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Baker faces grilling from lawmakers on handling of COVID-19 vaccine rollout

Governor Charlie Baker was grilled by state lawmakers during an oversight hearing on the state’s handling of the COVID-19 vaccine rollout on Thursday. 13 minutes ago
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Governor Charlie Baker testifying at State House oversight hearing

‘I wanted to leave my regards.’ Strangers share grief at site of High Street tragedy
Candles, flowers and notes of sadness collected in downtown Boston Thursday morning, one day after two men lost their lives in a construction tragedy. Suffolk District Attorney Rachael Rollins’ office formally identified the two victims as Jordan Romero and Juan Carlos Figueroa-Gutierrez as the search for answers gets underway.

A sister mourns for brother killed at downtown Boston construction site

Former Milton Academy teacher facing rape charge in Mass. returned to teaching in Maine

Prosecutors say Reynold Buono repeatedly raped a student in the early 1980s. He has been free on $50,000 bond while awaiting trial, and required to wear a GPS bracelet while living in Maine.

Chad Finn
Forget Deshaun Watson to the Patriots, but theoretically, Jimmy Garoppolo isn’t out of the question
As speculation swirls about quarterback movement in the NFL, the Patriots would be wise to see if a reunion with Garoppolo is possible.

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dan shaughnessy

Patience is not what the skidding Celtics need now

What makes this slump especially maddening is the smug manner in which all of the principals seem to accept the losing.

Fans to be allowed back at Fenway Park, TD Garden soon, as Gov. Baker set to reopen venues on March 22

Opening Day at Fenway Park isn’t far away, and now it looks like there will be baseball fans in the stands to witness it — along with fans at TD Garden and Gillette Stadium.

Dunkin’ unveils its latest experimental snack: avocado toast

The spring menu also includes other meme-worthy additions, including a matcha-topped doughnut.

The Black history I carry with me

A Beautiful Resistance — a special project from the Globe's culture columnist Jeneé Osterheldt — is celebrating Black History Month by amplifying local stories of change-makers and the people inspired by them.

Opinion

Joan Wickersham

The emperor of nothing
IDEAS | Josie Thaddeus-Johns

Texts and voicemails are too demanding. Send voice memos instead.
John Yazwinski

Underutilized hotels can help curtail homelessness

EDITORIAL

Becerra’s fearlessness frightens GOP foes
Pamela Constable

The old house on Nantucket

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

Restaurants we supported this week Learn more about Project Takeout

PETS
Tap your dogs’ unleashed potential. Here’s where you can let them run free
Greater Boston features a surprising number of open spaces where our well-behaved pooches are welcome to roam without fences.

Will Tiger Woods play golf again? Doctors predict a difficult recovery
You may remember quarterback Alex Smith's difficult rehab back fro a gruesome fracture. Woods could be facing a similarly difficult road back to the course, if he can return to play at all.

Lowell official calls for School Committee member’s ouster after anti-Semitic slur on live TV
Mayor John Leahy, who also chairs the City Council and School Committee, said in a statement Wednesday night that he would call a special joint meeting of both panels to present a motion to demand that Robert Hoey Jr. resign “for offensive conduct that shocks the conscience.”

Home-rule petition to skip Boston mayoral special election passes state Senate
A proposal that would eliminate the need for a special mayor election in Boston should Mayor Martin J. Walsh leave his post in the next week passed the state Senate on Thursday.

Merck to buy Cambridge autoimmune drug developer Pandion for $1.85 billion
The agreement, worth $60 per share in cash, is at more than double the Cambridge company’s closing price Wednesday.

Students for Fair Admissions asks Supreme Court to review Harvard case
The group, which has sued Harvard over its use of race in college admissions, lost in lower courts.

Jazz artist Maria Schneider on making music, and making a living
Composer, bandleader, and entrepreneur prepares for a residency at New England Conservatory.

New life for old school buses (and their owners)
Meet the couple creating "skoolies," tiny homes with miles of style that are getting scooped up quickly once they hit the market.

Recommended reads

A Beautiful Resistance | Jeneé Osterheldt

The Black history I carry with me: Ariel Pesante

Ariel Pesante is an associate athletic director at the University of Massachusetts.

Analysis
What’s the deal with Joe Manchin? Here are 3 key things to understand why he might sink a lot of the Democratic agenda
The West Virginia Democratic Senator seems to be at the center of basically every issue swirling around American politics these days.

YVONNE ABRAHAM
Making student debt relief stick
How are we going to fix it so that we’re not right back here in a few years?

metro

Home-rule petition to skip Boston mayoral special election passes state Senate
A proposal that would eliminate the need for a special mayor election in Boston should Mayor Martin J. Walsh leave his post in the next week passed the state Senate on Thursday.

Walsh: Preschool through third grade to return to school

Watch live: Baker testifies at State House oversight hearing

Sports

dan shaughnessy
Patience is not what the skidding Celtics need now
What makes this slump especially maddening is the smug manner in which all of the principals seem to accept the losing.

Fans to be allowed back at Fenway Park, TD Garden soon, as Gov. Baker set to reopen venues on March 22

Will Tiger Woods play golf again? Doctors predict a difficult recovery

business

Moderna says it expects more than $18b in COVID-19 vaccine revenue this year
The Cambridge company also announced that its chief medical officer, who has made millions through stock sales, will leave in September.

Merck to buy Cambridge autoimmune drug developer Pandion for $1.85 billion

US jobless claims fall to 730,000 but layoffs remain high with economy still under pressure from virus

politics

Capitol siege costs will exceed $30 million, official tells congress
The top operations and maintenance official of the United States Capitol told lawmakers on Wednesday that the costs of the Jan. 6 attack will exceed $30 million, as his office works to provide mental health services, increase security and repair historical statues and other art damaged in the riot.

Biden lifts Trump-era ban blocking legal immigration to US

Neera Tanden, Biden’s choice for budget chief, faces new hurdles in Congress

lifestyle

CHRISTOPHER MUTHER
The new travel reality: Vaccine required
Some cruise companies are now mandating that passengers be vaccinated. Could airlines and countries be next?

TRAVEL

New life for old school buses (and their owners)
HELP DESK

How to be a good guest at your next rental house

arts

Class action, power chords, and a walrus-loving whistleblower
French students film themselves; rock music and rebellion in Armenia; a marine mammal custody fight.

MUSIC

Jazz artist Maria Schneider on making music, and making a living
MUSIC

Velvet mornings and boots made for walkin’: Nancy Sinatra retrospective revisits a singer with swagger

rhode island

RHODE MAP
COVID-19 numbers are going down, but R.I. isn’t out of the woods yet
Let’s take a look at the case rates by city and town.

RI FAITH

Bishop Jeffery Williams: ‘I preach better is coming eventually’
RI NEWS

R.I. wants to borrow $65m for affordable housing. Advocates say it’s a start, but not a solution

Newton

Special Projects

A Beautiful Resistance celebrates Black History Month

A Beautiful Resistance, in a special collaboration with Reebok, celebrate Black History Month. Black Joy. Black Wellness. Black Futures.
See more from 'A Beautiful Resistance' Follow on Instagram

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

More

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

ASK MATTHEW

10 reader-approved TV shows for parents and tweens

We asked for suggestions, and from "Sherlock" to "Green Acres," readers responded.
COMFORT ZONE

Flock to these winter birding hot spots around Boston

Pete Gilmore, field trip coordinator for the Brookline Bird Club, shared his favorite local stops.
A.Z. MADONNA

What would Beethoven think of climate change? Composer Iman Habibi has a few ideas

Habibi's “Jeder Baum spricht” (”Every tree speaks”) is part of a new BSO Now program.
ASK MATTHEW

If you enjoyed ‘Your Honor,’ who am I to judge?

As a critic, I don’t pretend my opinions are the correct ones, or even the best ones; they’re just mine.
COMFORT ZONE

Tatiana de Rosnay on ‘Sarah’s Key,’ Boston memories, and her scary new novel

The author casts a wary eye on on the near-future in her new book, "Flowers of Darkness."
COMFORT ZONE

Stars to come out (remotely) for a new Boston clinic for homeless women

Renee Fleming, Laura Benanti, Cheyenne Jackson, Heather Headley, and others are slated to perform in a benefit for Health Care Without Walls.

Opinion, ideas, and commentary

Joan Vennochi

Trump voters are blind to the truth about Capitol attack

IDEAS | BRYAN SCHONFELD and SAM WINTER-LEVY

The great myth of campus socialism
Scot Lehigh

The sad American truths the pandemic has revealed
Robert Hecht and Shan Soe-Lin

Massachusetts’ vaccination rate is at risk of stalling out
IDEAS | Rachel Rebouché and Mary Ziegler

Could Roe v. Wade really become ‘the law of the land’?
IDEAS | FRANK PASQUALE

Now that science fiction is reality, it’s time for new laws of robotics

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
Pandemic Parenting

We can care about education and be OK writing this year off
Parenting advice

'Being forgiving of ourselves is probably the biggest'
Perspective

I was proud of my job. What to tell my kids when I lost it?
My Boston History

I first came to Boston in 1975, a time of violence

sports

For Boston College men’s basketball, the challenge is to become relevant again

Forget Deshaun Watson to the Patriots, but theoretically, Jimmy Garoppolo isn’t out of the question

The Celtics lost. Again. Is there any end in sight to their woeful stretch?

metro

‘I wanted to leave my regards.’ Strangers share grief at site of High Street tragedy

Long estimated wait times for vaccine appointments on state website leads to frustrations for users

COVID-19 numbers are going down, but R.I. isn’t out of the woods yet

Nation

Baker faces grilling from lawmakers on handling of COVID-19 vaccine rollout

Walsh says 50 percent of vaccine appointments at Reggie Lewis will be reserved for vulnerable populations as CIC takes over the site

Vaccine supply increasing, but thousands in state are still waiting for COVID-19 shots

World

German court convicts former Syrian official of crimes against humanity

US to seek seat on UN human rights body, after Trump pullout

To build loyalty to China, Hong Kong rewrites history

politics

Why Republicans are suddenly against the COVID relief bill. And why their bet might pay off

McCarthy and Cheney were asked whether Trump should speak at CPAC. Their answers highlighted a chasm in the GOP

Biden aims to distribute masks to millions to hard-hit communities

business

Johnson & Johnson one-shot vaccine appears to fare better against worrisome COVID-19 variants than first reported

Barbie’s big year was years in the making

State toughens diversity criteria as it looks to sell prime downtown Boston site

lifestyle

Dunkin’ unveils its latest experimental snack: avocado toast

Tap your dogs’ unleashed potential. Here’s where you can let them run free

Got a day with no plans? Try visiting Wickford, R.I., in the winter

marijuana

Marijuana company sues Boston zoning board over rejection

New Jersey governor signs laws to set up marijuana market

Newton marijuana store seeks end to appointment-only rule, as nearby competition grows

opinion

Long shadows

The emperor of nothing

Underutilized hotels can help curtail homelessness

food & dining

Celebrating the Irish poitín

Recipe: Tuck roasted red peppers, fennel, mayo, and provolone into these hearty vegetarian grinders

Recipe: Wake up sleepy winter taste buds with carrot and beet salad bowls with citrus dressing

travel

The new travel reality: Vaccine required

New life for old school buses (and their owners)

How to be a good guest at your next rental house

Books

‘Owl Moon’ author Jane Yolen looks back at 400 books

Tatiana de Rosnay on ‘Sarah’s Key,’ Boston memories, and her scary new novel

Four Takes: On Hollywood

Movies

Class action, power chords, and a walrus-loving whistleblower

It’s payback time for the all-American swindler in Netflix’s ‘I Care a Lot’

Andra Day shines bright through the foggy ‘United States vs. Billie Holiday’

Television

There’s true crime, but no Lizzie Borden, in ‘Fall River’

As McDormand eyes a third Oscar, ‘Olive Kitteridge’ deserves another look

If you enjoyed ‘Your Honor,’ who am I to judge?

music

Jazz artist Maria Schneider on making music, and making a living

Velvet mornings and boots made for walkin’: Nancy Sinatra retrospective revisits a singer with swagger

Bad Bunny is the undisputed champ in a pop music marketplace gone global

Theater/Dance

On your screen but outside the box: Theater companies rise to a creative challenge

Stars to come out (remotely) for a new Boston clinic for homeless women

Amid the biotechs in Kendall Square, a place for dance

globe local

Newton mayor asks residents for help in reporting potholes

Wellesley celebrates 50 years of local recycling program

Newton officials investigate letter sent to school employee as hateful act

Obituaries

Annabel Battistella, whose Combat Zone performance as Fanne Foxe fueled a Washington sex scandal, dies at 84

Beat poet, publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti dies

Irvienne Goldson, health care ‘spirit warrior’ for women of color, dies at 60