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Analysis

Three political takeaways from the latest Census numbers for New England and beyond

The first release of nationwide population numbers from the 2020 US Census gives some important clues as to how American politics will be shaped in the next decade.
Rhode Island will not lose a seat in the US House of Representatives

‘Good news for Massachusetts’: Population tops 7 million, as state keeps 9 congressional seats after 2020 Census

Massachusetts’ population grew enough since 2010 to ensure it keeps its nine seats in the US House of Representatives for the next decade, federal US Census officials announced Monday.
With release of new Census count, which US states lost and gained congressional seats?

Traffic is pictured in Denver. After booming population growth over the past decade, Colorado will gain an eighth US House seat following the release of new US Census Bureau data on Monday.
These charts show what we learned from the 2020 Census
The United States Census Bureau reported Monday that the country’s population grew at the second-slowest rate in history, and some states gained congressional representation while others lost it.

Stephanie Everett is executive director of Boston's Office of Police Accountability and Transparency.
She hasn’t even started work yet, but Stephanie Everett already has one of the toughest jobs at Boston City Hall
Stephanie Everett has yet to get a city e-mail address, choose her staff, or receive her first paycheck. But she already has one of the toughest assignments in Boston City Hall.

Andrew Brown Jr. was shot in the back of the head, had hands on steering wheel, family lawyers say

Attorney Chantel Cherry-Lassiter watched a 20-second portion of body camera video with the family of Andrew Brown Jr. on Monday.

Top Places to Work: Diversity edition

Ten Massachusetts companies have been named to the Boston Globe’s first-ever Top Places to Work rankings based on diversity and inclusion.
These companies made the Boston Globe’s Top Places to Work list based on diversity and inclusion
The supermoon sets over Dorchester on March 20, 2019. The National Weather Service is predicting mostly clear skies in the area tonight for those hoping to glimpse the pink supermoon.

Here’s when to look for the ‘supermoon’ tonight

The full moon that will appear Monday night will be the first of two “supermoons” in 2021.
Former Fall River mayor Jasiel Correia (left) spoke beside his attorney, Kevin Reddington, outside the federal courthouse in Boston in 2019.
kevin cullen

Con men, crooks, coatholders, and cameras

The federal trial of the former wunderkind and Fall River mayor Jasiel Correia began in earnest Monday at Boston's Moakley Courthouse in a new normal, courtesy of COVID 19.
Mass. coronavirus at a glance |
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The UMass Boston Clark Athletic Center was mostly empty last fall.
UMass Boston, state university system to require vaccinations for fall
The universities join a growing list of schools that will require vaccinations, including Boston University, Northeastern, Lasell, Brown, Rutgers, and Notre Dame.

Apple announced on Monday that it plans to add “several hundred” jobs in Massachusetts by 2026, part of a commitment to help the country rebuild from the pandemic.
Apple says it will add hundreds of jobs in Greater Boston by 2026
The Massachusetts buildout is included in the company’s five-year plan to invest $430 billion and add 20,000 jobs across the United States.

larry edelman
Carol Deane (center), at a charity event in 2015.
Widow of mall developer Disque Deane is sued by their children for fraud
Anne and Carl Deane filed a lawsuit last week in Boston against their mother, Carol Deane, alleging she defrauded them as minors by transferring to herself tens of millions of dollars in financial interests that belonged to them.

Arlington resident Cindy Gallagher set up the "Happy Birthday" letters in her front yard in January. The letters have been passed between residents for months, and are in high demand.
Giant ‘Happy Birthday’ letters have been passed around Arlington for months. They’ve become so popular, there’s a waiting list to claim them for a day
A family made the letters back in June. Since then, they’ve been used for dozens of pandemic birthday celebrations in town.

Man wanted in connection with Brockton murder shot and killed by police in Tennessee
Marvin Veiga, 32, was shot and killed by a Metro Nashville police officer early Saturday after he allegedly began walking towards the officer carrying large butcher knives in his hands. The department has released bodycam footage of the shooting, and the officer involved is on administrative assignment while the shooting is under investigation.

THE FINE PRINT
Tom Flannery, 72, and his wife. Debbie Flannery. 71, were notified their annual premium for long-term-care insurance may go up to $19,000 — almost four times what they paid when they bought the policy in 2004.
Skyrocketing cost of long-term-care insurance leaves a couple in a bind
The long-term-care insurance industry as a whole has suffered gigantic losses due to pricing decisions made decades ago that proved to be far off the mark.

Opinion

How far will Biden’s handling of the pandemic take him when it comes to achieving other priorities?
Joan Vennochi

At 100 days, Biden is competent on COVID-19, but otherwise ‘meh’

Joe Biden’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic is his biggest strength.
Army Reserves veteran Honoree Mary L. Anderson was honored with an Outstanding Woman Veteran Award during the Women Are Veterans Too! ceremony at the State House in November 2007. Since Massachusetts’ overall veteran population is far more diverse than that at the Holyoke Soldiers' Home, diversifying Holyoke’s population should be an explicit goal for the future.
EDITORIAL

Who gets to live in a new Holyoke Soldiers’ Home?
A 111 bus heads over the Tobin Bridge from Chelsea to Boston.
Joe Boncore and María Belén Power

By investing in electric Silver Line buses, MBTA would be investing in healthier neighborhoods
Gina Morrison and Susan McWhinney-Morse

Where will we live as we age?
0426SCHECTMAN
Amy Schectman and Elise Selinger

Aging in community

Recommended reads

From left: second-grader Ku Swaray crossed the street with her twin sisters, Miatta and Emma, who are both in first grade as they return to F. Lyman Winship Elementary School.
Thousands of Boston students return to full-time, in-person learning for first time since March 2020
More than 23,000 Boston Public Schools students are expected to return to full-time, in-person instruction Monday for the first time since the pandemic shuttered schools in March 2020.

As hopes rise for pandemic’s close, some are preparing for never-ending COVID

A pandemic-weary public is dreaming of Memorial Day barbecues, summer nights at Fenway Park, and putting the long-running curse of COVID-19 behind us. But in the medical and biopharma worlds, many are eyeing a more daunting prospect: coronavirus as a never-ending threat.

College graduations will vary widely this year, and families feel they’re missing out

This spring, as vaccines are becoming more readily available, schools are diverging widely on how they’re celebrating their seniors.

Democrats push racial justice measures as some Republicans briefly seek an ‘Anglo Saxon’ caucus

The push on civil rights has so far attracted zero Republican votes, while GOP party leaders spent last week tamping down a move by a handful of their more extreme members to form a caucus dedicated to celebrating “Anglo Saxon” heritage.

Want to garden? Join the waitlist

Bostonians are desperate for a community plot to call their own. But lists can last years.

metro

A exterior of the Miriam Hospital, which is currently owned by Lifespan.
RI BUSINESS

Lifespan, CNE file merger application with state health department, attorney general’s office

Also, the Rhode Island Foundation will lead an “independent effort to gather and share community input” about the merger.
kevin cullen

Con men, crooks, coatholders, and cameras

She hasn’t even started work yet, but Stephanie Everett already has one of the toughest jobs at Boston City Hall

Sports

The NFL will return to an in-person draft after a one-year hiatus due to the coronavirus pandemic.
nfl draft

Your guide to the 2021 NFL Draft: How to watch, what to know, and more

The Patriots have 10 picks, and we know Bill Belichick likes to trade around. Here's what to expect.

Cowboys linebacker Sean Lee retires after 11 mostly injury plagued seasons

As Niners plot draft strategy, does Jimmy Garoppolo’s future hang in the balance?

business

Lauren Farley and her mother, Susan, march through Kendall Square on their way to Biogen during a rally on March 30 for their aunt and sister-in-law, Lisa Stockman Mauriello, who has been diagnosed with a rare and aggressive form of ALS. Her friends and supporters are beseeching Biogen to grant her compassionate use of a drug, tofersen, that could save her life.

Biogen to make experimental ALS drug available to dying patients

Biden creates pro-union task force headed by Harris
larry edelman

Widow of mall developer Disque Deane is sued by their children for fraud

politics

People gathered in Philadelphia. Pennsylvania lost clout in Congress and presidential contests.
Analysis

Three political takeaways from the latest Census numbers for New England and beyond

President Biden’s first address to Congress is invite-only

Texas gains congressional seats, California loses first time

Living Arts

Arlen Weiser, the inspiration for his dad's book, "The Boy Who Wanted to Rock."
COMFORT ZONE

On the pages of his dad’s book, ‘The Boy Who Wanted to Rock’ gets his wish
ASK MATTHEW

Why a good TV show can fall between the cracks

EU finalizing plans to allow US tourists back this summer

education

From left: second-grader Ku Swaray crossed the street with her twin sisters, Miatta and Emma, who are both in first grade as they return to F. Lyman Winship Elementary School.

Thousands of Boston students return to full-time, in-person learning for first time since March 2020

College graduations will vary widely this year, and families feel they’re missing out

Boston College to require all students and staff to be vaccinated for fall semester

rhode island

A exterior of the Miriam Hospital, which is currently owned by Lifespan.
RI BUSINESS

Lifespan, CNE file merger application with state health department, attorney general’s office
RI CRIME

Rhode Island man shot and killed by LAPD
RI POLITICS

Rhode Island will not lose a seat in the US House of Representatives

Newton

Volunteers add flower-filled planters at restaurants throughout Newton as outdoor dining returns

Newton-based group showcases women playing jazz from around the world

video

Comfort Zone

COMFORT ZONE
Arlen Weiser, the inspiration for his dad's book, "The Boy Who Wanted to Rock."
On the pages of his dad’s book, ‘The Boy Who Wanted to Rock’ gets his wish
While his scientist wife was working on the rollout of Pfizer's vaccine, keyboard programmer David Weiser of Haverhill wrote a book inspired by the couple's AC/DC-loving 6-year-old.

MUSIC
Dropkick Murphys St. Patrick's Day livestream
20 concerts made during quarantine that you can stream right now
Musicians got creative during the pandemic and put on unforgettable performances you can still enjoy without leaving the couch.

Authors Emily Wibberley and Austin Siegemund-Broka's latest YA novel, "What's Not to Love" is out April 20 from Penguin Random House, following two high school seniors vying for a coveted spot at Harvard.
YA authors Emily Wibberley and Austin Siegemund-Broka on Harvard and high school love
The real life couple discuss their latest book, filled with hyper-competitive Ivy League longing.

The summer season at Jacob's Pillow will include a performance of “joyUS justUS" by CONTRA-TIEMPO.
After a lost summer, Jacob’s Pillow will return for a full season in 2021
The June 30-Aug. 29 season will also offer unprecedented online access to most festival programming.

COMFORT ZONE
Safiya Leslie
This musical journey around the globe comes once a month in a box
Berklee grad Safiya Leslie — a singer/songwriter and entrepreneur — is giving world music fans a chance to explore the sounds of a different country each month through her Safiya’s World Music Tour Playlist subscription boxes.

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

More

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

Gina Morrison and Susan McWhinney-Morse

Where will we live as we age?
0426SCHECTMAN
Amy Schectman and Elise Selinger

Aging in community

Renee Lohman

Smaller is better
Joseph Carella

Community-centered senior living works for seniors and communities
Marisa Morán Jahn and Rafi Segal

Architecture plays a key role in reimagining care solutions
Ingrid Zavala, right, with her mother and sister in 1990.
ideas

Left behind after my family’s deportations, I still dream of making it in America

STAT

Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 Transmission electron micrograph of a SARS-CoV-2 virus particle (UK B.1.1.7 variant), isolated from a patient sample and cultivated in cell culture. Image captured at the NIAID Integrated Research Facility (IRF) in Fort Detrick, Maryland. Credit: NIAID
We know a lot about Covid-19. Experts have many more questions
More than two dozen virologists, epidemiologists, and others responded to STAT's question about what they still most wanted to know.

Boston, MA -- 03/16/21 -- The cover of the summary report of the review hearing for Jospeh Messere, is seen on March 16, 2021, provided by his attorney David Apfel.(Kayana Szymczak for STAT)
Cement Head’s last fight: He was denied parole six times — until he was about to become a Covid-19 statistic
In lawyers' view, the Department of Correction was trying to make it seem like it had fewer Covid-19 deaths on its hands than it really did.

JAMA illo
Troubling podcast puts JAMA, the ‘voice of medicine,’ under fire for its mishandling of race
Critics say editors have asked authors to scrub the term racism from their articles even as they publish others that include racist notions.

SCT illo
Despite resistance, researchers investigate the possibility of a new mental health disorder
Many researchers say the study of sluggish cognitive tempo, which is still in its early stages, can’t yet support a formal diagnosis.

magazine
Illustration of a house, key, and outdoor activities to go with a story about how the pandemic has affected the real estate market, causing people to want more space and outdoor space in particular.
On the Cover

Top Spots to Live in Greater Boston in 2021
The Citizens Bank Opera House and Emerson Paramount are among the many performing arts spaces that have been closed because of the COVID pandemic.
Top Spots to Live

City living lost some appeal for condo hunters
Person wearing a "Hello I am ... bored" sticker on their shirt.
Perspective

Dear Grads: Don’t believe the myth that work has to be a slog

Caramelized pork with orange and sage.
Cooking

Oranges shine in 4 savory recipes, including a beef stir-fry

sports

Arsenal fans protested the attempt by team owner Stan Kroenke, an American businessman, to form a Super League with some of his fellow owners.

Super League organizers took a massive hit, but they may not be done trying

Harvard alum Jeff Bridich steps down as general manager of Rockies

Flames’ Noah Hanifin needs shoulder surgery, is out for the season

metro

Christine Ricci, 46, of Marshfield, is brought into court and collapses as she is arraigned on charges of murder on Jan. 29, 2021 in Plymouth, Mass.

Marshfield woman indicted on murder charge in January stabbing death of husband

‘Good news for Massachusetts’: Population tops 7 million, as state keeps 9 congressional seats after 2020 Census

Massachusetts House votes to maintain film tax credit permanently

Nation

Traffic is pictured in Denver. After booming population growth over the past decade, Colorado will gain an eighth US House seat following the release of new US Census Bureau data on Monday.

These charts show what we learned from the 2020 Census

UMass Boston, state university system to require vaccinations for fall

Three political takeaways from the latest Census numbers for New England and beyond

World

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif listens during the talks in Moscow, Russia. A recording of Iran's foreign minister offering a blunt appraisal of diplomacy and the limits of power within the Islamic Republic has leaked out publicly, providing a rare look inside the country's theocracy.

Leaked recording of Iran’s top diplomat offers blunt talk

Coronavirus is ‘swallowing’ people in India as crematoriums are overwhelmed

EU set to let vaccinated US tourists visit this summer

politics

A Marine Corps honor guard salutes as President Joe Biden disembarks from Marine One.

Biden’s first address to Congress is invite-only

Justice Dept. launching probe into Louisville policing after Breonna Taylor death

Supreme Court to hear case over the right to carry a firearm in public for self-defense

business

The entrance to the DraftKings headquarters in Boston.

These companies made the Boston Globe’s Top Places to Work list based on diversity and inclusion

Biden to set $1 million threshold for capital gains tax hike

Top Places to Work: Diversity edition

lifestyle

Halle Berry arrived at the 93rd Annual Academy Awards in Los Angeles.

The Oscar looks we loved — and the one we really didn’t

He deleted her ... then texted her

Despite — and maybe because of — COVID-19, Acadia National Park in Maine just had its busiest winter ever

marijuana

Former Boston mayor Martin J. Walsh hands a pen to then-City Councilor Kim Janey after signing the new marijuana licensing ordinance she drafted at City Hall in 2019.

On 4/20, Boston’s acting mayor turns to marijuana industry for campaign cash

US House passes marijuana banking bill with bipartisan support

With marijuana legal in New York, and other states close behind, will Mass. dispensaries along state borders survive?

opinion

Army Reserves veteran Honoree Mary L. Anderson was honored with an Outstanding Woman Veteran Award during the Women Are Veterans Too! ceremony at the State House in November 2007. Since Massachusetts’ overall veteran population is far more diverse than that at the Holyoke Soldiers' Home, diversifying Holyoke’s population should be an explicit goal for the future.

Who gets to live in a new Holyoke Soldiers’ Home?

At 100 days, Biden is competent on COVID-19, but otherwise ‘meh’

By investing in electric Silver Line buses, MBTA would be investing in healthier neighborhoods

food & dining

Workers prepared floor and table signage, hand sanitizing stations, and other measures in the dining area at Time Out Market in the Fenway last summer. The food hall is getting ready to reopen next month.

Benedetto closes, Time Out Market Boston readies for relaunch, and a 1920s cocktail lounge prepares to debut

Wulf’s Fish can ship you a lavish brunch, caviar and all

Recipe: Spoon a medley of sauteed mushrooms on crunchy crostini with creamy whipped burrata

travel

Outside the Louvre Museum in Paris on Aug. 2, 2020. American tourists who have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19 will be able to visit the European Union over the summer, the head of the bloc’s executive body said in an interview with The New York Times on Sunday.

EU finalizing plans to allow US tourists back this summer

These 5 Massachusetts hotels made Travel + Leisure’s worldwide ‘It List’

A major refresh for a Conn. inn can mean a major refresh for its guests

Books

Illustration for review of "Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis" by Sehii Plokhy. 25Nuclear; BOOKS; 4-25-21

‘Nuclear Folly’ recalls when we edged close to the brink

Learning from the tumultuous politics of another century in ‘The Age of Acrimony’

Bill Buford on reading and learning from cookbooks

Movies

Director Chloé Zhao, left, with actress Frances McDormand on the set of "Nomadland."

‘Nomadland’ takes best picture at the Oscars, and director Chloé Zhao makes history

Chloé Zhao makes history with best director Oscar win for ‘Nomadland’

‘Another Round’ wins best international film at the Oscars

Television

Cristin Milioti and Ray Romano in "Made for Love."

Why a good TV show can fall between the cracks

This week’s TV: A long look at late night, a new ‘Mosquito Coast,’ and the return of ‘Pose’

An Oscar-cast with less glitz and a new script suits the moment

music

Conductor Keith Lockhart and the Boston Pops rehearse their Mother’s Day celebration, which will include a performance by Pops violinist Ala Jojatu and her 16-year-old daughter, Maria.

Boston Pops announces a virtual spring season with six concert streams

What’s new, Tom Jones? Plenty, it turns out

That faint sound you hear? It’s the eventual return of live music

Theater/Dance

Maiesha McQueen portrays a variety of characters in "Until the Flood" at Merrimack Repertory Theatre.

In ‘Until the Flood,’ a portrait of a town and the ravages of racism

After a lost summer, Jacob’s Pillow will return for a full season in 2021

Theater without theater

globe local

Max Ford-Diamond is Boston's tree warden.

He helps put the emerald in the Emerald Necklace

Sagamore Bridge expected to reopen fully Sunday, a month ahead of schedule

Massachusetts authorizes immediate use of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine

Obituaries

Beth Williams, Roxbury Technology CEO, spoke during 2013 CEO round table.

Manufacturing CEO Beth Williams, ‘one of our brightest lights in the Black community,’ dies at 57

Thomas Brock, whose discovery paved the way for PCR tests, dies at 94

Shock G, frontman for hip-hop group Digital Underground, dies at 57