As the mother of an 18-month old son and full-time marketing consultant, Chrisanne Sternal, 36, says she’s constantly asking herself, “Who are you going to let down today?” Between setting up doctor’s appointments and juggling her own clients, Sternal feels like there’s never enough time. That’s why she’s considering quitting her job to become a […]

Often lost in the fact that Boston is such a great sports city are the things that happen in the undercurrent of the Red Sox, Bruins, Celtics and Patriots, the teams that always appear on the under card and the societies that build themselves around them.

More than a third of young American families with children were living in poverty last year, according to an analysis of U.S. Census data that offers the latest indicator of spreading poverty in America.

Americans’ pessimism about the economy and its future is deepening, a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll finds, and they are increasingly willing to hold President Obama responsible for hard times.

The Massachusetts College of Art and Design, the oldest public arts school in the country, is pursuing a $120 million expansion and redesign of its campus along Huntington Avenue, joining a slew of colleges and museums whose building projects are rapidly redefining Boston as a hub for contemporary art.

Violent crime dropped 6% in 2010, marking the fourth straight year-to-year decline, while property crime was down for the eighth straight year, falling 2.7%, the FBI reported Monday.

Here’s some good news: Violent crime dropped 6% in the United States in 2010, the FBI reported Monday, making it the fourth consecutive year that violent crime has declined on a year-to-year basis. Property crime was also down, for the eighth straight year, this time by 2.7%.

More than one in three young families with children were living in poverty last year, according to an analysis of census data by the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University.

Town Clerk Annette Cappy, whose office issues hundreds of marriage licenses a year, began to notice in 2005 there was something decidedly unromantic about some of the couples seeking the licenses.

At 50 minutes to airtime, the Rev. Al Sharpton, in pinstripes and cufflinks, was sitting in his office at Rockefeller Center, tinkering with Tuesday’€™s introduction to “€œPoliticsNation,”€ his new nightly show on MSNBC.

Life was good for Janine Smith. She had a great job and a nice home in the suburbs.

Jamie Ladge knows that people hate hearing that they can’t “have it all.”€™ As a professor at Northeastern University who studies career success, she’s discovered that one problem with that phrase is that it usually refers to working in a full-time, inflexible environment while trying to juggle the demands of parenthood. But a newer way […]