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‘Take me out to the ballgame’ for organist’s greatest hits
WATCH: Josh Kantor has been the Red Sox Fenway Park organist since 2003. And, he takes requests.

‘Take me out to the ballgame’ for organist’s greatest hits

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Wu proposes $4.6 billion budget for next fiscal year

The plan prioritizes ‘improving existing processes,’ and represents an eight percent, or $344 million, increase from the previous year.

After warning of ‘political theatre,’ Goldberg to close hearing to determine cannabis regulator’s fate

Shannon O’Brien, the state's top cannabis regulator, is scheduled to appear in a two-day administrative hearing on Beacon Hill, during which she can challenge state Treasurer Deborah Goldberg’s decision to suspend her.

‘It’s nonstop’: Striking BU grad workers struggle to balance teaching, studying, life
The Boston University grad students, who have been on strike since late March, are also university employees, which not only adds to their workload but complicates their relationship with the school.

What to know about the strike

President Biden, Governor Healey slam Trump’s abortion stance: ‘Don’t let Donald Trump lie his way out of this’

Former president Trump said abortion policies should be left to the states, avoiding a position on any national limit at which the procedure should be banned.
Trump declines to endorse a national abortion ban and says it should be left to the states

Biden promotes ‘life-changing’ student loan relief in Wisconsin as he rallies younger voters

Biden detailed the initiative during a trip to Wisconsin, one of a handful of battleground states that could decide the outcome of Biden’s likely rematch with Donald Trump.

New York appeals judge rejects Donald Trump’s request to delay his April 15 hush money trial

Trump’s lawyers had argued at an emergency hearing that the trial should be postponed while they seek a change of venue to move it out of heavily Democratic Manhattan.

Mother of woman killed in alleged act of road rage in Hopkinton hails medical staff who tried to save her
Destini Decoff died Saturday from injuries she sustained when she was hit by a car on Route 85 on Thursday, officials said.

Sen. Warren says she thinks Israel’s actions in Gaza will be legally ruled genocide

In comments at a Boston-area mosque, the Massachusetts senators said she preferred to speak about what exactly what Israel is doing in Gaza rather than focus on a “labels argument."
Palestinians returning to Khan Younis after Israeli withdrawal find an unrecognizable city
Money, Power, Inequality

How two Mass. lawyers are helping DACA recipients stay in the US

The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, has faced many threats since it was created more than a decade ago under the Obama administration, throwing beneficiaries of the policy into years of uncertainty because of political battles.
PERSPECTIVE

The FAFSA debacle has millions of families stuck in college limbo. Mine is one of them.

As a parent going through the college aid process for the first time, everything related to this form has felt like an unmitigated disaster.
Opinion
Alan Sokal and Richard Dawkins

Sex and gender: The medical establishment’s reluctance to speak honestly about biological reality

It is never justified to distort the facts in the service of a social or political cause, no matter how just.
JOAN VENNOCHI

Hillary Clinton to students on Gaza: Can we talk with, not shout at, each other?
Peter Brown

A Red Sox parade 86 years in the making with only 72 hours to prepare
IDEAS | MIMI ZIEMAN

Climbing Mt. Everest just got a little less dangerous
EDITORIAL

Don’t punish marijuana workers in bankruptcy proceedings

More recent News

The NAIA bans transgender athletes from women’s sports
The NAIA, which oversees some 83,000 athletes at schools across the country, is believed to be the first college sports organization to take such a step.

Vatican document casts gender change and fluidity as threat to human dignity
The sex a person is born with, the document argued, was an “irrevocable gift” from God, and “any sex-change intervention, as a rule, risks threatening the unique dignity the person has received from the moment of conception.”

Boston Marathon
Your guide to the 2024 Boston Marathon: What to know, how to watch, and more
Can Evans Chebet make it a three-peat on Boylston Street? Here's everything you need to know.

Tell us your pre-marathon rituals and post-marathon celebrations

ADDRESS | Spring House Hunt
How to find your Goldilocks house — one that’s just the right size
You want to live large, but the expense may be hard to bear: Utilities, taxes, insurance, and home maintenance can add up to $14,155 a year for the average homeowner; in Greater Boston, those costs rise to $20,879.

The top home renovations that pay off at resale

How to prevent a Steward repeat? Senators Markey and Warren push to restrict private equity in health care.
But with Congress getting little done, it will likely be up to Beacon Hill to act.

The House impeachment articles against the Homeland Security secretary are headed to the Senate. Now what?
The shelf life of articles in the Democrat-controlled Senate isn’t expected to be long.

Recommended reads

With cuts to child-care grants looming, providers worry about future of program

Cuts in pandemic-era child-care grants come after “greater than expected growth” in C3 over the past several months, stretching the pot of money too thin, state officials say.

Enrollment is plummeting. Can the state’s regional public colleges compete?
Can these economic engines of the middle class adapt in the face of punishing market changes, and offer a new generation of students, including many immigrants and first-generation college entrants, a path to social mobility?

Airman who self-immolated in Gaza protest grew up in secretive religious community on Cape Cod
Former members say the community’s practices left them with severe emotional trauma — and that Aaron Bushnell’s death has spurred some soul-searching among them over the community’s legacy.

A courthouse circus surrounds his alleged killer. But John O’Keefe’s loved ones are focused on remembering a ‘good man.’
O’Keefe’s friends and family members told the Globe the spectacle surrounding the Karen Read case has detracted from what should be the focus: that a loving uncle, a generous friend, a police officer dedicated to serving Boston’s communities, lost his life.

Culture & Lifestyle

A comic feast in Lyric Stage’s ‘Drowsy Chaperone’

Sculptor Morgan Faulds Pike tries to ‘let the wood do the talking’

On the 50th anniversary of ‘Carrie’, Stephen King talks about how his first horror novel came to be

Esther Perel hits Boston for one night to talk love, sex, and relationships

Special Projects

Lost in a World of Words

Learning to read is the greatest gift a school can give a child. And yet, in Massachusetts, outmoded teaching methods leave thousands of students struggling to gain this critical skill.

Beyond the Gilded Gate

People in and around Boston are being challenged, in ways never before, to address the region's unprecedented housing crisis.

Nightmare in Mission Hill

The story of how a murder in Mission Hill — the Carol Stuart shooting — terrorized and wounded a community of innocent people.

Boston doesn’t work if the T doesn’t work

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

Opinion, ideas, and commentary

EDITORIAL

The ‘demographic cliff’ is coming. Colleges must be prepared.
RENÉE GRAHAM

An unexpected glimmer of hope in a dark political moment
JEFF JACOBY

Science says race isn’t real. How long will the US Census keep pretending otherwise?
IDEAS | BART TOCCI

I can’t afford you anymore: A letter to the place where I was born
Jon Kingsdale

How to prevent another Steward-like health care crisis
IDEAS

Blueprints for a new downtown Boston

Metro

After warning of ‘political theatre,’ Goldberg to close hearing to determine cannabis regulator’s fate

Shannon O’Brien, the state's top cannabis regulator, is scheduled to appear in a two-day administrative hearing on Beacon Hill, during which she can challenge state Treasurer Deborah Goldberg’s decision to suspend her.

‘It’s nonstop’: Striking BU grad workers struggle to balance teaching, studying, life

The Boston University grad students, who have been on strike since late March, are also university employees, which not only adds to their workload but complicates their relationship with the school.

Eclipse watchers in R.I. soaked up the sun (and the moon) across the state

“The fact that we get two in a short period of time is very special,” said Lila David, a Brown University student.

Top spots to watch the total solar eclipse

WATCH: In parts of New England, it will get dark at 3pm. But, meteorologist Dave Epstein says there’s one factor that could ruin the cosmic experience.

Sports

RED SOX

Ceddane Rafaela agrees to long-term extension with Red Sox

MLB.com reported it is an eight-year, $50 million extension that will keep the speedy center fielder in Boston until 2031.
BRUINS NOTEBOOK

Confidence near the core of Bruins’ continued power play struggles, thinks Jim Montgomery

The Bruins have won four straight and five of six heading into Tuesday’s home date with the Hurricanes, but no thanks to a power play that has connected just twice in its last 24 chances.
BASEBALL

The Red Sox were one of nine teams to cut payroll from last year to this year

San Diego cut payroll by $96 million in the past year, the Mets by $50 million and the Angels by $49 million, while the Red Sox trimmed $15 million.
AS I SEE IT

How 2004 Red Sox fans helped break the curse (or at least believed they did)
TENNIS

Novak Djokovic becomes the oldest man to be ranked No. 1 on the ATP Tour
EMASS GIRLS' LACROSSE: TOP 20

EMass girls’ lacrosse: A mover and a shaker, Medfield is No. 2 in the Globe’s Top 20 poll

Business

bold types

Factorial Energy prepares for big move, as battery maker makes tracks for Methuen

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

‘It’s nonstop’: Striking BU grad workers struggle to balance teaching, studying, life

The Boston University grad students, who have been on strike since late March, are also university employees, which not only adds to their workload but complicates their relationship with the school.

Culinary diplomacy: The internet is obsessed with what Janet Yellen eats in China

Two years after its historic win, a divided Amazon Labor Union lurches toward a leadership election
magazine
Your Home: Renovations

Eight common interior design myths and mistakes, and how to fix them
Your Home: Renovations

A ‘micro-addition’ made a big difference in a Jamaica Plain home renovation
Dinner with Cupid

Blind date: ‘We shared roommate stories — a classic Boston experience’
Your Week Ahead

Five things to do around Boston, April 8-14

metro

Mother of woman killed in alleged act of road rage in Hopkinton hails medical staff who tried to save her

Medfield first graders react to their first eclipse

‘Almost life-changing’: Historic solar eclipse awes crowds across New England

sports

EMass girls’ lacrosse: Pivotal in a pair of Plymouth North wins, Addie Pyy headlines Players of the Week

Everything you need to know about Boston College and Boston University in the Frozen Four

Jaylen Brown takes pause to be grateful for 10,000 points with the Celtics

business

Assessing the flood risk: Tips for home buyers from real estate and insurance experts

Justice Department can reopen Realtors case, court rules

Target to put cameras at self-checkouts

politics

Biden announces student debt relief for millions in swing-state pitch

Ex-officials urge curbing presidential power to deploy troops on US Soil

Biden campaign ad blames Trump for near-death of woman who was denied abortion

Nation

Americans will find voting easier — or harder — depending where they live

Paying off people’s medical debt has little impact on their lives, study finds

What to know about the trial Donald Trump faces in Manhattan

World

When home is now the front line

Vatican document casts gender change and fluidity as threat to human dignity

Palestinians returning to Khan Younis after Israeli withdrawal find an unrecognizable city

opinion

The ‘demographic cliff’ is coming. Colleges must be prepared.

An unexpected glimmer of hope in a dark political moment

Science says race isn’t real. How long will the US Census keep pretending otherwise?

lifestyle

Vertigo finds its place with ‘Makom’

Saw my friend’s wife on a dating app

My husband isn’t brushing his teeth

food & dining

Ziggy Bombs opens in Brookline; Nightshade Clam Shack prepares for summertime in Lynn

Lawson’s Finest Liquids in Vermont made a special eclipse beer. (You have to make a special trip to get it.)

No more bright lights, big ziti: Stella, once a South End staple, is all grown up and living in Newton

travel

So much beauty, so many sieges in Girona, Spain

Keep a fresh eye: Six strategies for visiting some of New England’s art museums

Britney Coleman on Oprah, energy bars, travel agents, and getting back to Boston

Arts

Sculptor Morgan Faulds Pike tries to ‘let the wood do the talking’

At the ICA, the powerful, personal histories of Firelei Báez

The National Black Doll Museum celebrates 20 years and a new home, in North Attleborough

Books

‘He was without a doubt one of the most fascinating people I’ve interviewed’: Readers share their Stephen King memories

Amanda Montell lays bare your ‘mental magic tricks’ in ‘The Age of Magical Overthinking’

Maggie Nelson contemplates freedom through words and art in ‘Like Love’

Movies

In ‘The Beast,’ the past is another country — and the future is, too

Actor Jonathan Majors sentenced to probation, avoiding jail time for assaulting ex-girlfriend

‘Coup de Chance’: Woody Allen revisits one of his go-to themes: men getting away with murder

Television

Everything we learned from the new episode of ‘Quiet on the Set’

Actor Jonathan Majors sentenced to probation, avoiding jail time for assaulting ex-girlfriend

This week’s TV: Michael Douglas as Ben Franklin, an animated ‘Good Times,’ and the cast of ‘SNL 1975′

music

Billie Eilish announces new album: ‘Hit Me Hard and Soft’ arrives next month

Morgan Wallen has been arrested after police say he threw a chair off of the roof of a 6-story bar

Jelly Roll dominates the 2024 CMT Music Awards with host Kelsea Ballerini and a Toby Keith tribute

Theater/Dance

A comic feast in Lyric Stage’s ‘Drowsy Chaperone’

At the Opera House, the pleasure of Sondheim’s ‘Company’

Playwright Christopher Durang mastered the art of misbehaving

Health

Centurion Foundation was the ‘only viable’ buyer for Roger Williams, Fatima hospitals, CEO says

Agent Orange exposure damages the brain in ways similar to Alzheimer’s disease, new study says

R.I.’s largest hospital system may no longer take Cigna health insurance

Obituaries

Rev. Cecil ‘Chip’ Murray, voice of calm during L.A. riots, dies at 94

Mary Ann Zielonko, partner of Kitty Genovese, dies at 85

Joe Brennan, Democratic former governor of Maine and US congressman, dies at 89