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Boston City Council Election Day is today. Here’s what to know before you vote.
Eligible Bostonians will be able to cast their ballots to elect the city’s next district councilors and at-large city councilors.

Key decisions, but low turnout, expected in Boston and elsewhere, top state official says

Voters head to the polls in Boston City Council elections
Polls are open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. as Boston voters elect new city councilors.

James Pindell | ANALYSIS

Why Tuesday’s election results have next to nothing to do with who will be elected president in 2024

Construction work at the former Edward J. Sullivan courthouse and jail in Cambridge on Oct. 31.

Costs, interest rates, are clobbering new housing construction in Greater Boston

The backlog of projects that are permitted but haven’t yet started work are complicating efforts to address the region’s housing shortage and to build office space better suited for the post-lockdown world.

Medway family lands at Logan Airport after weeks trapped in Gaza Strip
“At some point, they’ll have a story to tell, a really important story and a lens, frankly, to the suffering happening on the ground in Gaza,” the lawyer for the family said.

Benjamin Netanyahu.

Netanyahu says Israel will have an ‘overall security’ role in Gaza indefinitely

In an interview with ABC News that aired late Monday, Netanyahu expressed openness to “little pauses” in the fighting to facilitate the delivery of aid to Gaza or the release of some of the more than 240 hostages seized by Hamas in its Oct. 7 attack into Israel that triggered the war.

Former president Donald Trump waited to take the witness stand during his civil fraud trial at New York Supreme Court, Monday, Nov. 6, 2023, in New York.

‘Can you control your client?’ 11 key moments from Donald Trump’s testimony at his civil fraud trial.

The trial is focused on how much Trump and other executives within the Trump Organization were involved in assembling financial statements valuing his properties.

Donald Trump lashes out from the witness stand as he testifies in fraud trial

dan shaughnessy

New Red Sox chief baseball officer Craig Breslow sure can talk a good game
The way the cerebral Breslow speaks is in stark contrast to some more plain-spoken Boston sports executives.

THE GREAT DIVIDE

New exam school data show how many low-income students missed out on bonus points doled out to higher-income peers

Of the 408 higher-income students who received bonus points based on where they attend school, nearly 85 percent were admitted. Of the 29 low-income students who didn’t, 13 were not admitted.

To combat the overdose crisis, momentum builds for safe consumption sites in Massachusetts
A growing number of local and state officials are embracing the harm reduction strategy, though major legal barriers remain.

Brandeis University bans local chapter of National Students for Justice in Palestine

Brandeis University will no longer recognize the campus chapter of the National Students for Justice in Palestine organization, saying the group has “openly” shown support for the Hamas terrorists who attacked Israeli civilians in October, according to a statement from the university.

UMass Amherst student arraigned on assault charges in attack on Jewish student

Vegetarian restaurant chain Clover Food Lab files for bankruptcy
The fast casual chain said it could no longer the pay the leases on its new commissary and two restaurants.

Young mom’s final words to her husband among new details in Northfield, N.H., triple murder case

The mother and her two young sons were gunned down in August 2022, allegedly by their teenage brother-in-law and uncle.

A new study maps the lasting effects of gun violence on children and teens who survive their injuries

Daylight saving time has ended. Here’s how to keep the winter blues at bay.

Micah Remley, CEO of Robin.

We’re coming back to the office, and the office is getting smaller, according to Robin CEO Micah Remley

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

Dishes from Mr. R Fusion, a new fusion BYOB spot in Newport, R.I.

FOOD & DINING in RI

Just opened and coming soon: 14 new restaurants and bars in Rhode Island to try this fall

New concepts include everything from a traditional Jewish deli to hidden bars that require a passcode to get in.

Mac Jones couldn't believe some of the things he was seeing in Sunday's loss to the Commanders.

Mac Jones strikes the pose of a Patriot whose future does not lie in New England next year

The quarterback continues to behave like a consummate pro in the midst of a trying season, but his days in Foxborough seem to be numbered.

Opinion

Shifting to even-year local elections could improve representation both in the electorate and among elected officials.

Kawashima-Ginsberg, Levine, and Lieberman

Massachusetts should move local elections to even-numbered years

If Belichick is on his way out, it says as much about the New England psyche as it does about the coach.

More questions than answers in handling of Danilecki case

A grim reality: Too many hit-and-run killings go unsolved

IDEAS | BOB KATZ

May every unpublished novel finally find a reader

MARCELA GARCÍA

Bilingual education is the foundation for Boston’s next generation

The Prudential Building, left, and One Dalton in the setting sun.

Beyond the Gilded Gate

Reckoning with Boston’s towers of wealth

Luxury high-rises are sprouting across the skyline. Why is Boston, amid a grave housing crisis, so much better at building homes for the wealthy than those in need?

Explore the project

More recent News

BRUINS 3, STARS 2

First NHL goals from Johnny Beecher, Mason Lohrei start Bruins off right in win over Stars
Beecher and Lohrei scored in the first period, Brad Marchand added a power-play goal in the third, and Jeremy Swayman (35 saves) was on top of his goalie game.

AS I SEE IT | STAN GROSSFELD

Eyes on the road
“As I See It,” a weekly photo column by Pulitzer Prize-winner Stan Grossfeld, brings the stories of New England to Globe readers. This week Grossfeld warns drivers to be mindful of deer during breeding season.

TIMBERWOLVES114, CELTICS 109 (OT)

Anthony Edwards goes supernova as Timberwolves hand Celtics their first loss
The Celtics struggled with turnovers and poor shooting while getting a taste of emerging star Anthony Edwards, who scored 38 and hit a clutch 3-pointer late in overtime.

WeWork files for bankruptcy amid glut of empty offices

WeWork, the real estate company that offered startups and individuals sleek quarters to pursue their entrepreneurial dreams, filed for bankruptcy protection in the United States on Monday after years of struggling to find its footing.

Amtrak awarded nearly $10 billion in federal funding to support 12 projects along Northeast Corridor

The Federal Railroad Administration funding from the Biden administration is set to be used to “modernize critical infrastructure, improve stations and support future ridership growth” on the corridor, Amtrak said.

Months after request, Mass. lawmakers to vote on funding for emergency shelters. But they won’t say how much they’ll authorize.

On Monday, a key House leader repeatedly declined to specify just how much money legislative leaders are willing to give, saying it’s “still to be determined.”

Recommended reads

Lewiston shootings

Regan Thibodeau with Joshua Seal, who was killed in the Oct. 25 mass shooting in Lewiston. They were among the few deaf certified American Sign Language interpreters in Maine.

Maine’s deaf community embraces solidarity, and faces old frustrations, as it grieves four of its own

The deaths of four deaf people in the Lewiston shootings have brought to light the profound connections within Maine’s deaf community and renewed a familiar frustration: exclusion.

See our complete coverage of the Lewiston shootings

Larry Edelman | Trendlines

It’s still a good time to jump on those 5 percent savings rates
The Federal Reserve may well be done hiking rates, forecasters say, but it won’t begin lowering them for a while.

Beth Teitell

How bad is Boston traffic? It’s on the sidewalk now.
As the micro-mobility movement gains popularity, the sidewalks have become a free-for-all with powered bikes, electric scooters, and those one-wheeled things. But where are people supposed to go?

Sorting recycling is a drag. So these UMass grads are teaching AI to do it.
The Somerville startup rStream is piloting a device that trains an artificial intelligence program to sort discarded materials more efficiently than humans would.

Culture & Lifestyle

Singer-songwriter Jeff Tweedy of Wilco poses for a portrait in Los Angeles ahead of the release of "World Within a Song."

Jeff Tweedy on the 49 songs and one band that inspired his new book

Former New England Patriots NFL football player Aaron Hernandez attends a pretrial court hearing in superior court in Fall River, Mass. Oct. 9, 2013.

FX series ‘American Sports Story’ casts its Aaron Hernandez

Schuyler Bailar (”He/She/They”) is in conversation with Kimm Topping at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday at All She Wrote Books.

Author readings around Boston through Nov. 11

The wedding invitations designed by artist Orfeo Tagiuri that became a viral sensation.

How Brookline-born artist Orfeo Tagiuri created a ‘cool girl’ wedding invitation that became a viral sensation

Special Projects

Photo Illustration

Boston thrives off the dreams of young people. But can they make it here?

Baby boomers and Gen Xers benefited from economic conditions that do not exist for millennials. And by many measures, the path ahead for Gen Z is even more fraught.

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

With the MBTA engulfed by issues, everyday riders are feeling the pain.

Brittany Tee, Soomaiiah Quraiishi, and Reina Morales Rojas are among thousands of people thought to be missing from Massachusetts.

How the missing become the uncounted

Inside the government’s flawed approach to finding missing persons.

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.

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Opinion, ideas, and commentary

Senator Josh Hawley, Republican of Missouri, has joined with Democrats in seeking to undo the Supreme Court’s 2010 decision that allowed corporations to make independent political expenditures.

A GOP senator joins the anti-Citizens United chorus

Hobbs, N.M., an oil town near the Texas border, was one of the early sites for Ready4Routines, an eight-week course aimed at helping families build time for reflection into their lives.

IDEAS | MAGGIE JACKSON

For struggling families, classes in resilience can be lifelines

Former governor Mike Dukakis attended Governor Maura Healey’s inauguration, Jan. 5.

Mike Dukakis, an exemplar of civic engagement

Caution tape near the location in Lisbon, Maine, where officials found the body of the gunman in the aftermath of a mass shooting in Lewiston, Oct. 27.

How Maine can start fixing its gun laws

Missing poster and photos of Helen Medina.

MARCELA GARCÍA

A family’s nightmare quest to find their missing loved one

A dog named Ducky demonstrated FluentPet's communication buttons during the Pepcom Digital Experience before the CES tech show in January.

IDEAS | Linda Rodriguez McRobbie

If your dog could speak, would you like what it said?

Metro

FOOD & DINING NEWSLETTER

For chefs and party hosts: R.I. restaurant owners’ new kitchen goods store specializes in hard-to-find products

“It’s really a store that has something for the front and back of house,” said Anna Burnley, the co-owner of Utility in Middletown, R.I.

FOOD & DINING in RI

Just opened and coming soon: 14 new restaurants and bars in Rhode Island to try this fall

New concepts include everything from a traditional Jewish deli to hidden bars that require a passcode to get in.

Voters head to the polls in Boston City Council elections

Polls are open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. as Boston voters elect new city councilors.

To combat the overdose crisis, momentum builds for safe consumption sites in Massachusetts

A growing number of local and state officials are embracing the harm reduction strategy, though major legal barriers remain.

Sports

Craig Breslow is a Connecticut native who graduated from Yale with a degree in molecular physics and biochemistry.

dan shaughnessy

New Red Sox chief baseball officer Craig Breslow sure can talk a good game

The way the cerebral Breslow speaks is in stark contrast to some more plain-spoken Boston sports executives.

Jets quarterback Zach Wilson took one of eight sacks Monday by the Chargers, this one by linebacker Tuli Tuipulotu in the fourth quarter.

chargers 27, jets 6

Jets’ three-game win streak emphatically snapped by Chargers’ relentless defense

Zach Wilson was sacked eight times, while Justin Herbert, his LA counterpart, set an NFL passing record.

Al Horford tries to disrupt the shot of Timberwolves rising star Anthony Edwards.

TIMBERWOLVES114, CELTICS 109 (OT)

Anthony Edwards goes supernova as Timberwolves hand Celtics their first loss

The Celtics struggled with turnovers and poor shooting while getting a taste of emerging star Anthony Edwards, who scored 38 and hit a clutch 3-pointer late in overtime.

BRUINS 3, STARS 2

First NHL goals from Johnny Beecher, Mason Lohrei start Bruins off right in win over Stars

MIAA GIRLS SOCCER ROUNDUP

Maggie Tiernan saves the night, and season, as Marshfield girls’ soccer edges Newton North in D1 tourney shootout

MIAA BOYS SOCCER ROUNDUP

Captain Andrew O’Neill’s hat trick ships Franklin boys’ soccer to surprising rout of Attleboro in D1 tourney

Business

FOOD & DINING NEWSLETTER

For chefs and party hosts: R.I. restaurant owners’ new kitchen goods store specializes in hard-to-find products

“It’s really a store that has something for the front and back of house,” said Anna Burnley, the co-owner of Utility in Middletown, R.I.

Costs, interest rates, are clobbering new housing construction in Greater Boston

The backlog of projects that are permitted but haven’t yet started work are complicating efforts to address the region’s housing shortage and to build office space better suited for the post-lockdown world.

We’re coming back to the office, and the office is getting smaller, according to Robin CEO Micah Remley

WeWork files for bankruptcy amid glut of empty offices

magazine

The Top 100 Women-Led Businesses in Mass.

Just after learning October 9 that she’d won a Nobel Prize, Claudia Goldin, at home, speaks with a reporter.

Women & Power 2023

Advice from the Nobel Prize winner who’s seen the ‘Barbie’ movie multiple times

This week's daters: Tharun and Ria.

Dinner with Cupid

Blind date: ‘I was not on time. My Uber took a wrong turn.’

My neighbor has a hoarding problem and I'd like to help

metro

Empty chairs displaying the names of students killed during school shootings were shown during an event on the National Mall calling for action on preventing gun violence on September 13 in Washington, D.C.

A new study maps the lasting effects of gun violence on children and teens who survive their injuries

Police seek ‘Chucky’ as person of interest after man allegedly spit in bus driver’s face in Salem on Halloween

Medway family lands at Logan Airport after weeks trapped in Gaza Strip

sports

Triston Casas (right) slugged 24 home runs in 2023, second on the Red Sox to Rafael Devers's 33.

Triston Casas among American League Rookie of the Year finalists

The prestigious Foot Locker Cross-Country Northeast Regional is coming to Boston

Kyler Murray takes first-team reps at Cardinals practice, in line to return from knee injury

business

In a 15-page petition filed in US Bankruptcy Court in Boston, the office of Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell joined with the attorney general of New York in saying the proposed terms of liquidation of Vantage Travel’s paltry remaining assets doesn’t do enough for consumers.

Mass. AG objects to terms of Vantage’s bankruptcy filing

Donald Trump lashes out from the witness stand at judge, N.Y. attorney general as he testifies in fraud trial

Vegetarian restaurant chain Clover Food Lab files for bankruptcy

politics

President Biden returned to the White House on Nov. 06, 2023, in Washington, D.C.

Why Tuesday’s election results have next to nothing to do with who will be elected president in 2024

5 Republicans will be on stage for the third presidential debate. Here’s who missed the cut

Donald Trump lashes out from the witness stand at judge, N.Y. attorney general as he testifies in fraud trial

Nation

It’s highly unlikely, given how much time, planning, and money a presidential campaign requires, that any Democratic rising stars would run against President Biden at this point.

Could a prominent Democrat really challenge Biden? It’s unlikely, at this point.

Tech startups try to sell a cautious Pentagon on artificial intelligence

Father of July 4th parade shooting suspect pleads guilty to misdemeanors linked to son’s gun license

World

Secretary of State Anthony Blinken speaks during a meeting with Singaporean Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan at the Department of State in Washington, DC, on June 16, 2023.

Blinken seeks G7 unity on Israel-Hamas war among items on crisis-heavy global agenda

Netanyahu says Israel will have an ‘overall security’ role in Gaza indefinitely

Israeli forces cut off north Gaza to isolate Hamas as advance on urban center looms

opinion

Soldiers fired a grenade launcher toward Russian forces near the front line in the Donetsk region of Ukraine on Oct. 28.

The Ukraine war has no end in sight

On Harvard’s campus, discussions of the Israel-Hamas war are whispered. It’s time to change that.

From afar, cries over Israel-Hamas war can only sound discordant

lifestyle

The wedding invitations designed by artist Orfeo Tagiuri that became a viral sensation.

How Brookline-born artist Orfeo Tagiuri created a ‘cool girl’ wedding invitation that became a viral sensation

She stayed over ... in the spare room

I think he’s cheap

food & dining

Utility is a new kitchen goods store in Middletown, R.I. where function meets aesthetics.

For chefs and party hosts: R.I. restaurant owners’ new kitchen goods store specializes in hard-to-find products

Just opened and coming soon: 14 new restaurants and bars in Rhode Island to try this fall

Vegetarian restaurant chain Clover Food Lab files for bankruptcy

travel

The family's guide, Matt, showed the author's daughter how to use her wand to conjure up some magic in The Wizarding World of Harry Potter.

My kids unwrapped packed suitcases on Christmas morning, and we took a surprise trip. Would I do it again?

A guide to navigating holiday travel with less stress and a minimum of catastrophes

It’s Warren Miller film time, plus a doughnut tour and an app to turn your phone into a rescue locator

Arts

University of Massachusetts Amherst students Micah Schmerling and Jade Shum inspect an artwork at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston.

In Collecting 101, UMass Amherst students learn inner workings of museum acquisition

The Boston Tea Party turns 250

Crystalle Lacouture centers loss and care at Praise Shadows Art Gallery

Books

Scot Lehigh, author of "Just East of Nowhere.”

In Scot Lehigh’s debut novel, small-town Maine is both a comfort and an obstacle

Alice McDermott, in ‘Absolution,’ examines the lives of the wives in Vietnam War-era Saigon

Local poet offers wisdom and transcendence in ninth collection; Maine anthology draws power from youth perspectives; New bookstore opens in Turners Falls

Movies

Brianna J. Cox, a professor at the Community College of Rhode Island, at the Media Educators Conference at the Television Academy on Oct. 25 in Los Angeles.

‘You don’t need a multimillion dollar budget’: R.I. director, writer on breaking into TV industry

7 stream-worthy movies to get in the sweater weather spirit

Colman Domingo soars in ‘Rustin,’ a civil rights story you haven’t seen before

Television

Former New England Patriots NFL football player Aaron Hernandez attends a pretrial court hearing in superior court in Fall River, Mass. Oct. 9, 2013.

FX series ‘American Sports Story’ casts its Aaron Hernandez

‘The Simpsons: Treehouse of Horror’ special pokes fun at Gronk, NFTs

‘You don’t need a multimillion dollar budget’: R.I. director, writer on breaking into TV industry

music

Singer-songwriter Jeff Tweedy of Wilco poses for a portrait in Los Angeles ahead of the release of "World Within a Song."

Jeff Tweedy on the 49 songs and one band that inspired his new book

At the Orpheum, Bob Dylan does Bob Dylan things

Conductor Joana Mallwitz and soloist Anna Vinnitskaya light up the BSO

Theater/Dance

Orlando Baxter plays Comics Come Home Saturday night.

Orlando Baxter doesn’t have to come home for Comics Come Home — he’s already here

On her ‘Woo Woo’ podcast, Rachel Dratch’s guests give her the creeps

‘Frozen’ has the power to enchant, despite some slush

Health

A person walks into a CVS Health store on Aug. 1, 2023, in Miami, Fla.

Pharmacy workers at CVS, Walgreens, Rite Aid start 3-day walkout

Eyedrops from CVS, Rite Aid and others carry possible infection risk, FDA says

Lifespan, largest hospital owner in R.I., could change name in expanded partnership with Brown University

Obituaries

Mr. Davis, playing for the Phoenix Suns, controlled the ball in a 1978 game against the Golden State Warriors. Mr. Davis was a five-time NBA All-Star.

Walter Davis, basketball star with a velvet touch, dies at 69

Cody Dorman, who watched namesake horse win Breeders’ Cup race, dies on trip home

Hillel Stavis, innovative founder of Harvard Square’s WordsWorth Books, dies