Local politics

Don?t offer workers insurance? Firms may face penalty

Governor Baker plans to propose an assessment of $2,000 per worker against companies that do not offer health insurance.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/11/11/BostonGlobe.com/BCOM/Images/Was8979244.jpg N.H. bill would require sex assault victims to corroborate testimony

Another bill before the committee would change the word ?victim? to ?complainant? in the sexual assault statute.

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Britain won?t ?hold on to bits of membership? nor seek associate or partial membership of the bloc, Theresa May said.

The transition: Obama to Trump

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/01/17/BostonGlobe.com/Politics/Images/1a7253373430403084c8116ae6f0051b-1a7253373430403084c8116ae6f0051b-0.jpg Paul LePage tells John Lewis ?a simple thank-you should suffice?

The Maine governor said the civil rights icon needed a history lesson on how US presidents freed the slaves and fought against Jim Crow laws.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/01/17/BostonGlobe.com/Politics/Images/AFP_K2313.jpg Trump will consider ?day one? to be Monday, not his inauguration

?I don?t want to be signing and get it mixed up with lots of celebration,? Donald Trump said.

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A number of designers have indicated they have no interest in dressing Melania Trump because of their political beliefs.

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The Boston startup makes software that lets machines equipped with cameras interpret images and recognize objects, partially automating tasks.

UMass

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/05/25/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/20150701_CFW_Meehan_2060x.jpg Ratings agencies sound cautious financial note for UMass

Growing enrollment, conservative budgeting, and responsible financial management earned UMass sound bond ratings.

Sponsored by Rockland Trust

As cars evolve, gas stations are falling behind

With more hybrid, electric, and possibly driverless cars hitting roads in coming years, gas stations are under pressure to adapt to the needs of the industry, but can they?

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Food

The golden cioppino at RFK Kitchen in Needham.

Suzanne Kreiter/Globe staff

dining out

If you lived here, you?d be eating now

With RFK Kitchen, Needham gets a new restaurant to return to regularly.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/01/04/BostonGlobe.com/Lifestyle/Images/Boghosian_18eastcoastgrill10_LIFE.jpg Inside the (re)opening of East Coast Grill

Little has changed, and that?s just how we like it.

Television

TV Critic?s Corner

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/01/16/BostonGlobe.com/Arts/Images/sneaky-pete-SP_102_09369_rgb[1].jpg In praise of Margo Martindale

The actress is currently bringing pleasure as the grandmother on ?Sneaky Pete.?

Metro

dave epstein

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/01/17/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/image01-11756-kQI--90x90@BostonGlobe.com.png Tuesday?s storm will be a messy mixed bag of precipitation

Precipitation ranging from sleet to snow will impact the evening commute in Greater Boston Tuesday.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/01/13/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/wiggs_Nee_703397.jpg Danny Nee used to love snow. Then he became Boston?s snow czar

Nee is one of two officials in charge of the battle between the City of Boston and the snow.

Names

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/01/17/BostonGlobe.com/Lifestyle/Images/631368526[1]-5610.jpg The best Boston accents in movies, according to Ben Affleck

?Mine, in Good Will Hunting,? Affleck jokingly said. ?Way better than Matt?s.

AFC Championship: Steelers at Patriots

Chad Finn

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/01/17/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/loganint-001_hor.jpg It?s time to acknowledge the Patriots? defense

The defense ? the secondary in particular ? determined Saturday?s victory over the Texans.

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Pittsburgh players don?t expect Antonio Brown?s video, which has been removed from Facebook, to be a distraction as the team prepares to face the Patriots in the AFC Championship Game.

Globe Magazine

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/01/16/BostonGlobe.com/Magazine/Images/15e29bee244749749d833036a1a104f2-15e29bee244749749d833036a1a104f2-0-1960.jpg The debate is over. Bill Belichick is the greatest NFL coach ever.

His sustained success isn?t just supposed to be unlikely in modern football. It?s supposed to be impossible.

Address

LUXURY IN THE CITY: HOME OF THE WEEK

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/01/12/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/ryan_luxury1_biz.jpg Double-size condo features river views, private entrance, and garage parking

This home comprises two of the five units in this condo building and boasts its own front entry.

Newsletters

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Opinion & Ideas

Opinion | Stephen Crosby

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They are fulfilling their promise of broad-based economic development.

Special reports

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/01/14/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/unbowed_tiled-11878.jpg As Obama departs, black youth question place in Trump?s America

Black youth in Ferguson, Baltimore, and Boston are confronting the paradox of President Obama?s historic ascension and the start of the Donald Trump era.

Life sciences

STAT, a national publication from Boston Globe Media Partners, covers health, medicine, and life sciences.

Investigations

The Desperate and the Dead | Part 7

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/12/05/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/20160923_SAMentalHealth_312.jpg The San Antonio solution

One Texas city took on mental health as a community and became a national model. Why can?t Mass. do the same?

The story behind ?Spotlight?

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?Spotlight? is based on the stories and the reporters behind the investigation of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church.