House quietly acts to reassign Chelsea court

The Mass. House leadership used a late-night budget amendment to place the Chelsea District Court under the auspices of Boston Municipal Court, long a target of patronage charges.

In speech, Deval Patrick defends universal health care

Governor Deval Patrick also urged lawmakers, health care providers, and the business community to work jointly on controlling health care costs.

HubSpot is sold on e-mail marketing

The Cambridge marketing software firm will at last offer its own tools to manage, create, and track e-mail marketing campaigns in its standard menu of services.

Police: Woman tried to run over parishioners

The operator of a Jamaica Plain day care center allegedly became enraged by parishioners’ parking practices during a Mother’s Day celebration and threatened a priest.

Roxbury college under federal scrutiny for crime data

Officials are auditing Roxbury Community College for suspected lapses in its reporting of crimes committed on campus.

Representative Barney Frank.

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Opinion | Joanna Weiss

Frank reflects on the monumental change he’s seen

Barney Frank’s public career began with his certainty that he couldn’t come out to his colleagues in Boston City Hall, and will end a few months after President Obama endorsed gay marriage.

Will Middlebrooks went 1-for-4 with a run on Monday and ended the game with a .304 batting average.

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Will Middlebrooks or Kevin Youkilis? Not an easy decision

Officially, the Red Sox say Youkilis gets his job back when he’s healthy. But Middlebrooks’ strong play may force the veteran out.

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Should the Red Sox trade Josh Beckett?

Beckett has been the target of fans’ ire recently. Bob Ryan and Chad Finn examine whether the Red Sox should look to deal the starter.

The Boston Rugby Football Club’s next home game takes place Saturday in Easton.

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Boston rugby club tackles sport with enthusiasm

Members of the Boston Rugby Football Club play for the love of competing, and they play it at a high level, too.

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The New York Times best-selling author discusses his books “Bringing Down the House” and “The Social Network.”

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Opinion | Farah Stockman

Racism and infant mortality

Internships may slow Boston’s student ‘brain drain’
Sacha Baron Cohen stars as a despot who winds up working at a Brooklyn food co-op.

Movie Review

‘Dictator’ tweaks broadly and carries a big shtick

Design for Bill Russell statue unveiled
Above: Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally of Beach House.

Album Reviews

New albums from Beach House, Best Coast fall short

Frame by Frame

Flippant ‘Rock Fan’ fits well in college setting
Last month, MIT professor Amy Finkelstein became the third woman in the last five years to gain the American Economic Association’s John Bates Clark Medal, which recognizes the top US economist under 40.

Women making gains in economics, but progress is slow

Open-water swimmer focusing on the Olympics

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Poetry Out Loud gets high schoolers excited about verse

Newcomer boosts profile of Black Heritage Trail
Stacey Burns

Yvonne Abraham

Three years later, no answers
“When you bury things for so long, it damages you internally,” said Jennifer Norris, who says she was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder, severe depression, and anxiety, resulting from military sexual trauma.

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Helping survivors of military sexual trauma

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Bob Ryan

This time, Celtics couldn’t close it out

In what may have been the worst playoff game the Celtics have ever played, they showed they’re not the crunch-time superstars some thought they were.

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Abutter Bill Massaro fears harm to the water supply and to the recreational use of the Charles River.

In Medfield, tug of war over a toxic cleanup

Residents say a plan by the state, which would remove only about 15 percent of an estimated 75,000 tons of toxic waste in a landfill adjacent to the Charles River, isn’t enough.

Columnists

Representative Barney Frank.

Opinion | Joanna Weiss

Barney Frank reflects on the change he’s seen

BOSTON CAPITAL

Business guru’s tips for living

Bob Ryan

This time, Celtics couldn’t close it out
A lone worker picks tomatoes on an Alabama farm in 2011. Much of the crop rotted after migrant workers moved to other states when a strict immigration law took affect.

Juliette Kayyem

A crackdown avoided

Innovation Economy

A new twist on the home office

JEFF JACOBY

Benefit of doubt on ‘evolution’

JOANNA WEISS

Why not let the bake sale crumble?
The Celtics are widely perceived as gritty and the embodiment of team spirit.

Dan Shaughnessy

Celtics giving their all, as Fenway draws boobirds
Stacey Burns

Yvonne Abraham

Three years later, no answers
BzzAgent founder Dave Balter (left) has become an angel investor since it was sold.

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Mass. IPOs don’t create many angel investors

Adrian Walker

Roxbury Community College needs a change
Bernie Fitzgerald, chief of probation in Dorchester District Court, is retiring after 41 years.

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Probation chief retires as a legend

Arts

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STAGE REVIEW

McCaela Donovan and Ryan Overberg in the SpeakEasy Stage Company’s “Xanadu.”

Exuberant comedy ‘Xanadu’ rolls along

SpeakEasy Stage Company’s enjoyably unhinged adaptation of the legendarily execrable 1980 movie “Xanadu” is a feat of theatrical alchemy.

Politics

Pesident Obama’s reelection team unveiled its first ad Monday attacking Romney’s business record, using laid-off steel workers in Missouri to paint Mitt Romney as a callous “vampire’’ and “job destroyer’’ who is out of touch with the average working person.

President Obama strikes at Mitt Romney on jobs

The Obama campaign unveiled its first ad attacking Romney’s business record, in an attempt to turn the former Bain Capital chief executive’s credentials into a liability.

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Walmart to install solar panels on 27 stores in Mass.

The retail giant said it plans to install solar panels on top of about half of its roughly 50 Mass. stores as early as August as part of an expansion of solar power in the state.

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New test offers hope for easier colon screening

A CT scan may be as effective as a standard colonoscopy in identifying potentially cancerous polyps, Boston researchers and others found.

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Local comedian firmly in the clouds

Lamont Price, 29 (“22 in Hollywood”), a Dorchester native, was recently named one of Comedy Central’s “Comedians to Watch.”

“We’re talking about a hundred years of waste, and the state, which created this mess, is refusing to clean it up.”

Bill Massaro,  an activist in Medfield

Magazine

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The Boston waterfront has arrived
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Homes for sale for $250,000, $500,000, $750,000, and $1 million
The cover for the April 29 2012 issue

Dying wishes expected to be decided on November ballot
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144 free things to do around Boston

Opinion

“Now, Barney Frank jokes that his big problem is that members of Congress keep inviting themselves to his gay wedding.”

Joanna Weiss 

Ideas

“Genoeconomics is a field with a nightmare scenario already built into it—that banks might demand saliva tests before granting loans, or insurance companies could raise premiums for customers genetically predisposed to risk.”

Leon Neyfakh,  on the search for the money gene