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Winter storm will slow down Tuesday morning commute, forecasters warn

A winter storm rolled into the region late Monday night, bringing with it the potential for several inches of snow in the Boston area, while the Berkshires and other parts of Western and Central Massachusetts could see as much as a foot.

School closures in Massachusetts for Tuesday

Snow is expected through southern New England on Monday night and Tuesday.

These maps show how much snow New England can expect on Monday night and Tuesday

Forecast | Dave Epstein

Once snowstorm tapers off, expect a midweek melt before another storm Friday

Lawsuit filed in Chelsea Soldiers’ Home deaths from COVID

The families filed a class-action civil rights lawsuit against former and current state officials alleging that they caused the “premature and preventable deaths” of the three veterans, and at least 28 others.

Professor sues Babson College for discrimination

Lakshmi Balachandra, an associate professor of entrepreneurship, is suing because of alleged mistreatment and administrators’ failure to investigate her concerns.

Republicans are increasingly talking about ‘electability’ of their candidates ahead of 2024

GOP leaders lately have been telling their voters to select candidates who can win general elections.

From birth to death, here’s what Governor Healey’s tax plan could mean for you

From child care tax credits to reduced taxes on short-term capital gains, there’s something for lots of people in the tax reform plan Healey will soon send to lawmakers.

Healey pitches sweeping tax relief package that could cost Mass. close to $1b annually

Dorchester man dead after Tesla involved in wrong-way crash in Washington, D.C.

Toddler left at hospital after SUV stolen in Lawrence with her inside; 2 suspects arrested

“I was standing there, asking myself, ‘Why am I doing this again?’ ” Howley said. A 45-year-old freelance journalist from Waltham, she was the only one of the three swimmers to have done an ice mile in the past, back in 2012. “There are other ways I could get my jollies. There was no reason to revisit it, yet here I was. And I think the big reason was this desire to renew my credentials, to prove I could still do it, that I haven’t aged out of this ‘stupid human trick.’ ”

There’s cold plunges. Then there’s the ‘ice mile.’

On a recent morning in South Boston, three open-water swimmers plunged into the frigid waters of Pleasure Bay to attempt to swim six lengths of a marked course.

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Who will be guardians for legions of ‘unbefriended’ elders? A new initiative tries to address an urgent and growing problem in Mass.
Lawyers and advocates estimate there are at least 3,000 people in Massachusetts, mostly older adults, though some are younger with brain injuries, intellectual disabilities, or mental health problems, in need of a guardian.

Milk Bar in Cambridge just closed. Is it because of a lease deal gone wrong, or a move to avoid a union?
Workers at Milk Bar on Brattle Street say company’s decision to close came just hours after a union vote, but company officials point to an expired sublease.

Seth Kendall and his son Max, 12, plan to release a bevy of science experiments via high-altitude balloon this summer. They and other amateur balloonists are worried about the fate of such projects, after a month of tension involving objects floating in the skies.

Facing scrutiny like never before, New England’s amateur balloonists are feeling the pressure

After a series of high-profile incidents involving balloons, New England balloonists worry their airborne projects could face more scrutiny.

Nick Foligno gives the Bruins a 2-1 lead late in the first period when he beats Oilers goaltender Stuart Skinner.

Bruins 3, Oilers 2

Connor McDavid was spectacular, but Bruins hold off Oilers to earn seventh straight victory

McDavid scored both Edmonton goals, but Boston's depth was the difference.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, at the White House last November.

‘We may not ever know’: Fauci says origin of coronavirus could remain a mystery

Anthony Fauci’s comments came after news reports Sunday that the Energy Department concluded that an accidental laboratory leak in China most likely caused the coronavirus pandemic.

Lab leak most likely caused pandemic, Energy Department says

With the clock ticking, pitchers and batters can't dawdle the way they used to.

Putting baseball players on the clock is an idea whose time has come

A few days into spring training, the new rules designed to quicken the game's pace are looking like an inspired intervention.

Jayson Tatum couldn't get going for the Celtics before he got tossed on Monday.

Knicks 109, Celtics 94

Streaky Celtics go ice-cold from deep, let frustrations boil over as Jayson Tatum is ejected in loss to the Knicks

Fifteen consecutive missed 3-pointers in the first half put Boston in a hole, well before a struggling Jayson Tatum got himself thrown out of the game over a second technical.

Opinion

Two students walk the hallway in East Boston High School, which has greatly improved on a variety of metrics over the last few years, including its retention rates, MCAS results, and attendance.

MARCELA GARCÍA

Fuzzy math from Boston Public Schools

The district’s credibility problems grow with the way officials have been inflating enrollment year after year to calculate its budgets. What’s more, BPS knows the predictions are unrealistic.

Is Richard Neal’s cheerleading giving a free pass to the company building MBTA cars?

Jill Collen Jefferson and Charles Meire

Bill would create an apartheid system in Jackson, Miss.

Don’t drag Boston backward with rent control

Peter Dreier and Don Gillis

Mayor Wu’s rent control proposal is pro-business

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

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, right, greeted honoree Lillian O’Neal during the Black Veterans Appreciation Brunch in Boston on Saturday.

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

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

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Innovation economy

Did computers get dumped in a pond at Digital Equipment’s Maynard complex?
It depends on who’s telling the story of how engineers used to deal with setbacks at New England’s biggest tech employer of all time.

LOVE LETTERS

He doesn’t have time for me
... he works a lot of hours.

Maine man reels in massive, ‘world-class’ 25.9 pound northern pike on his first time ice fishing
The fish, caught Feb. 12, came in at 25.9 pounds, 43 inches long, and 22 inches in circumference.

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.

Mayor Wu outlines plans to commemorate 10th anniversary of Boston Marathon bombings
Along with the full-on event returning, Boston will also have “a full day of commemoration to really mark the experiences that our city, and survivors, first responders, our healthcare community went through,” Mayor Michelle Wu said on WBUR’s “Radio Boston.”

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.

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Opinion, ideas, and commentary

Don’t drag Boston backward with rent control

Peter Dreier and Don Gillis

Mayor Wu’s rent control proposal is pro-business

How to repair and rebuild a cracked foundation for housing justice

A dormitory in an institutional home, NRC Oberig, for children with special needs. Housed in a crumbling Austro-Hungarian-style palace in downtown Lviv, the facility also functions as an orphanage.

IDEAS | Boštjan Videmšek

In war-torn Ukraine, orphanages on the brink

Jose Hernandez and Beatriz Gonzalez, stepfather and mother of Nohemi Gonzalez, who died in a terrorist attack in Paris in 2015, stand outside of the US Supreme Court following oral arguments for the case Twitter v. Taamneh on Feb. 22 in Washington, D.C.

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

IDEAS | KAT ROSENFIELD

The illusion of a frictionless existence

Metro

Winter storm will slow down Tuesday morning commute, forecasters warn

A winter storm rolled into the region late Monday night, bringing with it the potential for several inches of snow in the Boston area, while the Berkshires and other parts of Western and Central Massachusetts could see as much as a foot.

School closures in Massachusetts for Tuesday

With a winter storm expected to bring at least a few inches of snow to Eastern Massachusetts and heavier snowfall toward the central and western regions of the state, schools are announcing closures for Tuesday.

Toddler left at hospital after SUV stolen in Lawrence with her inside; 2 suspects arrested

A 22-month-old girl was inside a silver 2011 Honda Pilot when it was taken from South Broadway in Lawrence on Monday night, police said.

Lawsuit filed in Chelsea Soldiers’ Home deaths from COVID

The families filed a class-action civil rights lawsuit against former and current state officials alleging that they caused the “premature and preventable deaths” of the three veterans, and at least 28 others.

Sports

Jayson Tatum and the Celtics spent more time complaining about the officiating than figuring out a way to beat the Knicks.

GARY WASHBURN | ON BASKETBALL

Surging Knicks prove they’re no slouch, while Celtics’ Jayson Tatum must slough off post-break slump

The Celtics are going to have to adjust quicker and more resoundingly when 3-point shots aren’t falling.

Nick Foligno gives the Bruins a 2-1 lead late in the first period when he beats Oilers goaltender Stuart Skinner.

Bruins 3, Oilers 2

Connor McDavid was spectacular, but Bruins hold off Oilers to earn seventh straight victory

McDavid scored both Edmonton goals, but Boston's depth was the difference.

LaMelo Ball fractured his ankle against the Pistons on Monday.

LaMelo Ball breaks ankle, latest setback in rough season

The Hornets star can't seem to catch a break this season.

Lakers bracing for LeBron James to miss multiple weeks

Knicks 109, Celtics 94

Streaky Celtics go ice-cold from deep, let frustrations boil over as Jayson Tatum is ejected in loss to the Knicks

MONDAY'S GIRLS' BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT ROUNDUP

Sophomore Kat Cheesebro did what she always does, fueling Dartmouth girls’ basketball to a Division 2 preliminary-round win

Business

Murdoch acknowledges Fox News hosts endorsed election fraud falsehoods

Stories you may have missed from the world of business.

Chef launches products for distance runners and triathletes out of his Fenway food lab

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

2023 US recession now expected to start later than predicted

‘Dilbert,’ Scott Adams lose distributor over racist remarks

magazine

The writer (left) with his father, Dr. Lionel Zheutlin, and brother, Mike, circa 1958.

When cancer forced my pediatrician dad to close his practice, hundreds of letters followed

Utopia Seaport Festival will be at the Flynn Cruiseport Terminal in South Boston from Thursday to Sunday.

YOUR WEEK AHEAD

Five things to do for fun in and around Boston, Feb. 27-March 5

“It’s a misconception that you need pretty books to have a nice library,” says designer Amy Mitchell.

Design inspiration: Thumbed-through paperbacks make for a nice home library

This week's daters: Madison and Lee

Dinner with Cupid

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

metro

Snow is expected through southern New England on Monday night and Tuesday.

These maps show how much snow New England can expect on Monday night and Tuesday

Two large dogs rescued after falling through ice at Bad Luck Pond in Douglas

Healey pitches sweeping tax relief package that could cost Mass. close to $1b annually

sports

Reading's Hunter Hayes battled down low with Arlington's Simon Hess (left) and Matt Nufer (right) during the Rockets' 45-44 preliminary-round road win.

Reading boys’ basketball concludes season sweep of Arlington with Jake Palm’s buzzer-beating bank shot in the Division 1 preliminary round

Bruins’ Taylor Hall returns to Boston with lower-body injury

For Celtics’ Marcus Smart, getting into it with 76ers fans was all in good fun

business

Rupert Murdoch in 2018.

Rupert Murdoch testified that Fox commentators ‘endorsed’ Trump’s 2020 election lie

DeSantis takes over Disney district, punishing company

Milk Bar in Cambridge just closed. Is it because of a lease deal gone wrong, or a move to avoid a union?

politics

Student debt relief advocates gather outside the Supreme Court on Capitol Hill in Washington, on Feb. 27, ahead of arguments over President Biden's student debt relief plan.

Supreme Court weighs Biden student loan plan worth billions

Republicans are increasingly talking about ‘electability’ of their candidates ahead of 2024

Supreme Court to take up case on fate of consumer watchdog

Nation

Last week, Mike Pence, the former vice president who’s considering a presidential campaign, arrived to meet with a Jewish group and held meetings with donors.

GOP donors in New York await a parade of presidential hopefuls

Biden administration plans crackdown on migrant child labor

Study: Back-to-back hurricanes likely to come more often

World

Family members and friends of Hillel Yaniv, 21, and Yagel Yaniv, 19, mourned over their graves during their funeral at Israel's national cemetery in Jerusalem, Monday. The Israeli brothers were killed Sunday in the West Bank town of Hawara by a Palestinian gunman who fled the scene.

Revenge attacks after killing of Israeli settlers leave West Bank in turmoil

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

UN suspends flights in eastern Congo after helicopter fired on

opinion

How to repair and rebuild a cracked foundation for housing justice

Don’t drag Boston backward with rent control

Low military recruitment numbers? It’s complicated.

lifestyle

He doesn’t have time for me

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

Jasper Hoitsma, chef and director of teams with the Clover Food Lab, works with a Commercial Pitco Electric Deep Fryer at the Clover Food Lab inside the Prudential Center.

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

A skier descends Grizzly, the course where the men's 2002 Olympic downhill competition was run, at the Snowbasin resort in Utah in 2020. Head north from Salt Lake City to visit Snowbasin and Powder Mountain, relatively undiscovered gems of the state's ski scene.

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

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

I’d heard Pittsfield was experiencing a rebirth. So I went and saw for myself.

Arts

Mayor Michelle Wu joined local clergy for a vigil at The Embrace Memorial on Boston Common in response to the killing of Tyre Nichols in Memphis. James Hills of Boston concluded the vigil with a song.

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

FILE - In this Feb. 29, 2020, file photo actor Matthew McConaughey attends A+E Network's "HISTORYTalks: Leadership and Legacy" in New York. McConaughey is generating buzz as a potential candidate for governor of Texas. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)

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

Mr. Pinsent, shown in 2016, had a career that spanned from radio shows to major motion pictures.

Gordon Pinsent, award-winning Canadian actor, dies at 92

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

Walter Mirisch, Oscar-winning producer, dead at 101

Television

Chris Rock's stand-up show from Baltimore will be livestreamed on Netflix Saturday night.

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

Andrew Morstein as Leonard L. and Jarrett Porter as Dr. Oliver Sacks in the Odyssey Opera East Coast premiere of “Awakenings” on Feb. 25 at Huntington Theatre in Boston.

‘Awakenings’ is the stuff of dreams

Asa Brebner’s friends are still singing his praises — and his songs

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

Theater/Dance

Luz Lopez (left) and Karina Beleno Carney in "Alma."

In ‘Alma,’ an uncertain future for mother and daughter caught in political crossfire

Comedy star Theo Von and his mullet are coming to town

Ingenuity meets virtuosity in Manual Cinema’s ‘Frankenstein’

globe local

The crumbling concrete staircase at the Milton Station on Adams Street.

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

Mr. Pinsent, shown in 2016, had a career that spanned from radio shows to major motion pictures.

Gordon Pinsent, award-winning Canadian actor, dies at 92

Terry Holland, who transformed Virginia basketball, dies

Gérard Latortue, former interim Haitian premier, dies at 88