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• Shop and stop

  SOMERVILLE - I loved Target with a fervor that bordered on religious. The friendly red-and-white color scheme, the cute ads, the democratic “Design for All’’ motto, they all got me. I always fell in love 50 times between the front door and the diaper aisle: With the edgy shirts, the impossibly stylish screwdriver sets, the breezy outdoor plates with matching ...

• Sheraton penalty box

  BRAINTREE - The world belongs to overpaid sports stars. The rest of us just live in it.

• Wade into the taxi pool

  The Logan Airport Taxi Pool is a magical place. Here, on an immense stretch of bare asphalt at the airport’s edge, the eyes passengers see reflected in rear-view mirrors and the voices muffled by plexiglass become whole people: Fascinating, tired, funny, loud, hungry, bored people. People who are engineers and students, moonlighters and lifers, fathers and grandfathers. People who come ...

• False alarms, true conceit

  What world are Boston’s firefighters living in? Across the city - across the entire country - people are hurting. Those of us lucky enough to keep jobs have seen our paychecks slashed. We’re taking calculators to the supermarket, vacationing at home, wondering how long our savings will last.

• This addiction pays its way

  Sitting in a State House gambling hearing on Monday, I found myself thinking about Four Seasons Man.

• A toxic mess in New Bedford

  NEW BEDFORD - The Rev. Rogerio De Souza’s parishioners are leaving him. De Souza seems like a wonderful pastor, but if I belonged to his Evangelical Church of the Nations, I’d bolt too.

• At home with risk

  You can tell a lot about people by the way they handle money, and we’ve learned a lot about our politicians lately.

• Time to end the blustering

  Build the wind farm, already. The battle over the Nantucket Sound project has dragged on for eight confounded years, outlasting the presidency of George W. Bush, Manny’s Red Sox career, and my long-suffering Nissan Sentra.

• Don't sit this one out

  WEST NEWTON - It is one of the most memorable images ever to have graced our pages.

• Beijing lesson unlearned

  You've heard a lot about Tiananmen Square lately, since Thursday was the 20th anniversary of the Chinese government's brutal crackdown on prodemocracy demonstrators.

• Still striking at hunger

  When you first encounter Kip Tiernan, you are struck by two things. First, that voice, worn to coarse gravel by two packs a day. Next, the grip. Pushing 83, Tiernan still says hello by grabbing your shoulder and drawing you to her with such force that you wonder if you will ever be released and, if so, whether blood will ...

• A promising life cut short

  CAMBRIDGE - Sixty high school students gathered in a circle on a Cambridge playground Thursday evening, shielding candles from cold gusts, piecing together Jude Odige with memories.

• Same old Revere Beach

  REVERE - There is no place more crazy, more wonderful, or more American than Revere Beach.

• Bulger barbs no surprise

  If I were Billy Bulger, I wouldn't like The Boston Globe either. Over the decades, this paper has caused the former state Senate president, his relatives and his associates a lot of discomfort.

• Drowning in stupidity

  LOWELL - A gentle rain is falling on a gray spring morning as a couple walks hand in hand along the Merrimack River. This should be the perfect place for a romantic stroll, what with the water and the handsome historic buildings and such.

• The politics of free rides

  You have to wonder how our lawmakers can look at themselves in the mirror sometimes.

• Petty officers

  If you want to see how petty things can get in Boston, look no further than the ugly scrap over this year's tall ships visit.

• Three guys you should meet, Boston

  If you want to be mayor of Boston and your name is not Tom Menino, today's Globe poll has got to hurt.

• Melanie Melanson deserves a proper burial

  WOBURN - The night Melanie Melanson disappeared, she was in the woods at the edge of an unlovely industrial park, hanging out with friends.

• A city loses its prince

  Handsome as he was, you might not have given Willie Walker a second look if you passed him strolling around Castle Island on a warm afternoon. Maybe you wouldn't have noticed him tucking into his haddock at the small table near the counter at Victoria's Diner every Friday night, or registered his face as you dropped a dollar into his ...

• Grievance by union chief Stutman is Grade A nonsense

  Boston Teachers Union head Richard Stutman seems determined to wreck the city's pilot schools. Those schools have been among the few bright spots in Boston's troubled education system.

• A farm's life cycles

  LINCOLN - Codman Community Farm is brimming with Springiness. The magnolias have burst into bloom. The lush soil in the giant community gardens is tilled and ready for planting.

• Holes in the heart

  A lot of people are mighty mad about the giant pit where Filene's used to be, and rightly so. Ditto the fenced-off disaster that was to have been the South End's Columbus Center. The stalled megaprojects are ugly gashes in the heart of the city.

• Looks like treasurer's lottery promise has been scratched

  In the spring of 2003, newly-installed Treasurer Tim Cahill wanted to boost the take from the state's insanely successful lottery - and that meant advertising. But ad spending had been nixed some years earlier by former Senate president Tom Birmingham, who had seen his constituents blowing thousands of dollars they couldn't afford on scratch tickets.