Mass. ties funding for community colleges to results

The state’s move to so-called performance funding is one of the most ambitious in the nation.

Local government boards feel the sting of incivility

Constituents and town officials alike in Massachusetts are voicing their displeasure in more aggressive, personal terms.

Unions have given $170,000 to Martin Walsh’s campaign, along with a host of volunteers.

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Labor lifts Martin Walsh’s mayoral campaign

The state representative’s clout as a labor leader has helped him forge a formidable campaign with six weeks left until voters head to the polls.

Adrian Walker

The Boston mayor’s race hits its stride

Without warning, the race to succeed Mayor Thomas Menino has suddenly become interesting.

Riley Goodwin, 16, recently baby-sat Gabriel McGarry, 8, and his sister Tessa, 6, who played at their home.

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In era of stalled wages, baby sitters surging ahead

Baby sitter rates across the nation have soared, with costs in Greater Boston among the highest.

From left, Charlotte Golar Richie, Linda Dorcena Forry, and Maria Jobin-Leeds at a Women’s Pipeline for Change event.

Women of color strive for firmer political foothold

Women make up only 25 percent of the state Legislature in Massachusetts, and women of color constitute just 3 percent of the Legislature.

Isaiah Perez was missing for nearly 16 hours.

Abducted 2-year-old found on street in Providence

A boy kidnapped during a double homicide was found wandering the streets last night, apparently unharmed, according to police.

Terrie and Jim Lambert, who was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, but was found to have a treatable brain disorder.

Health

A diagnosis turned on its head

A man’s symptoms appeared to signal Alzheimer’s, but doctors found it was something else: a treatable disorder caused by excess fluid on the brain.

Opinion

opinion | Michael S. Barr

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The record shows that he is an advocate for making the financial system work better for American families.

Globe exclusives

From left, Christina Wilson, Stephen Walter, and Russell Golenberg at work in the Emerson Engagement Game Lab on Boylston Street.

Games become tools of change
(From left): Frank McElroy and Toby Leaman of Dr. Dog.

Music Review

Eclectic bill lights up first Nines festival

Q&A | Fay Gano

Keeping fellow seniors actively engaged
Keith Urban, backed by a four-man band, performed at Comcast Center Saturday night.

Music Review

Urban adds to legend with close-up passion
Edwin Alemany spent stints in psychiatric hospitals.

Alemany’s long spiral down
The Center for Strategic and International Studies is building a $100 million headquarters in Washington with money raised by a high-powered collection of former senior government officials and titans of industry.

Broken City

Many think tanks players in partisan wars
A review of court records show Nelson and Gideika have a long history of drug addiction. Gideika’s criminal record, in particular, shows his downward spiral.

Mass. is leaving more youths in troubled homes
Three-year-old Gianna Napoli, here with mother, Kim, was standing across the street from where the second bomb exploded.

Children struggle in aftermath of Marathon attack
“I always believed if I gave it everything I’ve got and it wasn’t meant to be, I’d have no regrets,” says the 30-year-old outfielder.

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Daniel Nava, the long shot
Justin Timberlake (left) and Jay Z shared the spotlight Saturday night.

Music review

Timberlake, Jay Z hit it out of park
A worker raked wild blueberries from last week. More than 80 million pounds are expected to be harvested this year.

Racing to save blueberries
Adrian Gonzalez has impressed the owner of the Dodgers.

Sunday Baseball Notes

Series matchup would be a really big deal

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Will Middlebrooks isn’t pleased after being called out on strikes in the ninth inning.

Royals knock off Red Sox again

The Royals showed the Red Sox a mix of pitching, power, speed, and good defense in taking three of four games over the weekend.

Metro

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Investigators entered the YWCA on Concord Street in Manchester, N.H., after the double shooting.

Man kills son, self at YWCA in N.H.

A Manchester man shot and killed his young son and then himself at the YWCA, where finances had led to cuts in security officers.

Columnists

A freeway sign warned drivers of people crossing in Chula Vista, Calif.

JAMES CARROLL

Sealing the border is part of problem

Adrian Walker

Mayor’s race hits its stride
Johnny Manziel can’t profit from own name.

Christopher L. Gasper

NCAA needs reform

JOAN VENNOCHI

Mass. officials must investigate Todashev death
The FBI is accused of enabling Whitey Bulger, seen in this mug shot taken in 1955 in Miami Beach.

JEFF JACOBY

Federal overreach — then and now
TJ Hazen (foreground, left) with his Microsoft team.

Innovation Economy

New frontiers in voice recognition
The columnist’s grandchildren Charlotte and Adam, on the first day of school last fall.

Beverly Beckham

Friends can last; siblings are forever

Yvonne Abraham

Commanding failure
Alex Rodriguez looked up toward photographers after leaving a news conference in Tampa in 2009.

Derrick Z. Jackson

Baseball’s integrity still isn’t restored

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Trash cash
On Oct. 30, 1948, the main business district of Donora, Pa., was cloaked in smog, the sunlight virtually obliterated by thick low-hanging pollution.

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The haze of history

Kevin Cullen

Waiting for the unknown

Nation & World

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The new Justice Department policy is part of a comprehensive prison reform package that Attorney General Eric Holder will reveal in a speech to the American Bar Association in San Francisco.

Holder seeks to alter policy for low-level drug offenders

Attorney General Eric Holder is set to announce that nonviolent drug offenders will no longer face severe mandatory sentences.

Politics

US Representative Andy Harris, a Maryland Republican, says a path to citizenship is a nonstarter.

Immigration advocates try to convert GOP holdouts

Advocates for an immigration overhaul are raising their voices during Congress’s five-week recess.

Business

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Bill Aulet says entrepreneurship should be considered a discipline.

Entrepreneurship can be taught, writer says

Bill Aulet, the director of the Martin Trust Center For MIT Entrepreneurship, published a how-to for budding business owners.

Arts

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Kelly Clarkson, pictured in Los Angeles last year, had energy to spare in Mansfield.

Maroon 5, Kelly Clarkson perfect at work, play

Maroon 5 and Clarkson proved that some of the best moments at a live concert remain unscripted.

Health and wellness

Daily Dose

Up-to-date vaccinations for college students

Before students head back to college, parents should make sure their kids are up to date on vital immunizations.

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“The enduring appeal of the books tells us something about how deep the romance with self-reliance runs through American history, and the gaps between the Little House narrative and Wilder’s real life say a lot about the government help and interdependence that we sometimes find more convenient to leave out of that tale.”

Christine Woodside,  on the Little House books as Libertarian fables