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As some states see a COVID-19 surge, Mass. cases stall at an ‘unacceptably high’ level

The current coronavirus outlook has improved in Massachusetts, but beneath the air of optimism lies a problem, epidemiologists caution: COVID-19 cases, after declining sharply in early February, have plateaued at an average of 1,500 per day, and the threat of another surge remains.

Health experts urge Governor Baker to delay Monday reopenings

Here’s a look at what can reopen in Massachusetts on Monday

Massachusetts’ COVID-19 travel order will be downgraded to an advisory on Monday

See how many people received a COVID-19 vaccine in your Mass. town
The map and table below allow you to search and see who has gotten a vaccine dose in your community.

COVID-19 vaccine news, resources, and guidance These 20 communities are at high risk for COVID-19

Cities hit hard by virus are underfunded relative to peers in federal stimulus
Antiquated methods of divvying up federal funds have left some of Massachusetts’ hardest-hit communities getting millions of dollars less than neighboring cities in the new federal relief law. The state has pledged to target additional funding to Chelsea, Everett, Methuen, and Randolph.

37 people infected in COVID-19 cluster at Weymouth cheerleading training facility

Analysis
This was the wildest job in American politics this past year
Thanks largely to the coronavirus pandemic, governors have been thrust into an even bigger spotlight than usual, and the result has been that many who once enjoyed popularity are seeing their fortunes sink, some who had struggled are now recovering, and the future is entirely uncertain.

Civil rights groups urge state to change ‘discriminatory’ vocational school admissions policies to lottery

The state’s dozens of regional vocational-technical schools consider grades, attendance, and disciplinary histories for admission. The Vocational Education Justice Coalition said those factors are subjective and unfair.

SHIRLEY LEUNG
After Atlanta slayings, this time needs to be different for Asian Americans
History keeps repeating itself because Asian Americans suffer from structural invisibility. This country needs to realize that many groups are targets of hate, and discrimination against Asian Americans counts.

Biden, Harris to visit Atlanta Friday, offering solace to grieving community
WHAT SHE SAID

Don’t avert your eyes

It’s not clear whether the spa workers who were killed were actually involved in commercial sex. Yet as we lament how they died, let’s take an unflinching look at how the women were treated in life.

Curt Schilling decries Boston experience, says he and his family are moving to Tennessee
The former Red Sox righthander says that “outside of our circle of friends, it hasn’t been a real pleasant experience in Boston.”

Cold, blustery morning across the region, but snow misses most
Most of Massachusetts woke up Friday to dry and blustery conditions, and snow was sparse throughout the region, with light flurries only falling on Cape Cod.

Providence Sergeant Hanley found guilty of assault. Is the ‘Blue Wall of Silence’ Broken?

During the seven-day trial, the judge said, he found all of the witnesses to be credible — except Hanley, whose testimony he called “an utter fabrication.”

In heated exchange, Senator Paul accuses Dr. Fauci of wearing masks after being vaccinated ‘for show’

The debate was over whether to put masks on, but the gloves were certainly off in a tense exchange between Senator Rand Paul and Dr. Anthony Fauci.

Veteran center David Andrews returning to the Patriots

Andrews's new deal is for four years.
How Drew Rosenhaus worked with Bill Belichick to help create the Patriots’ free-agent splash NFL free agency: Patriots re-sign kicker Nick Folk Patriots trade tight end Ryan Izzo to Texans
Mass. coronavirus at a glance |
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Bruins 4, Sabres 1
Bruins bank easy points in opening win of two-game set in Buffalo
Greg McKegg, Jake DeBrusk, Craig Smith and David Pastrnak tallied for Boston, with David Krejci getting three assists, in a 4-1 victory.

Shirley Leung
In the mayor’s race, some Boston business folks already have their candidate
No one has yet emerged as the “business candidate,” but business leaders tend to watch which way the political winds are blowing — i.e., who might actually win — before picking a horse in the race.

Legislature approves climate bill, sends back to Governor Baker

State lawmakers in the House on Thursday joined their Senate colleagues in overwhelmingly backing a revised climate bill that would mark one of the nation’s most far-reaching efforts to reduce planet-warming carbon emissions.
Elizabeth Warren and AOC lay down climate challenge to Biden

Man charged in random attacks in Waltham
The unprovoked attacks that targeted at least 10 men began in November near the Gardencrest apartment complex and later extended to the city’s downtown.

A.Z. MADONNA
The era of genius worship must end with James Levine
Elevating the conductor to savior status only enabled the alleged abuse of young musicians.

celtics
From the trade deadline to Aaron Nesmith’s absence, seven thoughts on the Celtics
The Celtics have hit another little rough patch and dropped back to .500, so let's take stock of things.

Confession helps authorities crack 1984 slaying of woman in Pembroke; admitted killer has died, Plymouth DA says

The killer of 59-year-old Virginia Hannon, who was found strangled, beaten, and stabbed in her Pembroke home in 1984, confessed to the crime about a year before his own death, and the friend to whom he bared his soul contacted authorities, helping them solve a case that had stymied investigators, prosecutors said Thursday.

Home of the Week: Young over-55 town home in Scituate cozies up to ocean view
The property has three bedrooms, 2.5 baths, a two-story family room, a private deck, and a walk-out basement.

Opinion

Renée Graham

A massacre targeting Asians in Georgia wasn’t a ‘bad day.’ It was a hate crime.

In America, the only thing more abundant than racism is the willingness to deny its existence.
Kimberly Atkins

When hate in a crime is clear, the gaslighting often follows
EDITORIAL

Plymouth DA evades the sunshine
Alex Beam

Gimme credit!
IDEAS | DAVID SHRIBMAN

Dreaming of a Federal Writers’ Project 2.0
A collaboration between BU's Center for Antiracist Research and The Boston Globe's Opinion team.
Learn more Sign up for the newsletter, 'Unbound' The Emancipator seeks editor in chief based at The Boston Globe

Recommended reads

Asian American women shaken by Atlanta-area killings
To many, the rampage in Georgia that left eight people dead, including six women of Asian descent, felt like the culmination of a year in which anti-Asian racism has soared.

Jeneé Osterheldt

Call the Atlanta killings what they are: racial terrorism

If Tuesday's killing of these eight people, most of them women of Asian descent, is not a hate crime, laws need to be rewritten. And if we cannot see this mass shooting as terrorism, we need to redefine it.
Perspective | Magazine

I’m Asian American and racism makes COVID-19 more than a pandemic for me

Since last March, three generations of my family have been the target of racist acts. When will it get better for us?

Dick Hoyt, ‘heart and soul of the Boston Marathon,’ dies at 80

Mr. Hoyt, an iconic presence at the Boston Marathon who stopped racing several years ago because of heart ailments, was 80 when he died of heart failure Wednesday morning in his home in Holland, just east of Springfield.

With remote work, employees lose those essential ‘in-between moments’

Research shows that casual chitchat can build trust, spark creativity, and boost morale — and lead to a happier, more productive workforce.

metro

Cold, blustery morning across the region, but snow misses most

Most of Massachusetts woke up Friday to dry and blustery conditions, and snow was sparse throughout the region, with light flurries only falling on Cape Cod.

Salem Maritime National Historic Site celebrates Black Feminism on social media

How many coronavirus cases have been reported in Mass. schools? Check our map

Sports

Basketball semifinals at TD Garden will now have statewide appeal

With the MIAA shifting to five divisions for the 2021-22 statewide tournament, the eight (of 20) semifinals will not be limited to Eastern Mass. teams.
PATRIOTS

NFL free agency: David Andrews, Nick Folk set to return to New England

Veteran center David Andrews returning to the Patriots

business

SHIRLEY LEUNG

After Atlanta slayings, this time needs to be different for Asian Americans

Fed seeks maximum employment to the max

Hesse to become chairman of Akamai board

politics

Analysis

This was the wildest job in American politics this past year

House passes bill to give Dreamers path to citizenship over GOP opposition

Walsh one step away from labor secretary after Senate votes to end debate on his nomination; confirmation expected Monday

Living Arts

A.Z. MADONNA

The era of genius worship must end with James Levine
MATTHEW GILBERT | BUZZSAW

Flashbacks and flash-forwards are the latest trend in giving TV viewers a headache

What’s happening in the arts world

education

How many coronavirus cases have been reported in Mass. schools? Check our map

Civil rights groups urge state to change ‘discriminatory’ vocational school admissions policies to lottery

Mass. reports 476 new coronavirus cases among public school students, 193 among school staff members

rhode island

RI CRIME

Providence Sergeant Hanley found guilty of assault. Is the ‘Blue Wall of Silence’ Broken?
RI POLITICS

McKee names 10 finalists for lieutenant governor of Rhode Island
RHODE MAP

Senator Whitehouse draws fire in questioning FBI’s Kavanaugh probe, dark money

Newton

video

Comfort Zone

Make the most of spring muck
There are plenty of ways to enjoy New England’s mud season. Here are some ideas.

Podcast
Starstruck since they were tweens in Cambridge, they now have a podcast about celebrity memoirs
Meet the hosts of the new "Celebrity Book Club" podcast, besties Lily Marotta and Steven Phillips-Horst, who bonded in middle school in Cambridge

Television
Berklee grad moves to next round on ‘American Idol,’ performing as sunny persona Beane
Judge Katy Perry likened Brennan Hepler of Brighton to "a pocketful of sunshine"

COMFORT ZONE
Lois Lowry’s latest book finds ‘something human and personal’ in mass tragedy
“On the Horizon: World War II Reflections” is a work in verse about the bombings of Pearl Harbor and Hiroshima.

COMFORT ZONE
Artist Nora Valdez lets cancer patients light the way with ‘We Heal’
The project was created collaboratively with patients from Boston Medical Center and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

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.

Opinion, ideas, and commentary

Scot Lehigh

Biden puts a bull’s-eye on today’s lazy faux filibuster
Joan Vennochi

A derailment and packed trains? Sounds like the same old T
Tom Mountain

To my fellow Republican men: Get the COVID vaccine
IDEAS | DIANA SPECHLER

We are totally over TV, though we can’t stop watching
EDITORIAL

Fear and hate in Atlanta
IDEAS | ANDY ROSEN

The next pandemic challenge: Reacquainting ourselves with everyday risks

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
Perspective

I’m Asian American and racism makes COVID-19 more than a pandemic for me
Globe Magazine

Inside the effort to build trust in COVID vaccines
Joanna Weiss

I’m keeping an Instagram pandemic diary. When should I stop?
COOKING

Recipes: Three creamy vegetable soups with a twist: no dairy necessary

sports

Drake beats Wichita State for first men’s NCAA Tournament win in 50 years

Bruins bank easy points in opening win of two-game set in Buffalo

How Drew Rosenhaus worked with Bill Belichick to help create the Patriots’ free-agent splash

metro

Cities hit hard by virus are underfunded relative to peers in federal stimulus

Providence Sergeant Hanley found guilty of assault. Is the ‘Blue Wall of Silence’ Broken?

Don’t avert your eyes

Nation

Biden, Harris to visit Atlanta Friday, offering solace to grieving Asian Americans

This was the wildest job in American politics this past year

Why don’t we know more about the Atlanta shooting victims?

World

Latest claim in the effort against Aung San Suu Kyi: A bag of cash

Russia erupts in fury over Biden’s calling Putin a killer

German archbishop offers to resign after abuse criticism

politics

John Kerry at center of Twitter spat after maskless flight photo circulates online

Homeland Security head spars with Congress over border surge

Proud Boys leaders in four states are charged in Capitol riot

business

State Senate passes COVID relief bill to help companies, workers

Teen Vogue editor resigns after fury over racist tweets

Business backers of voter access now balk at fighting curbs

lifestyle

How to chart a course to friendship with an ex

A Palestinian cook is serving specialties from home in his Natick cafe

How to use your travel vouchers and credits

marijuana

Marijuana-infused ice cream is coming to a dispensary near you, just in time for summer

A green wave? Mexico’s marijuana market may be middling

Mexico set to legalize marijuana, becoming world’s largest market

opinion

Plymouth DA evades the sunshine

Gimme credit!

Dreaming of a Federal Writers’ Project 2.0

food & dining

Vincent’s replaces Cafe du Pays, Uni takes to the streets, and ‘Top Chef’ contestant Carl Dooley lands at Mooncusser

A Palestinian cook is serving specialties from home in his Natick cafe

Irish feasts and green doughnuts: Here’s where to eat this St. Patrick’s Day

travel

Janet Wu on Africa, Asia, a bar with good onions, and being a grandmother

Make the most of spring muck

How to use your travel vouchers and credits

Books

From Bowie to Beyoncé, Berklee authors look at musicians as models of innovation

Recalling a medium’s first ladies in ‘When Women Invented Television’

A new biography gives us Francis Bacon in full

Movies

The play’s the thing? Not always on screen it isn’t

Zack, Joss, and me

Looking at this year’s Oscar final five

Television

Flashbacks and flash-forwards are the latest trend in giving TV viewers a headache

Matthew McConaughey returns to HBO — and a breakthrough role

HBO’s ‘Q: Into the Storm’ takes a deep dive into conspiracy culture

music

The era of genius worship must end with James Levine

Scullers joins five other East Coast clubs for a virtual jazzfest

An energetic Grammys, with nods to the real world

Theater/Dance

‘The Conjurors’ Club’ is not quite magical enough

Jacob’s Pillow is a go with an all-outdoor dance festival

In ‘A Brimful of Asha’ and ‘The Pink Unicorn,’ mothers grapple with the independence and identities of their children

globe local

Olympia Fencing Center expands into Newton

Instead of wrapping paper, PTOs turn to food trucks as a tasty way to raise funds

In Newton, Hebrew College to relocate to Temple Reyim as part of ‘shared campus’

Obituaries

Dick Hoyt, ‘heart and soul of the Boston Marathon,’ dies at 80

James Levine, disgraced former Met Opera maestro and BSO music director, is dead at 77

Ronald DeFeo Jr., whose slayings of family members launched ‘The Amityville Horror,’ dies at 69