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REOPENING MASSACHUSETTS

Experts predict long, slow climb toward economic recovery

It will be well into summer, at the earliest, before most consumer-facing businesses are allowed to resume operations, and it will be a long, slow climb from there as consumers get comfortable again with shopping in stores again, eating at restaurants, and going back to the gym.
Scientists say Baker?s reopening plan is sensible, but still concerning ?Reopening does not mean back to normal,? Mayor Walsh says

Baker details plan to reopen Massachusetts

Retail outlets, salons and barbershops, life science facilities, pet groomers, and car washes are among the businesses that can reopen as soon as next week with restrictions under Governor Charlie Baker?s plan, announced Monday morning, to gradually reopen the Massachusetts economy amid the deadly coronavirus pandemic.
Key takeaways from Baker?s reopening plan for Massachusetts Here's what the plans says about colleges, schools, and day care Don't expect normal MBTA service for weeks What about group gatherings? A look at what can reopen in each phase of Massachusetts? opening plan

Office work gets green light, but many white-collar employers will still stay home
Hundreds of thousands of office workers across Massachusetts will stay home for weeks, if not months, to come.

With coronavirus restrictions easing, when can I ...
Eat at a restaurant in Massachusetts? Take the kids to the playground? Meet up with friends at a bar? Here?s a look at some common questions and what new state guidance says.

From salons to boutique gyms, relief mixes with confusion as small businesses try to parse what reopening will look like
Some called the phase-in plan unfair or short-sighted, others deemed it a 'solid product' in a difficult situation.

Major Boston hospital finds dramatic drop in stroke, heart attack, and cancer patients during coronavirus pandemic

At Beth Israel Deaconess, the number of referrals to its breast cancer clinic dropped 65 percent in April.
Moderna says first-stage study of coronavirus vaccine produced antibodies in subjects

Trump threatens permanent freeze on WHO funding without 'major' reforms within 30 days

 Trump says he is taking unproven malaria drug hydroxychloroquine

New mask under development at MIT could detect coronavirus, report says
A new mask that can potentially detect COVID-19 just by when a person sneezes, breathes, or coughs is under development at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, according to a recent report from Business Insider.

Opinion

Joan Vennochi

Baker moves slowly to reopen the state ? and swiftly to remove nursing homes? coronavirus liability
EDITORIAL

Stop the purge of inspectors general
EDITORIAL

Make Boston?s comeback al fresco
Ro Khanna

Biden can channel FDR by choosing Elizabeth Warren as vice president
'THE MECHANIC' BY BEN MEZRICH

Start at the beginning of ?The Mechanic?

Read all the available chapters for the fictional thriller that entwines a card shark, the legacy of Paul Revere, and the Gardner art heist.

Talk about ?The Mechanic? with Ben Mezrich and the Globe

On Wednesday May 20, best-selling author Ben Mezrich will talk with the Globe and readers about the novella recently published in the Globe and on Globe.com. RSVP now to participate.

A note from Ben Mezrich
When The Boston Globe first approached me with the idea of writing a serialized novella that would run for 15 days in the paper and online, I was both excited and terrified.

Comfort Zone

These masked singers are way ahead of the (flattened) curve

A photo each day keeps our extended family close

Dropkick Murphys to stage a concert for charity in an empty Fenway Park

From the Alan Lomax Archive, hope amid ?Hard Times?

Dow closes up more than 900 points on hopes for vaccine and economic recovery
The stock market bounced back from its worst week in nearly two months Monday as optimism about a potential vaccine for the coronavirus and hopes for a US economic recovery in the second half of the year put investors in a buying mood.

Tents are up and tables are set outside; now all R.I. restaurants need are more customers
Monday was the first day that outdoor dining was allowed, but most customers preferred takeout and curbside pickup.

N.H. restaurants open to limited outdoor dining amid coronavirus; beaches could open June 1

Suffolk University?s 2020 graduates will walk next year
While many schools are having virtual commencements, Suffolk's president said she considered the ceremony too important to hold online.

?They were coaches on the field.? And a dozen players on the 2004 Patriots team became coaches off it, too
What was it about that Super Bowl squad that made so many players good candidates to become coaches?

NFL to immediately expand Rooney Rule to encourage minority coaching hires

Barr dismisses Trump?s claim that Russia inquiry was an Obama plot

Attorney General William Barr dismissed President Donald Trump?s attempts to rebrand the Russia investigation as a criminal plot engineered by former President Barack Obama.
Fired State Dept. watchdog was looking into Saudi arms sale, Democrats say

Quick-thinking Boston police officer uses CPR to revive infant who wasn?t breathing
An infant who was not breathing was saved by a Boston police officer who performed CPR in Roxbury Sunday night, police said.

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Brazen daylight shooting in Dorchester leaves one person dead

On StatNews.com

Utah embraced an unproven Covid-19 drug, then raced to course-correct

Life as a Covid-19 contact tracer: sleuthing, stress, and veering off-script

Coronavirus resources

The latest coronavirus numbers from Massachusetts

Boston is still running

Town-by-town coronavirus data in Massachusetts

A list of layoffs and furloughs in Massachusetts (so far) due to coronavirus

Elegies for those lost to coronavirus

Despite pandemic, Winchester farm presses on with modern-day barn raising

Organizers remain undeterred in their drive to finish the all-seasons barn, which they say will help secure the farm?s future and maintain its 382-year legacy in town.

Woman who pleaded guilty in ?Varsity Blues? case sentenced, fined

A defendant in the ?Varsity Blues? college admissions case was sentenced Monday and ordered to pay a $250,000 fine for paying six-figure bribes to get her son into UCLA , according to the US attorney?s office for Massachusetts.

Ken Osmond, Eddie Haskell on ?Leave It to Beaver,? dies at 76

Ken Osmond, who played the two-faced teenage scoundrel Eddie Haskell on TV?s ?Leave It to Beaver,? died Monday, his family said.

GoFundMe for Latino meals at coronavirus isolation hotel raises more than $5,000

A North Shore woman raised more than $5,000 this week to provide meals of chicken, arroz con gandules, and sweet plantains to patients who are staying at the COVID-19 isolation hotel in Revere, after learning that the state was providing Italian food to a mostly Latino population.

Recommended Reads

To reopen, restaurants will need to completely reinvent themselves

As restaurants contemplate reopening after the crisis, they face an entirely new reality: How to serve guests and make them feel welcome while also doing everything they can to make them feel safe.
Cambridge?s long-lived Restaurant Dante at Royal Sonesta closes, as does Central Square?s Cuchi Cuchi

The Great Divide
Why is Massachusetts? tech sector so lacking in diversity? Take a look inside AP computer science classes
Black and Latino students? access to advanced computer science offerings is limited in Boston, despite the growing student demand. More than three-quarters of those students who took AP computer science exams in 2018-19 came from one of the city?s three highly-selective exam schools, a Globe analysis of state data found.

For Elizabeth Warren and Joe Biden, a complex history gives way to a new alliance
The two have a long history, which is now in the spotlight as Biden considers Warren for his running mate.

Rhode Island

Tents are up and tables are set outside; now all R.I. restaurants need are more customers

Monday was the first day that outdoor dining was allowed, but most customers preferred takeout and curbside pickup.

Narragansett council president?s call to defy R.I. governor?s COVID orders fizzles

R.I. to open two state beaches for Memorial Day; coronavirus deaths top 500
Newton

Opinion, ideas, and commentary

Niall Ferguson

Dim lights, big city
EDITORIAL

When it?s a matter of survival, let museums sell art
Daniel Arrigg Koh

Expand access to the ballot
Becca Rausch

State needs automatic vote-by-mail system
LETTERS

Postcards from the pandemic
IDEAS | Jeff Howe

A letter from the summer of 2020

VISUAL STORIES

Patriots defensive end Chase Winovich may be confined, but he?s hardly at a standstill

Photos: Celebrating Mother?s Day, from a social distance

A funeral home copes with the surge during the coronavirus pandemic

Boston Globe staff photographer Erin Clark named Feature Photography Pulitzer finalist for 2020

metro

Tents are up and tables are set outside; now all R.I. restaurants need are more customers
Monday was the first day that outdoor dining was allowed, but most customers preferred takeout and curbside pickup.

Narragansett council president?s call to defy R.I. governor?s COVID orders fizzles

Matthew Mannix withdrew his resolution to have the police ignore the governor's orders because he said it didn't have enough support from his fellow councilors.

Michel Piccoli, star of French stage and screen, at 94

Mr. Piccoli, an actor whose quiet intensity and mature sensuality made him a fixture of French cinema for more than a half-century, died on May 12, it was announced on Monday.

With coronavirus restrictions easing, when can I ...

For area religious leaders, patience in tribulation

sports

Notre Dame plans to reopen in August, but no word on playing football

The campus will reopen Aug. 10, with social distancing, a mask requirement, and testing and contact tracing to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.

US Open eliminates qualifying for first time since 1924

US Open qualifying is the hallmark of golf's second-oldest championship.

Rockets owner details NBA?s return plans and financial struggles in meeting with President Trump

Billionaire Tilman Fertitta said the pandemic "definitely brought [my business] back to earth."

NBC says 2.35 million watched live golf?s return to TV
Coronavirus notebook

Governors cautious, supportive of return of live pro sports
Sports Log

Return of live auto racing, golf draws huge TV ratings

STAT

Infect volunteers with Covid-19? A proposal lays bare a minefield of issues

Experts question Facebook?s approach to combat Covid-19 misinformation

Covid-19 has shuttered labs. It could put a generation of researchers at risk

Stay up to date with STAT?s Covid-19 Tracker

An interview with the CDC director on coronavirus, masks, and an agency gone quiet

Business

WHO bows to calls from countries for independent virus probe; Trump threatens to permanently withdrawal US funding
The World Health Organization bowed to calls Monday from most of its member states to launch an independent probe into how it managed the international response to the coronavirus, which has been clouded by finger-pointing between the US and China over a pandemic that has killed over 300,000 people and leveled the global economy.

Powell says central bank will use wide range of tools to support US economy
Chairman Jerome Powell said the Federal Reserve is prepared to leave the benchmark lending rate near zero until the economy is back on track.

Reopening Massachusetts means a long, slow climb

Office work gets green light, but many white-collar employers will still stay home
TALKING POINTS

Uber cuts 3,000 more jobs

Tech giants in no rush to reopen their offices

Politics

FBI: Shooter at Pensacola base coordinated with al-Qaida

Florida Senator Rubio named acting chair of intelligence panel

Trump says he is taking unproven malaria drug hydroxychloroquine

Marijuana

Medical marijuana dispensary to reopen in coronavirus hot spot in North Dakota

US pot earnings shine as Canada struggles
magazine
Cover story

The 5 scariest ways scammers try to rip us off
Class of 2020

The 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid' author has a special message for this year's graduates
Cooking

Quick and easy asparagus recipes
Your Week Ahead

Five things to do online, May 11-17

sports

Coach Jay Leach has a winning attitude about his Providence Bruins

Bay State Summer Games canceled for the first time in 39 years

Instant replay: The best sports on TV Tuesday

metro

Tents are up and tables are set outside; now all R.I. restaurants need are more customers

Narragansett council president?s call to defy R.I. governor?s COVID orders fizzles

Michel Piccoli, star of French stage and screen, at 94

Nation

NAACP convention planned for Boston will be held online instead

Ken Osmond, Eddie Haskell on ?Leave It to Beaver,? dies at 76

From salons to boutique gyms, relief mixes with confusion as small businesses try to parse what reopening will look like

World

How France lost the weapons to fight a pandemic

Afghan rivals sign power-sharing deal as political crisis subsides

New lockdown introduced as virus resurges in China

politics

Florida Senator Rubio named acting chair of intelligence panel

Trump says he is taking unproven malaria drug hydroxychloroquine

Fired State Dept. watchdog was looking into Saudi arms sale, Democrats say

business

WHO bows to calls from countries for independent virus probe; Trump threatens to permanently withdrawal US funding

Powell says central bank will use wide range of tools to support US economy

Reopening Massachusetts means a long, slow climb

lifestyle

A photo each day keeps our extended family close

Cambridge?s long-lived Restaurant Dante at the Royal Sonesta closes, as does Central Square?s Cuchi Cuchi

John Krasinski and ?Some Good News? say goodbye (for now)

marijuana

Medical marijuana dispensary to reopen in coronavirus hot spot in North Dakota

US pot earnings shine as Canada struggles

Mass. recreational marijuana shops to reopen on May 25 with curbside pickup only

opinion

The trouble with mandatory coronavirus testing in nursing homes

Senior independent living population needs coronavirus care too

Wall Street vs. the real economy

food & dining

Cambridge?s Automatic closes, Brookline?s Dumpling Daughter opens, and new takeout abounds

Recipe: French yogurt cake takes so little effort and gives you so much in return

Recipe: This classic all-beef meatloaf is a comfort-food classic

travel

Provincetown, the country?s unofficial LGBTQ summer playground, faces a unique challenge this year

3 Rhode Island road trips to consider when you want to get out safely but start small

Congress introduces new bill requiring cash refunds from airlines ? regardless of who cancels the trip

Books

Chapter 21: An ending and a beginning

Chapter 20: Eagle of the Seas

A note from Ben Mezrich

Movies

10 more very good movies that you probably haven?t seen

Doc Talk: Two looks at COVID-19, Louis Malle?s America, Henri Langlois salute

?The Last Dance? as choreography; or why Larry Bird and John Wayne are different

Television

This week?s TV: The legacy of soap operas, ?Homecoming? returns, Gloucester goes fishing

Barack Obama, LeBron James, Malala Yousafzai salute high school class of 2020 in 'Graduate Together? virtual ceremony. Here?s what you missed

Michelle Obama helps bring ?prom-athon? to MTV

music

These masked singers are way ahead of the (flattened) curve

From the Alan Lomax Archive, hope amid ?Hard Times?

Dropkick Murphys to stage a concert for charity in an empty Fenway Park

Theater/Dance

Streams of innovation in an interactive ?State vs. Natasha Banina?

In isolation, theater couples entertain new ideas ? and each other

Gloucester Stage cancels summer season

globe local

Little birds with big appeal

Despite pandemic, Winchester farm presses on with modern-day barn raising

With iPads, Concord?s Emerson Hospital connects loved ones with patients suffering from coronavirus

Obituaries

Michel Piccoli, star of French stage and screen, at 94

Phyllis George, trailblazing sportscaster, dies at 70

Michael McCaskey, who succeeded Halas as Bears? leader, dies