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America’s election workers are leaving their jobs in droves

America’s election workers are leaving in droves

Experts worry that the rapid loss of top county election officials drains the system of experience and institutional knowledge at the very moment election deniers are looking to seize on any mistake, small as it might be, to erode the public’s faith in elections.

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See turnover data and hear from elections officials

Turnover among top county election workers has jumped dramatically in key battleground states, according to a Boston Globe analysis of election official turnover data. The Globe collected data from those states and others as well as analyzed a database of election workers maintained by the nonprofit US Vote Foundation.

See photos from the 2022 Head of the Charles
Here are some of the best shots from the world’s largest three-day regatta from the Globe photographers.

Rowing in Color boats make history, bring visibility to Head of the Charles Home win: Cambridge Boat Club’s Emily Kallfelz wins women’s singles on Charles

PANTHERS 21, BUCCANEERS 3

Disaster deepens for Tom Brady, Buccaneers with shocking loss to abysmal Panthers
Mike Evans dropped a wide-open 64-yard touchdown pass on the third play of the game for Tampa Bay, and things never got much better for Brady, who's 3-4 for the first time since the 2002 Patriots.

Has Maine moved on from Paul LePage?
In comeback bid, former governor pitches a gentler, more introspective approach.

Voters have repeatedly said no to raising taxes on the highest earners. This time might be different.

The last time voters faced a ballot question to change how income taxes are collected in Massachusetts, the year was 1994.

NTSB investigator: Two men who died in Keene, N.H. plane crash were pilot-rated

Investigators in Keene, N.H., Sunday were continuing their probe of a Friday night plane crash that killed both men who were on board the aircraft, and heavily damaged a small apartment building.

Blunder in affirmative-action case may cost Harvard $15 million

As Harvard prepares to defend its race-conscious admissions program at the Supreme Court this month, a federal judge in Boston is considering a related dispute arising from a fumbled insurance filing, one that could cost the university $15 million.

3-alarm Andover fire displaces 3 residents; home a ‘total loss’

The occupants were not in the house at the time of the fire, and no injuries were reported, Andover Fire Rescue Chief Michael Mansfield said in a statement.

A ‘tripledemic’? Flu and other infections return as COVID-19 cases rise

Boris Johnson out of race to be next UK prime minister

Bailey Zappe has been running play-action on more than a quarter of his drop-backs.

With shorter throws and more play-action, Bailey Zappe is looking a lot like last year’s Mac Jones

In the last two weeks, Zappe has led the Patriots to back-to-back wins making the same kind of “dink and dunk” throws that Jones did as a rookie.

Boston Police Deputy Superintendent Nora Baston, with a Dorchester teenager in 2014 as she shared photos on her smartphone during a break in the action, was recently named the RFK Community Alliance Embracing the Legacy award winner and will be honored Wednesday at the JFK Presidential Library.

Basketball was her rock growing up. Now this cop is using the sport to give back to her community

Through years of shooting hoops, Superintendent Nora Baston has dedicated her policing career to trying to give Boston youth a childhood better than her own

"People have lifted us up," says Brenda Roy, pictured with her husband, Lee, in a Concord, N.H., restaurant.

Travis Roy’s name and legacy to live on with a $4 million gift to help those with spinal cord injuries

Almost two years after Travis Roy died, his foundation is announcing gifts to Boston’s Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital and the Shepherd Center in Atlanta. The money will help pay for assistive technology to help those with spinal cord injuries regain their independence.

50 Years of TV

What’s the best TV show of the last 50 years? You decide.

Boston Globe television critic Matthew Gilbert has curated 64 TV series from the past 50 years, and he’s asking readers to pick their favorite TV show of all time.

Matthew Gilbert explains the bracket Ready to vote? Make your picks here.

Opinion

Torch-bearing white nationalists rally around a statue of Thomas Jefferson near the University of Virginia campus in Charlottesville, Aug. 11, 2017.

Getting rid of a disgraced cop is just the beginning

Cleaning up the mess of potentially tainted cases and making sure he never serves again are the tough problems.

The Supreme Court has a chance to show people how to take a joke

Even with new ‘election integrity’ laws, Republicans may not accept losing outcomes

Support for Ukraine shouldn’t turn on who wins midterm elections

Shock at college sticker prices? You aren’t alone.

A first-time voter, left, takes a selfie with her mother after they cast their in-person absentee ballots at Seacoast Church Mount Pleasant on Oct. 31, 2020, in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina.

The Emancipator

Enter the Other Swing Voter: the mighty 8%

Two young Black voters at Boston University share their message for the “Other Swing Voter” – those who swing between voting Democratic or not at all, most likely to be young and Black or young and Latino.

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150 years of The Boston Globe

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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.

Catholic Medical Center trustees hire firm to investigate its operations after Globe Spotlight investigation New Hampshire keeps patients in the dark about their doctors’ malpractice, disciplinary records Timeline: What the public didn't know about Dr. Yvon Baribeau

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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

Boston College warns students to be on alert after man seen lurking near off-campus residences in Brighton

Boston police are investigating suspicious activity in the area after receiving reports of a man peering into windows of residences on Foster Street and Kirkwood, Greycliff, Braemore and Radnor roads between 8 and 11 p.m.

Jay Light, former Harvard Business School dean, dies at 81
Colleagues called Mr. Light "a natural teacher" and a steady leader who guided the school through the nation's 2008 financial crisis.

Biden says it’s ‘totally legitimate’ for voters to consider his age as he nears 80
President Biden said he is physically and mentally capable of serving a potential second term. “I think the best way to make the judgment is to watch me," he said.

THE FINE PRINT

That credit card you haven’t used for years may be canceled
Credit card companies aren’t legally required to give you notice of cancellation, though many say they do. And, even if notice is sent, it’s easy to imagine missing it in the daily deluge of communications we receive.

Pedestrian victim of fatal Route 93 crash in Boston was 49-year-old man

The victim was a 49-year-old man. His name is being withheld while police notify his family.

LOVE LETTERS

We look great on social media, but ...
... our marriage has problems.

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Christine Selman and Jeff Trudel, daughter and stepson of Richard Arthur, with a photo of Arthur, who had heart surgery at Catholic Medical Center in Manchester, N.H., in 2017, and died in the hospital nearly a month later. Family members say they were pressured to keep Arthur alive on a ventilator, even though they believed there was little hope of recovery.

Spotlight follow-up

Growing scrutiny of a quality standard that may influence end-of-life decisions for heart surgery patients

A widely tracked statistic used to assess a cardiac surgeon’s skills — if their patients die within 30 days — is viewed by some clinicians as creating perverse incentives for doctors to prolong artificial life support and delay comfort measures.

Logan Clegg, accused of killing New Hampshire couple, emerges as a globetrotting drifter — and a bundle of contradictions
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Massachusetts’ middle class is feeling the squeeze. Can the next governor do anything to help?
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Culture & Lifestyle

Liz Gerring Dance Company performed "Harbor" with the JACK Quartet at the ICA.

Liz Gerring Dance Company and JACK Quartet bring buzzing, mysterious ‘Harbor’ to the ICA

This image released by Republic Records shows "Midnights" by Taylor Swift.

On ‘Midnights,’ Taylor Swift says hello to darkness, her old friend

Niki Metcalf (center) as Tracy Turnblad in "Hairspray."

This ‘Hairspray’ is as buoyant as its bouffants

Flo Milli (pictured at Chicago's Lollapalooza music festival in 2021) performs Oct. 26 at Brighton Music Hall.

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Welcome Back to Boston

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

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

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A Beautiful Resistance

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The changing face of Greater Boston neighborhoods.

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Opinion, ideas, and commentary

Maitland Jones Jr., a former NYU professor who was fired after 82 of his 350 students signed a petition against him, in New York, Sept. 28, 2022.

Maitland Jones Jr.

I was fired from NYU after students complained that the class was too hard. Who’s next?

Italian Fascist leader Benito Mussolini, center, hands on hips, with members of the Fascist Party, in Rome, Italy, Oct. 28, 1922, following their March on Rome.

H.D.S. Greenway

Trump’s Mussolini roots

An empty Boston Public School bus in the early morning light drives down South Street in Jamaica Plain.

For too many BPS kids, the wheels on the bus are still not going round and round

The statue, "Contemplation of Justice," at the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C.

Kimberly Atkins Stohr

Affirmative action in college admissions is at risk

Bianca Enos, a first-grade teacher, cheered alongside her fellow Haverhill educators on strike at a rally outside of Haverhill City Hall on Oct. 17.

Maura Healey misses a chance to prove her mettle on Haverhill teachers strike

"Serendipity is something we fashion from a chance event — a happy accident pulsating with possibility."

IDEAS | CLAUDIA E. KALB

Yes, you can cultivate serendipity

Metro

Has Maine moved on from Paul LePage?

In comeback bid, former governor pitches a gentler, more introspective approach.

Travis Roy’s name and legacy to live on with a $4 million gift to help those with spinal cord injuries

Almost two years after Travis Roy died, his foundation is announcing gifts to Boston’s Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital and the Shepherd Center in Atlanta. The money will help pay for assistive technology to help those with spinal cord injuries regain their independence.

Jay Light, former Harvard Business School dean, dies at 81

Colleagues called Mr. Light "a natural teacher" and a steady leader who guided the school through the nation's 2008 financial crisis.

Basketball was her rock growing up. Now this cop is using the sport to give back to her community

Through years of shooting hoops, Superintendent Nora Baston has dedicated her policing career to trying to give Boston youth a childhood better than her own

Sports

The rain tarp covers the field as a light rain falls on Yankee Stadium before Sunday's Game 4 of the American League Championship Series.

Game 4 of ALCS between Astros and Yankees at New York delayed by rain

MLB said the game could be postponed and rescheduled for Monday.

Kyle Larson waves the checkered flag after winning a NASCAR Cup Series race at Homestead-Miami Speedway in Homestead, Fla.

Kyle Larson wins at Homestead, holding off Ross Chastain at end

It was Larson’s third win of the season and came a week after the reigning Cup champion — who was eliminated earlier in this year’s playoffs — was intentionally spun by Bubba Wallace in an act of retaliation at Las Vegas.

Bryce Harper connected for the go-ahead two-run home run in the eighth inning in Game 5.

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Bryce Harper’s two-run, eighth-inning home run lifts Phillies over Padres in Game 5 and into World Series

Rhys Hoskins also hit a two-run homer to spark Philadelphia’s improbable run to the National League pennant and a shot at its first World Series championship since 2008.

All-chaos Giants pull another win from fire, reach 6-1 by beating Jaguars

COMMANDERS 23, PACKERS 21

Aaron Rodgers’s wideout corps gets even thinner in third straight loss

With shorter throws and more play-action, Bailey Zappe is looking a lot like last year’s Mac Jones

Business

Voters have repeatedly said no to raising taxes on the highest earners. This time might be different.

The last time voters faced a ballot question to change how income taxes are collected in Massachusetts, the year was 1994.

That credit card you haven’t used for years may be canceled

Credit card companies aren’t legally required to give you notice of cancellation, though many say they do. And, even if notice is sent, it’s easy to imagine missing it in the daily deluge of communications we receive.

Massachusetts’ middle class is feeling the squeeze. Can the next governor do anything to help?

It’s not a trick: Your Halloween treats are getting smaller

magazine

Bob and Andy Wong in front of their family's restaurant, Kowloon in Saugus.

The legacy of Kowloon: A restaurant, a family, and the remarkable perseverance of Chinese cuisine in America

Samuel Adams

How Samuel Adams became the fearless patriot Britain loved to hate

This week's daters: Kin and Tyler.

Dinner with Cupid

Blind date: ‘I felt like I was talking to someone I had known for longer than a few hours’

Jack Thomas (left) in the Globe newsroom in 1979 and Morrie Schwartz in 1995.

When Morrie Schwartz met Jack Thomas: The story behind ‘Tuesdays with Morrie’

metro

Investigators examine the site of a plane crash in Keene, N.H. on Saturday, Oct. 22, 2022.

NTSB investigator: Two men who died in Keene, N.H. plane crash were pilot-rated

Laren is fun-loving and friendly

Community members embrace #Kindness4Colleen nine years after Danvers High teacher’s death

sports

Ice dancer Evan Bates (right), here with partner Madison Chock, said it was frustrating and disappointing to have the investigation into the doping violation of Russian skater Kamlia Valieva at the Beijing Olympics still shrouded in secrecy.

US ice dancer Evan Bates speaks out about frustrations of investigation into doping violation of Russian skater Kamlia Valieva

Disaster deepens for Tom Brady, Buccaneers with shocking loss to abysmal Panthers

See photos from the 2022 Head of the Charles

business

No longer tied to offices, workers are still bound by the clock

GOP campaigns against the IRS, vowing to slash its funding

Inflation protests across Europe threaten political turmoil

politics

Stewart Rhodes, founder of the Oath Keepers, pictured at a rally outside the White House in 2017.

Jan. 6 trial highlights missed warnings before Capitol siege

Join the discussion: In the wake of Trump’s lies, a brain drain of local election experience in Georgia

Has Maine moved on from Paul LePage?

Nation

A voter analytics firm called PredictWise used data in the lead-up to the 2020 presidential election to identify and target persuadable voters.

Why am I seeing that political ad? Check your ‘Trump resistance’ score.

Trump’s business, already shrinking, faces a tough test in court

Blunder in affirmative-action case may cost Harvard $15 million

World

Xi Jinping, China's President, secured a third term as leader, and on Sunday, he introduced the country's new ruling body.

China’s leader now wields formidable power. Who will say no to him?

Boris Johnson out of race to be next UK prime minister

Palestinian militant group accuses Israel of killing fighter

opinion

An empty Boston Public School bus in the early morning light drives down South Street in Jamaica Plain.

For too many BPS kids, the wheels on the bus are still not going round and round

Insulin’s value: Christian Fauria recalls nurse saying, ‘I’m going to teach you how to keep your son alive’

A perfect feed from Bill Russell to Jaylen Brown

lifestyle

Poet and author Ross Gay will appear at Brookline Booksmith on Friday and at the Boston Book Festival on Saturday as a part of his multi-city tour in support of his new book of essays, "Inciting Joy."

Award-winning poet and essayist Ross Gay celebrates the unexpected possibilities of joy

We look great on social media, but ...

My wife is flirting with a co-worker

food & dining

Crowds pass Halloween decorations set up on the mall in Salem on Oct. 12.

‘Travel by train, boat or broom.’ Salem officials ask visitors to leave cars at home as Halloween looms

Does Dunkin’ have better doughnuts in Europe? This photo has some fans envious.

Former Mistral executive chef Jason Maynard is making the suburbs a little saucier at Sogno

travel

Crowds pass Halloween decorations set up on the mall in Salem on Oct. 12.

‘Travel by train, boat or broom.’ Salem officials ask visitors to leave cars at home as Halloween looms

Jessica Hecht on coffee, travel philanthropy, and getting to India and Africa

Those ‘best’ lists got it right with The Loutrel in Charleston, S.C.

Arts

"Metal of Honor: Gold from Simone Martini to Contemporary Art," installation view, 2022, at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.

Gardner’s ‘Metal of Honor’ show is worth its weight in gold

In Stockbridge, standing still enough to savor George Rickey’s sculpture in motion

At Alpha Gallery, ‘Harmony of Difference’ hums with color and contrast

Books

Physician, cancer researcher, and celebrated author Siddhartha Mukherjee's upcoming book, "The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human" will be published on Oct. 25.

Siddhartha Mukherjee takes on the rise of ‘the new human’ in upcoming book on cell biology

Lincoln and his faith. A new book looks at the 16th president’s religious fervor.

Elizabeth Lim on reading folklore and fairy tales, to feed her own writing

Movies

Dwayne Johnson in "Black Adam."

Dwayne Johnson powers through ‘Black Adam’

In ‘Raymond & Ray,’ Ewan McGregor and Ethan Hawke play brothers in harm

Maya Cade is building the Black Film Archive one ‘under-seen’ movie at a time

Television

After leaving her long-running talk show (above) in May, Ellen DeGeneres has put together eight episodes of a documentary-style comedy called “About Time for Yourself … With Ellen.”

It’s ‘About Time’ for Ellen DeGeneres’s comeback

What’s the best TV show of the last 50 years? You decide.

Vote in our TV bracket: Which show should be crowned champion?

music

Brandi Carlile performs at TD Garden.

Brandi Carlile is in her happy place at TD Garden

On ‘Midnights,’ Taylor Swift says hello to darkness, her old friend

Nelsons, BSO take on Mahler’s ‘Tragic’ Sixth

Theater/Dance

Liz Gerring Dance Company performed "Harbor" with the JACK Quartet at the ICA.

Liz Gerring Dance Company and JACK Quartet bring buzzing, mysterious ‘Harbor’ to the ICA

This ‘Hairspray’ is as buoyant as its bouffants

Where Samuel Beckett and Mr. Noodle meet, there’s Bill Irwin

globe local

Wearing color-appropriate headwear and footwear for the outing, 3-year-old Quentin Jones picks out a pumpkin at Boston Hill Farm in North Andover.

The Great Pumpkin: A bumper crop of the fall favorite despite the drought

The argument: Should Massachusetts require employers to provide paid vacation time?

Police capture pet bunny on the loose

Obituaries

Jay O. Light addressed reporters' questions after he was named the ninth dean of Harvard Business School by Harvard President Lawrence Summers in 2006.

Jay Light, former Harvard Business School dean, dies at 81

Peter Schjeldahl, New York art critic with a poet’s voice, dies at 80

Mary McCaslin, folk singer who lamented the lost Old West, dies at 75