Widespread dysfunction in the program is leading to millions of dollars in losses each year and a creating a “hostile work environment” for employees.
Mayor Martin J. Walsh received almost $1.4 million in private donations for his inauguration and transition from corporations, developers, and lobbyists with city business.
A state Senate panel will explore the possibility of abolishing panels that have outlived their usefulness, consolidating others, or redefining their missions.
Adrian Walker
Per Onsager’s and Craig Miller’s shared passion for engineering helped propel a group of Umass-Lowell students to Haiti this spring for an unusual senior project.
The board of directors of British drug maker AstraZeneca says it rejects the raised $119 billion takeover offer from Pfizer.
Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff
The traditional free breadbasket has become a victim of society’s two most powerful forces—the economy and the anti-wheat juggernaut.
In the last five months, four nursing homes have gone out of business, unable to make ends meet because Medicaid reimbursement rates have not increased in a decade.
On baseball
The Sox aren’t running with their good health, and they’re playing poorly at home.
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Mr. Carr reviewed films for the Globe from 1983 until 2002, and also hosted the “Screening Room” segment on New England Cable News.
Jennifer Graham
Insects in the mail: Let the buyer bewareAmid all the groaning about the lackluster US economy, remember this: We’re not broke yet. We still have enough money to buy bugs.
Bosnia’s segregated schoolsTwo decades after the war, can a nation that learns separately ever be united?
“The Wheel’’ system was invented by assistant Celtics general manager Mike Zarren.
Eight people were injured in the crash that left the front of the bus suspended for several hours from the bridge.
Governor Deval Patrick repeated in a television interview that he’s not running to succeed President Obama.
The Balkans’ worst flooding since record keeping began forced tens of thousands of people from their homes and threatened to inundate Serbia’s main power plant.
French power company Veolia provides steam, a byproduct of electricity production, to heat and cool buildings.
Friday night saw the Boston Pops playing host to contortionists, aerialists, and their compatriots in wonderment.
Transforming the Clark Art Institute, a new day at Newport Jazz Festival, plus 90 critics’ picks.
Design New England
A garden of delight in New HampshireAn artist and her husband create a landscape for all to enjoy. Read their story and more in the May/June issue.
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