying defense as they prepare for Patriots
The vaunted pass rush that once foiled Tom Brady is still stout. Of bigger concern is the run defense that Justin Tuck said is almost nonexistent.
Arts
DANCE REVIEW
Novel touches in ‘Romeo and Juliet’
With its passion, its poetry, its politics, and its profusion of richly drawn subsidiary characters, “Romeo and Juliet’’ is a natural for the dance stage.
Opinion
“What he does with his power ought to determine whether he’s reelected next year.”
Peter S. Canellos, on Senator Scott Brown
Ideas
“The only thing we may know about education is that inquisitive kids respond to it.”
Paul Nix, on exam schools