Runner Jalon Fowler reflects on her training for the Marathon. 

Our systems worked especially well on that tragic day, and people survived injuries that would have been fatal.  

Increasing the minimum wage is smart economics and good values, writes Jeffrey Bussgang of the Alliance for Business Leadership. 

I’ve never run the Marathon, but I almost always watch. Last year, I was standing 30 feet from the second explosion. 

To succeed, community hospitals must be part of integrated health systems, writes Richard H. Aubut, president and chief executive officer of South Shore Health and Educational Corp. 

The Legislature should pass a bill that would open workplaces to people with disabilities, writes attorney Carol R. Steinberg.  

Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa calls for greater social and economic equality in Ecuador and across Latin America.  

For those who didn’t get into the college of their choice, a column by the late Globe columnist David Nyhan offers comforting advice. 

The Boston City Council should fully implement the city’s rental ordinance, urges Dr. Megan Sandel of Boston Medical Center. 

Northeastern University should reconsider its suspension of Students for Justice in Palestine, writes NU law student Max Geller. 

Northeastern University’s suspension of Students for Justice was warranted, writes NU law professor Richard A. Daynard. 

Florence George Graves and E.J. Graff of Brandeis Univeristy explain how Anita Hill’s unsought moment of celebrity has helped working women press forward toward equal footing with men in the workplace 

Research shows that how women negotiate can matter as much as asking in the first place 

If outpatient treatment is not more widely accepted and available, inappropriate hospitalizations and incarcerations will continue, Dr. Steven Kassels argues. 

Drug addiction still carries the stigma of many outdated prejudices, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Joe Avellone and Massachusetts AFL-CIO president Steve Tolman argue. 

US Senator Elizabeth Warren explains the flood insurance relief law. 

The MBTA’s “Night Owl” service is important to the vitality of the city, write James O’Brien of the Boston Carmen’s Union and Roger Berkowitz of Legal Sea Foods. 

A recent report suggseting that Massachusetts’ education system needs a dramatic overhaul ignores the state’s succses and proposes remedies based on ideology not evidence.  

Boston Mayor Marty Walsh’s economic development plans should focus on small businesses and the city’s most impoverished residents, writes Justin B. Hollander, an associate professor at Tufts University. 

Mitchell Chester, state commissioner of elementary and secondary education, and Richard Freeland, state commissioner of higher education, explain the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers, a new computer-based assessment system that will help educators better gauge whether a student is ready for college. 

A new report benchmarking the Massachusetts education system against the best in the world emphasizes the need for systemic innovation rather than incremental reforms. Henry Dinger and Sir Michael Barber of the Mass. Business Alliance for Education explain what’s needed.  

The Clean Energy Resources bill would be too costly and risky for Massachusetts consumers, writes Susan Tierney, former assistant secretary for policy at the US Department of Energy. 

Congress can stabilize the Medicare program by repealing the Sustainable Growth Rate, writes Dr. Andrew L. Warshaw, professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School 

Harvard Kennedy School professor Mary Jo Bane and New England Council President John Hailer call on the Legislature to restore funding for programs that help the homeless.  

Certified registered nurse anesthetists should play a greater role in health care, write Trudy Pierce of the Massachusetts Association of Nurse Anesthetists, and Dr. William Truswell of Northampton. 

Author Bob Muldoon is on his annual search to spot the year’s first butterfly. 

A coalition of education groups says a new bill would transform the way English language learners are educated in Massachusetts.  

Charter schools have not impacted financial support for Boston Public Schools, writes Samuel R. Tyler, president of the Boston Municipal Research Bureau.  

Former Globe editorialwriter Alan Berger explains the stakes in Ukraine. 

Regulations are failing our haddock fishermen, warn Richie Canastra, co-owner of seafood auctions in New Bedford and Gloucester, Vito Giacalone of the Northeast Seafood Coalition, and Jimmy Odlin of Atlantic Trawlers Fishing.