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Healey pitches $750 million tax relief package

Governor Maura Healey's proposal hews closely to one her Republican predecessor, Charlie Baker, first pushed a year ago before it ultimately died in a Democrat-dominated Legislature.

‘We commend the care and compassion of our crew.’ Delta crew helps passenger during medical emergency on Boston-bound flight.

Crew members on a Florida-to-Boston Delta flight deftly worked with medical professionals on board Sunday night to render aid to a passenger in distress, the company said.

Milton asks governor to stop demolition of stairs at MBTA station
Town officials said they were recently notified that the MBTA plans to demolish the stairs at Milton Station March 6 to March 9.

Supreme Court to hear Republican-led challenge to Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

It is the second time in three years that the justices will be examining the federal agency, which was created in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis.

Lab leak most likely caused pandemic, Energy Department says

New intelligence has prompted the Energy Department to conclude that an accidental laboratory leak in China most likely caused the coronavirus pandemic, although US spy agencies remain divided over the origins of the virus, US officials said Sunday.

Man, 33, killed in fatal shooting in Brockton, police say

Two Vermont troopers placed on paid leave amid investigation into comments made in online game

Two men hurt in snowmobile crash in Holderness, N.H.; both men ejected from vehicles

‘The timing of the stormy weather is likely to cause some headaches.’ Region prepares for snow Monday night into Tuesday.

Forecasters said travel would be particularly difficult Monday overnight and into the Tuesday morning commute.

These maps show how much snow New England can expect during the storm

For many in Massachusetts, the storm expected to arrive late Monday will likely bring the highest snow totals so far this season, following a mostly mild winter.

Boston’s residential neighborhoods are thriving, while downtown struggles

While the Financial District and Downtown Crossing trudge through the pandemic recovery, farther-flung corners of Boston are alive with activity that rivals the Before Times.
Tell us: What do you think is driving people out of downtown?

Light pillars appeared over New England skies. See photos of the ‘magical’ sight.
Shafts of glittering light in the skies over New England this weekend had some people thinking it was an optical illusion. Others likened them to beams from an alien spaceship. Here's what was happening.

A high-stakes divorce battle over control of iconic Boston real estate — and a really expensive collection of duck decoys

The divorce was going smoothly, as divorces go, but then came the revelations about the duck decoys.

Devin McCourty undecided about returning to Patriots, but thinks ‘sky’s the limit’ for quarterback Mac Jones

"I think he’s the future of New England,” McCourty said as he weighs whether to return for a 14th season in New England.

Where did all these bookstores come from?

Independent bookstores are seeing a veritable boom, with four new shops sprouting up in the Boston area since 2020, along with a flurry of outposts and several projects in the pipeline.
MATTHEW GILBERT | YOUR TV GPS

This week’s TV: Chris Rock live, a Fleetwood Mac-like saga, and down with the ‘Succession’-verse

HBO is tamping down any hopes of a “Succession” spinoff. Good! This week's TV highlights include Netflix’s livestream of a Chris Rock stand-up show and the premiere of the Amazon miniseries “Daisy Jones & The Six,” about the rise and fall of a Fleetwood Mac-like rock group in 1970s L.A.
CELTICS 110, 76ERS 107

The 76ers found out the perils of irking Al Horford, and other observations from the Celtics’ victory

Al Horford had one of his finest moments of this season in a hostile environment and against his former team.
Opinion
Lydia Edwards

How to repair and rebuild a cracked foundation for housing justice

There is no one silver bullet to help renters stay in their homes. It will take several strategies that give low-income renters power to stabilize neighborhoods and give poor people a fighting chance.
Greg Vasil

Don’t drag Boston backward with rent control
Peter Dreier and Don Gillis

Mayor Wu’s rent control proposal is pro-business
EDITORIAL

The Supreme Court won’t break the Internet, but Congress can help fix it
IDEAS | Boštjan Videmšek

In war-torn Ukraine, orphanages on the brink
The Emancipator

Saving Black homes lost to tax inequity

For decades, the sale of tax debt and unfair property assessments have disproportionately caused Black Americans to lose their homes across the United States. A Chicago program is helping some Black families keep their homes, but its leaders say structural change is needed.
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Black History Month

Black veterans close out Black History Month with appreciation brunch in Boston

Mayor Michelle Wu and the city's Office of Veterans' Services presented awards to honor three Black veterans for their years of continued service to the Boston community.
When Martin met Coretta in Boston, he found his match in more ways than one

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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

City officials press Wu, police for information on investigation into East Boston woman’s disappearance

Reina Carolina Morales Rojas, a mother of two who came to the United States from El Salvador last year, was last seen Nov. 26 getting into a van in East Boston, where she lived, and being dropped off in Somerville, authorities have said.

Transit Police seek individuals who allegedly assaulted Asian woman at Davis Square station
The victim, a female of Asian descent, was assaulted and verbally harassed with racial epithets on Feb. 20, Transit Police said.

Several thorny political corruption cases await new Attorney General Andrea Campbell
Andrea Campbell is painting a new vision for her first term.

John Kerry plans to stay in special climate envoy role at least through late this year
The former Massachusetts senator tells The Boston Globe he sees too much to do — and insisted there is too much to possibly achieve — to quit just yet.

Globe Audio
James Hills assembled a gospel choir for Embrace Boston. Now he hopes to keep it going.
Along with his co-director, Hills put together an intergenerational choir made of top local talent, from high school standouts to experienced recording artists.

‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ dominates at SAG Awards
The SAG Awards, often an Oscar preview, threw some curve balls into the Oscars race in a ceremony streamed lived on Netflix's YouTube page from Fairmont Century Plaza in Los Angeles.

Complete list of winners at the 29th SAG Awards
Boston Globe Spotlight Team

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‘A housing market for almost no one’: Rising prices and interest rates have made home buying feel impossible

Two-plus years of seismic shifts in Boston’s housing market knocked the prospect of buying out of reach for tens of thousands more families here.

TARA SULLIVAN
Learning the ins and outs of striking a leadership balance with Justin Turner
Baseball has been good to the 38-year-old, the onetime Mets castoff who turned a surprising non-tender into an improbable, impressive rise to World Series champion with the Dodgers.

DEVRA FIRST
Does the restaurant kitchen of the future run on electricity?
Chefs have mixed feelings about giving up gas, but ultimately they may not have a choice.

Ed Markey helped make Elon Musk. Now, Markey is working to slow him down.
Musk has benefited from Markey’s environmental foresight. And Musk, in turn, has helped Markey realize some of his dreams as an elected official.

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Culture & Lifestyle

Medford students learn the power of podcasts

‘Disney Animation: Immersive Experience’ opens in Boston

In her art, the impossible world of an Alzheimer’s caregiver

Things to do around Boston this weekend and beyond

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

EDITORIAL

Tax breaks, reforms can reshape Massachusetts
LETTERS

2014 law should be a boon, but DDS leaves families struggling
EDITORIAL

Letting Tucker Carlson review the Jan. 6 security video is the opposite of transparency
IDEAS | MICHAEL LEVIN

Beethoven’s Ninth as its composer intended
MARCELA GARCÍA

Still no answers three months after Reina Carolina Morales Rojas went missing
IDEAS | KAT ROSENFIELD

The illusion of a frictionless existence

Metro

Light pillars appeared over New England skies. See photos of the ‘magical’ sight.

Shafts of glittering light in the skies over New England this weekend had some people thinking it was an optical illusion. Others likened them to beams from an alien spaceship. Here's what was happening.

Fauci calls for “an open mind” on theory that lab leak sparked coronavirus but sees no data to back it

The Energy Department has concluded that an accidental laboratory leak in China most likely caused the coronavirus pandemic
Milton

Milton asks governor to stop demolition of stairs at MBTA station

Town officials said they were recently notified that the MBTA plans to demolish the stairs at Milton Station March 6 to March 9.

‘We commend the care and compassion of our crew.’ Delta crew helps passenger during medical emergency on Boston-bound flight.

Crew members on a Florida-to-Boston Delta flight deftly worked with medical professionals on board Sunday night to render aid to a passenger in distress, the company said.

Sports

Patriots

Devin McCourty undecided about returning to Patriots, but thinks ‘sky’s the limit’ for quarterback Mac Jones

"I think he’s the future of New England,” McCourty said as he weighs whether to return for a 14th season in New England.
APPRECIATION

‘A humble and generous mentor and a friend’ — Hall of Fame football coach and athletic director Jim O’Connor remembered by friends and family

“Massachusetts has lost a great champion for athletics,” said former Xaverian football coach and athletic director Charlie Stevenson.
CELTICS 110, 76ERS 107

The 76ers found out the perils of irking Al Horford, and other observations from the Celtics’ victory

Al Horford had one of his finest moments of this season in a hostile environment and against his former team.
NBA

Trail Blazers star Damian Lillard goes for 71 points in a win over the Rockets
Auto racing

John Hunter Nemechek wins delayed NASCAR Xfinity race at Fontana
no. 1 south carolina 73, georgia 63

No. 1 South Carolina women’s basketball caps undefeated regular season with SEC title

Business

As oil companies stay lean, workers move to renewable energy

Many renewable businesses expanded rapidly after the early shock of the pandemic faded, snapping up geologists, engineers and other workers from the likes of Exxon and Chevron.

Supreme Court to hear Republican-led challenge to Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

It is the second time in three years that the justices will be examining the federal agency, which was created in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis.
HEALTH

R.I. joins lawsuit to make abortion drug mifepristone more accessible

INNOVATOR Q&A

After ringing the NASDAQ bell, R.I. biomed founder believes state could become next life sciences hub
magazine
Health & Biotech

From Alzheimer's to Lyme, 12 conditions Mass. biotechs are working on
Globe Magazine

Why Dr. Anthony Fauci, recently retired, will never retire

Dinner with Cupid

Blind date: ‘Madison did giggle nervously at my stupid jokes. I take that as a courtesy, though.’
MISS CONDUCT

My friend asks for advice then ignores it

metro

Two men hurt in snowmobile crash in Holderness, N.H.; both men ejected from vehicles

The most coveted endorsements in the race to replace Congressman Cicilline

Transit Police seek individuals who allegedly assaulted Asian woman at Davis Square station

sports

Hawks turn coaching reins over to Quin Snyder as team battles for playoff spot

Free Jacks try but fall to Legion in San Diego in Major League Rugby

Sizing up the Massachusetts boys’ basketball tournament, Divisions 1-5

business

Business economists push back US recession forecasts, survey shows

Boston’s residential neighborhoods are thriving, while downtown struggles

China’s red-hot online store, Temu, plants its flag in Boston

politics

Supreme Court to hear Republican-led challenge to Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Democrat Elissa Slotkin to seek Michigan’s open Senate seat

Lab leak most likely caused pandemic, Energy Department says

Nation

Damaging storms hit Oklahoma and Kansas, causing injuries

Last-minute problem keeps SpaceX rocket, astronauts grounded

Last-minute problem keeps SpaceX rocket, astronauts grounded

World

UK says Sunak, von der Leyen seal deal to fix EU trade spat

UN suspends flights in eastern Congo after helicopter fired on

Magnitude 5.6 earthquake hits Turkey; one person dead

opinion

Tax breaks, reforms can reshape Massachusetts

In war-torn Ukraine, orphanages on the brink

Decades later, runners detail their coach’s sexual abuse

lifestyle

Medford students learn the power of podcasts

Stressed about tax season? 7 money podcasts for commiserating, consolidating, and planning for the future

Clothing swaps build community and bring sustainable fashion to Greater Boston

food & dining

Does the restaurant kitchen of the future run on electricity?

Allston gets a new restaurant-gallery; Boston’s top female chefs unite for Women’s History Month

Three years and a pandemic later, these restaurants have reimagined themselves

travel

Skiing Snowbasin, the best ski area you’ve never heard of

Fat biking at Bretton Woods, winter art in Worcester, and TSA-friendly shoes

Lyft charged me $80 for damage to a car. But it wasn’t me!

Arts

James Hills assembled a gospel choir for Embrace Boston. Now he hopes to keep it going.

Have camera, will fish

Galleries: A map based on touch and care

Books

Bellingham author and illustrator works with Matthew McConaughey on new children’s book

Publisher to release ‘classic’ Roald Dahl books after backlash

Climate change is upon us. Jake Bittle’s ‘The Great Displacement’ is an unsettling look at the personal and financial costs of ever-growing threats.

Movies

Tom Luddy, a behind-the-scenes force in cinema, dies at 79

Walter Mirisch, Oscar-winning producer, dead at 101

Bellingham author and illustrator works with Matthew McConaughey on new children’s book

Television

This week’s TV: Chris Rock live, a Fleetwood Mac-like saga, and down with the ‘Succession’-verse

On ‘Saturday Night Live,’ Woody Harrelson muses about marijuana and vaccine mandates in opening monologue

Forget CNN’s ‘formal training.’ Don Lemon needs to be schooled by a bunch of women in their 50s.

music

Benjamin Zander and the Boston Philharmonic do it Beethoven’s way at Symphony Hall

Meet Dreamers’ Circus, Hayao Miyazaki’s favorite Nordic folk trio

Freedom isn’t just another word to Margo Price; it defines how she’s making music now

Theater/Dance

Ingenuity meets virtuosity in Manual Cinema’s ‘Frankenstein’

In a London pub, ‘The Wife of Willesden’ isn’t holding back

ART to present musical adaptation of ‘The Great Gatsby’ in 2024

globe local

Milton asks governor to stop demolition of stairs at MBTA station

Where all dogs (and cats, rabbits, and birds) go to heaven

Viewpoint: If the state adopts tax relief, what form should it take?

Obituaries

Tom Luddy, a behind-the-scenes force in cinema, dies at 79

John Reed, teacher and ‘guiding force for unity’ on Cape Cod, dies at 72

Walter Mirisch, Oscar-winning producer, dead at 101