Now we know what a managing director does at the Boston Globe: She runs the place.

After a long period in which Linda Pizzuti Henry took on more and more responsibility at the newspaper but shied away from saying she was in charge, the tune changed on Monday. Pizzuti Henry announced in a memo to the newspaper’s staff that business columnist Shirley Leung would take over as the interim editorial page editor, replacing the retiring Ellen Clegg.

The appointment of an editorial page editor is one of the chief responsibilities of the publisher. While John Henry retains that title, it was Pizzuti Henry, the managing director, who made the announcement. Her constant use of the pronoun “we,” which mirrored the approach taken by John Henry in a recent email interview, confirms that Pizzuti Henry and her husband are two sides of the same coin.

“Because we are at such a critical juncture, we want to make certain that we take our time to think strategically about the board, who the next permanent leader will be, and how it will be organized,” Pizzuti Henry wrote. “To accomplish that, we need the strength of a courageous thinker, someone who knows both the newsroom and the world of opinion well, and who knows how to challenge assumptions.”

The interim appointment seems to be a thing at the Globe. Clegg was appointed on an interim basis in September 2014 and then dropped the interim from her title about a year later. Henry made that announcement, using the pronoun “I” throughout.

Under Clegg, the Globe’s editorial page tried some innovative approaches (remember the mock front page in 2016 imagining the headlines if Donald Trump were to win the presidency?) and became a lot less predictable. The page’s strong stand in favor of building a new natural gas pipeline into the region shocked environmental advocates who once looked upon the paper as a reliable ally.

Leung, the first person of color to hold the editorial page editor’s position, is an interesting choice. She’s tough, aggressive, and opinionated. Her columns suggest someone who is politically independent, friendly to the business community, and eager to embrace big ideas. She is perhaps best known for her strong support of efforts to lure the Olympics to Boston, a campaign that divided the city and crashed and burned in spectacular fashion.

The Leung appointment says a lot about Pizzuti Henry. It also says a lot about her emerging role at the newspaper. At the end of a 2017 Boston Magazine profile of Pizzuti Henry, which charted her rise in the newspaper’s power structure, she confided: “I don’t want to be the one speaking on behalf of the Globe,” she said. “Yet.”

Those days are over.

BRUCE MOHL

BEACON HILL

A political action committee controlled by House Speaker Robert DeLeo provided financial help to eight incumbents facing primary challenges. The incumbents included Reps. Byron Rushing, Colleen Garry, and Rady Mom. (State House News)

Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito announced the state is handing out $2.6 million in grants to communities to improve their recycling efforts. (Salem News) Many municipalities are trying to convince residents to do a better job of recycling to avoid contamination that makes recycled materials less attractive. (WBUR)

MUNICIPAL MATTERS

A Brockton city employee who is charged with biting off the finger of a Marshfield man during a golf tournament in Plymouth has been placed on leave by city officials pending an investigation into the incident. (The Enterprise)

Sweet deal? The Red Sox Triple-A affiliate will pay $36 million of the $86 million cost of a new stadium in Worcester, with roughly $30 million paid in the form of lease payments over 30 years. (CommonWealth) A Lowell Sun editorial calls the wooing of the WooSox “a game changer not only for Worcester but for the entire region.”

A former Mashpee Wampanoag official is suing in tribal court to overturn the pact between the tribe and the town of Mashpee to end a challenge to the land reservation decision, saying the agreement violates the tribe’s constitution. (Cape Cod Times)

WASHINGTON/NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL

Microsoft says Russian hackers are now allegedly targeting conservative groups who have broken with President Trump and calling for continued sanctions against the country. (New York Times)

A newly released memo from when he was a member of the special prosecutor’s team investigating then-President Bill Clinton shows Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh urged prosecutors to ask the president graphic and explicit questions about his sexual relationship with Monica Lewinsky. (Washington Post)

Protesters calling for the abolition of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency chained themselves to a gate and embedded their arms in cement at the Bristol House of Correction in Dartmouth, which is a holding jail for immigrants. (Herald News)

Offering one solution to the controversy over President Trump stripping critics of their national security clearance, Andrew Bacevich says we should end the practice of letting anyone maintain access to privileged information once they leave an official government post. (Boston Globe)

Protesters at the University of North Carolina pull down the “Silent Sam” Confederate statue. (The Atlantic)

ELECTIONS

The Globe profiles incumbent secretary of state Bill Galvin and his Democratic primary challenger, Josh Zakim. The Boston Herald endorses Zakim in the September 4 Democratic primary against the 24-year incumbent.

The Herald also gives the nod to state rep. Geoff Diehl in the three-way Republican primary for US Senate.

Attorney General Maura Healey helped lead a door-to-door canvassing operation for congressional challenger Ayanna Pressley in Cambridge yesterday. (Boston Herald)

The Globe’s Evan Horowitz says a strong economy could blunt a “blue wave” favoring Democrats in the midterm elections.

Lowell Sun columnist Peter Lucas says the best television political ad so far in 2018 was developed by Republican US Senate candidate John Kingston. (Hint: It takes a shot at Sen. Elizabeth Warren).

Evan Falchuck and Scott Harshbarger try to flip Congress with an online donor site. (MassLive)

BUSINESS/ECONOMY

The Trump administration is delaying its timetable on automobile tariffs as officials negotiate new deals with the world’s biggest car exporters. (Wall Street Journal)

Sam Adams, now the official beer of the Ashland Republican Town Committee as a show of support for Boston Beer president Jim Koch’s praise of President Trump’s tax cuts. (MetroWest Daily News)

EDUCATION

School officials and local police chiefs voice support for a Baker administration proposal to spend $72 million on school safety upgrades. (Boston Herald)

A new all-boys school for grades 3 through 8, run by members of the devout Catholic sect of Opus Dei though not a parochial school, is opening in Millis in September with the focus on letting the kids spend as much time as possible learning and working outdoors.

RELIGION

Pope Francis issued an unprecedented letter condemning clergy sexual abuse, but many Catholics remain skeptical that the church will reckon fully with the issue. (Boston Globe)  Cardinal Sean O’Malley says he accepts responsibility for an aide not showing him a letter he received three years ago raising allegations of sexual predatory conduct against minors by then-Archbishop Theodore McCarrick of Washington, DC. (Boston Herald)

HEALTH/HEALTH CARE

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Lahey Health took strong issue with a state report predicting that their merger would increase health care costs. (Boston Globe)

TRANSPORTATION

The Beldon Bly Bridge between Saugus and Lynn is stuck in the open position. (Daily Item)

ENERGY/ENVIRONMENT

Barnstable County officials are keeping a wary eye on an invasive species of Asian tick that is at the Cape’s doorstep to see if the anthropoid that sickens livestock makes its way across the bridge and acquires diseases that infect humans. (Cape Cod Times)

President Trump is preparing to unveil new rules that would provide states with more flexibility in regulating emissions from coal power plants. (Associated Press)

CASINOS/MARIJUANA

Swansea voters at a special Town Meeting soundly rejected a zoning proposal that would have allowed a cultivation facility for recreational marijuana, an action which prevents the proposal to be brought back for at least two years. (Herald News)

CRIMINAL JUSTICE/COURTS

Bryon Hefner, the husband of former Senate president Stan Rosenberg, who is already facing multiple sexual assault charges, pleaded guilty yesterday to making hundreds of harassing phone calls to a Lincoln treatment facility where he was being treated. He was sentenced to one year of probation on four specific charges while judge ruled that two other charges would be continued without a finding. (Boston Globe)

A federal judge in Boston said he’s considering an order that would bar immigration officials from arresting undocumented immigrants who appear at federal offices seeking to legalize their status here. (Boston Herald)

MEDIA

Margaret Sullivan of the Washington Post says the newspaper editorial collaboration in response to President Trump was good, but what is needed more is collaboration on a host of other fronts.