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KARA MILLER | THE BIG IDEA

‘You can’t cure cancer when you’re sitting in traffic’: The MBTA poses a problem for Mass. competitiveness

For a state itching to herald its technological prowess, workers’ inability to quickly get to offices, labs, hospitals, and universities has become an issue of competitiveness.
MBTA plans to eliminate slow zones by incrementally shutting down stretches of subway for repairs See the schedule of MBTA shutdowns into 2024

Exposure of brothels that catered to the elite spotlights how legal system treats buyers and sellers in sex trade
Both sex work and the law enforcement approach to it have changed over the past few decades, advocates and attorneys say.

Affidavit details how investigators discovered brothel ring that allegedly catered to wealthy in Mass., Va. Defendant in brothel case collected $550k in ‘possible fraudulently obtained’ COVID relief funds, prosecutors say
Dan Shaughnessy

Marv Levy can relate to Bill Belichick’s situation, and other thoughts

The Hall of Fame coach stayed on the sideline until he was 72, then stepped down after a 6-10 season — a decision he says he regretted.
Unconventional Preview: The Patriots simply don’t have enough firepower to keep up with Colts
HOLIDAY ARTS PREVIEW

From Mike Birbiglia, a generous helping of ‘Christmas Parmesan’
The Shrewsbury native brings his new one-man show to the Wilbur for the holidays.

10 TV specials for some merry holiday viewing

For organists, Boston is a city of (pipe) dreams

Tree lightings, holiday markets, and more family-friendly events for 2023
Grammy Nominations

SZA leads the 2024 Grammy nominations as women outpace men in the leading categories

The Grammy nominations have been announced and SZA leads the way with nine nominations.

Chad Finn | Sports Media
Rich Shertenlieb leaves ‘Toucher and Rich’ program on The Sports Hub
Cohost Fred Toucher announced at the top of Friday’s show that Shertenlieb was no longer part of the morning radio show.

Boston Public Schools lays out framework to guide facilities decisions

The rubric lays key groundwork for the billions of dollars in facilities work Mayor Michelle Wu has promised in coming years, under her multibillion-dollar school construction program.

Violent antisemitism is a real threat. Congress is responding in ways that might make it worse.

Lawmakers are trading accusations of antisemitism, Islamophobia, and politicizing tragedy in the month since Hamas’s surprise attack on Israel.
Palestinian evacuees say thousands of people sheltering at Shifa hospital have fled after strikes

Netanyahu’s niece is a professor in R.I. and says the Israeli government ‘is playing into Hamas’s hands’

Larry Edelman | Trendlines
Sullivan Tire puts the ESOP fable to the test
Employee stock ownership plans are a way for business owners to share their success with workers and preserve what they built after retiring.

Judge upholds $24 million verdict against Thermo Fisher subsidiary that discriminated against worker with anxiety

US District Court Judge Leo T. Sorokin acknowledged that the sum was “remarkable” but said he had no reason to question it.

North Andover teenager dies in crash on Interstate 495 in Lawrence

An 18-year-old driver died after she was ejected from an SUV that crashed and became engulfed in flames on Interstate 495 Thursday night, authorities said. Three teenage passengers were also injured.

What’s open, what’s closed on Veterans Day

Fraternity and bar sued over 2021 death of University of New Hampshire student

Jury rejects insanity defense for man convicted of wedding shooting
Watch BoZton

When apartment hunting is almost an Olympic event

The first episode of the BoZton video series spotlights the chaos of the search for housing and how it hinders members of Gen Z at the start of their adult lives.

‘Turtleboy’ blogger can attend Karen Read hearings but must stay away from witnesses, judge rules

Judge Peter B. Krupp wrote that Aidan Kearney “has a journalistic interest in reporting on the Read case."
Women's Hockey

Jillian Dempsey put teaching on hold to continue playing hockey. Then her world turned upside-down.

The sale of the Premier Hockey Federation and formation of the Professional Women's Hockey League significantly changed the plans of the former captain of the Boston Pride.
Meet the forwards on the training camp roster for PWHL Boston
Dinner with Cupid

Blind date: ‘Any excuse involving grandkids is a “get out of jail free” card’

Will these hockey fans warm up to each other?
Opinion
Sara Roy

Gaza is on the verge of collapse

Why haven’t leaders of the United States and European countries demanded a mutual cease-fire, which would stop the death and destruction, and facilitate the release of hostages and the safe entry of needed levels of aid?
EDITORIAL

State’s highest court holds the fate of 108 people in its hands
Alex Beam

Former bank heist fugitive Katherine Ann Power wants to tell her story

Jonathan Lowy and Manuel Oliver

If the US can’t fix its gun policy, maybe an international lawsuit can
SCOT LEHIGH

Which party will survive the election-year rapids ahead?

More recent News

alex speier | on baseball
In this baseball offseason, it’s Shohei Ohtani who has the first move
The market for player signings and movement largely hinges on what the superstar pitcher/DH decides.

Nets at Celtics: Boston gets its first taste of the NBA’s new in-season tournament
The floor at TD Garden will have a new look Friday to mark the start of the tournament.

Brown University drills 1,000-foot holes to test geothermal energy to heat campus buildings
This ambitious project is groundbreaking.

A Harvard-affiliated hospital is testing magic mushrooms on dying patients
The small trial by researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute comes six decades after Harvard fired Timothy Leary over his experiments with psychedelic drugs.

‘It just isn’t like that anymore’: With the decline of retail politics, the N.H. primary is changing

Presidential hopefuls are spending less time in the first-in-the-nation state, part of a broader trend toward a new, more nationalized type of campaign that takes place on television more than in the town square.
Jill Stein announces third-party bid for president

If the weather cooperates, ‘MIThenge’ will shine on Cambridge campus Friday and Saturday
Twice a year, in January and November, the setting sun perfectly aligns with an 825-foot hallway on the school’s campus, creating a "celestial phenomenon."

Beyond the Gilded Gate

What kind of town does Brookline want to be?

Brookline broadcasts an ethos of inclusivity, but it has become a preserve for the privileged. This is no accident, but the fruit of decades of exclusionary actions. Now, the town faces a state mandate to allow more multifamily housing, offering a litmus test of suburbs’ willingness to help reckon with the regional housing crisis.

Explore the project

Tracking COVID, RSV, and the flu in Massachusetts
These charts track the respiratory illnesses circulating in Massachusetts, including COVID, RSV, and the flu.

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Globe Magazine

Cheryl Katon’s impossible decision

She loved leading the Boy Scouts in Boston. But could the organization accept her as the trans woman she was?

What happened the day a mother and her two boys were shot dead in their Northfield, N.H., home, according to police
In recently released court documents, prosecutors outlined the sequence of events that led to a New Hampshire teenager's arrest in the deaths of his sister-in-law and his nephews.

At overflowing funeral for beloved ASL interpreter killed in Maine shooting, love reigned supreme
Joshua Seal was eulogized by his wife; his colleagues and friends; and his two oldest children, Jason and Sephine; who described a loving father.

SURVEY SAYS | CHRISTOPHER MUTHER
Baby boomers are spending big on travel right now. Here’s why.
New studies break down travel by generation, and it’s clear that the older generation is packing its bags, spending big bucks — and not stressing about carbon emissions. Here's a closer look.

Culture & Lifestyle

Sweet Honey in the Rock brings 50 years of uplift to the ICA

Fact, fiction, and forging an identity in ArtsEmerson’s ‘The Real James Bond … Was Dominican’

A Eurovision win has turned Kalush Orchestra into Ukraine’s hip-hop ambassadors

Catching up with Rebecca F. Kuang on ‘Yellowface,’ a novel ‘told in the style of twitter’

Special Projects

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 doesn’t work if the T doesn’t work

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

How the missing become the uncounted

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

Two Weeks in America

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

Opinion, ideas, and commentary

JEFF JACOBY

A GOP senator joins the anti-Citizens United chorus
IDEAS | MAGGIE JACKSON

For struggling families, classes in resilience can be lifelines
RENÉE LOTH

Mike Dukakis, an exemplar of civic engagement
EDITORIAL

How Maine can start fixing its gun laws
MARCELA GARCÍA

A family’s nightmare quest to find their missing loved one
IDEAS | Linda Rodriguez McRobbie

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

Metro

Boston Public Schools lays out framework to guide facilities decisions

The rubric lays key groundwork for the billions of dollars in facilities work Mayor Michelle Wu has promised in coming years, under her multibillion-dollar school construction program.

‘Turtleboy’ blogger can attend Karen Read hearings but must stay away from witnesses, judge rules

Judge Peter B. Krupp wrote that Aidan Kearney “has a journalistic interest in reporting on the Read case."
NH NEWS

National institute will build on N.H.’s workplace program for people in recovery for substance abuse

New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu will serve as honorary chairman of The Recovery Friendly Workplace National Institute and lead its advisory board, the White House announced Thursday.
VETERANS

Black WWII veterans and the American vision they kept defending

The author of “Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad” said, for Black Americans, the war “didn’t end in 1945.″

Sports

PWHL Boston

Meet the forwards on the training camp roster for PWHL Boston

There are many local players throughout the group of 16, as well as international stars and a few Olympic medalists.
Women's Hockey

Jillian Dempsey put teaching on hold to continue playing hockey. Then her world turned upside-down.

The sale of the Premier Hockey Federation and formation of the Professional Women's Hockey League significantly changed the plans of the former captain of the Boston Pride.
Nets at Celtics | 7:30 p.m. (ESPN, NBCSB)

Nets at Celtics: Boston gets its first taste of the NBA’s new in-season tournament

The floor at TD Garden will have a new look Friday to mark the start of the tournament.
Chad Finn I Unconventional Preview

The Patriots simply don’t have enough firepower to keep up with even the mediocre Colts
Chad Finn | Sports Media

Rich Shertenlieb leaves ‘Toucher and Rich’ program on The Sports Hub
Bears 16, Panthers 13

The Bears beat the Panthers, and that actually helped Chicago’s shot at the top pick in the NFL draft

Business

Larry Edelman | Trendlines

Sullivan Tire puts the ESOP fable to the test

Employee stock ownership plans are a way for business owners to share their success with workers and preserve what they built after retiring.
BOZTON

When apartment hunting is almost an Olympic event

The first episode of the BoZton video series spotlights the chaos of the search for housing and how it hinders members of Gen Z at the start of their adult lives.
kara miller | the big idea

‘You can’t cure cancer when you’re sitting in traffic’: The MBTA poses a problem for Mass. competitiveness

A Harvard-affiliated hospital is testing magic mushrooms on dying patients

magazine
Globe Magazine

Boston's best everything bagel was real. Then it vanished.

LOVE LETTERS

I want a future with my boyfriend, but I’m cheating on him
Perspective

Congress is weighing a social media ban for kids under 13. Here’s what you can do at home.
MISS CONDUCT

How can I honor someone who died even though I didn’t really know them?

metro

If the weather cooperates, ‘MIThenge’ will shine on Cambridge campus Friday and Saturday

What’s open, what’s closed on Veterans Day

In Providence, let’s prioritize school attendance and recognize it as a valuable tool for success

sports

Marv Levy can relate to Bill Belichick’s situation, and other thoughts

Devin McCourty knew the Patriots were in for a ‘tough season.’ Did it affect his retirement plans?

Tate Hoffmeister, Needham steamroll past Methuen to reach Division 1 football semifinals

business

Providence Flea wants to buy the land where its market operates, competing with 3 other proposals

Judge upholds $24 million verdict against Thermo Fisher subsidiary that discriminated against worker with anxiety

Jury awards $1.2 million to Robert De Niro’s former assistant in gender discrimination lawsuit

politics

Biden and Xi will meet Wednesday for talks on trade, Taiwan, and managing fraught US-China relations

‘It just isn’t like that anymore’: With the decline of retail politics, the N.H. primary is changing

Violent antisemitism is a real threat. Congress is responding in ways that might make it worse.

Nation

You’ve just lived through Earth’s hottest 12 months on record

US population will start decline before 2100, census data show

In a US first, a commercial plant starts pulling carbon from the air

World

Palestinian evacuees say thousands of people sheltering at Shifa hospital have fled after strikes

Blinken says ‘far too many’ Palestinians have died as Israel wages relentless war on Hamas

In Congress and on campuses, ‘from the river to the sea’ inflames debate

opinion

On the 50th anniversary of hip-hop, a look back at Boston’s forgotten rap history

The Patriot Way or the highway for Bill Belichick?

Naming wrongs: Don’t despoil Boston’s skyline with corporate logos

lifestyle

Grades, sports, friendships gone sour: When to help your kids and when to keep quiet

Engagement ring drama

Patrick Dempsey crowned as People’s Sexiest Man Alive 2023

food & dining

To reduce environmental impact, Grey Sail Brewing turns to solar

Shawarma King in Brookline has shut down after more than 30 years

Onion Bhajiya: A golden treat for Diwali and beyond

travel

Christmas by Candlelight at Old Sturbridge Village, new National Geographic itineraries, and grab-and-go meal kits

Hotel developer Dick Friedman on the Dalai Lama’s unique laugh, Martha’s Vineyard, and packing light

British Airways owes me a credit for a canceled flight from 2020

Arts

At the Museum of Fine Arts, an abstract artist’s ‘painting in the round’

Have camera, will travel

A fertile ground for artists in Fall River

Books

Jodi Picoult on writing, research, and her latest project

Local bestsellers for the week ended Nov. 5

I thought I wanted to tell the stories of others. Then I realized I wanted to tell my own.

Movies

Girl power meets cat power in ‘The Marvels’

Hollywood’s strikes are both now over as actors reach deal with studios, return to work with writers

Watch: ‘Mean Girls’ musical releases first trailer for 2024 film

Television

10 TV specials for some merry holiday viewing

From Batman to ‘Boy Meets World,’ New England set the stage for Will Friedle

‘Murder at the End of the World’ is a twisty slay ride

music

For organists, Boston is a city of (pipe) dreams

10 classical concerts to light up your holiday season

10 pop concerts that are beginning to look a lot like Christmas

Theater/Dance

Fact, fiction, and forging an identity in ArtsEmerson’s ‘The Real James Bond … Was Dominican’

In ‘The Band’s Visit,’ there’s harmony in human connection

‘Elvis: A Musical Revolution’ travels a too-familiar path at North Shore Music Theatre

Health

Prospect Medical Holdings has underfunded two R.I. hospitals and affected operations, state says

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

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

Obituaries

David Ferry, award-winning poet ‘of wisdom and humility,’ dies at 99

Frank Borman, astronaut who commanded Apollo 8, the first crewed mission around the moon, dies

Elizabeth Moynihan, political savant, engine of senator’s success, dies at 94