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Mass. approves dozens of requests from districts to delay full-time school reopening

State Education Commissioner Jeffrey Riley has approved requests from 58 school districts seeking to delay reopening their lower grades full time, but is taking more time to consider requests from Boston and Worcester, officials said.
1,476 coronavirus cases, 20 deaths, and 64,239 vaccinations reported in Mass.

Charlie Baker defends vaccine rollout at legislative panel

Governor Charlie Baker on Tuesday defended his administration’s use of mass vaccination sites to administer the coronavirus vaccines, saying it was “very much in line with the recommendations of the federal government and health experts.”
The latest coronavirus numbers from Mass. Vaccine information in the state

Walsh sworn in as labor secretary by Vice President Harris
His longtime partner, Lorrie Higgins, was at his side in the ceremony in Washington.

From Dorchester to D.C.: Marty Walsh’s departure is a ‘bittersweet’ experience for him

On her first day as acting mayor, Kim Janey visits Charlestown school where she was bused

Janey returned to Edwards Middle School not as a scared child but as Boston’s first Black mayor and female mayor. Her presence at that school at this historic milestone in Boston’s history captured the progress the city she loves has made in her lifetime.
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DEVRA FIRST

Boston has a long tradition of Asian women chefs and restaurateurs

Here are some standout businesses to celebrate and support.
New fund launches to help Chinatown restaurants, residents

City tells Fenway Park street vendors they can open on April 1

The City of Boston reversed course Tuesday and decided to allow the Fenway Park street vendors to sell food from their pushcarts as of Opening Day.
peter abraham | on baseball

Some non-statistical observations from Red Sox spring training

The numbers in the Grapefruit League mean nothing, but there are conclusions to be drawn from other things.

obituary
Charley Hill, art detective who found ‘The Scream’ and studied the Gardner heist, dies at 73
Mr. Hill was convinced that South Boston crime boss James 'Whitey' Bulger had knowledge of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum heist.

Prince Harry joins coaching startup as chief impact officer
Prince Harry has joined the corporate world as employee coaching and mental health firm BetterUp Inc.’s Chief Impact Officer.

Democrats refuse to back nominees until Biden taps more Asian Americans

The Senate’s two Asian American Democrats called on President Joe Biden on Tuesday to address what they called an unacceptable dearth of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders serving in top posts in his administration, promising to withhold their votes for any nominee who is white or straight until he did so.

Slower mail, fewer office hours part of Postal Service plans
Postmaster General Louis DeJoy on Tuesday announced plans to slow mail delivery standards and cut hours at some post offices as part of a 10-year strategy to stabilize the struggling agency.

Hong Kong suspends Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines over packaging defects

Hong Kong suspended vaccinations using Pfizer-BioNTech shots Wednesday after they were informed by distributor Fosun PHARMA that one batch had defective bottle lids.
AstraZeneca’s latest stumble again clouds European vaccinations

Middlesex district attorney seeks help naming new comfort dog
In honor of National Puppy Day, Middlesex district attorney’s office is asking children across the county to help name their newest member—their first comfort dog, a black male lab.

Opinion

Grading Massachusetts on COVID-19 vaccination
Renée Graham

A shot against COVID-19 — and a fear of needles

Millions of people suffer from needle phobia. They shouldn’t let that prevent them from getting vaccinated.
Kim Janey

Hello, Boston — it’s a new day for the city
Martin J. Walsh

Goodbye and thank you, Boston
EDITORIAL

A new window for gun reform
LETTERS

When it comes to gun violence, the issue is clear

Announcing: The Emancipator

A collaboration between BU's Center for Antiracist Research and The Boston Globe's Opinion team.
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‘Surprise, here’s a pandemic’: For the second time, their birthdays fall during COVID
Sure, things are looking up — the weather’s improving, businesses are reopening, and more people are getting vaccinated by the day — but for the second straight year, many birthdays passed with hardly a hint of fanfare.

Nine Zero terminates majority of staff, the latest Boston hotel to cut workers

The Kimpton Nine Zero Hotel, a high-end property in downtown Boston, terminated the majority of its staff Monday, the fourth hotel in the city to terminate furloughed workers as the industry struggles to recover from devastating financial losses brought on by the pandemic.
Globe Magazine

How a college dropout in New Hampshire found a Shakespeare secret all the PhDs missed

Dennis McCarthy, a self-taught scholar working from his dinner table, is challenging decades of scholarship on the origins of the Bard’s greatest work.

Spring fever is real. And it’s a mess

With the clocks moved forward an hour and daylight stretching past 12 hours, the annual phenomenon has arrived in full, fidgety force.

Chart: How much money will each Mass. town receive from the American Rescue Plan?

Massachusetts is set to receive more than $2 billion in direct aid. Where is that money going?

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RI POLITICS

Rhode Island’s Act on Climate bill passes House, 53-22

Republicans objected to giving “faceless bureaucrats” rather than elected officials power over the climate change plan, which makes the state’s greenhouse gas reduction goals mandatory.

Middlesex district attorney seeks help naming new comfort dog
JENÉE OSTERHELDT

We need more than thoughts, prayers, and gestures. We need gun reform

Sports

GIRLS' VOLLEYBALL NOTEBOOK

Mashpee makes history, and is making the most of its abbreviated first varsity season

The Falcons, who have 11 players on the varsity team and 24 total in the program, posted their first win last week when they slipped past South Shore League foe Carver in five sets.
sports

Heat opening vaccinated-only sections for fans on April 1
bruins notebook

Bruce Cassidy hopeful that Bruins will be back at practice Wednesday

business

Hong Kong suspends Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines over packaging defects

Slower mail, fewer office hours part of Postal Service plans

John Hancock offers customers rewards for getting vaccinated

politics

Democrats refuse to back nominees until Biden taps more Asian Americans

Dr. Vivek Murthy, newly confirmed surgeon general, to focus on COVID-19, opioids

Walsh sworn in as labor secretary by Vice President Harris

Living Arts

DEVRA FIRST

Boston has a long tradition of Asian women chefs and restaurateurs

Marvel’s ‘Black Widow’ to debut on Disney+ and in theaters
TELEVISION

Wit and heart are well represented in ‘Call My Agent!’

education

The state board of higher education is pushing community colleges to offer more in-person classes this fall

Mass. approves dozens of requests from districts to delay full-time school reopening

Puerto Rico awarded $900M to help boost island’s education

rhode island

RI POLITICS

Rhode Island’s Act on Climate bill passes House, 53-22
RI CRIME

US Supreme Court to hear R.I. case involving warrantless seizure of guns
AROUND R.I.

The Sweetest Season in Rhode Island

Newton

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Comfort Zone

ARTS
In Beacon Hill, the Golem rises as ‘a protector of all people’ for Passover
Julie Weitz’s “Golem v. Golem” photo installation graces the façade of Beacon Hill's Vilna Shul Jewish center.

‘Crutch’ star went straight from walking to moonwalking
The documentary follows the work of break dancer, skateboarder, and artist Bill Shannon over two decades.

COMFORT ZONE
With vast streaming libraries, what’s old is new again
The streamers know that if they have a solid catalog of old series, they are more likely to attract — and, more important, keep — subscribers.

COMFORT ZONE
By reading (and stretching, and walking, and cooking), employees are rising to the challenge
Columbia, a North Reading construction management firm, is among many companies setting wellness goals for their workers.

COMFORT ZONE
Sudbury singer-songwriter Lauren Weintraub on her Nashville dreams and the ‘random thing’ that got everyone’s attention
The TikTok of her singing “She’s Mine,” recorded in her car, has been viewed over 1.7 million times.

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

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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

EDITORIAL

Money talks: The MBTA walks back service cuts
Elizabeth Dugan

How Massachusetts can become a living laboratory for aging
MARCELA GARCÍA

Border ‘crisis’ misses the big picture
Jean Accius

A living laboratory must close the equity and opportunity gaps

Joan Vennochi

Change the system that allowed for 76 COVID-19 deaths at Soldiers’ Home in Holyoke
IDEAS | LINDA RODRIGUEZ MCROBBIE

Just what is the BettyLab cooking up for girls?

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?

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On the cover

How a college dropout in New Hampshire found a Shakespeare secret all the PhDs missed
Globe Magazine

Inside the effort to build trust in COVID vaccines
Dinner with Cupid

Blind date: ‘I told him to ignore any weird snoring cause my dog was sleeping’
Your Week Ahead

Five things to do online, March 22-28

sports

Canadiens games postponed through Sunday due to COVID-19

Ronaldo’s games are moving to CBS next season

Celtics’ options for the stretch run appear to come down to deal or heal

metro

The state board of higher education is pushing community colleges to offer more in-person classes this fall

Charley Hill, art detective who found ‘The Scream’ and studied the Gardner heist, dies at 73

Massachusetts proves that we don’t have to live with mass shootings

Nation

Biden advocates for tightened gun laws following shooting rampage in Colorado, Atlanta

GOP and allies draft ‘best practices’ for restricting voting

Show your vaccine card, get a free doughnut

World

White House: North Korea conducted short-range missile test

Why India’s farmers fight to save a broken system

Facing sweltering soldiers and flooded ports, NATO to focus on climate change

politics

Democrats campaigned hard on gun control. Will they follow through?

Three things Kim Janey needs to do right now if she wants a full term as Boston’s mayor

DC’s long-simmering statehood push begins in Congress

business

Boston’s convention industry is anxious for signs of life as other parts of the economy reopen

‘We don’t know how long people can hang on’: New fund launches to help Chinatown restaurants, residents

Boston Scientific to pay $2.8 million to Massachuetts in multi-state settlement over surgical mesh devices

lifestyle

Recipe: Make an aromatic rice pilaf with chickpeas and olives for the Passover table

Recipe: Almond torte is a tender, orange-scented cake for the Passover table

A kitchen compost bin you won’t want to hide

marijuana

Five will exit White House over past use of 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

opinion

A new window for gun reform

When it comes to gun violence, the issue is clear

A shot against COVID-19 — and a fear of needles

food & dining

Boston has a long tradition of Asian women chefs and restaurateurs

Recipe: A juicy braised chicken with crispy skin is a festive Seder dish or a mid-week Passover dinner

From Bundt to bunnies

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

Marvel’s ‘Black Widow’ to debut on Disney+ and in theaters

‘Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admission Scandal’ reenacts and reorients a scandal

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

Television

Wit and heart are well represented in ‘Call My Agent!’

With vast streaming libraries, what’s old is new again

This week’s TV: The life of Tina Turner, ‘City on a Hill,’ and the return of ‘Shtisel’

music

Sudbury singer-songwriter Lauren Weintraub on her Nashville dreams and the ‘random thing’ that got everyone’s attention

Strike up the band! Live music will return to Tanglewood this summer

The era of genius worship must end with James Levine

Theater/Dance

‘Crutch’ star went straight from walking to moonwalking

‘The Conjurors’ Club’ is not quite magical enough

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

globe local

A president’s visit, Little League heroics, fires and funerals: A small town rallies to save its history

Tom Brady’s one-time condo in Back Bay is now on the market

Should sports betting be legalized in Massachusetts?

Obituaries

Charley Hill, art detective who found ‘The Scream’ and studied the Gardner heist, dies at 73

George Bass, archaeologist of the ocean floor, dies at 88

Marianne Carus, whose Cricket magazine reached young readers, dies at 92