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Senate approves $1.9 trillion coronavirus aid bill

President Biden’s signature $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill passed the Senate 50-49 on Saturday, following a more than 25-hour marathon of amendment vote. The measure, the American Rescue Plan Act, now heads back to the House, with Democrats aiming to have it signed into law next week.

THE GREAT DIVIDE
Boston student School Committee member resigns, saying district tried to silence his voice
A high school senior resigned as the Boston School Committee’s student representative Thursday, saying administrators had silenced students’ voices and that he had deep concerns about a nonprofit group that oversees the district-wide student council.

Mass. residents find other paths to secure COVID-19 vaccine appointments

Hospitals and health care systems, back with fresh shipments of the vaccine, are leading a push for people to get appointments in alternative ways through hot lines, phone calls, e-mails, and texts to patients with links to sign up for a shot.
5 things to know if you want to sign up for a vaccine today in Mass. CDC links restaurant dining to a rise in cases See more COVID-19 vaccine news

Capitals’ Tom Wilson offered hearing with NHL Department of Player Safety after hit on Brandon Carlo
The date of the hearing was not immediately set. Wilson will remain suspended until the hearing takes place.

Bruins respond to hit on Brandon Carlo by knocking out Capitals

Mass. education commissioner wins authority to force school districts to bring students back to classrooms full time
The return of students to five days a week of in-person learning will begin April 5, with students in pre-kindergarten through grade 5. Middle school students will likely follow sometime after that, but it remains unclear if high schools will be forced to reopen full time before the school year ends.

Massachusetts school officials to postpone spring MCAS testing Walgreens allows R.I. teachers to sign up for COVID-19 vaccine appointments

Ben Volin | Sunday football notes
Time for NFL teams to take a hard look at the books, and their rosters
In a reverse, the NFL salary cap will decrease from $198 million to $180 million-$185 million in 2021.

Peter Abraham | Sunday baseball notes
How great a time is it to be a great shortstop?
As Javier Baez, Carlos Correa, Francisco Lindor, and Trevor Story enter their final season before free agency, Fernando Tatis Jr. has increased the value of their shared position.

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Amanda Gorman says security guard confronted her, saying she looked ‘suspicious’
Amanda Gorman, who became a national sensation when she delivered a stirring poem at President Joe Biden’s inauguration in January, said Friday that a security guard had followed her home and told her she looked suspicious.

Egg industry warns of shortage in Mass. without legislative action
If eggs disappear from stores or skyrocket in price next January, as predicted by major egg producers, you can chalk it up to a quirk in Massachusetts law.

Parole Board grants commutation hearing to man convicted in 1994 murder

William Allen, 47, was convicted of first-degree felony murder in 1997 because a jury found that he had been a joint venturer in an armed robbery of a reputed drug dealer, though he didn’t actively participate in the killing, according to court documents.

Opinion

EDITORIAL

Tax fixes critical to keeping Mass. jobs

Lawmakers shouldn’t penalize employers who did right by their workers.
Renée Graham

Derek Chauvin is the murder defendant. Don’t put George Floyd on trial.
Marcela García

At Boston’s public exam schools, it’s equity vs. privilege
George Q. Daley, David E. Golan, Arlene H. Sharpe, and Bruce D. Walker

Collaboration is the cure for COVID-19
Shazia Ahmed

All hail the bus as the answer to vaccine inequities

Gillian Anderson on Alec Baldwin’s accent snark, and Prince Harry’s view of ‘The Crown’
In a live, online conversation Friday with Brandeis history professor Alice Kelikian, "The Crown" actress discussed recent and upcoming work.

Mark Pavelich, member of Miracle on Ice gold-medal winners, found dead
The 63-year-old Pavelich, who friends and family believed suffered from CTE, was declared mentally unfit to stand trial following an August 2019 attack of a neighbor.

SJC: Christian college can’t claim former social work professor was minister in legal dispute
The duties of a former social work professor at a Christian college in Wenham did not meet the legal definition of a religious minister at the school, meaning she was entitled to protections against workplace discrimination that are unavailable to ministers at faith-based insitutions, the state Supreme Judicial Court ruled Friday.

dan shaughnessy
Wondering about Jackie Bradley Jr.’s place in Red Sox lore, and other thoughts
Where does Bradley fit in team history — perhaps on the same level with players such as Jimmy Piersall, Marty Barrett, Rich Gedman, and Rick Burleson?

FBI finds contact between proud boys member and Trump associate before riot
A member of the far-right nationalist Proud Boys was in communication with a person associated with the White House in the days just before the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol, according to a law enforcement official briefed on the investigation.

RI BUSINESS
RI attorney general opposes Champlin’s Marina expansion plans on Block Island
Attorney General Peter F. Neronha said his office has a constitutional and common law obligation to protect the environment and shared natural resources.

Pope Francis meets with top Shiite cleric in Iraq
Pope Francis met with Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, one of the most senior clerics in Shiite Islam, in Iraq’s holy city of Najaf on Saturday to deliver a message of peaceful coexistence, urging Muslims to embrace Iraq’s long-beleaguered Christian minority.

Truck driver killed in Belmont crash identified

Fabustino Soto, 44 of Hadley, was driving a produce truck for Chang Farms when lost control of the box truck early Thursday and rolled over on Common Street, officials said Friday.

Recommended reads

Massachusetts spent 20 years refining its own mass vaccination plan. Then it looked elsewhere

Days after federal drug regulators authorized the first COVID-19 vaccine, the state abandoned its blueprint and entrusted a handful of private companies with running its mass vaccination sites.

5 indicted in separate cheating, assault cases at Encore casino
A Middlesex County grand jury on Friday handed up indictments against an Encore Boston Harbor card dealer and two other people in connection with an alleged scam to pilfer $23,500 over two nights by cheating at a game called Baccarat, state Attorney General Maura Healey’s office said.

Ben Affleck (and his Dunkin’ iced coffee) arrives in Back Bay Friday to shoot ‘The Tender Bar’
The Oscar winner showed up bright and early at the Harvard Club of Boston on Commonwealth Avenue wearing a puffer jacket over a gray pinstripe suit and toting his favorite beverage, a Dunkin' iced coffee.

metro

Democratic Senator Sinema votes against raising federal minimum wage with a big thumbs down
Kyrsten Sinema wasn’t the sole Democratic senator who voted against the proposal. Seven others who did include Senators Maggie Hassan and Jeanne Shaheen from New Hampshire.

Walsh administration refuses to release internal affairs files of embattled police commissioner

THE GREAT DIVIDE

Boston student School Committee member resigns, saying district tried to silence his voice

Sports

Capitals’ Tom Wilson offered hearing with NHL Department of Player Safety after hit on Brandon Carlo
The date of the hearing was not immediately set. Wilson will remain suspended until the hearing takes place.

Ben Volin | Sunday football notes

Time for NFL teams to take a hard look at the books, and their rosters

Peter Abraham | Sunday baseball notes

How great a time is it to be a great shortstop?

business

CHESTO MEANS BUSINESS
Egg industry warns of shortage in Mass. without legislative action
If eggs disappear from stores or skyrocket in price next January, as predicted by major egg producers, you can chalk it up to a quirk in Massachusetts law.

Shirley Leung

Widett Circle offers Boston a chance to think big. There is still time to keep thinking

Here’s a look at who’s running the state’s mass vaccination sites

politics

Senate approves $1.9 trillion coronavirus aid bill
President Biden and Democrats prevailed as the divided Senate approved a $1.9 trillion virus aid bill. Final passage in the House is on track for next week.

Senate works through the night with COVID-19 bill on path to passage

FBI finds contact between proud boys member and Trump associate before riot

lifestyle

‘Coming 2 America’ flag flies at Boston Harbor Hotel as Eddie Murphy sequel premieres
The hotel is flying the flag from its rotunda to celebrate the much-anticipated premiere of the “Coming to America” sequel, “Coming 2 America,” starring Eddie Murphy and Arsenio Hall.

NAMES

Gillian Anderson on Alec Baldwin’s accent snark, and Prince Harry’s view of ‘The Crown’
ART

Get lost inside a masterpiece with ‘Imagine Van Gogh’

arts

Commentary
How Dr. Seuss became the second highest-paid dead celebrity
Earning $33 million in 2020, the children's book author is second only to Michael Jackson among deceased celebrities. Where does the money come from?

TV CRITIC'S CORNER

Season 3 of ‘Shtisel’ premieres this month on Netflix
TY BURR

In ‘Moxie,’ on Netflix, trying to make school cool — or at least less toxic

rhode island

CORONAVIRUS
Walgreens allows R.I. teachers to sign up for COVID-19 vaccine appointments
However, the state itself has not yet prioritized teachers and related staff in their vaccine distribution plans.

RI NEWS

Central Falls lawmakers introduce bills aimed at closing Wyatt by 2028
RI NEWS

Making a push for a Rhode Island state coral

Newton

Special Projects

PROJECT TAKEOUT | DEVRA FIRST

Project takeout: Get takeout. Save restaurants you love.

Ordering dinner will help small local businesses survive the pandemic. But that’s just the start.
See the full project

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

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

More

Jeneé Osterheldt
A Beautiful Resistance
Black joy, Black lives, as celebrated by culture columnist Jeneé Osterheldt.

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.

Globe Spotlight Investigation
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.

Comfort Zone

WORKING ON IT

Are you doing too much? Let the Dutch introduce you to the art of ‘niksen’

Nothing is good. These books about "niksen" – the art of doing nothing – help you get there.
PUNK

A JP resident and her punk rock aerobics star in Green Day’s new music video

The band's "Here Comes the Shock" is set to Hilken Mancini's homemade video of moves like the "Iggy punch" and "whack jacks."
COMFORT ZONE

Boston poet laureate Porsha Olayiwola is at HOME on the open mic

The theme interested the Chicago transplant long before the pandemic.
COMFORT ZONE

GBH’s ‘Masterpiece’ reflects on 50 Years with a new podcast

The three-part series is "a superhero origin story," according to host Jace Lacob.
ART

‘Against all odds,’ Peabody Essex show leads to discovery of second Jacob Lawrence painting

The piece was hanging all these years in a nurse's apartment on the Upper West Side.
COMFORT ZONE

Passim’s Matt Smith brings his love of local music to the airwaves

The new host of WMVY's "Local Music Café" is excited to showcase New England artists.

Opinion, ideas, and commentary

Flavia C. Peréa

Dear Mayor Joe Curtatone, what happened to my son embodies the school-to-prison pipeline
IDEAS | VIVIANE CALLIER

A new color, out of the blue
Alex Beam

Driving across the United States of COVID
EDITORIAL

Winter is almost over. Almost.
IDEAS | STEPHEN KINZER

Biden promises diplomacy but offers more militarism
IDEAS | Rachel Rebouché and Mary Ziegler

Could Roe v. Wade really become ‘the law of the land’?

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
Back to Nature

A plant lover's guide to 16 gorgeous gardens and arboretums
Back to Nature

30,000 steps on Cape Cod: A three-day walking tour
Perspective

The pandemic revealed our food system is broken. We can fix it.

Cooking

Forget winter with these 4 tropical desserts

sports

Kansas places Les Miles on administrative leave after LSU report outlines inappropriate sexual advances

Natick girls’ volleyball finishes off historic sweep of Newton North

Playing for each other, Bruins respond to hit on Brandon Carlo by knocking out Capitals

metro

Walgreens allows R.I. teachers to sign up for COVID-19 vaccine appointments

Central Falls lawmakers introduce bills aimed at closing Wyatt by 2028

Making a push for a Rhode Island state coral

Nation

Senate approves $1.9 trillion coronavirus aid bill

One state’s focus on data helps shrink its racial vaccine gap

Senate works through the night with COVID-19 bill on path to passage

World

Pope Francis meets with top Shiite cleric in Iraq

UK waits for Harry, Meghan’s take on royal split in Oprah interview

Prince Philip transferred back to private hospital after heart procedure

politics

Highlights: What’s changed in the Senate’s virus relief bill

A midlevel member of the Trump State Dept. has been arrested on charges related to the Capitol attack

House impeachment manager sues Trump, allies over riot

business

Fed Chair Powell offered a patient message. Markets quivered anyway.

US added a strong 379,000 jobs in February as hiring rebounded in hopeful sign for economy

Where city leaders once saw a potential Olympic stadium, Amazon eyes a massive distribution center

lifestyle

Ben Affleck (and his Dunkin’ iced coffee) arrives in Back Bay Friday to shoot ‘The Tender Bar’

A Medford couple is bringing diverse children’s books to families every month

Dr. Seuss dominates Amazon’s bestsellers list following news of discontinued titles

marijuana

Mass. marijuana has to be ultra-sterile. Just one problem: It’s a plant

Marijuana company sues Boston zoning board over rejection

New Jersey governor signs laws to set up marijuana market

opinion

Tax fixes critical to keeping Mass. jobs

Derek Chauvin is the murder defendant. Don’t put George Floyd on trial.

A continuing challenge to make the most of Madison Park

food & dining

Rutchada Thai Cuisine was ‘meant to be’

A tavern comes to Brookline; a beer hall opens in Belmont; and Del’s Lemonade plans a Massachusetts flagship

At The Federal, a miracle to go: perfectly cooked steak

travel

Drew Bledsoe loves the beach but would also happily tackle a visit to Siberia

Advice for planning that family reunion you just can’t wait to have

My eyes have been opened to the very real threat of avalanches, even in New England

Books

How Dr. Seuss became the second highest-paid dead celebrity

Human nature and ‘Beloved Beasts’

Anne Lamott ponders life’s third act in ‘Dusk, Night, Dawn’

Movies

In ‘Moxie,’ on Netflix, trying to make school cool — or at least less toxic

Eddie Murphy is back, and back up to speed, in ‘Coming 2 America’

Yale banners and signs pop up near Harvard Square for George Clooney film ‘The Tender Bar’

Television

Season 3 of ‘Shtisel’ premieres this month on Netflix

Turning on the TV doesn’t mean turning off your brain

Next up on the series revival list: ‘Party Down’

music

For NEC students, it’s been a year of improvising

With another album in the works, singer Lizzy McAlpine has left Berklee behind

Passim’s Matt Smith brings his love of local music to the airwaves

Theater/Dance

Boston Ballet celebrates Jorma Elo in a rich program of new work and past highlights

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

globe local

A lost year, chronicled through art

Should the federal minimum wage be increased to $15?

Beverly Beckham: The love he gave keeps his grieving family going

Obituaries

Rosalyn Koo, 94, dies; fund-raising powerhouse for Chinese communities

Walter Gretzky, father of NHL star Wayne Gretzky, dies at 82

Bunny Wailer, reggae luminary and last Wailers member, dies