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On Cape Cod, business owners are getting ready for a season of record crowds and worker shortages

All signs are pointing to a blockbuster summer on the Cape and Islands, but business owners are worried they might not have enough workers to handle the stampede of vacation-starved tourists.

Black Boston COVID-19 Coalition, alleging unsanitary conditions, wants Grove Hall CVS to stop vaccinating

The Black Boston COVID-19 Coalition is asking officials to shut down the vaccination program at the CVS in Grove Hall after the civil rights group alleged that the store was unsanitary and allowed people seeking vaccinations to gather close together while waiting over the weekend.
Having trouble securing a COVID-19 vaccination appointment? Here are some tips

Abigail Johnson, chairman and chief executive officer of Fidelity Investments.
These are the 25 local names on Forbes’ billionaires list
The 25 billionaires in Massachusetts are worth more than $104 billion combined, according to the 2021 Forbes’ world’s billionaires list.

School fires Duxbury gym teacher accused of raping student

John Blake, the varsity boys hockey coach at Duxbury High School for nearly two decades, was placed on administrative leave in November after a couple alleged that he sexually assaulted their middle-school son in the mid-2000s. The couple filed a lawsuit against Blake and the Duxbury school system last week.

Amid reported federal sex trafficking investigation, Matt Gaetz slated to speak at pro-Trump event hosted by women’s group

Representative Matt Gaetz, who is reportedly under investigation by the Justice Department for allegedly violating federal sex trafficking laws, has been invited to speak at a pro-Donald Trump summit hosted by Women for America First this week. The group hosted the “Save America Rally” outside the White House prior to the Jan. 6 insurrection at the US Capitol.
Matt Gaetz, loyal for years to Trump, is said to have sought a blanket pardon

A picture of Steven Watson taking a picture of a bunch of dogs posing on the Longfellow Bridge went viral.
Here’s the story behind that photo of all those good dogs posing on the Longfellow Bridge
By Monday, Cambridge resident Taylor Larick’s post had been shared tens of thousands of times, hailed as a source of pure cuteness and impressive command. As the day ticked on, the picture even became a meme, making waves in certain circles on Instagram.

The 1990 theft of 13 artworks from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is getting the Netflix treatment with the new documentary “This Is a Robbery.”
New Netflix documentary looks at the Gardner Museum art heist
“This Is a Robbery” looks at the world’s most infamous art heist: the theft of 13 artworks from Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, a mystery that remains unsolved three decades later.

Last Seen: The largest unsolved art heist in history

DEVRA FIRST
Huevos Rancheros at the Farmer's Daughter restaurant in Sudbury.
8 things for diners to get excited about this spring
Restaurant openings, reopenings, and remakes: There are sure signs of hope on the horizon.

Some of America’s best chocolate is in Massachusetts, according to Food & Wine
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derek chauvin trial
Minneapolis Police Lieutenant Johnny Mercil, a use of force trainer, testified Tuesday in the trial of former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin at the Hennepin County Courthouse in Minneapolis.
Police official testifies that Chauvin was trained to avoid neck pressure
Minneapolis police are taught to restrain combative suspects with a knee on their back or shoulders if necessary but are told to “stay away from the neck when possible,” a department use-of-force instructor testified on day seven of former Officer Derek Chauvin’s murder trial.

Harvard Hall in Harvard Yard.
With more applications than ever, Harvard admits slightly a more diverse class
After a record number of applications forced Harvard University to delay admissions decisions, the college on Tuesday announced that it had admitted 1,968 first year students to its class of 2025.

In October, protesters called for keeping the admission exam in place for exam schools.
Federal judge hears arguments in Boston exam school admission case
A group of white and Asian parents contend that temporary changes to the admission policies for Boston’s highly regarded exam schools could disadvantage their children. The changes — crafted in light of the pandemic — temporarily suspend the entrance exam.

ADRIAN WALKER

Justice Department weighs in against Boston on police discrimination suit

The Justice Department is arguing that Boston is wrong to defend a police promotion exam, and wrong to not pay the nearly $500,000 awarded to the Black officers who filed a suit alleging the exam discriminated against them.

A man walked in the Washington Elms Housing Development with the towers of Kendall Square nearby.
Report shows stark inequalities in Cambridge economic growth
Housing costs are among several factors making it harder for long-time Cambridge families to stay in the city.

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles office in Lawrence.
Vehicle inspections will not be performed until at least next week
Vehicle inspections will not be performed until at least next week due an ongoing problem with Applus Technologies, a vendor with the Registry of Motor Vehicles, officials said on Tuesday.

Opinion

Grading Massachusetts on COVID-19 vaccination
A Brooksville, Fla., resident receives a Moderna COVID 19 vaccine shot while receiving his CDC-issued Covid 10 Vaccination Card during a vaccination appointment, Tuesday, at Saint Leo University, East Pasco County.
EDITORIAL

Vaccine ‘passports’ — with crucial protections — can help get America through herd immunity limbo

The Biden administration should be clear in its guidance to companies about how the credentials can be used.
President Joe Biden delivers a speech on infrastructure spending at Carpenters Pittsburgh Training Center in Pittsburgh in March.
SCOT LEHIGH

The senility-mongering of Biden
People passed through the New England Holocaust Memorial in Boston, in January.
JEFF JACOBY

The problem with Holocaust education
In this video image from April 1, witness Courteney Ross answers questions in the murder trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin for the killing of her boyfriend, George Floyd. Ross testified that both she and Floyd suffered from addiction to opioids.
RENÉE GRAHAM

Stop weaponizing addiction
A suit by Officers James Blassingame and Sidney Hemby alleges that Donald Trump was guilty of “intentional, wanton and reckless conduct” as he “spurred” a violent crowd “already primed by his months of inflammatory rhetoric” to cause grave damage and injury to property and persons, including the two Capitol Officers, on Jan. 6.
Laurence H. Tribe

Capitol police have the best case against Trump for the insurrection

Recommended reads

Young unaccompanied migrants waited for their turn at a Donna, Texas, processing station last month.
For her first major task as VP, Kamala Harris is handed a thorny diplomatic mission
President Biden has deputized her to solve the “root causes” of the migrant crisis at the southern border, a politically unsavory assignment that has only gotten more difficult since Biden took it on himself as vice president in 2014.

‘We all have a lot of work to do’ to overcome Boston’s reputation as a racist city, Janey says

Acting Mayor Kim Janey expressed hope Monday that a new campaign promoting neighborhoods of color to tourists will help alter the perception of Boston as a racist city, saying that “we all have a lot of work to do” to improve the situation.

A year into the pandemic, DCF workers visiting only about half of children in-person

Workers in Massachusetts’ child welfare agency are seeing only about half of the children under their watch in-person each month, state data show, illustrating the state’s heavy reliance on remote check-ins during the pandemic even as schools, day cares, and others have returned mostly to face-to-face interactions.

Selective colleges see surge in applications from first-generation students

Large, selective private colleges are seeing a dramatic rise in the number of first-generation and low-income applicants, as well as applicants of color this year, following the decision by most schools to make standardized tests optional.

After passing a landmark climate law, Mass. officials now face the hard part: how to wean the state off fossil fuels

Some environmental advocates and lawmakers fear that continued investments in gas infrastructure could hinder the transition to renewable energy.

metro

Angelica Infante-Green speaks during her Elementary and Secondary Education School Commissioner interview in June 2019.
DAN McGOWAN

Will Governor McKee take over the Providence school takeover?

As Governor McKee gets his head around running an entire state, Education Commissioner Angélica Infante-Green and Providence Teachers Union President Maribeth Calabro are busy treating him like a substitute teacher who can’t quite control the warring kids in the back of the classroom.

Vehicle inspections will not be performed until at least next week
ADRIAN WALKER

Justice Department weighs in against Boston on police discrimination suit

Sports

Only the heartiest of a reduced crowd stuck it out until the final moments of Tuesday's Red Sox game, but the rule that puts a runner on second base to begin extra innings is shortening games and upping the action.
PETER ABRAHAM | ON BASEBALL

Runner rule in extra innings brings action in a sport desperate for more

The three extra innings on Tuesday night had far more intrigue than the nine innings before, and that absolutely validates MLB's tweaking of its rules.
Gary Washburn | On Basketball

Celtics’ symptoms of defeat familiar in mistake-laden loss to 76ers
RED SOX 6, RAYS 5 (12)

In a sign of hope, Red Sox show resilience and beat Rays in extra-inning rollercoaster

business

Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady.

Tom Brady is launching an NFT company

Report shows stark inequalities in Cambridge economic growth

Boston Harbor Cruises has a new name

politics

Representative Matt Gaetz spoke at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando, Fla., Feb. 26, 2021.

Amid reported federal sex trafficking investigation, Matt Gaetz slated to speak at pro-Trump event hosted by women’s group
Analysis

Opening of baseball season showcases how those in red states and blue states are living different realities

Senate ruling gives Democrats a back door around an infrastructure filibuster

Living Arts

Mariska Hargitay as Olivia Benson in "Law and Order: SVU."
TELEVISION

Mariska Hargitay’s staying power continues to drive ‘SVU’
DEVRA FIRST

8 things for diners to get excited about this spring

Chocolate lovers are going to want to make The Dean’s List

education

Harvard Hall in Harvard Yard.

With more applications than ever, Harvard admits slightly a more diverse class

Federal judge hears arguments in Boston exam school admission case

In Malden and statewide, mixed emotions as elementary schools resume full-time in-person learning

rhode island

Angelica Infante-Green speaks during her Elementary and Secondary Education School Commissioner interview in June 2019.
DAN McGOWAN

Will Governor McKee take over the Providence school takeover?
RI POLITICS

McKee vows to sign R.I. climate bill after it passes overwhelmingly
CORONAVIRUS

Brown University will require students to get COVID-19 vaccine

Newton

video

Comfort Zone

COMFORT ZONE
The museum's façade features public awareness posters by contemporary artist Carrie Mae Weems.
At the MFA, artist posters call out COVID’s uneven toll
The museum’s façade features public awareness posters by contemporary artist Carrie Mae Weems.

Love Letters Podcast Season 5, Ep 1
Love Letters Podcast: A kiss on the shoulder
Impossible to meet someone in a pandemic, right? Wrong. In the first episode of the Season 5, Meredith shares the story of a couple who found each other — and then sexiness — in restraint and boundaries.

ASK MATTHEW
Jeffrey Tambor, Penny Johnson Jerald, and Gary Shandling in "The Larry Sanders Show."
Look behind the scenes for some great TV shows
Shows that upend the entertainment business, from “The Dick Van Dyke Show” to “30 Rock” to “The Larry Sanders Show,” make up one of TV’s richest genres.

COMFORT ZONE
Louie Phipps, 9, has the stage to himself during a taping of a live performance at the Wang Theatre.
The Wang stage isn’t too big for 9-year-old Louie Phipps
The Northampton third-grader had plenty of jitters beforehand, but when he got onstage to perform three of his songs, “it was just wicked.”

Ernest Hemingway's passport from the 1920s, from the Hemingway archives at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum.
Ernest Hemingway’s vast archives reside in Boston. How’d that happen?
The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum contains a trove of treasures — 11,000 photos, manuscripts, letters, bullfight tickets, even good-luck charms.

Special Projects

Jeneé Osterheldt

A Beautiful Resistance

Black joy, Black lives, as celebrated by culture columnist Jeneé Osterheldt.
See the full project Follow @abeautifulresistance on Instagram

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

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PROJECT TAKEOUT | DEVRA FIRST
The Globe launches Project Takeout, an effort to help restaurants make it to the other side of this pandemic.
Get takeout. It’s your civic duty.
Ordering dinner will help small local businesses survive the pandemic. But that’s just the start.

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.

Boston Globe Spotlight Report
Boston’s hospital chiefs moonlight on corporate boards at rates far beyond the national level
Hospital chiefs and trustees defend this as boosting public-private partnerships, but critics say these board positions — some paying millions of dollars — raise troubling issues of conflict of interest and hospital priorities.

Opinion, ideas, and commentary

A man held up a "Latinos for Trump" sign at a protest in Austin, Texas on Nov. 7 following Joe Biden's 2020 presidential election win.
Marcela García

A nuanced post-mortem on the 2020 Latino vote emerges
Taylor Trudon

The kids are not OK
A rendering of Don Chiofaro's proposed tower. It doesn’t seem fair for developers to negotiate with the city for years and then find out all that time, energy, and money mean nothing because one state entity wrongly deferred decision-making to another.
Joan Vennochi

Boston needs believers like Don Chiofaro

EDITORIAL

Biden’s tax plan shouldn’t leave Social Security behind
Mary Beth Tinker in 2013. Tinker was just 13 when she spoke out against the Vietnam War by wearing a black armband to her Iowa school in 1965. When the school suspended her, she took her free speech case all the way to the US Supreme Court and won.
Alex Beam

It’s ‘Bong Hits 4 Jesus’ all over again
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

RODRIGGO P. AND WALTER W.
Dinner with Cupid

Blind date: ‘I don’t get why people mention [exes] on a first date’
US poet laureate Joy Harjo will read from her works Monday in a free virtual event.
Your Week Ahead

Five things to do, April 5-11
MISS CONDUCT

People at my church liked to hug my husband. What to do when we return to in-person services?

sports

Joel Embiid powered his way to a dunk, and 35 points, against helpless Celtic defenders such as Luke Kornet.

Larry Bird vs. Dr. J this is not; Celtics-76ers rivalry is now one-sided

Celtics don’t have the size to stop 76ers big man Joel Embiid, and other observations

Patrice Bergeron scores hat trick in Bruins victory over Flyers

metro

Harvard Hall in Harvard Yard.

With more applications than ever, Harvard admits slightly a more diverse class

David Kantor, innovative psychologist of group dynamics and halfway houses, dies at 93

MIT grad is part of NASA team that will determine whether helicopter can fly on Mars

Nation

Minneapolis Police Lt. Johnny Mercil, a use of force trainer, testified as Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill presided Tuesday in the trial of former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin.

Minneapolis officers line up to reject Chauvin’s actions

Amid reported federal sex trafficking investigation, Matt Gaetz slated to speak at pro-Trump event hosted by women’s group

Drought-breaking rains more rare, erratic in US West, study finds

World

Empty vials of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine.

EU agency to share results of probe into AstraZeneca shot

‘We are doomed:’ Devastation from storms fuels migration in Honduras

In a Syrian rebel bastion, millions are trapped in murky, violent limbo

politics

Rioters climbed the walls of the US Capitol in Washington on Jan. 6.

Fears of white people losing out permeate Capitol rioters’ towns, study finds

Arkansas lawmakers enact transgender youth treatment ban, overriding governor’s veto

Watch live: Biden gives update on vaccine rollout

business

Sports trading card company Topps is combining with a special purposes acquisition company in a deal valued at $1.3 billion and seeking a public listing.

Topps, the trading card company, is going public

Businesses and philanthropy unite to fight racial wealth gap

Greater Boston Chamber sets aggressive new diversity goals for its board of directors — and for those of its member companies

lifestyle

Pasta made by La Dolda, a pasta shop in Lexington.

La Dolda’s pastas might just transport you to Italy

Some of America’s best chocolate is in Massachusetts, according to Food & Wine

Oregon winemaker turns wildfire-affected grapes into delicious rosé

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

A Brooksville, Fla., resident receives a Moderna COVID 19 vaccine shot while receiving his CDC-issued Covid 10 Vaccination Card during a vaccination appointment, Tuesday, at Saint Leo University, East Pasco County.

Vaccine ‘passports’ — with crucial protections — can help get America through herd immunity limbo

The senility-mongering of Biden

The interest of a child, again, fatally bungled

food & dining

Huevos Rancheros at the Farmer's Daughter restaurant in Sudbury.

8 things for diners to get excited about this spring

Chocolate lovers are going to want to make The Dean’s List

Ketchup that kicks it up a notch (or three)

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

Author and filmmaker James McBride poses for a portrait during the 2012 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. McBride’s "Deacon King Kong" a fictional snapshot of a Brooklyn neighborhood in the late 1969, has won the inaugural Gotham Book Prize, given for outstanding writing about New York City.

James McBride’s ‘Deacon King Kong’ wins inaugural Gotham prize

Books by Steinbeck, Alexie among those objected to in 2020

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

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

Mariska Hargitay as Olivia Benson in "Law and Order: SVU."

Mariska Hargitay’s staying power continues to drive ‘SVU’

Look behind the scenes for some great TV shows

Ernest Hemingway’s vast archives reside in Boston. How’d that happen?

music

Louie Phipps, 9, has the stage to himself during a taping of a live performance at the Wang Theatre.

The Wang stage isn’t too big for 9-year-old Louie Phipps

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

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

Theater/Dance

Neil Diamond leads the crowd in "Sweet Caroline" at Fenway Park in 2013. The singer recalled that day and his ties to Boston in a statement about "A Beautiful Noise," a musical about his life that will premiere at the Emerson Colonial Theatre in 2022.

Neil Diamond musical will have a pre-Broadway premiere at the Colonial in 2022

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

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

globe local

Fire crews from Somerville, Cambridge, and Malden battled a four-alarm fire in Somerville, near Davis Square.

Four-alarm fire in Somerville quickly extinguished

‘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?

Obituaries

Dr. Kantor taught at several schools, including Harvard Medical School and Tufts University School of Medicine.

David Kantor, innovative psychologist of group dynamics and halfway houses, dies at 93

‘Chernobyl’ and ‘Harry Potter’ actor Paul Ritter dies at 54

Arthur Kopit dies at 83; playwright was a Tony nominee, Pulitzer finalist