Globe survey finds issues that split mayor race

The Globe questionnaire sizes up the views of the 12 candidates seeking to replace Mayor Menino on a range of topics.

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Get to know the candidates, read about them in the Globe’s coverage, and compare and contrast where they stand on key issues.

In break with field, Bill Walczak opposes a casino

The former health care executive became the first mayoral candidate to aggressively oppose a casino at Suffolk Downs.

Adrian Walker

Let whole city vote on East Boston casino

Most of our prospective mayors don’t think the rest of us are “affected” enough to even deserve a vote. This is democracy?

The Graves Island Light Station near the entrance to Boston Harbor has no plumbing or utility services, and getting to the front door requires a climb on a 40-foot ladder.

Graves Island lighthouse not your average fixer-upper

The Graves Island Light Station, which went on the auction block in June, presents a formidable challenge for anyone looking to buy it.

Jake Peavy will help solidify the rotation as the Red Sox wait for Clay Buchholz to return from the disabled list.

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Red Sox acquire Jake Peavy in 3-team deal

The Red Sox gave up Jose Iglesias and three lower-level prospects in a trade that nabbed them the White Sox righthander.

Righthander Jake Peavy was the compromise candidate for the Red Sox.

Christopher L. Gasper

Wealth of prospects giving Red Sox options

In acquiring Jake Peavy, GM Ben Cherington helped a very good Red Sox team while not sacrificing building blocks from the Next Great Red Sox team.

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The officer demoted by Commissioner Edward Davis failed to return calls from a crime lab on a September 2012 assault involving Edwin Alemany.

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A review found MIT did not press authorities to prosecute the Internet activist, who committed suicide, but it raised concerns about university policies.

Opinion

Derrick Z. Jackson

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Michigan taxpayers will fund a new hockey arena for Detroit even as the city around it totters.

Globe exclusives

Boston, MA -- 07/18/13 -- Owner Tammy Luu makes Vietnamese iced coffee at New Dong Khanh restaurant in Boston, Massachusetts on July 18, 2013. In the final step, ice is poured over the sweetened condensed milk and coffee mixture. (Kayana Szymczak for the Boston Globe)

Iced coffee crawl
ByteLight founders Dan Ryan (left) and Aaron Ganick use LED light waves to send data as the bulbs flicker.

Bringing GPS-like technology indoors

By the Glass

Italian Lambrusco is inspiring
The Salamehs collaborate to run their renovated Cafe Barada. Claude Salameh, the cook, makes fattoush, picutred with lamb; chicken shish kebab; ful mumadamus, and hummus.

Cheap Eats

Cafe Barada fills your table Lebanese-style
Nancy E. Carroll plays Arlyne, a longtime worker at a processing plant, in Gloucester Stage Company’s “North Shore Fish.’’

Stage REview

Fighting for scraps of dignity in ‘North Shore Fish’

From the Hyannis Transportation Center, many CapeFlyer passengers switch to buses — or to bicycles — to reach their destinations on Cape Cod.

CapeFlyer train gaining steam
Tim Tebow dropped back to pass during Monday’s workout.

Analysis

Patriots: Tim Tebow will play QB, not receiver
Mary McCluskey, 89, a former secretary, gets some help navigating Facebook from Natalie Billings, in a class at Jewish Community Housing for the Elderly in Brighton.

Learning Facebook in retirement age

Interactive graphic

Geographic advantages in Boston mayoral race
John Stoddard transported produce at Higher Ground Farm, on the roof of the Boston Design Center. The farm aims to supply neighborhood restaurants and markets such as Tavern Road.

Rooftop farm raising its first crops
Composer Krzysztof Penderecki kisses the hand of Marcy Rosen on Sunday, with Daniel Kim (left) and Anthony McGill.

Music Review

Polish composer stirs up the mix at Marlboro
The Coravin device allows wine lovers to decant a glass from a bottle and still keep the rest of the beverage in pristine condition.

Taking wine from an uncorked bottle

Sports

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In three major league starts, Brandon Workman has a 2.45 earned run average and 17 strikeouts over 18⅓ innings.

Red Sox’ Brandon Workman earns first win

The Red Sox rookie pitched six strong innings in an 8-2 victory over the Mariners at Fenway.

Metro

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Amy Lord had moved to Boston in 2011 after graduating from Bentley University.

Amy Lord remembered as role model, friend

A stream of relatives, friends, and neighbors filed into St. Cecilia Catholic Church in Wilbraham to celebrate Lord’s life.

Columnists

Shirley Leung

Brewer gives women cold shoulder

Kevin Cullen

Will Whitey testify, or won’t he?
Righthander Jake Peavy was the compromise candidate for the Red Sox.

Christopher L. Gasper

Wealth of prospects give Red Sox options

Adrian Walker

Let whole city vote on casino

Kevin Cullen

Don’t believe the hyperbole

Adrian Walker

Bold stands hard to come by

Yvonne Abraham

Pier 4 a savior for Albanians
Celtics executive vice president Dave Gavitt consoles Dee Brown (left) and Rick Fox (right) during a news conference following the death of team captain Reggie Lewis in 1993.

Dan Shaughnessy

Reggie Lewis’s death still hurts, 20 years later
Fareed Mosavat, Chas Wagner, and Jason Jacobs looked at support tickets at RunKeeper, which is jockeying for position in the digital fitness universe.

Innovation Economy

Can more Boston tech firms open up?
Huma Abedin listened as her husband spoke at a press conference Tuesday.

JOANNA WEISS

Kate and Huma, the image-makers

JOAN VENNOCHI

Can state GOP find a winner?

RENÉE LOTH

The sun state

Nation & World

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Private First Class Bradley Manning faces a maximum sentence of 136 years in prison, but it will probably be much shorter.

Manning found not guilty of giving aid to enemy

Private First Class Bradley Manning was convicted of espionage breaches and most of the other charges he faced for leaking documents.

Politics

President Obama detailed his jobs plan to a crowd of 2,000 at an Amazon distribution center.

Obama offers GOP a deal to create middle class jobs

President Obama offered to cut corporate tax rates in return for a pledge to invest in generating middle-class jobs.

Business

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Kristina Stafstrom worked in a lab at Cubist Pharmaceuticals as an intern in 2008.

Cubist to pay up to $1.6b for two drug makers

Cubist Pharmaceuticals is acquiring two other drug makers in a bid to increase its line of antibiotics, the company said.

Arts

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Galleries

For “Bloatation,” Kathryn Parker Almanas filled a cheesecloth sack with dough and tapioca.

What’s up at Boston-area art galleries

The opening of Kathryn Parker Almanas’s show at Yellow Peril Gallery draws a balance between attraction and repulsion.

Food & dining

At The Thinking Cup, Cabell Tice uses Stumptown beans to make espresso, then marries it with Giovanna gelato (here it’s vanilla) in this affogato (pictured).

Affogato to take a coffee lover’s breath away

Affogato, the dish of ice cream covered with espresso, satisfies two cravings at once.

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Walter Willett’s food fight
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What happened at Deerfield
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Kitchen overhaul
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Rethinking the golden years

Ideas

“Alfred Barr’s Wellesley class, small as it was, launched a generation of students into prominent roles in the art world, helping to spread the gospel of contemporary art as curators, journalists, and critics.”

Christopher Shea,  on how a young professor helped invent contemporary art in America