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A decade after Concord’s landmark ban on bottled water, plastic pollution remains a scourge

Concord passed a landmark plastic bottle ban ten years ago. It’s clear the bylaw helped trigger a wave of legislative action — but it wasn’t exactly what Rothrock and her fellow activists had hoped for.
SUPER BOWL LVII | CHIEFS 38, EAGLES 35

From Jen and Ben at Dunks to M&Ms hawking chocolate clams, here’s the Super Bowl ad breakdown
At roughly $7 million for a 30-second spot, the biggest night in sports is the biggest night in advertising, too. And a few prominent Boston-based companies partook.

The best and worst Super Bowl ads, according to Rhode Island experts

Ben Volin | On Football
James Bradberry offers a master class in accountability after penalty costs Eagles a shot at a Super Bowl victory

Tell us: do you think the referees made the right call?

Super Bowl LVII | unconventional review
Patrick Mahomes secured his place in history with a Super Bowl masterpiece

Rob Gronkowski misses field goal in live Super Bowl commercial

‘She was warm and loving and kind’: Andover woman killed by husband mourned by longtime friend
Linda Robinson "was an extraordinarily attentive, loving, close mother... that relationship was the defining relationship of her life," said Mark DiSalvo, president and chief executive of North Andover-based Sema4 Inc.

Here’s why Boston doesn’t have an elected school committee

A new proposal to return to the days of an elected School Committee has reignited a long-simmering debate. It's not clear how viable the proposal actually is, but the debate has strong historical echoes.

Annie Dookhan took the blame for the state drug lab scandal, but she wasn’t the ‘sole bad actor,’ new documents show

Inspector General Glenn Cunha referred at least four state employees aside from Annie Dookhan for potential criminal prosecution in the state drug lab scandal, new records show, but no charges were brought.

Plotting killer or consumed by illness? Dueling portraits of Duxbury mother Lindsay Clancy emerge in court.

Prosecutors have aggressively sought to portray Clancy as a plotting killer who painstakingly planned the murder of her three children, while those who know her have described her as a devoted mother dogged in her pursuit of treatment for mental health issues.

Students complain of culture shock as Northeastern University settles into Calif. outpost
The tension at the Oakland school, now known as Mills College at Northeastern University, reflects the challenges that colleges face when merging campus cultures and balancing the loyalties of students, faculty, and alumni.

U-Haul driver’s ‘rampage’ in NYC leaves 8 hurt, police say

Map: See where unidentified objects have been shot down over the US and Canada

 US defends decision to shoot down three unidentified objects

Three ice fishermen die after falling through ice in Vermont in separate incidents

Mailbox thefts reported in Arlington and Weston; suspects evade capture after pursuit

16-year-old girl ordered held without bail on murder charge in fatal Jamaica Plain stabbing

Police investigating reports of hoax threats made at schools nationwide and in Mass., officials say

‘Bostonhenge’ drew crowds to witness the Back Bay sunset. See the photos.

Dozens of people gathered Saturday in Back Bay to see the phenomenon dubbed “Bostonhenge,” as the setting winter sun aligned precisely between high-rise buildings, bathing the streetscape in a radiant glow.
christopher l. gasper

It’s hard to find a sense of spring renewal and hope regarding the Red Sox

Spring training traditionally is a time that buoys fans' spirits, but the Sox seem so irrelevant, so seemingly rudderless, so out of sync with their fan base.
Red Sox facility was spared by Hurricane Ian last fall, but heartbreaking damage in the area remains

A historic farmhouse built in the 1790s is for sale in R.I. for $14.5m

The “River Farm” on 127 acres on the Narrow River in Saunderstown was owned by the same family for nearly a century, and frequented by President Theodore Roosevelt.
Black History Month
Globe Magazine

The Twitterverse had its say about ‘The Embrace.’ Here’s what real visitors think.

We spent a weekend interviewing visitors to the monument to the Kings. This is what people from Boston and beyond had to say.
When Martin met Coretta in Boston, he found his match in more ways than one
Opinion
JOAN VENNOCHI

No, it’s not a crime to charge Lindsay Clancy with a crime

Plymouth District Attorney Timothy Cruz would be abdicating his responsibilities if he didn’t pursue charges against the Duxbury mother accused of killing her three children.
MARCELA GARCÍA

Americano Media wants to be Fox News in Spanish. Should we be worried?
James A. Peyser

There are innovative college and career programs for high school students. The Legislature needs to fund them.
Craig Hallstrom

East Boston needs its own substation
EDITORIAL

If Ukraine loses, so does nuclear nonproliferation
The Emancipator

Long prison sentences are cruel and ineffective: here’s the proof

The United States incarcerates nearly 2 million people. More than half are serving sentences of 10 or more years. Long sentences were promoted with weak evidence, and the evidence of the harm they do is clear — so how did we end up here?
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Special reports

Spotlight Report: Fate and the fallen star

Boston doesn’t work if the T doesn’t work

Darkness on the edge of the Patriots dynasty

More recent News

Larry Edelman
‘Punxsutawney’ Powell and why investors need to cool their jets
The latest reading on inflation comes out Tuesday. The news should be good — but not good enough to change the Fed’s hawkish tune.

Burst of rainfall in January eases severe drought conditions in Mass.

State officials said Monday that “above-normal rainfall” last month greatly improved the drought outlook in Massachusetts after months of heightened concern over persistent dryness.
Dave Epstein: Record-breaking temperatures expected this week in New England

Tickets for Beyonce’s Renaissance tour stop at Gillette go on sale this week. Here’s what to know.
Beyoncé fans in New England are in for a bit of a nail biter when it comes to scoring tickets for her upcoming world tour.

Lexington biotech lays off half of its workforce after hearing loss drug fails major study

A Lexington startup with big ambitions to develop drugs that restore hearing loss is reducing its workforce by 55 percent after finding that its therapy failed to improve hearing in a closely-watched clinical study.

Climate change is threatening Valentine’s Day as we know it
How champagne, chocolate, and flowers are becoming harder to produce due to climate change.

Underfunded for decades, URI has enrolled more higher paying out-of-state students than in-state students. Now it’s at a crossroads.

As the General Assembly starts to take up the state budget, the University of Rhode Island is looking for help, seeking to bolster its status as a top-flight research institution.
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ANALYSIS | JAMES PINDELL

The field of potential 2024 Republican candidates, ranked

In this, the first in a series of pieces ranking who’s most likely to be the 2024 Republican presidential nominee, there are really two categories. There’s Trump and likely candidate Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. And then there’s everybody else.

They bought mansions, a Rolls Royce, and chartered a jet with COVID relief loans, prosecutors allege
Criminal charges related to COVID relief funds have been brought nationwide against a dizzying array of suspects, including a former NFL player, a Hollywood producer, a reality TV star, rappers, doctors, preachers, drug dealers, romance scammers, and human traffickers.

Suffolk DA says no criminal charges will be filed against Boston police officers who fired shots at Juston Root near a Boston hospital
No criminal charges will be filed against the Boston police officers who fired shots at Juston Root, a man whom the officers shot at near a city hospital in February 2020 after he brandished a fake gun and then led police on a wild chase into Brookline where he was later fatally shot by authorities.

For the transgender community, work can be a difficult world to navigate
Navigating the world of work can be enormously challenging for members of the transgender community, and changing jobs is especially tricky.

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Culture & Lifestyle

Tickets for Beyonce’s Renaissance tour stop at Gillette go on sale this week. Here’s what to know.

Maggie Rogers gets her tour off to a rousing start at Roadrunner

Two Avant-garde soundscapes, in search of light

My funny Valentine: Five comedians on love and humor

Special Projects

Two Weeks in America

We sent a dozen journalists on the road across this complex country. They found it’s better than you think.

Welcome Back to Boston

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

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

The changing face of Greater Boston neighborhoods.
Jeneé Osterheldt

A Beautiful Resistance

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

Opinion, ideas, and commentary

James A. Peyser

There are innovative college and career programs for high school students. The Legislature needs to fund them.
EDITORIAL

If Ukraine loses, so does nuclear nonproliferation
Craig Hallstrom

East Boston needs its own substation
JEFF JACOBY

There’s only one way to add an Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution
EDITORIAL

Seizing home equity over unpaid taxes is unfair to homeowners
IDEAS

Where did all the workers go?

Metro

Bunnies, donkeys, and peacocks, oh my! Duxbury learning center holds Valentine’s kissing booth with rescued farm animals.

Donkeys, bunnies, alpacas, pigs, and a peacock were just some of the critters present Sunday at JEM Learning, a K-8 homeschooling cooperative on a cranberry bog in Duxbury, when a non-profit sanctuary farm held a Valentine’s Day kissing booth fund-raiser.
RI ARTS

Raising awareness about special needs dogs, Puppy Bowl winner Joey is ‘kind of a big deal in Rhode Island’

Adopting a dog like Joey, who was born with only his hind legs, just means “thinking outside the box,” his owner Cathy Larson said.
TOM FARRAGHER

It’s their sugary job — and how sweet it is

Ye Olde Pepper Candy Companie can trace its mouth-watering roots back to the 1800s.

Climate change is threatening Valentine’s Day as we know it

How champagne, chocolate, and flowers are becoming harder to produce due to climate change.

Sports

Men's college basketball

Alabama is No. 1 in AP Top 25 men’s college basketball poll for first time in 20 years

Purdue's loss to Northwestern last week caused a jumble at the top of the AP Top 25 and that helped the Crimson Tide.
Ben Volin | On Football

James Bradberry offers a master class in accountability after penalty costs Eagles a shot at a Super Bowl victory

“I was hoping he would let it go,” said Bradberry, whose hold on a Chiefs receiver late in the fourth quarter was a crucial play in Super Bowl LVII.
BOYS' BASKETBALL: PLAYERS OF THE WEEK

EMass boys’ basketball: Joey Hart shoots his way to career-high 30 points during perfect week for Central Catholic to headline Players of the Week

Hart's 30 came in a 17-point win over St. John's Prep during the Raiders' 3-0 week.
Baseball

‘Ghost runner’ in extra innings made permanent by Major League Baseball
bruins

Jake DeBrusk is close to a return, and the Bruins could use him
Super Bowl LVII | unconventional review

Patrick Mahomes secured his place in history with a Super Bowl masterpiece

Business

Twitter’s plan to charge for crucial tool prompts outcry

Nonprofits, researchers, and others need the tool, known as the API, or Application Programming Interface, to analyze Twitter data because the sheer amount of information makes it impossible for a human to go through by hand.

Second round of layoffs hits iRobot as Amazon deal is still pending

The Roomba vacuum maker — which is being acquired by Amazon in a deal that regulators are scrutinizing — disclosed the layoffs Monday as it released weak earnings results for the fourth quarter and full year.

Dating a coworker is more acceptable now, thanks to younger employees
THE FINE PRINT

She was hit with a huge hospital bill she wasn’t expecting. Here’s how you can avoid the same fate.
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Globe Magazine

The Twitterverse had its say about ‘The Embrace.’ Here’s what real visitors think.
Jeneé Osterheldt

The beautiful resistance of Black love
YOUR WEEK AHEAD

Five things to do for fun in and around Boston, Feb. 13-Feb. 19

MISS CONDUCT

As COVID lingers, how do I navigate new funeral rituals?

metro

Students complain of culture shock as Northeastern University settles into Calif. outpost

Burst of rainfall in January eases severe drought conditions in Mass.

Underfunded for decades, URI has enrolled more higher paying out-of-state students than in-state students. Now it’s at a crossroads.

sports

Red Sox facility was spared by Hurricane Ian last fall, but heartbreaking damage in the area remains

Celtics give Sam Hauser more minutes, and his shots are falling again

It’s hard to find a sense of spring renewal and hope regarding the Red Sox

business

Lexington biotech lays off half of its workforce after hearing loss drug fails major study

A historic farmhouse built in the 1790s is for sale in R.I. for $14.5m

‘Punxsutawney’ Powell and why investors need to cool their jets

politics

Across the Capitol from McConnell, McCarthy tries the opposite of his peers: rewarding his opponents

US defends decision to shoot down three unidentified objects

Judge to release parts of Georgia special grand jury report on efforts by Trump, allies to overturn 2020 loss

Nation

Teen girls report record levels of sadness, CDC finds

$500 a month, no strings: Chicago experiments with a guaranteed income

U-Haul driver’s ‘rampage’ in NYC leaves 8 hurt, police say

World

Turkey earthquake survivors face despair, as rescues wane

Thousands march in Israel as Netanyahu allies push overhaul

Wife of former US pilot complains of Australian treatment

opinion

Time has not run out on the case for racial reparations

After all these years, it’s public opinion of City Hall design that’s brutal

‘How could they kill this kid?’ A month later, no answers in Cambridge.

lifestyle

Is he really traveling to see his friend?

Jennifer Coolidge says she looks ‘like a baby dolphin’ in new Super Bowl ad

He saved videos of her

food & dining

It’s their sugary job — and how sweet it is

Tasting menus in Rhode Island: Decadent, even playful adventures, in 3 to 12 courses

A West African woman, once called the ‘pastry queen’ of Rhode Island, baked her way to freedom

travel

Musician Patrice Rushen on Maui, trail mix, and trying new things outside of her norm

Weekend of romance on the blustery coast of Southern Maine

After a couple of pandemic-stalled winters, music is back in the mountains

Arts

From Rwanda to Boston Common: the humanitarian mission of MASS Design

Mimi Bai plays ‘Hide and See’ at Boston Center for the Arts’s Mills Gallery

Wu Junyong’s exhibit at the MFA explores different cultural traditions

Books

A young woman juggles the burdens of family and self in Jessica George’s engaging debut, ‘Maame’

Sick of clichés about love? Camonghne Felix’s powerful memoir ‘Dyscalculia’ captures searing miscalculations of the heart

How glitter and velvet made William Middleton, biographer of Karl Lagerfield, into a reader

Movies

Jennifer Coolidge says she looks ‘like a baby dolphin’ in new Super Bowl ad

‘Something’s brewing’: Dunkin’ teases Ben Affleck Super Bowl commercial

Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi’s ‘No Bears’ tells two stories of entrapment

Television

Raising awareness about special needs dogs, Puppy Bowl winner Joey is ‘kind of a big deal in Rhode Island’

From Jen and Ben at Dunks to M&Ms hawking chocolate clams, here’s the Super Bowl ad breakdown

This week’s TV: The charm of Natasha Lyonne, a new series from Billy Crudup, and ‘African Queens’

music

Tickets for Beyonce’s Renaissance tour stop at Gillette go on sale this week. Here’s what to know.

A Gen Z Valentine’s Day playlist

Maggie Rogers gets her tour off to a rousing start at Roadrunner

Theater/Dance

My funny Valentine: Five comedians on love and humor

Worcester ballet auditions begin for Youth America Grand Prix

Circa takes Stravinsky’s ‘Sacre’ in a new direction

globe local

Going all out on Valentine’s Day

The Argument: Should Massachusetts significantly expand construction of public housing?

Newton superintendent finalist withdraws, leaving two candidates to lead city’s public schools

Obituaries

De La Soul’s David Jolicoeur, who rapped as Trugoy the Dove, dies at 54

Allan A. Ryan Jr., who tracked down WWII Nazi war criminals in the US, dies at 77

Hazel McCallion, no-nonsense Canadian mayor for 36 years, dies at 101