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A pedestrian sidestepped a goose on a stroll around Jamaica Pond.

You call that a snowstorm? Here’s what’s happening to winter snowfall in Boston.

New England is warming faster than the rest of the planet and as a result, the region is more often seeing rain instead of snow, according to federal data. And when snow does fall, it’s less likely to stick.

Snow totals varied widely across the state

shirley leung

Former state labor secretary reflects on pandemic benefit payouts: ‘A bit like Hunger Games’
A year ago, Rosalin Acosta and her staff were faced with the unthinkable task of collecting more than $4 billion in pandemic-era unemployment benefits from people who had received errant checks.

tara sullivan

Trevor Story’s time with the Red Sox has seemed like one frustration after another
The sidelined shortstop is with the team, doing what he can, but what was supposed to be his bounce-back season is on hold.

Umpire Paul Clemons called a clock violation on a White Sox reliever while a Seattle hitter waited to bat Monday.

christopher l. gasper

Baseball’s pitch clock isn’t keeping perfect time — it needs a little adjustment

We're all in favor of the clock picking up the pace of play, but it really shouldn't be dictating the outcome of a game.

FAA investigating close call at Logan Airport; JetBlue pilot takes evasive action to avoid collision with Learjet

“According to a preliminary review, the pilot of a Learjet 60 took off without clearance while JetBlue Flight 206 was preparing to land on an intersecting runway,” the FAA said.

State inspector general instructs Boston schools to crack down on late buses

The Massachusetts inspector general’s office implored Boston school officials on Tuesday to hold its troubled busing contractor, Transdev, accountable for late school buses, following a two-month inquiry into how the company emerged as the only bidder for a new five-year contract.

THE GREAT DIVIDE

BPS defies federal court order for English learners, civil rights group says

Six years after pay raise law, many top Mass. officials rank as highest paid in the country

If not for some Massachusetts officials forgoing raises in past years, the pay of all six of the statewide constitutional officers would rank number one among their elected counterparts nationwide, according to a Globe analysis.

Women are much more likely to say no to cholesterol-lowering drugs, Boston researchers find

The new study found that women were about 50 percent more likely than men to refuse a doctor's recommendation to take statins.

Conservative Supreme Court justices question President Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan

In arguments on Tuesday stretching well beyond the allotted two hours, Chief Justice John Roberts led his conservative colleagues in questioning the administration’s authority to broadly cancel federal student loans because of the COVID-19 emergency.

Local attorneys, advocates anxiously watch as high court weighs Biden’s student loan plan Warren, Pressley call on Supreme Court to uphold loan forgiveness program

Chicago Mayor Lightfoot ousted; Vallas, Johnson in runoff

Missing Hopkinton teen found dead in Milford woods

Bruins 4, Flames 3 (OT)

Charlie McAvoy scores with 4.3 seconds left in OT as Bruins close out road trip by beating Flames in Calgary

Teen on moped killed in Dedham crash; collided with dump truck

Former HHS secretary embarks on new health care job

Inside the Dubliner, where the Guinness is properly poured and the fish and chips are some of the city's best.

DINING OUT | DEVRA FIRST

Redefining Irish pub fare at the Dubliner

Chef Aidan Mc Gee serves gorgeous Sunday roasts and some of the city’s best fish and chips.

Dedham House of Pizza’s George Panagopoulos won’t serve peanut-butter-and-jelly pies

49ers general manager John Lynch acknowledged that “we may have to look into the quarterback market” given the elbow injury to Brock Purdy and the inexperience of Trey Lance.

ben volin | on football

49ers appear to leave the door wide open for Tom Brady, and other buzz from the NFL Combine

Brady is what the 49ers need to take advantage of their shrinking Super Bowl window. And let’s see how he feels when he’s missing training camp and his boyhood team comes calling.

Mayor Michelle Wu prepared to address the Boston City Council, chaired by council president, Ed Flynn, last year.

A new hurdle for Wu’s BPDA revamp: the City Council

Mayor Wu wants to overhaul the Boston Planning & Development Agency but the City Council has questions.

Opinion

Instead of publicly reckoning with a truth that has tainted the marrow of this nation — long before it was a nation — for more than four centuries, Ben Affleck chose to protect his small piece of the white purity myth.

Ben Affleck and white liberals’ discomfort with Black history

It’s not just conservatives who would rather hide truths about racism that make them squirm.

Civic honor is in short supply in America

Joan Fitzgerald, Julie Wormser, and Jonathan Lamontagne

Massachusetts needs a coastal adaptation agency

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.

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

More recent News

Bald eagle found on ground at cemetery in Arlington suspected of being poisoned
The bird, known as “MK,” is believed to have been poisoned by eating a rodent that ingested an anticoagulant rodenticide, according to Zak Mertz, the chief executive officer of New England Wildlife Centers which is providing veterinary care to the eagle.

Revere Mayor Brian M. Arrigo won’t seek reelection
After nearly eight years in office, Arrigo said Tuesday he will not seek a third four-year term as mayor of the North Shore city.

Why ‘Massachusetts’ is misspelled on some new signs in Washington, D.C.
The error likely occurred during production of the banners, according to the group behind the new signs. Of course, typos are a touchy subject for state residents who seem to encounter no shortage of misspelled municipalities.

This stem cell startup is designing a therapy to restore and boost immunity
Cambridge-based Thymmune has raised $13 million to grow cells in the lab from a little known, but crucial immune organ.

Fiery Greece train collision kills at least 29, injures 85
Fire officials say 29 people have been killed and at least 85 injured after a passenger train collided with an oncoming freight train in northern Greece.

Celebrating a ‘rock star’ for Women’s History Month: Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler, first Black woman to earn medical degree in US
In honor of Women's History month in March, a special program on Crumpler's life will be held on Saturday at the Salvation Army Kroc Center in Roxbury.

Boston Globe Spotlight Team

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Do you have a tip about something that needs to be investigated? Do you have documents or data we should dig into? We want to hear from you.

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Evan Schwanfelder from the Egan Maritime Institute and Michael Harrison of the Nantucket Historical Association.

Shipwreck fragments were found on Nantucket. Here’s what researchers learned.

Recently discovered shipwreck fragments on Nantucket have renewed interest in the island’s rich, though often tragic, seafaring past. “When you just say ‘shipwreck,’ people get very excited,” Evan Schwanfelder said.

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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.

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.

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.

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Culture & Lifestyle

Nnenna Freelon performs at the Celebrity Series of Boston Jazz Festival March 10.

Jazz singer Nnenna Freelon reckons with loss by embracing life

Roasted Cabbage with Crispy Crumbs

Is cabbage the new cauliflower (which was the new Brussels sprouts)?

Asa Brebner in 2006.

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

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

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

Special Projects

Two Weeks in America

Two Weeks in America

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

Back to Boston

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.

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Opinion, ideas, and commentary

Instead of publicly reckoning with a truth that has tainted the marrow of this nation — long before it was a nation — for more than four centuries, Ben Affleck chose to protect his small piece of the white purity myth.

Ben Affleck and white liberals’ discomfort with Black history

Fox Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch acknowledged in a deposition that some Fox News commentators endorsed the false allegations by former president Donald Trump and his allies that the 2020 presidential election was stolen and that he did not step in to stop them from promoting the claims. The documents unsealed on Feb. 27 are at the heart of a defamation lawsuit against the cable news giant by Dominion Voting Systems.

Civic honor is in short supply in America

Joan Fitzgerald, Julie Wormser, and Jonathan Lamontagne

Massachusetts needs a coastal adaptation agency

Representative Richard Neal, who declined a request for an interview, has been CRRC MA’s chief advocate and savior. Because of his efforts, the company escaped a 2019 federal ban that prohibited mass transit companies from using federal funds for the purchase of rail cars and buses from Chinese-owned companies.

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

Maati Jone Primm, owner of Marshall's Music & Bookstore in downtown Jackson, Miss., spoke about how proposals by the majority-white Mississippi Legislature would affect governance of the state's majority-Black capital city, saying, It’s a land grab. It’s a resource grab. It’s a way to disempower Jackson and its citizens, for its citizens not to have a say.”

Jill Collen Jefferson and Charles Meire

Bill would create an apartheid system in Jackson, Miss.

IDEAS | KAT ROSENFIELD

The illusion of a frictionless existence

Metro

Celebrating a ‘rock star’ for Women’s History Month: Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler, first Black woman to earn medical degree in US

In honor of Women's History month in March, a special program on Crumpler's life will be held on Saturday at the Salvation Army Kroc Center in Roxbury.

Viti has big plans as town’s first poet laureate

The daughter of a Baltimore tavern owner and schoolteacher, she started writing poetry as a child and didn’t share her work for many years.

State inspector general instructs Boston schools to crack down on late buses

The Massachusetts inspector general’s office implored Boston school officials on Tuesday to hold its troubled busing contractor, Transdev, accountable for late school buses, following a two-month inquiry into how the company emerged as the only bidder for a new five-year contract.

Gleb Pavlovsky, Putin image adviser who became harsh critic, dies at 71

The former Soviet dissident reinvented himself as a political spinmeister in post-Cold War Russia, first for Boris Yeltsin, then Vladimir Putin.

Sports

Brandon Carlo on Tuesday sat out only his fifth game this season.

Bruins notebook

Brandon Carlo latest Bruins defenseman to sit for road trip finale in Calgary

Connor Clifton sat out Saturday’s game in Vancouver and Matt Grzelcyk drew out for Monday’s game in Edmonton.

Goalie Linus Ullmark had a busy night against the Flames in Calgary.

Bruins 4, Flames 3 (OT)

Charlie McAvoy scores with 4.3 seconds left in OT as Bruins close out road trip by beating Flames in Calgary

Dmitry Orlov scored his first two goals as a Bruin and Linus Ullmark made a career-high 54 saves.

Plymouth North’s Haylee Joudrey (center) battles Marshfield’s Corinne Daly (right) and Allie Ferris (left) for a lose ball in Tuesday's MIAA girls' basketball preliminary-round matchup at Marshfield High.

MIAA girls' basketball roundup

Jenna Cappola leads No. 34 Plymouth North girls’ basketball in Division 1 preliminary-round road win over No. 31 Marshfield

Cappola led the Eagles (14-7) with 27 points and 11 rebounds, hitting all 10 of her foul shots, in a 55-34 victory at Marshfield.

SPRING TRAINING REPORT

Tuesday’s spring training report: Corey Kluber makes first Red Sox start ‘as realistic as possible’

Gary Washburn | On basketball

The Celtics are content to live or die by the three, but is an adjustment needed on off shooting nights?

Rangers trade for Blackhawks star Patrick Kane

Business

This stem cell startup is designing a therapy to restore and boost immunity

Cambridge-based Thymmune has raised $13 million to grow cells in the lab from a little known, but crucial immune organ.

A new owner for Uno’s frozen pizza division

As part of the deal, Great Kitchens Food Company will take over Uno’s Brockton pizza factory, which employs fewer than 100 people.

A new hurdle for Wu’s BPDA revamp: the City Council

Lab space planned for former Gillette parking lots

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

Governor Maura Healey (right) and Lieutenant Governor Kim Driscoll (back right) met with ice and snow removal crews at the MassDOT Highway Division in Weston to discuss storm logistics on Tuesday.

Maura Healey faces her first snowstorm as governor

As wet snow ends Tuesday, totals still vary widely across the state

FAA investigating close call at Logan Airport; JetBlue pilot takes evasive action to avoid collision with Learjet

sports

Jayson Tatum sat down with ESPN's Doris Burke to break down film as part of the network's "Boston Celtics: All-Access" airing Wednesday.

Jayson Tatum’s candid film breakdown is one reason to tune in for ESPN’s all-Celtics Wednesday

Matt Barnes settles in with the Marlins and has (almost) only good things to say about the Red Sox

Baseball’s pitch clock isn’t keeping perfect time — it needs a little adjustment

business

Rosalin Acosta, former Secretary of Labor and Workforce Development, now works for consulting and accounting giant EY in Boston.

Former state labor secretary reflects on pandemic benefit payouts: ‘A bit like Hunger Games’

Third top FTX executive pleads guilty in fraud investigation

Tepid outlook from Target after 4th quarterly profit dip

politics

A supporter arrives for Chicago mayoral candidate Paul Vallas' election night event in Chicago, on Feb. 28.

Chicago Mayor Lightfoot ousted; Vallas, Johnson in runoff

Biden warns of ‘MAGA’ Republicans’ desire to cut spending

Biden warns of ‘MAGA’ Republicans’ desire to cut spending

Nation

Sirhan Sirhan reacts during a parole hearing on Feb. 10, 2016, at the Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility in San Diego.

RFK assassin Sirhan Sirhan returns to 16th parole hearing

What to know about Alex Murdaugh’s murder trial

FBI director says COVID-19 ‘most likely’ originated from lab incident

World

Dozens were killed and injured in a train crash in Greece.

Fiery Greece train collision kills at least 29, injures 85

China purging ‘Western erroneous views’ from legal education

To heal Brexit wound, UK and EU strike a Northern Ireland trade deal

opinion

Troubling fiscal explanations for youth mental health crisis

Drive for Equal Rights Amendment has not lost its urgency

Fuzzy math from Boston Public Schools

lifestyle

Helena Wurzel’s “Snapshots” exhibit is featured at the Praise Shadows Art Gallery in Brookline until March 19. She stands in front of “Walk and Talk," 2021.

Intimate moments of self-reflection in seemingly ordinary spaces in Helena Wurzel’s solo exhibition

Why ‘Massachusetts’ is misspelled on some new signs in Washington, D.C.

He doesn’t have time for me

food & dining

Inside the Dubliner, where the Guinness is properly poured and the fish and chips are some of the city's best.

Redefining Irish pub fare at the Dubliner

There are still barrel-aged beers out there. These are the ones readers like.

Dedham House of Pizza’s George Panagopoulos won’t serve peanut-butter-and-jelly pies

travel

Oslo-based Norse Airways will begin flights from Logan to London Gatwick in September.

A new low-cost airline will launch with flights from Boston to London this fall

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

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

Arts

Vadym Belikov, "Launch of S-300 missiles from the territory of Belgorod (Russia) towards Kharkiv (Ukraine). . . ." 2022

At the MFA, a small photography show leaves a big impression

Intimate moments of self-reflection in seemingly ordinary spaces in Helena Wurzel’s solo exhibition

DeCordova announces suspension of indoor exhibitions for up to three years

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

Michael B. Jordan as Adonis Creed, left, and Jonathan Majors as Damian Anderson, right, in a scene from "Creed III."

‘Creed III’ pulls no punches

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

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

Television

From left: Billy Crudup, Nicholas Podany, and Haneefah Wood in "Hello Tomorrow!"

Production design worth mooning over in ‘Hello Tomorrow!’

Berklee student scores golden ticket at ‘American Idol’ audition

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

music

Soprano Kristine Opolais, seen here performing with the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 2019, will sing the title role in the BSO's concert performances of Shostakovich's "Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk" in the 2023-24 season.

With a Tania León commission and ‘Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk,’ Boston Symphony Orchestra teases 2023-24 season

Jazz singer Nnenna Freelon reckons with loss by embracing life

Making ‘Quincy’ helped Western Mass. singer Kimaya Diggs push through the worst of times

Theater/Dance

Fran Lebowitz

Fran Lebowitz’s withering view of humankind is kvetched in stone

In playwright Lenelle Moïse’s ‘K-I-S-S-I-N-G,’ a portrait of the artist as a young woman

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

globe local

Lynne Viti, Westwood’s first poet laureate, whose latest poetry collection called “The Walk to Cefalu” came out in September.

Viti has big plans as town’s first poet laureate

Milton asks governor to stop demolition of stairs at MBTA station

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

Obituaries

Mr. Pavlovsky, in the newsroom of the Dozhd (Rain) TV channel in Moscow in 2021.

Gleb Pavlovsky, Putin image adviser who became harsh critic, dies at 71

Bob Richards, 97, pole-vaulting star who landed on Wheaties box, dies

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