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Vaccine passport efforts draw opposition from GOP lawmakers

Vaccine passports being developed to verify COVID-19 immunization status and allow inoculated people to more freely travel, shop, and dine have become the latest flash point in America’s perpetual political wars, with Republicans portraying them as a heavy-handed intrusion into personal freedom and private health choices.

An undated photo provided by the US Capitol Police shows US Capitol Police officer William Evans.
Capitol Police officer killed at barricade was North Adams native
William “Billy” Evans was a native of North Adams who also lived in his teens in neighboring Clarksburg. He died on Friday when a man rammed a car into a barricade outside the Capitol building, killing him and injuring a second officer.

Deadly breach could delay decisions about Capitol fencing

Judge’s ruling could have ramifications for coastal development in Mass.

Suffolk County judge Brian Davis this week dealt a potentially major blow to plans for a skyscraper on the edge of Boston Harbor in a ruling that could have broad implications for waterfront development all over Massachusetts.

JENÉE OSTERHELDT
Lil Nas X in his new video for "Montero (Call Me By Your Name)."
Hell is hot and Lil Nas X is free
Lil Nas X dancing down a pole to hell and onto Satan’s lap wasn’t about devil worship. He isn’t trying to brainwash your children. He is taking dangerous stigmas and setting them on fire.

Chief: 3 dead, 4 hurt in North Carolina house party shooting

At least seven people were shot and three were killed in a shooting at a house party early Saturday in North Carolina, a police chief said.
Celtics center Robert Williams shot 9 for 9 from the floor and had 20 points, 9 rebounds, and 8 assists.
Celtics 118, Rockets 102

Robert Williams is perfect as Celtics rout Rockets, and other observations

Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown got plenty of help from Williams and newcomer Evan Fournier (23 points).
There was a buzz at Fenway Park for the first game with fans in the stands since the end of the 2019 season, but the play on the field quickly sapped a good deal of it.
DAN SHAUGHNESSY

Refrain of Opening Day at Fenway: Red Sox have 161 left to do better than that

The pregame was better than the game as the Red Sox kicked off their 121st season with a performance that looked straight from their lost 2020 campaign.
Opening Day, but a whole new ballgame
Former Red Sox slugger David Ortiz's Weston home sold on March 31, 2021.

David Ortiz’s Weston home sold for $3.5 million. Take a look inside

On the same day the Boston Red Sox reunited with fans at home for the first time in over a year, news broke that the team’s former slugger David Ortiz and his wife, Tiffany, found a buyer for theirs.

Weekend Arts

Michelle Pfeiffer in "French Exit."
MOVIES

Michelle Pfeiffer on making an entrance in ‘French Exit’
Idris Elba, left, and Caleb McLaughlin in "Concrete Cowboy."
Movie Review | ★★★

Idris Elba saddles up for ‘Concrete Cowboy,’ on Netflix
Ernest Hemingway and his fourth wife, Mary, at their home in Cuba in the 1950s.
TELEVISION

This American larger than life
Maxwell continues to reign as an R&B auteur.
MUSIC

Maxwell’s slow-burning debut still simmers after 25 years
Mass. coronavirus at a glance |
Vaccinations
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SOURCE: Mass. Dept. of Public Health

Since making his debut in 2015, Scott Oberg’s 259 appearances are the most for any Rockies pitcher.
How Rockies pitcher Scott Oberg, a Tewksbury native, is dealing with his latest setback
The UConn product recently underwent surgery to remove blood clots and his season was over before it started.

THOMAS FARRAGHER
Bishop John M. Borders III at Morning Star Baptist Church in Mattapan spoke with Brenda Cooper, who had just gotten a vaccine shot from nurse Rea Penn (right).
This bishop believes that we’re best served by sobering moments — moments just like this
What’s happening in this bright place of worship along Blue Hill Avenue in Mattapan is not a matter of faith. There is nothing theoretical about it. It’s vital. And it’s life-saving.

Zulmalee Rivera-Delgado, 42, (right), her mother Grisel Delgado, 64, who has chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and her 9-year-old daughter Zeva Rae Joyner, who has asthma, oppose the wood-energy plant proposed for Springfield. They say it will add to the already heavy pollution in the city.
After years of protests, state officials revoke permit for controversial biomass plant in Springfield
Environmental regulators said their decision was based on a “heightened focus on environmental and health impacts on environmental justice populations from sources of pollution.”

Phoebe Dynevor, left, and Rege-Jean Page in a scene from "Bridgerton."
‘Bridgerton’ Star Regé-Jean Page will not appear in Season 2
Simon Bassett, the character played by Regé-Jean Page, the breakout star of the Netflix series “Bridgerton,” will not return for the show’s second season, Netflix and Shondaland, Shonda Rhimes’ production company, announced Friday.

The scene at Disney World in Florida in December.
Man refuses temperature check and is arrested at Disney World after spending $15,000 to go there
A Baton Rouge, La., resident paid a small fortune for an enchanting trip to “the most magical place on Earth.” Instead, he visited Orange County, Fla., jail.

Vincent Petryk, founder and owner of J.P. Licks, opened the ice cream shop's doors in Jamaica Plain in 1981. The shop has remained a Boston staple ever since.
As Boston ice cream shop J.P. Licks celebrates its 40th anniversary, expect ‘flavors from the vault’
Vincent Petryk, founder and owner of the shop, said the business has come a long way from its original 500-square foot space, which he said had “just enough room in the basement for our freezer and ice cream machine.”

Opinion

Josie and Lydia Jackson, Alaina Roberts's great-great-grandmother and great-great-great grandmother.
RENÉE GRAHAM

An overdue reckoning for Black Freedmen on native lands

A new book from a descendant of African Americans enslaved by Indians examines both family and American history.
Bandages and alcohol pads at a mass vaccination site at Rentschler Field in East Hartford, Conn.
Elissa Ely

The pharmacist
LETTERS

‘Old’ — a state of being, a state of mind, a state of grace, a state unto oneself
A voter submits a ballot in an official drop box during early voting in Athens, Ga., Oct. 19, 2020. A new Georgia law, among other constraints on voting, restricts the availability of drop boxes for absentee ballots.
EDITORIAL

MLB, corporate leaders wake up to assault on voting rights
A new red scare is sweeping the land — or certain pixilated right-wing precincts of it, anyway.
SCOT LEHIGH

Beware the red scare

Recommended reads

Perspective | Magazine
A photo illustration of Boston Latin School's exterior being erased by a pencil.
It’s time for Boston to start talking about closing its exam schools
Improving the admissions process won't change the systemic disparities created by selective schools.

frozen four

How UMass became a national power in men’s hockey under Greg Carvel

In five seasons, Carvel has taken the Minutemen to two Frozen Fours, and he was the national Coach of the Year in 2019.

Experts say ‘herd immunity’ could conquer COVID-19. But is it even possible?

The idea of “herd immunity” is simple enough: if enough people are vaccinated or otherwise become immune to the virus, it will run out of bodies to infect and eventually smolder out. But as the nationwide vaccine drive kicks into high gear, the concept of herd immunity is fraying under the scrutiny.
Globe Magazine

The exhaustion of being a Black teacher in a school when you’re one of too few educators of color

As well-intentioned schools with mostly white staffs scramble to respond to a reckoning on racism, an “invisible tax” of work falls on too few teachers and administrators like Malcolm Cawthorne in Brookline.
Globe Magazine

The costs of a secretive ‘wealth defense industry’ of shell companies, offshore tax havens, and empty luxury condos

When oligarchs and ultra-wealthy around the world game the system to hide riches in Boston and other cities, everyone else pays.

metro

Lil Nas X in his new video for "Montero (Call Me By Your Name)."
JENÉE OSTERHELDT

Hell is hot and Lil Nas X is free

Lil Nas X dancing down a pole to hell and onto Satan’s lap wasn’t about devil worship. He isn’t trying to brainwash your children. He is taking dangerous stigmas and setting them on fire.

Capitol Police officer killed at barricade was North Adams native
THOMAS FARRAGHER

This bishop believes that we’re best served by sobering moments — moments just like this

Sports

Charlie Coyle (13) was one of Don Sweeney's best deadline trade acquisitions for the Bruins.
Kevin Paul Dupont | On Second Thought

Trade deadline has different look for Bruins GM Don Sweeney this year

This is a different situation, particularly compared with the last three deadlines when his Bruins were bona fide contenders for the Stanley Cup.
bruins

Bruins defenseman Brandon Carlo being evaluated after suffering upper-body injury against Penguins
Ben Volin | Sunday football notes

Five teams will take a quarterback in the first round of the NFL Draft. History says only one or two will end up happy

business

The set of Harvard Business School's 24th annual New Venture Competition, which was held virtually this year because of the pandemic.

Plant-based diapers and tech for construction companies: A look at the winners from Harvard’s annual business competition

The US job engine shifts into high gear

Ginkgo Bioworks aims to keep growing with new building in the Seaport

politics

Vaccine passports are becoming a political flashpoint.

Vaccine passport efforts draw opposition from GOP lawmakers

Deadly breach could delay decisions about Capitol fencing

Flags at half staff for officer killed after driver rams into two US Capitol Police officers

Living Arts

Former Red Sox slugger David Ortiz's Weston home sold on March 31, 2021.

David Ortiz’s Weston home sold for $3.5 million. Take a look inside

‘Bridgerton’ Star Regé-Jean Page will not appear in Season 2

As Boston ice cream shop J.P. Licks celebrates its 40th anniversary, expect ‘flavors from the vault’

education

A line of boys, lead by 6-year-old Teddy Anderson, plays with the hula hoops. Kindergarteners from the Merrymount and Squantum schools have recess at Quincy After School, held at Merrymount Elementary School, during the continuing coronavirus pandemic.

Rising coronavirus cases among students and staff members don’t mean schools are unsafe, officials and health experts say

How many coronavirus cases have been reported in Mass. schools? Check our map

‘It is a great investment in our institutions’: Community colleges to receive lifeline in $1.9 trillion stimulus plan

rhode island

Angelica Romero, 30, was inoculated with the Moderna vaccine by pharmacy student Kayla Sepe at Central Falls High School in Rhode Island in February.
CORONAVIRUS

If you’re 50 or older in RI, you can book an appointment Monday -- with a pharmacy
RI NEWS

Ancient coins found in R.I. may solve mystery of murderous 1600s pirate
RI BUSINESS

How could the American Jobs Plan improve Rhode Island’s infrastructure?

Newton

video

Comfort Zone

COMFORT ZONE
Hikers took in views from the boardwalk at Stony Brook Wildlife Sanctuary in Norfolk.
5 boardwalks to elevate the hiking experience
These trails are accessible, kid-friendly, and just a skip from Boston.

TELEVISION
From left: Brennan Hepler (whose stage name is Beane), Grace Kinstler, and Colin Jamieson have made the Top 24 on "American Idol."
3 singers with Boston ties advance to ‘American Idol’ all-star duets
Locals will sing April 4 and 5 with Joss Stone, Josh Groban, and Tori Kelly.

Einat Cohen's “Royal & Gold Textured Bell-Shaped Earrings,” made with tyvek paper and resin.
CraftBoston permanently hangs its sign online
A forever version of the popular expo kicks off with an online earrings show.

FIRST PERSON
Online museum tours have been big during the pandemic.
Even in a year of staying put, I’ve gone far and wide — and even learned to folk dance
I’m taking full advantage of the virtual content that organizations have been offering during the pandemic. And it has gotten me through what would otherwise be a lonely time.

Text and photographs from MARTHA STEWART’S VERY GOOD THINGS. Copyright © 2021 by Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Inc. Used by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Martha Stewart wants to help you turn up the charming
The gorgeous "Martha Stewart's Very Good Things" is packed with lovely little lifehacks for your home.

Special Projects

The Globe launches Project Takeout, an effort to help restaurants make it to the other side of this pandemic.
PROJECT TAKEOUT | DEVRA FIRST

Project takeout: Get takeout. Save restaurants you love.

Ordering dinner will help small local businesses survive the pandemic. But that’s just the start.
See the full project

On the Street

A man repacked the food he got from a food pantry on Broadway in Chelsea. Chelsea has been one of the places in Greater Boston hardest hit by the pandemic.

In tackling the pandemic, Chelsea finds new strength
A mural on the side of the Mayor Bill Carpenter Garage in Brockton.

Brockton offers a gateway to a new generation
Evening light sets upon stores and restaurants on Hancock Street in Quincy Center.

This time, Quincy Center’s revival looks legit

See more from our business series ‘On the Street’: The changing face of Greater Boston neighborhoods

More

Jeneé Osterheldt
A Beautiful Resistance
Black joy, Black lives, as celebrated by culture columnist Jeneé Osterheldt.

Boston Globe launches ‘Fresh Start’ initiative: People can apply to have past coverage about them reviewed
Similar to “right to forget” programs that have cropped up across the country, the undertaking is meant to address the lasting impact that stories about past embarrassments, mistakes, or minor crimes, forever online, can have on a person’s life.

Globe Spotlight Investigation
Last Words: Is death the great equalizer?
Quite the contrary, a Spotlight investigation shows. Death exposes in high relief the layers of inequities, in race and income, care and opportunity, that shape life down to its final hours. It is a truth the pandemic has only underscored — one hard to see, because it is so much easier to look away.

Opinion, ideas, and commentary

Ethiopian refugees in Hamdayet, Sudan, on Dec. 4. This is the first stop for new arrivals after crossing the border.
MARCELA GARCÍA

Is Biden afraid of appearing too soft on immigration?
Bystanders watch as demonstrators march against anti-Asian violence in New York City on March 27.
IDEAS | NOAH Y. KIM

The power and the perils of an Asian American political awakening
Anti-coup demonstrators prepare to confront police on Thursday in Yangon, Myanmar.
IDEAS | CHARLES DUNST

How to keep Myanmar from becoming another US failure
On Tuesday, mourners gathered at a makeshift memorial for the eight people who were killed on March 21 during attacks on three Atlanta-area spas.
EDITORIAL

Massachusetts’ hate crimes law needs an update

Sylvia Whitman inside the English and American literature Shakespeare and Co. bookstore, in Paris on Nov. 5. In February, following months of intense lobbying on the part of booksellers and the reading public, the French government decreed bookshops to be essential businesses.
IDEAS | OLIVIA SNAIJE

Another lockdown, but this time Parisians demand bookstores stay open
Bystanders watch as demonstrators march against anti-Asian violence in New York City on March 27.
IDEAS | NOAH Y. KIM

The power and the perils of an Asian American political awakening

STAT

Road ahead illo
The Road Ahead: Charting the pandemic over the next 12 months — and beyond
In this project, STAT describes 30 key moments, possible turning points that could steer the pandemic onto a different course or barometers for how the virus is reshaping our lives.

Ahoskie Mayor Weyling White, left, and Hertford County Magistrate Deborah Morrison, right, pose for a portrait on railroad tracks that divide the predominantly White and predominantly Black parts of town in Ahoskie, N.C., Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2020. (Photo © Landon Bost 2020)
From a small N.C. town to big-city hospitals, how software infuses racism into U.S. health care
The racial bias can produce huge differences in assessing patients’ need for special care to manage conditions such as hypertension, diabetes, or depression, a STAT investigation found.

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - FEBRUARY 12: People walk through the snow and sleet in Manhattan on February 12, 2019 in New York City. New York City, in a winter that has been light on snow this season, is expected to receive two inches of snow before the storm moves later this evening. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
Covid-19’s wintry mix: Dry indoor air helps the virus spread
The worry is not just that people might mingle more closely inside, but that the air they breathe will make the virus more dangerous.

Boston, MA -- 06/04/2020 -- Yoldana Desir displays a photograph of her late sister, Marie Deus, who died of Covid-19, after contracting it as a food service worker at Brigham and Women's Hospital, in Boston, Massachusetts. (Kayana Szymczak for STAT)
In the Covid-19 death of a hospital food worker, a microcosm of the pandemic
The hospital's first employee to die of Covid-19 was a kitchen worker named Marie Deus — and her illness sparked a question. Why weren't bedside clinicians getting sick at the highest rates?

magazine
Malcolm Cawthorne at Brookline High School.
on the cover

The exhaustion of being a Black teacher in a school when you’re one of too few educators of color

Illustration of someone shoveling piles of money.
Excerpt

The costs of a secretive ‘wealth defense industry’ of shell companies, offshore tax havens, and empty luxury condos

An illustration of a pair of scissors cutting through a pair of blue and white checked boxer shorts.
Connections

What would it take to teach my son not to leave his boxers on the bathroom floor?
Rigatoni With Roman Broccoli Sauce.
Cooking

Recipes: Pasta dishes that take a break from red sauce

sports

Since making his debut in 2015, Scott Oberg’s 259 appearances are the most for any Rockies pitcher.

How Rockies pitcher Scott Oberg, a Tewksbury native, is dealing with his latest setback

Arizona reaches NCAA title game with 69-59 win over UConn

Michelle Wie West misses cut; Patty Tavatanakit leads ANA by one shot

metro

Mary Anne Lysiak had her picture taken with David Ortiz impersonator Dominic McCloud and an Elvis impersonator outside Fenway Park on Friday.

Opening Day, but a whole new ballgame

Rising coronavirus cases among students and staff members don’t mean schools are unsafe, officials and health experts say

How many coronavirus cases have been reported in Mass. schools? Check our map

Nation

The scene at Disney World in Florida in December.

Man refuses temperature check and is arrested at Disney World after spending $15,000 to go there

Vaccine passport efforts draw opposition from GOP lawmakers

Deadly breach could delay decisions about Capitol fencing

World

A woman received a COVID-19 vaccination at a pharmacy in Paris last month.

Vaccine ‘fiasco’ damages Europe’s credibility

Taiwan train crash kills dozens in deadliest accident in decades

‘Mommy, I have bad news’: For child migrants, Mexico can be the end of the road

politics

Representative Matt Gaetz

Few in GOP rush to defend Gaetz amid sex trafficking probe

Prosecutors examine possible payments for sex in Matt Gaetz probe

Biden administration reverses Trump decision, will provide $1 billion a month more in emergency food assistance

business

A rendering of Don Chiofaro's proposed tower on the Boston waterfront.

Judge’s ruling could have ramifications for coastal development in Mass.

US adds 916,000 jobs in March, nearly double February’s gain

FDA authorizes two changes to Moderna’s vaccine

lifestyle

Here are some cheap, simple, healthy life hacks for the frazzled.

10 ways to make your days easier starting now

5 boardwalks to elevate the hiking experience

Breweries team up for a Travis Roy tribute beer

marijuana

New York legalizes recreational marijuana

Prominent executive at NETA parent company fired after husband opens competing marijuana store

New York lawmakers agree to legalize recreational marijuana

opinion

Bandages and alcohol pads at a mass vaccination site at Rentschler Field in East Hartford, Conn.

The pharmacist

An overdue reckoning for Black Freedmen on native lands

‘Old’ — a state of being, a state of mind, a state of grace, a state unto oneself

food & dining

Vincent Petryk, founder and owner of J.P. Licks, opened the ice cream shop's doors in Jamaica Plain in 1981. The shop has remained a Boston staple ever since.

As Boston ice cream shop J.P. Licks celebrates its 40th anniversary, expect ‘flavors from the vault’

Breweries team up for a Travis Roy tribute beer

Where to dine al fresco, plus sweet deals at J.P. Licks

travel

The author’s son, Sam Wright, 9, explores a wintery landscape while hiking along the Nooksack River in Washington’s Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, during a winter camping trip in February.

Reflecting on a winter of snow camping and its many peaceful pleasures

Love animals? Here are some things not to do on your next vacation

When she needs a break, she zips down to the Cape for a lobster roll

Books

A new biography presents the unvarnished Philip Roth, revealing a complex man

Andrea Lee on living in Italy, and reading in English

Searching for ways to understand and survive ‘Girlhood’

Movies

Michelle Pfeiffer in "French Exit."

Michelle Pfeiffer on making an entrance in ‘French Exit’

Ken Burns: many hours, special moments

Oscar shorts nominees; madame, he’s Adam

Television

From left: Brennan Hepler (whose stage name is Beane), Grace Kinstler, and Colin Jamieson have made the Top 24 on "American Idol."

3 singers with Boston ties advance to ‘American Idol’ all-star duets

Roberts, Penn sign on for Starz’s ‘Gaslit’

Going back for more ‘CSI’

music

Rickie Lee Jones

Rickie Lee Jones, memoirist: candid, cosmic, and so cool

Maxwell’s slow-burning debut still simmers after 25 years

Groupmuse aims for ‘structural change’ with switch to musician-owned business model

Theater/Dance

The renowned Shakespeare & Company theater group in Massachusetts plans to resume live, in-person performances this summer with a production of “King Lear,” starring Christopher Lloyd (pictured). The organization said in a statement this week that “King Lear” will run July 2 through Aug. 29.

Shakespeare & Company to resume live, in-person performances this summer

From the lived experiences of scientists, Melinda Lopez crafts ‘Young Nerds of Color’

Reagle Music Theatre founder Robert J. Eagle to retire after 52 years

globe local

Marshalee Ellis-Kehlhem sang during a recent Sunday service held remotely from The Greater Framingham Community Church.

‘Death didn’t have the final say’: Easter delivers a message of hope after a year filled with despair

Should Massachusetts require auto insurers to refund premiums with people driving less during the pandemic?

Beverly Beckham: Love one another? It seems we have done everything but

Obituaries

Architect Michael Friedlander held a model of a New York Sanitation Department salt shed he designed in front of construction of the building in New York in 2007.

Michael Friedlander, urban architect of offbeat designs, dies at 63

Bobby Schmautz, whose OT goal lifted the Bruins in 1978 finals, dies at 76

G. Gordon Liddy, undercover operative convicted in Watergate scandal, dies at 90