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THE GREAT DIVIDE

As teacher strikes take root in Massachusetts, districts brace for more

Although it’s illegal for public employees to strike in Massachusetts, Greater Boston educators are increasingly willing to break state law and ignore court injunctions as they realize the benefits of striking exceed the hefty financial penalties.

In one frigid weekend, four emergency rooms closed. Are hospitals ready for a changing climate?

Hospitals have seen a record number of evacuations and closures nationally in the last decade due to climate change.

20 years later, the effects of the Station nightclub fire still linger

“It even chokes me up a little now,” says one of the designers of the Station Fire Memorial Park, whose relatives were at the club the night of the 2003 fire. “Anybody that was involved is still being affected by it.”

Cambridge police continue search for missing 19-year-old man

Cambridge police continued their search Sunday for for Joshua Shacklewood, 19, a student at Bunker Hill Community College who was reported missing Tuesday, officials said.

Richard Belzer, stand-up comic and TV detective, has died
Belzer, the Connecticut native and longtime stand-up comedian, has died. He became one of TV’s most indelible detectives as John Munch in “Homicide: Life on the Street” and “Law & Order: SVU.”

Tom Sizemore in critical condition after brain aneurysm
Sizemore has acted in films including “Saving Private Ryan,” “Heat” and “Black Hawk Down.”

The Green Line in particular has been slowed by several trouble spots.

It’s possible to out-run, even out-walk, the T, new slow zone data show

After months of obfuscation, the MBTA released a complete list of the current slow zones on its subway system, providing the first full up-to-date picture of the condition of its tracks.

YVONNE ABRAHAM

Fear and loathing in America
Some superpower we are. We can’t even protect our kids from being mowed down in their classrooms

Team Giannis 184, Team LeBron 175

Celtics’ Jayson Tatum is the star of stars, with a record 55 points and the MVP of the NBA All-Star Game
Tatum had 27 points in the third quarter, another All-Star Game record for any period.

The anticipation is on for Jayson Tatum’s first signature shoe, the Jordan Tatum 1

Massachusetts' Lynn Jennings is one of the greatest American distance runners in history. In 2017, she moved to action after learning another athlete's story of abuse, she began working to hold her former coach, John Babington, responsible for sexually molesting her and others during his career coaching women at Harvard, Wellesley, and in the Olympics.

A reckoning, decades in the making: Famed Olympic runner Lynn Jennings chases down the renowned coach who abused her as a teen

John Babington was sexually abusing the future Olympian while he helped turn her into a world-class athlete. He then abused a fellow runner. Years later, their paths crossed as part of Jennings's pursuit of justice.

Barstow’s Longview Farm in Hadley is working to help businesses by taking their food waste and turning it into clean energy through the farm's anaerobic digester.

How one Mass. farm is transforming waste into energy

A digester at Barstow’s Longview Farm in Hadley takes methane from cow manure and food waste and turns it into enough electricity to power 1,600 homes.

"King of Queens" actor Kevin James (fourth from right) stopped by Westport's Bootleg BBQ last week for a meal with frequent collaborators the Kinnane Brothers.

‘King of Queens’ actor Kevin James is first entry on a BBQ ‘Wall of Fame’

On Thursday, the “King of Queens” star and his colleagues dined at Bootleg BBQ in Westport.

Bobby Dalbec was taking grounders at third base last week as he searches for a home on this Red Sox roster.

DAN SHAUGHNESSY

The Red Sox’ resident nomad, Bobby Dalbec, enters a pivotal spring

Despite success as a pitcher in college, the Red Sox realistically plan to give Dalbec, 28, chances at third, first and short this spring.

Peter Abraham: Red Sox confident they won’t second guess decision to start Christian Arroyo at second base

Opinion

Parched farmland on the outskirts of Baidoa, in southern Somalia, on Nov. 2.

The world is allowing a famine to unfold in Somalia — again

A lack of financial will on the part of the international community may cause the country’s hunger crisis to devolve into its worst famine. Wealthy nations must step up.

IDEAS | Alan Levinovitz

The info equivalent of junk food

How the most qualified presidential candidate became America’s worst president

An easy way for Boston to add more housing units

MARCELA GARCÍA

The teens are not all right. We should all be alarmed.

Photo illustration. Dalit protester (Aijaz Rahi/AP) in front of Seattle skyline (Donald Miralle/Getty Images).

The Emancipator

Caste should not be part of the “American Dream”

Caste could become the newest protected class in Seattle’s anti-discrimination law. More lawmakers need to follow suit to prevent this system of rigid hierarchy from taking root in the U.S. and protect the rights of lower-caste South Asian immigrants.

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Black History Month

Black Love is a Beautiful Resistance

The beautiful resistance of Black love

Throughout Black History Month, A Beautiful Resistance celebrates Black love as told to Jeneé Osterheldt.

When Martin met Coretta in Boston, he found his match in more ways than one

Special reports

photo illustration of David Sabatini. photo by Jonathan Wiggs /Globe Staff

Spotlight Report: Fate and the fallen star

Boston, MA—12/14/2022 - Commuters wait for the T to arrive at Ruggles Station. (Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff)

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

Members of the 2001 Patriots team that won the franchise’s first title.

Darkness on the edge of the Patriots dynasty

More recent News

Antisemitic graffiti found in two student bathrooms at Silver Lake High School in Kingston, officials say

In a letter to the school community, Principal Michaela Gill said she was alerted to the graffiti after a custodian discovered it on Feb. 13.

Jimmy Carter, 39th US president, enters hospice care at home
The charity created by the former president said that after a series of short hospital stays, Carter “decided to spend his remaining time at home with his family and receive hospice care instead of additional medical intervention."

Two separate shootings in Boston Saturday night leave woman, man dead
The woman was found at 9 p.m. at 15 Fermoy Heights in Dorchester and pronounced dead at the scene; two men were found shot, one fatally around 11:30 pm at 958 Tremont St. in Roxbury.

Two Boston police officers hospitalized after crash involving their van and a Honda

Two Boston police officers were taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injurie, while the driver of the Honda was taken to the hospital with minor injuries.

Salem, N.H., man injured in snowmobile crash in Franconia Notch State Park

Thomas Connell II, 53, was hurt in a single-machine crash while riding with a group of family members on the bike path in Franconia Notch State Park, officials said.

LOVE LETTERS

My sports club crush went cold
"I’m getting the negative body language from her and the 'go away' vibe."

Boston Globe Spotlight Team

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‘People are leaving’: Massachusetts has lost 110,000 residents since COVID began. Is life better out there?

Citing housing costs and remote work, among other factors, 110,000 more people have moved out of Massachusetts than moved in since the start of COVID.

Drones, stingrays, hidden microphones: Law enforcement in Massachusetts is increasingly using surveillance technology
Advances in technology have made it easier for law enforcement agencies to keep tabs on us. But the public is mostly unaware of what high-tech systems police are using on them, and what rules, if any, may apply.

As Wu policies alarm the real estate industry, business leaders turn to Healey
Some industry officials are betting that Maura Healey will serve as a check on the more progressive Michelle Wu — and hoping that if the Boston mayor’s farthest-reaching proposals land on the governor’s desk, they can count on a veto.

One month into office, Andrea Campbell wants to tackle abortion, gun violence, and corruption as AG
In her first sit-down interview with the Globe as attorney general, Campbell said she is making government accountability, reproductive rights, and economic justice core priorities for the office.

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Culture & Lifestyle

Pedro Pascal in "The Last of Us."

With nuance, TV reflects the many shades of grief

Sarah Fornace as Dr. Victor Frankenstein in Manual Cinema's production of "Frankenstein."

Manual Cinema has created a monster, but it’s not your typical ‘Frankenstein’

Betye Saar’s “Legends in Blue,” 2020. Mixed-media assemblage. Courtesy of the artist and Roberts Projects, Los Angeles, Calif.

At the Gardner, groundbreaking artist Betye Saar unpacks her travels

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Opinion, ideas, and commentary

If the goal of advertising is to get talked about, then the “He Gets Us” ad that aired during the Super Bowl has hit home. The zealously secular central press smells a rat.

About those Jesus ads

Students make their way on the Brockton campus of Massasoit Community College.

Free community college must focus on retention, not just admission

A body was carried out on a gurney at the home where two adults and three children died from gunshot wounds during a domestic violence murder-suicide in San Diego in 2019.

David Cicilline

Court ruling puts domestic violence survivors in peril

When career doldrums and pandemic-borne stresses set in, the author and his wife hit pause and then hit the John Muir Trail. Karen and Chris at their campsite near Lake Marie, day 11 on the John Muir Trail.

IDEAS | CHRIS CHIAPPINELLI

My wife and I fantasized about quitting our jobs. Instead, we took a hike.

A Russian peacekeeper guarded the Lachin corridor, the Armenian-populated breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region's only land link with Armeni.

Azerbaijan must end Lachin corridor blockade

IDEAS | ANNA OAKES & DIEGO SENIOR

People are falling in love with chatbots

Metro

Cambridge police continue search for missing 19-year-old man

Cambridge police continued their search Sunday for for Joshua Shacklewood, 19, a student at Bunker Hill Community College who was reported missing Tuesday, officials said.

South of Boston

Guitar trio goes Bach from electric to classical

David Newsam, John Mason, and Jason Ennis to perform a free concert at the Hingham Library on Sunday, Feb. 19.

CATCHING UP WITH ...

Drive to compete pushed soccer star Julie Hubbard to overcome her injuries

The former UConn midfielder, of Medfield, is now a sports physical therapist helping others.

State’s largest insurer extends full telehealth coverage indefinitely

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts said it would continue paying for remote visits at the same rate as in-person visits.

Sports

Elvis Andrus hit .271 with nine homers and 28 RBIs in 43 games for the White Sox in 2022.

Elvis Andrus, White Sox agree to a one-year deal, likely to fill Chicago’s vacancy at second base

Two sources confirmed the $3 million contract that will see Andrus return to the team he finished 2022 with as its shortstop to the Associated Press.

Jayson Tatum picked up The Kobe Bryant MVP Trophy after his record-setting performance.

Team Giannis 184, Team LeBron 175

Celtics’ Jayson Tatum is the star of stars, with a record 55 points and the MVP of the NBA All-Star Game

Tatum had 27 points in the third quarter, another All-Star Game record for any period.

Westford Academy sophomore Owen Curtin pushes ahead on his way to a seventh-place finish in the 100-yard butterfly at the Division 1 boys' swimming championships at MIT.

MIAA DIVISION 1 BOYS' SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIP

Westford Academy boys’ swimming saves its best for last again to win Division 1 state title

All season, the Ghosts demonstrated a knack for late-meet heroics, and they saved their final late push for the biggest stage.

CATCHING UP WITH ...

Drive to compete pushed soccer star Julie Hubbard to overcome her injuries

MIAA Division 3 indoor track and field championship

Nathan Shultz carries North Attleborough to boys’ title, Anna McElhinney helps Billerica girls taste victory

Mallory Swanson scores again as US beats Japan at SheBelieves Cup in women’s soccer

Business

Udi Mokady has quietly built one of the most valuable software firms in the state

Bold Types is our weekly roundup of movers and shakers around Boston's business scene.

A R.I. startup diverts 1 ton of waste each month from landfills. They’re trying to get businesses to do the same.

Tess Feigenbaum co-founded Epic Renewal, which looks to provide low-cost composting services for homes, businesses, and events.

How one Mass. farm is transforming waste into energy

Home security firm settles case with AG over ‘trapping’ customers into contracts

magazine

To help make this bedroom feel like a cozy escape, Heidi Lachapelle lined it in Wandle wallpaper. When Morris designed the pattern in 1884, it would have required 32 blocks to print it.

Designed in the 1800s, William Morris wallpaper is trending again

A built-in hutch with a countertop hides the microwave and coffee maker.

With a serene Maine lake setting for a cottage, a designer finds inspiration all around

An 85-year-old wants to marry an online suitor, but is it a scam?

Marion Westermeyer (pictured in 2006) was a daily swimmer well into his 90s.

When it comes to aging, 90-plus or even 100 might not be ‘extreme’ anymore

metro

A patient was evacuated from Signature Healthcare Brockton Hospital on Feb. 7 after a fire at the hospital's electrical transformer.

In one frigid weekend, four emergency rooms closed. Are hospitals ready for a changing climate?

It’s possible to out-run, even out-walk, the T, new slow zone data show

As teacher strikes take root in Massachusetts, districts brace for more

sports

Ricky Stenhouse Jr., driver of the No. 47 Kroger/Cottonelle Chevrolet, lifts the Harley J. Earl trophy in victory lane after winning the NASCAR Cup Series 65th Annual Daytona 500 at Daytona International Speedway.

Ricky Stenhouse Jr. wins Daytona 500 in double overtime

Bernhard Langer wins 45th Champions title to tie Hale Irwin’s victory mark

Jon Rahm wins at Riviera and returns to No. 1 in the world; Tiger Woods shoots 73 to tie for 45th.

business

Mr. Donahue joined, from left, Israel's US Ambassador Ephraim Evron; AFL-CIO president Lane Kirkland; and President Carter at a ceremony honoring Kirkland in Washington, D.C., in 1980.

Thomas Donahue, powerful labor envoy in Washington, dies at 94

Critics reject changes to Roald Dahl books as censorship

Facebook and Instagram have a new subscription service from parent company Meta

politics

Former president Donald Trump arrives to speak at a campaign rally at the Knapp Center on the campus of Drake University, Jan. 30, 2020, in Des Moines, Iowa.

Trump absent as Iowa 2024 GOP caucus train begins to roll

Timothy J. Heaphy led the House Jan. 6 investigation. Here’s what he learned.

Biden’s test: Sustaining unity as Ukraine war enters Year 2

Nation

A monitor in Statuary Hall displayed House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy, a California Republican, as he sat in the chamber at the start of a 10th ballot to elect a speaker of the House, at the Capitol in Washington, Jan. 5. Since the drama of McCarthy's election as House speaker, there's been some movement toward opening the chamber to more public view. His office has signaled a willingness to broaden access, although how much is still being debated.

Drama of McCarthy’s election may open House to more cameras

Tom Sizemore in critical condition after brain aneurysm

Richard Belzer, stand-up comic and TV detective, has died

World

A TV screen shows an image of North Korea's missile launch during a news program at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, on Feb. 20.

North Korea fires short-range missiles after making threats

Here are key developments in the aftermath of the Turkey, Syria quake

Blinken says US believes China is considering giving Russia weapons

opinion

A body was carried out on a gurney at the home where two adults and three children died from gunshot wounds during a domestic violence murder-suicide in San Diego in 2019.

Court ruling puts domestic violence survivors in peril

Caste should not be part of the “American Dream”

Free community college must focus on retention, not just admission

lifestyle

"King of Queens" actor Kevin James (fourth from right) stopped by Westport's Bootleg BBQ last week for a meal with frequent collaborators the Kinnane Brothers.

‘King of Queens’ actor Kevin James is first entry on a BBQ ‘Wall of Fame’

To write her best-selling novel, ‘Lessons in Chemistry,’ Bonnie Garmus had to start a few fires

My sports club crush went cold

food & dining

Barstow’s Longview Farm in Hadley is working to help businesses by taking their food waste and turning it into clean energy through the farm's anaerobic digester.

How one Mass. farm is transforming waste into energy

The city’s outdoor dining restrictions, explained

Boston’s new outdoor dining guidelines include tighter rules in the North End

travel

Where would you party?

Boston holds its own on list of best cities for bachelorette parties

Help, my $1,000 Marriott gift card is invalid!

New on the spa menu: Treatments for your mental health

Arts

Betye Saar’s “Legends in Blue,” 2020. Mixed-media assemblage. Courtesy of the artist and Roberts Projects, Los Angeles, Calif.

At the Gardner, groundbreaking artist Betye Saar unpacks her travels

In Providence, Nafis M. White explores pleasure and pain

How Boston artist ‘Blind Fox’ became the go-to muralist for the city’s trendiest bars and businesses

Books

Jothy Rosenberg with his dog, Harper, in Wayland.

The write stuff: With their new books, four local authors seek to inspire, thrill, entertain, and educate.

Rebecca Makkai’s ‘I Have Some Questions for You’ spotlights the power of storytelling in an age of true crime and #MeToo

‘The Deluge’ author Stephen Markley plays the literary lottery

Movies

AMC Theatres is rolling out a new tier-based ticket pricing system to accompany its existing Stubs membership program.

AMC’s new Sightline pricing plan is an insult to moviegoers

Leap for joy: ‘Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon’ is coming back to the Coolidge

‘Full Time’: A ticking clock, a transit strike, and a tenacious mother

Television

Mr. Belzer started his career as a stand-up comic and had minor roles in sketches on early shows of "Saturday Night Live."

Richard Belzer, comedian turned ‘Law & Order’ stalwart, dies at 78

Non-subscribers can now see HBO’s ‘True Blood’ and ‘Silicon Valley’

With nuance, TV reflects the many shades of grief

music

The Back Bay Guitar Trio, from left, John Mason, David Newsam, and Jason Ennis will perform a concert of classical and contemporary guitar music at the Hingham Public Library on Sunday, Feb. 19.

Guitar trio goes Bach from electric to classical

Lahav Shani makes powerful Symphony Hall debut

Composer and flutist Valerie Coleman creates songs of unity

Theater/Dance

Lyndsay Allyn Cox, shown in rehearsal for SpeakEasy Stage Company's production of "Fairview."

An inquiry into race, ‘Fairview’ demands that audiences sit up

Manual Cinema has created a monster, but it’s not your typical ‘Frankenstein’

Make way for ‘Make Way for Ducklings’

globe local

The Back Bay Guitar Trio, from left, John Mason, David Newsam, and Jason Ennis will perform a concert of classical and contemporary guitar music at the Hingham Public Library on Sunday, Feb. 19.

Guitar trio goes Bach from electric to classical

Drive to compete pushed soccer star Julie Hubbard to overcome her injuries

‘A blueprint for the future’: Committee recommends sweeping changes to the Reggie Lewis center

Obituaries

Mr. Belzer started his career as a stand-up comic and had minor roles in sketches on early shows of "Saturday Night Live."

Richard Belzer, comedian turned ‘Law & Order’ stalwart, dies at 78

Michael Fung, headmaster who elevated Charlestown High, dies at 79

Thomas Donahue, powerful labor envoy in Washington, dies at 94