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Boston’s in a lab-building boom. What will that mean for the city and its neighborhoods?

Developers — and sometimes owners of existing buildings — are turning away from traditional office towers toward life-sciences space, hoping to capture an industry that’s growing fast even as stalwart insurance companies and law firms retreat from big offices.

Maps: More snow is headed to Massachusetts. Here’s how much to expect in your community
A winter weather advisory is in effect from 4 a.m. on Tuesday to 10 p.m. for Boston and most of Massachusetts.

Dave Epstein: Snow will arrive Tuesday morning All of New England has snow cover

For low-income workers, a chance to learn new skills without paying a dime upfront
A pilot program by the Boston nonprofit Social Finance could provide a lifeline to workers who lost their jobs during the pandemic.

Using connections to Trump, Dershowitz became a force in clemency grants
Alan Dershowitz played a role in at least 12 clemency grants and 10 commutations by President Trump. He said his efforts were an extension of his work defending individual rights against a justice system that could be harsh and unfair.

Baker built a reputation as a managerial expert. The sluggish vaccine rollout is testing it
Despite its world-renowned cluster of teaching hospitals and biotech companies, Massachusetts has consistently ranked behind most other states in inoculating residents.

Mass. reports 1,276 new confirmed coronavirus cases, 55 new deaths Moderna wants to add doses to its vials to speed COVID-19 vaccinations

Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain enlist 90 writers to tell 400 years of African American history
The co-editors of "Four Hundred Souls" describe how they conceived of the book, covering Black American history since 1619.

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Worcester voters, activists sue school committee over Voting Rights Act

Black and Latino voters and racial justice groups sued Massachusetts’ second-largest city on Monday, alleging its system for electing Worcester School Committee members violates both the federal Voting Rights Act and the US Constitution.

Another coder has built a COVID vaccine appointment website for Mass. residents

The new site, VaccinateMA.com, contains information on vaccine availability at about 125 locations throughout the state.
This Massachusetts software developer is building a better website to find vaccination slots than the state

Neal hopes $1.9 trillion stimulus plan will be passed by mid-March

Representative Richard Neal told reporters Monday that more financial relief to Americans battered by the COVID-19 pandemic is coming, with officials hoping to pass a $1.9 trillion package by mid-March.
Dems propose $1,400 payments as part of Biden virus relief

Opinion

JOAN VENNOCHI

The toughest questions for Marty Walsh are in Boston, not Washington

Mayor Walsh is leaving the police department and the city in flux on several fronts.
Rachelle G. Cohen

Baker’s hunt for the wily gooney bird
Abdallah Fayyad

The racial vaccination gap is a scandal
Gerly Adrien

As a Black woman in politics, I belong here
EDITORIAL

Massachusetts needs a strong transportation vision and a leader who can carry it out

Project Takeout: Get takeout. Save restaurants you love.
Ordering dinner will help small local businesses survive the pandemic. But that’s just the start.

3 restaurants we supported this week Takeout containers were once an afterthought. Now they’re essential — and expensive Learn more about Project Takeout

Man killed after crash involving tractor-trailer in Marlborough

A 42-year-old Chelsea man was killed in a crash involving a tractor-trailer and a box truck in Marlborough Monday, according to State Police.

love letters
My roommates are mean to my girlfriend
Are the roommates to blame? Is this a COVID-19 problem?

State police dog helps troopers find alleged drunk driver sleeping in reeds after crash in Gloucester
State Police arrested one man for drunk driving when a Trooper’s K9 partner was able to track him into thick brush after he fled from the scene of a crash in Gloucester.

Ben Downing, former state senator, launches campaign for governor
Former Massachusetts state senator Ben Downing announced Monday that he is launching a run for governor in 2022, making him the first Democrat to formally enter the race.

Chicopee police provide update on missing 11-year-old boy; vanished near Connecticut River
Chicopee police said Monday that 11-year-old Aiden Blanchard, who disappeared late on the morning of Feb. 5, remains missing and that all available evidence suggests he was walking alone near the Connecticut River when he vanished. Police added that no foul play is suspected.

Hospital valet shot in the eye one year ago sues Brigham and Women’s Hospital
The man who set the events in motion, Juston Root, led police on a car chase to Brookline, where he died in a barrage of 31 shots fired by police at close range.

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A Beautiful Resistance, in a special collaboration with Reebok, celebrates Black History Month
A Beautiful Resistance, in a special collaboration with Reebok, celebrates Black History Month ( Video by Caitlin Healy/Globe Staff, Photo by Christopher Hunt/Reebok )

The Great Divide
In some Boston schools, in-person education will resemble remote learning
To serve both students in the classroom and those at home without hiring extra staff, hundreds of teachers in Boston Public Schools will instruct both groups simultaneously, with everyone logging onto Zoom or Google Classroom — whether they are miles away or 10 feet from their teacher.

adrian walker
Activists seek to get vaccines into the communities that most need it
What began as worry quickly turned into alarm, then anger over the state’s botched rollout of the COVID vaccines. Or, to be more exact, the failure to get the vaccine to the Black and brown communities in Boston that have been affected most dramatically by the coronavirus.

metro

Hospital valet shot in the eye one year ago sues Brigham and Women’s Hospital
The man who set the events in motion, Juston Root, led police on a car chase to Brookline, where he died in a barrage of 31 shots fired by police at close range.

Maps: More snow is headed to Massachusetts. Here’s how much to expect in your community
ENVIRONMENT

How will McKee steer Rhode Island on environmental policy?

Sports

Hamilton-Wenham boys’ basketball contains Amesbury’s Cam Keliher to win Cape Ann clash
Keliher was held to 7 points while Ryan Monahan scored 20 points and Ryan Hutchinson added 18 for the victorious Generals.

MLB, players agree on COVID protocols, but DH will not be universal

Sofia Kenin shaky, but defending Australian Open champ reaches second round

business

Dems propose $1,400 payments as part of Biden virus relief
House Democrats on Monday proposed an additional $1,400 in direct payments to individuals as Congress began piecing together a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package that tracks President Biden’s plan for battling the pandemic and reviving a still staggering economy.

Housing Choice brings the biggest changes to Massachusetts zoning laws in decades

Another coder has built a COVID vaccine appointment website for Mass. residents

politics

What to watch as Trump’s second impeachment trial kicks off
The trial is expected to last into the weekend and possibly longer. It will begin midday Tuesday and could go late into some evenings. Here's what to look out for.

Trump’s impeachment trial starting: ‘Grievous crime’ or just ‘theater’?

What’s ahead as Trump’s second impeachment trial begins

lifestyle

COMFORT ZONE
Something to smile about: Newton company’s transparent mask is a revelation
Marissa and Adam Goldstein, parents of two sets of twins, pioneered a mask that is in demand by lip-readers and teachers, among others.

love letters

My roommates are mean to my girlfriend
VIP LOUNGE

Best-selling author checks out on vacation, loves Mexico and margaritas, and hopes to get to Ireland

arts

COMFORT ZONE
What to watch with your tweens? It’s an age-old question
Here are some shows that parents and their pre-teens might enjoy together.

COMFORT ZONE

Meet Dr. Rick’s parents

Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain enlist 90 writers to tell 400 years of African American history

rhode island

ENVIRONMENT
How will McKee steer Rhode Island on environmental policy?
Addressing climate change “is all about our local economy,” incoming governor says, citing both a “moral obligation” and an “economic imperative.”

CORONAVIRUS

R.I. seniors left frustrated by COVID-19 vaccine registration process
RI EDUCATION

‘You can’t blame other people for what you don’t know.’ In Providence, life lessons in a science class

Newton

Special Projects

A beautiful resistance | JENEÉ OSTERHELDT

With every sip, a labor of love

In Vermont, a winemaker is cultivating a legacy that pays homage to the Black folk who built this country and is celebrating life and the future of farming.
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On the Street

In tackling the pandemic, Chelsea finds new strength

Brockton offers a gateway to a new generation

This time, Quincy Center’s revival looks legit

Revere was going through a revival before COVID-19. Can it stay on track?

See more from our business series ‘On the Street’: The changing face of Greater Boston neighborhoods

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Boston Globe launches ‘Fresh Start’ initiative: People can apply to have past coverage about them reviewed
Similar to “right to forget” programs that have cropped up across the country, the undertaking is meant to address the lasting impact that stories about past embarrassments, mistakes, or minor crimes, forever online, can have on a person’s life.

Last Words: Is death the great equalizer?
Quite the contrary, a Spotlight investigation shows. Death exposes in high relief the layers of inequities, in race and income, care and opportunity, that shape life down to its final hours. It is a truth the pandemic has only underscored — one hard to see, because it is so much easier to look away.

I knew getting prostate cancer at 48 would change me. I had no idea how much
For the past year, Mark Shanahan has been working on Mr. 80 Percent, a six-episode podcast miniseries about his experience with prostate cancer. It’s a deeply personal, sometimes harrowing, often funny story about a disease that affects millions of men. The heroes are his doctors and family, who put up with some appalling behavior. You’ll hear from both.

Comfort Zone

COMFORT ZONE

Meet Dr. Rick’s parents

The self-help coach who guides homeowners in those inspired Progressive insurance ads is the creation of Boston agency Arnold Worldwide.
COMFORT ZONE

Something to smile about: Newton company’s transparent mask is a revelation

Marissa and Adam Goldstein, parents of two sets of twins, pioneered a mask that is in demand by lip-readers and teachers, among others.
COMFORT ZONE

What to watch with your tweens? It’s an age-old question

Here are some shows that parents and their pre-teens might enjoy together.
IN THE FAMILY WAY

My parents are vaccinated! Can they see their grandkids now?

Here’s how to navigate grandparent interactions in a post-vaccination world.
NAMES

‘Music is very healing for us.’ BMC nurses receive guitars from rocker John Fogerty

A lifelong fan, nurse Sarah Demers struck up a correspondence with the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer.
ODD AND OFFBEAT

A guaranteed moose sighting in Maine — and this one’s made of chocolate

Lenny, who lives at Len Libby Candies, has been featured on TV’s “Good Morning America” and in the board game Trivial Pursuit. Try finding another moose who’s done that.

Opinion, ideas, and commentary

Gerly Adrien

As a Black woman in politics, I belong here
EDITORIAL

Massachusetts needs a strong transportation vision and a leader who can carry it out
EDITORIAL

The climate crisis still needs Congress
IDEAS | Bryan Schonfeld and Sam Winter-Levy

How to tackle inequality without triggering a backlash
Renée Graham

When Whitney Houston soared, and lifted an anxious nation at war

IDEAS | DAVID SCHARFENBERG

Inside the race to develop a vaccine for our other pandemic: Hate

STAT

The Road Ahead: Charting the pandemic over the next 12 months — and beyond
In this project, STAT describes 30 key moments, possible turning points that could steer the pandemic onto a different course or barometers for how the virus is reshaping our lives.

From a small N.C. town to big-city hospitals, how software infuses racism into U.S. health care
The racial bias can produce huge differences in assessing patients’ need for special care to manage conditions such as hypertension, diabetes, or depression, a STAT investigation found.

Covid-19’s wintry mix: Dry indoor air helps the virus spread
The worry is not just that people might mingle more closely inside, but that the air they breathe will make the virus more dangerous.

In the Covid-19 death of a hospital food worker, a microcosm of the pandemic
The hospital's first employee to die of Covid-19 was a kitchen worker named Marie Deus — and her illness sparked a question. Why weren't bedside clinicians getting sick at the highest rates?

magazine
Connections

How a cat helped me see what it takes to make marriage last
Your Home | Winter Warmers

Reworking a century-old Maine home for modern day
Style Watch

A gas fireplace transforms a little used living room
Your Week Ahead

Five things to do online, Feb. 8-14

sports

EEA revises guidelines, will allow indoor football conditioning, skill work for Fall II season

Following an extended offseason thanks to the pandemic, Fenway girls picked right up with their winning ways

Major League Baseball deadening baseballs a bit after recent surge in home runs

metro

‘It was incredible’: Here’s what it was like to fly on the Patriots’ plane and see Tom Brady win another Super Bowl

Chicopee police provide update on missing 11-year-old boy; vanished near Connecticut River

Cheering for the old guy

Nation

What to watch as Trump’s second impeachment trial kicks off

Trump’s impeachment trial starting: ‘Grievous crime’ or just ‘theater’?

What’s ahead as Trump’s second impeachment trial begins

World

A massacre in a forest becomes a test of Poland’s pushback on wartime blame

UN experts say North Korea still modernizing nuclear arsenal

New Ebola outbreak threatens in Congo

politics

Man charged in US Capitol insurrection worked for FBI, lawyer says

Using connections to Trump, Dershowitz became a force in clemency grants

Harvard’s Cass Sunstein joins Biden’s DHS to shape immigration rules

business

Biden appointments signal a trade approach that hews to the left

Ironwood CEO steps down months after clinical trial failure

For low-income workers, a chance to learn new skills without paying a dime upfront

lifestyle

LonelyBones Skate Co. makes space for the next generation of skaters

Why Brady and Gronk’s new commercial didn’t make it to the Super Bowl

Meet the healthcare workers the Patriots are sending to the Super Bowl

marijuana

Should psychedelic drugs be decriminalized in Mass.? Advocates see opening

Northampton drops controversial fees on marijuana companies

Marijuana trade group drops lawsuit against state after backlash

opinion

A jury of Trump’s peers?

The toughest questions for Marty Walsh are in Boston, not Washington

Baker’s hunt for the wily gooney bird

food & dining

23 New England artisans win Good Food Awards

What to make for Super Bowl snacks this Sunday

Where to celebrate Valentine’s Day

travel

Best-selling author checks out on vacation, loves Mexico and margaritas, and hopes to get to Ireland

New England resorts are offering unique winter packages

A guaranteed moose sighting in Maine — and this one’s made of chocolate

Books

Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain enlist 90 writers to tell 400 years of African American history

Survivor stories in ‘Milk Blood Heat’

Girlhood by the Bay in ‘We Run the Tides’

Movies

From the Black experience, narratives of destruction and creation

8 memorable movies from Sundance Film Festival

11 movies that celebrate romance, chosen by Globe staff

Television

What to watch with your tweens? It’s an age-old question

Meet Dr. Rick’s parents

The week’s TV: Impeachment II, ‘Clarice’ but no Lecter, and road-tripping in kilts

music

‘Midnight Train to Georgia’ songwriter Jim Weatherly dies

9 love-song-loving musicians on the ones they wish they’d written

BLO’s ‘Usher’ embeds Edgar Allan Poe’s gothic horror story within a contemporary nightmare

Theater/Dance

What President Biden can do to save the arts

Actor Denis O’Hare on ‘King Lear,’ Trump, and the one role he never wants to play again

Boston Ballet revisits Yakobson gems and previews new work for spring

globe local

This Valentine’s Day, a chance to celebrate togetherness at home

Should Massachusetts adopt proposed legislation making it easier to hold defendants without bail?

Beverly Beckham: Watching and escaping the world from a favorite chair

Obituaries

Longtime ESPN baseball correspondent Pedro Gomez dies at 58

Kay Bourne, ‘a true champion’ of Boston’s Black arts community, dies at 82

George P. Shultz, former secretary of state, dies at 100