The serial service interruptions have seemed abrupt and inexplicable, but trace, in fact, to choices made and choices avoided over decades.

Trina Higgins spent more than half of her life trying to save young people. And she did. Hundreds of them.

Franklin, N.H., had fallen far from its heyday, and there seemed few paths back. Then a newcomer blew in, with cash, a bold idea, and the will to back it up.

The lesson here is that there is nothing for kids that overzealous adults can?t ruin with their misplaced aspirations and vicariism.

Soaring costs and quality-of-life issues have prompted an increasing number of millennials to move to the suburbs.  

Plus, the College of Cardinals becomes a global village, and Vatican money in context.