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Stop talking about Ime Udoka and start talking about Brett Favre

Welfare fraud in the poorest state in our country has gotten less attention than the inappropriate behavior of an NBA coach. We should ask ourselves why we care more about the latter than the former.
In wake of Ime Udoka suspension, Red Sox manager Alex Cora reflects on his own one-year ban Celtics learned of Ime Udoka’s team policy violations in the summer, and had a law firm investigate Four things to know about Celtics interim head coach Joe Mazzulla

Former NBA player Matt Barnes says he knows details of Ime Udoka’s behavior, and that it’s ‘100 times uglier than any of us thought’

The analyst had earlier declared consensual sexual relationships within the NBA are “not uncommon” and that it was a “terrible decision” to punish Udoka with a suspension equal to that of Suns owner Robert Sarver.
Gary Washburn | On Basketball

Udoka suspension leaves behind many questions and much confusion

“We have strong values at the Celtics,” primary governor Wyc Grousbeck said. “And we are doing our very best to uphold them here."
dan shaughnessy

Ime Udoka has put the Celtics in a terrible position, and other thoughts

It seems nothing has gone right for the Celtics since Bill Russell died, and the unanswered questions about the latest controversy just make things worse.
Chad Finn | Sports Media

An ugly side of social media surfaced in the Ime Udoka controversy

While we waited for details to come out, Internet "sleuths" dragged female Celtics employees into the scandal with baseless and disgusting speculation.

Nia Long issues statement following Ime Udoka suspension, asks for privacy ‘to process recent events’

“The outpouring [of] love and support from family, friends and the community during this difficult time means so much,” actress Nia Long said in a statement following the suspension of her longtime partner, Boston Celtics head coach Ime Udoka.

‘Shoebert’ the seal waddled to the police station ‘for some help’ after weeklong stay in Beverly’s Shoe Pond
The gray seal made its way across a nearby parking lot and "came to the side door of the police station for some help," the Beverly Police Department said.

Watch surveillance video of ‘Shoebert’ the seal galumphing down the sidewalk in Beverly

‘They’re unfit to serve.’ Stoughton police chief will ask state to decertify officers identified in explosive internal affairs report

Stoughton Police Chief Donna McNamara spoke to reporters Friday, one day after the release of a highly anticipated, redacted 60-page report that found three former officers had inappropriate relationships with a young woman who killed herself last year while she was expecting her first child.

Three Stoughton police officers had inappropriate relationships with a young woman who later killed herself, town report finds
Sandra Birchmore originally came to them for mentoring and was pregnant with what she said was one officer’s child when she died.

Second body found in home of former Woonsocket mayor identified

Daniel Grabowski was the founder and former CEO of the Boys & Girls Club of Woonsocket.

With home heating bills headed higher, New England lawmakers seek more federal energy assistance for low-income families

As energy costs soar and extra funding from pandemic relief packages disappears, lawmakers in Massachusetts and across New England are working to secure more federal funding for fuel assistance for low-income families.

At 13, I didn’t make the cheerleading squad at Eastern Junior High. Was the ‘Pom Squad’ at a local senior center my second chance?
I guess it’s true what they say — nothing ever really stays buried.

PETER ABRAHAM | ON BASEBALL

Yankees’ one-run victory over Red Sox follows familiar script

The Sox are 6-11 against the Yankees with two games left in the season series. Nine of the games have been decided by 1 or 2 runs with the Yankees winning six times.
Red Sox find another way to lose to Yankees despite Rich Hill quieting Aaron Judge

The ‘Cider Donuteur’ is back. Here’s what he’s learned while hunting for New England’s best cider doughnuts.

Alex Schwartz, known to fans online as the "Cider Donuteur," is back on the road to hunt for New England's best fried treats. And he's sharing some tips and tricks for getting the most out of your autumn adventures.

Roger Federer’s last match is doubles loss with Rafael Nadal

His list of achivements includes 103 singles trophies, 310 weeks at No. 1, a Davis Cup title, and Olympic medals.
Dinner with Cupid

Blind date: ‘She looked like she’d put in some effort, which made me nervous since I’d just come in my work clothes’

Will these two running enthusiasts be on the same path?

Hispanic Heritage Month

Mi Historia en Boston
Soy cantautora multilingüe. Por mucho que viaje, nunca me siento a gusto hasta que vuelvo a Boston.
Aquí es donde he creado mi propia identidad, una que incluye ser bostoniana, de Nueva Inglaterra y latina.

Documentando el corazón infatigable de Chelsea Ideas | Rarely seen snapshots of Latino Boston Read more Hispanic Heritage Month stories
CONNECTIONS

Visiting Guatemala, my parents’ homeland, transported me to my childhood memories

A family outing to Jamaica Plain’s old Hi-Lo Foods market was always a taste of home.
Opinion
MARCELA GARCÍA

In praise of activist lawyers

In response to the Trump anti-immigrant era, Massachusetts developed a strong legal and advocacy muscle.
IDEAS | PATRICK COLE

Rage, rage against the dying of the laser light
EDITORIAL

DA Hayden must take juvenile justice reform seriously
Renée Loth

Go back to the office — please!
Kimberly Atkins Stohr

John Roberts’s constitutional color-blindness threatens civil rights

Culture
Banned Books Week Quiz
Banned Books Week is now underway! Put your knowledge of banned and challenged works to the test with our quiz.

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150 years of The Boston Globe

Scenes from a century and a half, as covered by the Boston Globe.
Spotlight investigation

Part 1
A celebrated surgeon, a trail of secrets and death
Dr. Yvon Baribeau set a record for malpractice settlements, and many colleagues tried desperately to stop him. But hospital executives let him go on and on.

Timeline: What the public didn't know about Dr. Yvon Baribeau Video: What the Spotlight Team’s investigation discovered about Dr. Baribeau N.H. hospital promises review after revelations about doctor with 21 malpractice settlements
Part 2

A crisis of conscience, with lives on the line

Alarmed doctors at Manchester's Catholic Medical Center tried to get a troubled colleague barred from surgery. But hospital leaders resisted. Then came the "summer of death."

More recent stories

Amended autopsy: Elijah McClain died due to sedative, restraint
Despite the finding, the death of McClain, a 23-year-old massage therapist, was still listed as undetermined, not a homicide, the report shows

Arizona judge: State can enforce near-total abortion ban
Arizona can enforce a near-total ban on abortions that has been blocked for nearly 50 years, a judge ruled Friday, meaning clinics statewide will have to stop providing the procedures to avoid the filing of criminal charges against doctors and other medical workers.

Boston officials report small increases in COVID-19 cases; urge booster shots

New cases have increased by 8.5 percent over the past week and 37.7 percent over the past 14 days, figures that don’t include at-home or rapid tests, according to a weekly update from the Boston Public Health Commission.

Oscar-winning ‘Cuckoo’s Nest’ actor Louise Fletcher dies
Louise Fletcher, a late-blooming star whose riveting performance as the cruel and calculating Nurse Ratched in “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” set a new standard for screen villains and won her an Academy Award, has died at age 88.

Boston’s sea-level rise will require a ‘Big Dig level’ solution, city leaders say
A recent federal report forecast that, by 2050, sea levels in Boston will be 16 inches higher than they were at the start of the century. Addressing this, city leaders say, will require a comprehensive, coordinated climate change effort.

High-profile attorney joins legal team for woman charged with killing Boston police officer in Canton
A California lawyer who represented actor Kevin Spacey has joined the defense team for Karen Read, the Mansfield woman charged with second-degree murder for allegedly driving over her boyfriend, Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe, during a blizzard in Canton this January.

Recommended reads

Meet the 32-year-old state representative thrust into the national spotlight when migrants landed on Martha’s Vineyard

Dylan Fernandes has been catapulted into the national spotlight as an outspoken critic of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. “This has been a crazy circus,” he said.

Where does Western Mass. begin? The debate plays out on WBZ radio.
Worcester? Lee? Cape Cod? Those were some of the answers floated when WBZ NewsRadio reporter Matt Shearer took to the streets of Boston to ask locals the age-old question.

Shirley Leung
There are rich people, and then there are the ‘one-time millionaires’
Opponents of the November ballot initiative that would raise taxes for some Massachusetts residents are out to redefine what it means to be wealthy.

KEVIN CULLEN
As The Squad comes to Somerville, their worst nightmare lurches to the far right just up Interstate 93
If Karoline Leavitt — a former Trump White House staffer — were any further to the right, she’d be somewhere in the North Atlantic.

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Culture & Lifestyle

Slanted, enchanted, and a few years older, Pavement embarks on a reunion tour

With tiresome reboots, TV is stuck in a cycle of watch, rinse, repeat

To Sidney, with love — Poitier, that is

Poet T.S. Eliot’s Gloucester connection

Special Projects

Welcome Back to Boston

Consider this our love letter to the city, a celebration of all it has to offer visitors and locals alike.
Globe Magazine

Top Spots to Live in Greater Boston in 2022

A guide to 36 Greater Boston communities where demand — and prices — are surging.
Jeneé Osterheldt

A Beautiful Resistance

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

‘On the Street’: The changing face of Greater Boston neighborhoods

The changing face of Greater Boston neighborhoods.

Opinion, ideas, and commentary

IDEAS | ED QUINN

Russian bombing reduced their town to rubble. It could not crush their humanity.
EDITORIAL

How long will Democrats hunker in their hidey holes?
John F. Kerry

Friendships in times of political division
ABDALLAH FAYYAD

The Fed wants you to lose your job
IDEAS | ELIZABETH PRESTON

Another reason to ❤️ your heart
IDEAS | OMAR VEGA

Rarely seen snapshots of Latino Boston

Metro

Former Mass MoCA director Joseph Thompson found not guilty in 2018 crash

Thompson, who led the North Adams museum for three decades, pleaded not guilty to the misdemeanor charge in the collision that killed 49-year-old motorcyclist Steven Fortier.
A Beautiful Resistance | Jeneé Osterheldt

The Hispanic history I carry with me: Rixy

A Beautiful Resistance celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month and Latino joy, as told to Jeneé Osterheldt.
CRANSTON

Cranston library suspends use of meeting space pending policy review

Hundreds protested the private Independent Women’s Network event on gender ideology, but the William Hall Library’s trustees allowed the anti-transgender event Monday, in the name of free speech.
BOOK BANNING

Libraries face increased attempts to ban books

As right-wing organizations mobilize to restrict access to titles they consider offensive, librarians in Rhode Island and around the country are finding themselves on the front lines of First Amendment freedoms.

Sports

PETER ABRAHAM | ON BASEBALL

Yankees’ one-run victory over Red Sox follows familiar script

The Sox are 6-11 against the Yankees with two games left in the season series. Nine of the games have been decided by 1 or 2 runs with the Yankees winning six times.
FRIDAY'S FOOTBALL ROUNDUP

Xavier Polanco (2 TDs), Latin Academy put the rush on Boston Latin

The senior rushed for 108 yards, teaming up with backfield mates Harrison Fitzgerald (92 yards) and Orlando Jusino (122 yards) for an impressive night.
MLB

Albert Pujols gets to 700 home runs with two at Dodger Stadium

The 42-year-old Pujols joins Barry Bonds (762 homers), Hank Aaron (755), and Babe Ruth (714) in one of baseball’s most exclusive clubs.
YANKEES 5, RED SOX 4

Red Sox find another way to lose to Yankees despite Rich Hill quieting Aaron Judge
HIGH SCHOOL CROSS-COUNTRY NOTEBOOK

At BC High, Chris Larnard and Hugh Licklider have set a dominant pace for the soaring Eagles
patriots notebook

Patriots list Jakobi Meyers and Kyle Dugger as questionable for Sunday

Business

With home heating bills headed higher, New England lawmakers seek more federal energy assistance for low-income families

As energy costs soar and extra funding from pandemic relief packages disappears, lawmakers in Massachusetts and across New England are working to secure more federal funding for fuel assistance for low-income families.

Powell says economy may be entering ‘new normal’ after pandemic

Powell and his colleagues are moving rapidly to reduce the highest inflation in nearly 40 years after being slow to spot the threat of broadening price pressures.

Dow hits 2022 low as markets sell off on recession fears

Boston’s sea-level rise will require a ‘Big Dig level’ solution, city leaders say
magazine
My Boston History

I'm a multilingual singer-songwriter. Here's why I call Boston home.
My Boston History

Talent and education aren’t always enough. So I work to ensure opportunities for all.

My Boston History

Documenting Chelsea’s indefatigable heart
My Boston History

How I found my superpower: Becoming Raúl The Third

metro

Public officials fall short on one of two bids to replace Cape bridges

Remembering Susan Menard, Woonsocket’s trailblazing, take-charge mayor

At 13, I didn’t make the cheerleading squad at Eastern Junior High. Was the ‘Pom Squad’ at a local senior center my second chance?

sports

Celtics say Robert Williams will be out 8-12 weeks after latest knee surgery

Gerrit Cole, Aaron Boone tossed after Alex Verdugo’s three-run homer

Ime Udoka has put the Celtics in a terrible position, and other thoughts

business

After 90 years, German bakery to close as energy costs soar

Oil prices tumble to their lowest level since January

MIT professor shares in $3 million Breakthrough Prize for quantum computing discoveries

politics

Georgia voting equipment breach at center of tangled tale

With home heating bills headed higher, New England lawmakers seek more federal energy assistance for low-income families

Meet the 32-year-old state representative thrust into the national spotlight when migrants landed on Martha’s Vineyard

Nation

California governor travels to Texas amid feud with GOP

Ex-Nevada deputy attorney general indicted on murder charge

Arizona judge: State can enforce near-total abortion ban

World

In seized parts of Ukraine, Moscow stages balloting on joining Russia

After 90 years, German bakery to close as energy costs soar

Occupied Ukraine holds Kremlin-staged vote on joining Russia

opinion

Price check, aisle 5

At the UN, Biden deftly deals with two of the world’s biggest autocrats

John Roberts’s constitutional color-blindness threatens civil rights

lifestyle

Nia Long issues statement following Ime Udoka suspension, asks for privacy ‘to process recent events’

Battling insecurity while dating

Boston chefs dish on their top kid-meal hacks

food & dining

Near Harvard Square, a Spanish tapas bar that feels distinctly Cambridge

New Hampshire gets a Haitian destination; Hot Chix beefs up Inman Square’s food scene

This Cambridge restaurant was recently recognized by Bon Appetit magazine and The New York Times

travel

‘We must do this’: German village fulfills promise to God by staging Passion Play every 10 years

Robots, runs, and King Tut

Can I get a refund for these airline credits on Expedia?

Arts

The Hispanic history I carry with me: Rixy

Subversive strips at Boston College’s McMullen Museum of Art

Jordan Seaberry’s nod to the WPA is a labor of love

Books

Libraries face increased attempts to ban books

Joshua Bennett on reading ‘to pursue astonishment’

Two books on pandemic parenting

Movies

‘Blonde’ is a rare movie with a NC-17 rating. What set it over the edge?

Forty years ago, Hollywood ushered in a new age of LGBTQ+ films. It didn’t last long.

‘The Collaboration’ and HBO’s ‘Julia’ filming around Boston this month

music

BSO opens new season to a full house

Jake Blount’s ‘The New Faith’ takes on the past and imagines the future under climate change

Slanted, enchanted, and a few years older, Pavement embarks on a reunion tour

Theater/Dance

For ‘Little Shop of Horrors,’ a not-so-little shot of hurrahs

‘Tina’ reaches for a star but falls short

At Moonbox, a journey of reconciliation in ‘The Good Deli,’ a venture into the unknown with ‘Jonathan’

globe local

Torah Sisters bond to piece together Jewish history

The Argument: Should accessory dwelling units be allowed statewide in Massachusetts?

Needham Town Meeting will decide on $2.5 million land purchase along Charles River next month

Obituaries

Maarten Schmidt, first astronomer to identify a quasar, dies at 92

Darrell Mudra, successful coach at all levels, dies at 93

Saul Kripke, philosopher who found truths in semantics, dies at 81