Poverty’s grip tightens in Boston, study says
Poverty has deepened in Boston’s poorest neighborhoods, widening the gap between the city’s wealthiest and neediest residents, a report being released today finds.
MIT reexamines campus efforts after 2 suicides
The tight-knit community at MIT is struggling to understand why it has suddenly lost two young undergraduate students in two months.
In Greece’s drama, a Bay State thread
Friends-turned-rivals George Papandreou, the Greek prime minister, and Antonis Samaras, the main opposition leader, were dorm mates in the early 1970s at Amherst College.
Ohio votes down new law limiting unions’ rights
Ohio voters restored full bargaining rights to tens of thousands of public employees, while Mississippi rejected an initiative that would have defined life as beginning at conception.
John Tlumacki/Globe staff
Flaherty loses in try for council return
Michael Flaherty lost his bid to win back a seat on the Boston City Council, falling short in his political comeback just two years after appearing as a finalist on the mayoral stage.
Wong wins third term as mayor
Mayor Lisa Wong of Fitchburg, the state’s first Asian-American woman mayor, staged a remarkable comeback to win reelection to a third term yesterday.
Cain denies accusations, vows to stay in race
Herman Cain used a nationally televised news conference to assert that he has no recollection of meeting one of his accusers and has never harassed anyone.
Brown opposes NRA weapons bill
Senator Brown said he plans to vote against an NRA-backed bill that would, in effect, allow the carrying of concealed weapons despite local restrictions.
“We no longer have conditions for the American dream; that actually does not exist anymore.”
Tiziana Dearing, executive director of Boston Rising
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Columnists
Metro
Three-alarm fire damages Milton house
A single-family house in Milton was severely damaged when a three-alarm fire ripped through it yesterday afternoon.
Business
Developer Winn pleads guilty
Real estate developer Arthur Winn pleaded guilty to making illegal campaign contributions as part of an effort to obtain public funding for his ultimately failed Columbus Center project.
Politics
Ohio votes down new law limiting unions’ rights
Ohio voters restored full bargaining rights to tens of thousands of public employees, while Mississippi rejected an initiative that would have defined life as beginning at conception.
Nation & World
Cain denies accusations, vows to stay in race
Herman Cain used a nationally televised news conference to assert that he has no recollection of meeting one of his accusers and has never harassed anyone.
Sports
ON FOOTBALL
Haynesworth a lost cause — but Ochocinco isn’t
The Patriots waived Albert Haynesworth because his deplorable effort left Bill Belichick with no other choice, but there’s still hope for struggling Patriot Chad Ochocinco.
Food and dining
G Force
Ed Levine of SeriousEats.com explains his very opinionated palate
Since the author founded SeriousEats.com in December 2006, it has won two James Beard Awards and been named one of the Top 50 Websites by Time magazine.
Arts
Galleries
Luminescent ‘Dreaming’
Judy Haberl and Debra Weisberg present drawings and sculptures that glow in the dark at Gallery Kayafas.
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.
Opinion
“Mitt Romney has been sowing and growing his luck by sprinkling contributions about the land like a latter-day Johnny Appleseed.”
Scot Lehigh
Ideas
“Scholars who take on punk find themselves working amid bedeviling contradictions, as they try to methodically define a culture that refuses definition, rejects method, and denies the very idea of expertise.”
Leon Neyfakh