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The vaccine was administered Thursday at the East Boston Neighborhood Health Center clinic at La Colaborativa in Chelsea.

Rise in Boston’s COVID-19 rates brings warning for holidays

Amid new evidence that Boston’s COVID positivity rate is continuing to climb, elected officials urged residents to remain vigilant over the upcoming Easter and Passover weekend and Governor Charlie Baker announced vaccination efforts in the state’s hardest-hit communities.
These 55 Massachusetts communities are at high risk for COVID-19 More COVID-19 news, resources, and guidelines

La Colaborativa executive director Gladys Vega spoke Thursday at the East Boston Neighborhood Health Center vaccine clinic in Chelsea.
Baker says future Johnson & Johnson shipments to Massachusetts are ‘under review’ by federal government
A mistake by a contractor that ruined millions of J&J's coveted one-shot vaccine won’t jeopardize the 100,000 doses coming to Massachusetts next week. But the mishap could threaten what was expected to be a surge of vaccine supply in the coming weeks, state officials said.

FDA authorizes two changes to Modern’a vaccine Kevin Cullen: Baker is planted between the extremes of the state's polar opposite political ideologies

Opening Day 2021

John Kilroy, 84, is ready to attend another Opening Day at Fenway Park.
From Teddy Ballgame to Yaz, he’s seen it all from his seat at Fenway Park
Flags will wave. An anthem will be sung. And another baseball season like no other will begin. And, again, John Kilroy will be there.

Chad Finn | With the Red Sox rained out yesterday, let’s play the prediction game instead Red Sox do some remodeling to welcome fans back

Bobby Dalbec is not your typical No. 9 hitter — and he may not stay in that spot in the order.
Bobby Dalbec’s opposite-field blasts are a powerful indicator of his potential
His strikeout rate as a Red Sox rookie last year was unsettlingly high, but there is reason to believe he will improve in that area.

A Q&A with Xander Bogaerts Red Sox place Eduardo Rodriguez on the injured list

Providence superintendent: ‘We’ve paid more than $400,000 in union dues for people that don’t exist’

The city school department is refusing to pay any more, but the union president argues that the district is attempting to “exert authority they don’t have.”

Then-acting labor secretary Seth Harris held a round-table discussion with low wage workers at the ABCD Food Bank in Roxbury in 2013..
Biden and Walsh are strongly pro-union. But some progressives worry a top White House aide falls short on a big labor issue
The appointment of Seth Harris, who served as acting labor secretary in the Obama administration, has raised alarms with some liberals because of his work in recent years that they consider unfriendly to organized labor.

Justice Dept. inquiry into Matt Gaetz said to be focused on cash paid to women

A Justice Department investigation into Representative Matt Gaetz and an indicted Florida politician is focusing on their involvement with multiple women who were recruited online for sex and received cash payments, according to people close to the investigation and text messages and payment receipts reviewed by The New York Times.

Analysis
President Joe Biden.
The deadline is approaching for Biden to make a huge — and little-discussed — decision. And there is no easy answer
President Biden faces a May 1 deadline to withdraw troops from Afghanistan.

Maura Healey finds consumers still losing millions by switching electricity suppliers

No vehicle inspections in Mass. through Sunday due to malware attack on vendor
Officials outside the scene of the shooting.

Police say gunman who killed four at California office knew all of the victims

A gunman who killed four people, including a 9-year-old boy, in a rampage at a Southern California office building knew all the victims and his motive may have involved personal or business relationships, police said. A family member on Thursday identified one of the victims.
Witness David Pleoger, a retired Minneapolis police sergeant, during testimony in the trial of former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin.
Derek Chauvin Trial

Officers could have ended Floyd restraint, duty sergeant said

A Minneapolis police supervisory sergeant testified on the fourth day at the trial of since-fired officer Derek Chauvin, who is charged with the murder and manslaughter in George Floyd’s death. The sergeant noted that officers are trained to roll people on their side to help with breathing after being restrained.
Floyd’s girlfriend recounts shared struggle with addiction
Bruins goaltender Dan Vladar was under siege by the Penguins in the first period.
Penguins 4, Bruins 1

Bruins can’t execute in lackluster loss to the Penguins, and look like a fourth-place team

The Bruins submitted a dreadful first period and could not keep up with the speedy Penguins.
For young Bruins called out by the coach, their time to respond is now
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Globe Magazine

Malcolm Cawthorne at Brookline High School.
The exhaustion of being a Black teacher in a school when you’re one of too few educators of color
As well-intentioned schools with mostly white staffs scramble to respond to a reckoning on racism, an “invisible tax” of work falls on too few teachers and administrators like Malcolm Cawthorne in Brookline.

Illustration of someone shoveling piles of money.

The costs of a secretive ‘wealth defense industry’ of shell companies, offshore tax havens, and empty luxury condos

A photo illustration of Boston Latin School's exterior being erased by a pencil.
Perspective

It’s time for Boston to start talking about closing its exam schools

Improving the admissions process won't change the systemic disparities created by selective schools.

1858-kennebago-river-road-stetson-maine-main-living
Home of the Week: The trout don’t want you to buy this Maine lodge
In the Rangely Lakes area, a home for the fly-fishing enthusiast beckons.

Looking to spruce up your home this spring? Here’s what you need to know

Marshalee Ellis-Kehlhem sang during a recent Sunday service held remotely from The Greater Framingham Community Church.
‘Death didn’t have the final say’: Easter delivers a message of hope after a year filled with despair
Even as they acknowledge the loss of life and economic devastation caused by COVID-19, some church leaders say there is reason to feel optimism and even joy this season.

Christians mark Good Friday as holy sites gradually reopen

Baker signs bill freezing unemployment rates for employers, excluding federal loans from taxation

The new law maintains current unemployment insurance rates for 2021 and 2022, which will prevent a 60 percent increase from hitting employers, and does not tax Paycheck Protection Program loans and Economic Injury Disaster Loan advances, according to a Thursday letter from Governor Charlie Baker to the Senate and the House.
Baker, Healey name 9 members to new Peace Officer Standards and Training Commission

Providence, RI - 5/28/20 - The Rhode Island State House on May 28, 2020. (Blake Nissen/ For The Boston Globe)
Governor McKee raises concerns about the ‘Act on Climate’ bill
Rhode Island’s new governor says only the attorney general should be allowed to sue to enforce greenhouse gas reduction law.

Russ Berg of Noar's Oil makes a delivery in the Greenwood Parkway neighborhood.
‘It’s going to hurt us’: Heating oil industry fights effort to eliminate state’s rebates
Popular rebates and no-interest loans provided by the Mass Save program would be eliminated in January. The ramifications could be huge for the 700,000-plus homeowners in the state who use heating oil — as well as for companies that serve them.

First lady Jill Biden.
Jill Biden treats reporters to April Fools’ Day prank
Reporters traveling with first lady Jill Biden got an April Fools’ Day surprise on their flight back from California to Washington on Thursday.

Opinion

Bystanders watch as demonstrators march against anti-Asian violence in New York City on March 27.
IDEAS | NOAH Y. KIM

The power and the perils of an Asian American political awakening

The surge in hate crimes is feeding a new spirit of solidarity. But it’s also renewing a longstanding question for the movement: How do disparate sets of people unite without flattening their substantial differences?
Former secretary of state Mike Pompeo speaks at the West Side Conservative Club in Urbandale, Iowa, on March 26.
Jeff Jacoby

No! It’s too soon for the 2024 campaign
A new red scare is sweeping the land — or certain pixilated right-wing precincts of it, anyway.
SCOT LEHIGH

Beware the red scare
A sign outside the Capitol Rotunda in February memorializes Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick, who died after the Jan. 6 insurrection.
Kimberly Atkins

Civil suits could be the path to holding Trump accountable for the insurrection
Vivien Leigh and Marlon Brando in the 1951 film, which cut against the grain of Hollywood's usual populist consensus.
IDEAS | TOM JOUDREY

Stanley Kowalski’s populist rage was a prescient warning

Recommended reads

People waited in line to get their vaccination in Danvers.
Experts say ‘herd immunity’ could conquer COVID-19. But is it even possible?
The idea of “herd immunity” is simple enough: if enough people are vaccinated or otherwise become immune to the virus, it will run out of bodies to infect and eventually smolder out. But as the nationwide vaccine drive kicks into high gear, the concept of herd immunity is fraying under the scrutiny.

After 14 months of COVID-induced isolation, there was one thing they missed most: their grandchildren

Finally, the grandchildren would be here any minute. For more than a year, Jackie Jones and Jeffrey Abramson had ached for this moment.

‘One of the weirdest interviews I’ve ever conducted’: Matt Gaetz appears on Tucker Carlson amid misconduct allegations

The segment left Carlson so befuddled that once the conversation wrapped up, he concluded: “That was one of the weirdest interviews I’ve ever conducted.”

Slain Cambridge man, 19, remembered for ‘touching the lives of so many people’

Louis-Jacques was fatally shot early Saturday near the Rindge Park courts in Cambridge.

‘I wouldn’t want his job.’ Despite criticism, Baker gets high marks for pandemic handling in new poll

Most Commonwealth residents are giving Governor Charlie Baker the benefit of the doubt as he grapples with an unenviable situation, navigating a tight supply of COVID-19 vaccines and a stubborn virus that’s upended nearly every aspect of daily life, a survey by Suffolk University and The Boston Globe found.

metro

Providence, RI - 5/28/20 - The Rhode Island State House on May 28, 2020. (Blake Nissen/ For The Boston Globe)
RI POLITICS

Governor McKee raises concerns about the ‘Act on Climate’ bill

New governor says only the attorney general should be allowed to sue to enforce greenhouse gas reduction law.

No vehicle inspections in Mass. through Sunday due to malware attack on vendor

Baker signs bill freezing unemployment rates for employers, excluding federal loans from taxation

Sports

On a designed running play, Framingham quarterback Cody Coleman (2) is pursued by Winthrop's Bryan Conceicao (30), Ian Harris (45) and Mike Carter (70) at Miller Field Thursday night.

Unbeaten Winthrop picks off a sizable victory, stopping No. 15 Framingham

Senior quarterback Duke Doherty directed an efficient attack and the Viking D snared three interceptions.
Penguins 4, Bruins 1

Bruins can’t execute in lackluster loss to the Penguins, and look like a fourth-place team

COVID-19 concerns postpone Nationals-Mets opener in D.C.

business

A man received his first dose of the Moderna vaccine.

FDA authorizes two changes to Moderna’s vaccine

Maura Healey finds consumers still losing millions by switching electricity suppliers

Looking to spruce up your home this spring? Here’s what you need to know.

politics

President Joe Biden.
Analysis

The deadline is approaching for Biden to make a huge — and little-discussed — decision. And there is no easy answer

Jill Biden treats reporters to April Fools’ Day prank

Biden and Walsh are strongly pro-union. But some progressives worry a top White House aide falls short on a big labor issue

Living Arts

Rickie Lee Jones
BOOKS

Rickie Lee Jones, memoirist: candid, cosmic, and so cool

What’s happening in the arts world
MOVIES

Michelle Pfeiffer on making an entrance in ‘French Exit’

education

Mass. education commissioner proposes waiving MCAS requirement for Class of 2022

Mass. reports highest weekly coronavirus case count in public schools all academic year: 801 student cases, 244 among staff

If Mass. doesn’t have a robust summer school this year, ‘shame on us,’ Baker says

rhode island

Providence, RI - 5/28/20 - The Rhode Island State House on May 28, 2020. (Blake Nissen/ For The Boston Globe)
RI POLITICS

Governor McKee raises concerns about the ‘Act on Climate’ bill
RI EDUCATION

Providence superintendent: ‘We’ve paid more than $400,000 in union dues for people that don’t exist’
CORONAVIRUS

Experts worried about increase in COVID-19 infections in R.I.

Newton

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Comfort Zone

Text and photographs from MARTHA STEWART’S VERY GOOD THINGS. Copyright © 2021 by Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Inc. Used by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Martha Stewart wants to help you turn up the charming
The gorgeous "Martha Stewart's Very Good Things" is packed with lovely little lifehacks for your home.

MUSIC
Andre 3000 and Rick Rubin at Shangri-La, Rubin's studio in Malibu, Calif.
A very good podcast about songs and songwriting
An old Bob Dylan tour bus serves as the studio for "Broken Record," a podcast about music-making.

BOKS wants to make movement and play a part of every child's day.
‘Boston Back In Motion’ campaign aims to keep kids active as schools reopen
The Boston Foundation and its partners are launching Back in Motion, a month-long movement to encourage children to exercise and “show us their moves.”

Cooking | Magazine
Rigatoni With Roman Broccoli Sauce.
Recipes: Pasta dishes that take a break from red sauce
Broccoli, spinach, and asparagus step in for tomatoes in these three simple weeknight dishes.

COMFORT ZONE
Six horticulturists are charged with transporting the nasturtiums from the museum’s Hingham greenhouse Tuesday.
Hope blooms again as nasturtiums return to the Gardner Museum
The spring tradition is especially sweet after a cancellation in 2020.

Special Projects

The Globe launches Project Takeout, an effort to help restaurants make it to the other side of this pandemic.
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

A man repacked the food he got from a food pantry on Broadway in Chelsea. Chelsea has been one of the places in Greater Boston hardest hit by the pandemic.

In tackling the pandemic, Chelsea finds new strength
A mural on the side of the Mayor Bill Carpenter Garage in Brockton.

Brockton offers a gateway to a new generation
Evening light sets upon stores and restaurants on Hancock Street in Quincy Center.

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

On Tuesday, mourners gathered at a makeshift memorial for the eight people who were killed on March 21 during attacks on three Atlanta-area spas.
EDITORIAL

Massachusetts’ hate crimes law needs an update

Sylvia Whitman inside the English and American literature Shakespeare and Co. bookstore, in Paris on Nov. 5. In February, following months of intense lobbying on the part of booksellers and the reading public, the French government decreed bookshops to be essential businesses.
IDEAS | OLIVIA SNAIJE

Another lockdown, but this time Parisians demand bookstores stay open
Decades of research show the costs of segregation are enormous. Academic performance suffers. Adult earnings, too. And students of all races miss out on vital opportunities to prepare for life in an increasingly multicultural society.
EDITORIAL

Time for state lawmakers to act on school integration

President Joe Biden Biden's infrastructure plan, part of his “Build Back Better” package, would boost clean power.
Joseph E. Stiglitz

Biden’s infrastructure plan calls for tax increases, and that’s a good thing
If infrastructure money comes through for the east-west rail link, no one expects such drama in Massachusetts. It’s more a question of priorities, and who’s driving the train — Baker or “Governor” Neal?
Joan Vennochi

With infrastructure money, who’s driving the train? Gov. Baker or ‘Gov.’ Neal?
IDEAS | LINDA RODRIGUEZ MCROBBIE

Just what is the BettyLab cooking up for girls?

STAT

Road ahead illo
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.

Ahoskie Mayor Weyling White, left, and Hertford County Magistrate Deborah Morrison, right, pose for a portrait on railroad tracks that divide the predominantly White and predominantly Black parts of town in Ahoskie, N.C., Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2020. (Photo © Landon Bost 2020)
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.

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - FEBRUARY 12: People walk through the snow and sleet in Manhattan on February 12, 2019 in New York City. New York City, in a winter that has been light on snow this season, is expected to receive two inches of snow before the storm moves later this evening. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
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.

Boston, MA -- 06/04/2020 -- Yoldana Desir displays a photograph of her late sister, Marie Deus, who died of Covid-19, after contracting it as a food service worker at Brigham and Women's Hospital, in Boston, Massachusetts. (Kayana Szymczak for STAT)
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
A ball of dry brown garden grass.
Perspective

Lawn care for the lazy: Turns out being eco-friendly can be the easy way
Illustration highlighting popular home renovation trends, including touchless faucets and backyard putting greens.
Globe Magazine

Most-wanted COVID-19 home renovations: More space, touchless faucets, and ... putting greens?
Savory Bread Pudding With Mushrooms, Gruyère, and Tarragon.
Cooking

Make-ahead recipes for Easter brunch
An illustration of William Shakespeare peeking through writing quills.
On the cover

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

sports

"I’m just happy to see my name on the first page of the leaderboard," Michelle Wie West said after the first round Thursday.

Michelle Wie West back on leaderboard at ANA Inspiration

Unbeaten East Boston grinds out a City League win against rival English

Paige Bueckers, Aari McDonald propel UConn and Arizona to Final Four

metro

Mass. education commissioner proposes waiving MCAS requirement for Class of 2022

Rise in Boston’s COVID-19 rates brings warning for holidays

Providence superintendent: ‘We’ve paid more than $400,000 in union dues for people that don’t exist’

Nation

President Joe Biden.

The deadline is approaching for Biden to make a huge — and little-discussed — decision. And there is no easy answer

Police say gunman who killed four at California office knew all of the victims

Officers could have ended Floyd restraint, duty sergeant said

World

Rescue workers near the site of a partial train derailment in Toroko Gorge in Taiwan's eastern Hualien region.

Train derails in eastern Taiwan, killing 48, injuring dozens

Christians mark Good Friday as holy sites gradually reopen

Myanmar soldiers, aiming to silence protests, target journalists

politics

Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla.,, speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Orlando, Fla. on Feb. 26, 2021.

Pelosi: Remove Representative Gaetz from committee if claims are true

Biden holds first Cabinet meeting amid infrastructure push

‘Wrong guy’: Journalist with strikingly similar name to Matt Gaetz has to defend himself on Twitter

business

Steve Connelly is president of Connelly Partners ad agency in Boston, which purchased VRX Studios ad agency in Vancouver.

Boston ad agency expands into Canada

Fox News takes on late-night comedy with right-leaning show

Justices uphold FCC’s easing of local media ownership limits

lifestyle

The Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge is a great place for bird-watching during migration months.

When bird is the word

Even in a year of staying put, I’ve gone far and wide — and even learned to folk dance

Can I reach out for a second chance?

marijuana

New York legalizes recreational marijuana

Prominent executive at NETA parent company fired after husband opens competing marijuana store

New York lawmakers agree to legalize recreational marijuana

opinion

Bystanders watch as demonstrators march against anti-Asian violence in New York City on March 27.

The power and the perils of an Asian American political awakening

No! It’s too soon for the 2024 campaign

Stanley Kowalski’s populist rage was a prescient warning

food & dining

Travis Roy greets supporters at the Travis Roy Foundation Whiffle Ball Tournament in 2013.

Breweries team up for a Travis Roy tribute beer

Where to dine al fresco, plus sweet deals at J.P. Licks

Jinny’s Pizzeria makes takeout pies exciting again

travel

The author’s son, Sam Wright, 9, explores a wintery landscape while hiking along the Nooksack River in Washington’s Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, during a winter camping trip in February.

Reflecting on a winter of snow camping and its many peaceful pleasures

Love animals? Here are some things not to do on your next vacation

When she needs a break, she zips down to the Cape for a lobster roll

Books

A new biography presents the unvarnished Philip Roth, revealing a complex man

Andrea Lee on living in Italy, and reading in English

Searching for ways to understand and survive ‘Girlhood’

Movies

Michelle Pfeiffer in "French Exit."

Michelle Pfeiffer on making an entrance in ‘French Exit’

Ken Burns: many hours, special moments

Oscar shorts nominees; madame, he’s Adam

Television

William Petersen (pictured with Marg Helgenberger in "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation") will return to the role of Gil Grissom in "CSI: Vegas."

There’s more than a little originality in the latest ‘CSI’ retread

In the film ‘Hysterical,’ female comics shine a light on some dark places

This American larger than life

music

Rickie Lee Jones

Rickie Lee Jones, memoirist: candid, cosmic, and so cool

Maxwell’s slow-burning debut still simmers after 25 years

Groupmuse aims for ‘structural change’ with switch to musician-owned business model

Theater/Dance

The renowned Shakespeare & Company theater group in Massachusetts plans to resume live, in-person performances this summer with a production of “King Lear,” starring Christopher Lloyd (pictured). The organization said in a statement this week that “King Lear” will run July 2 through Aug. 29.

Shakespeare & Company to resume live, in-person performances this summer

From the lived experiences of scientists, Melinda Lopez crafts ‘Young Nerds of Color’

Reagle Music Theatre founder Robert J. Eagle to retire after 52 years

globe local

Marshalee Ellis-Kehlhem sang during a recent Sunday service held remotely from The Greater Framingham Community Church.

‘Death didn’t have the final say’: Easter delivers a message of hope after a year filled with despair

Should Massachusetts require auto insurers to refund premiums with people driving less during the pandemic?

Beverly Beckham: Love one another? It seems we have done everything but

Obituaries

Mr. Schmautz battled for the puck with Montreal Canadiens' Larry Robinson during Game Six of the NHL Stanley Cup semifinals at the Boston Garden in 1979.

Bobby Schmautz, whose OT goal lifted the Bruins in 1978 finals, dies at 76

G. Gordon Liddy, undercover operative convicted in Watergate scandal, dies at 90

Jack Bradley, photographer of Louis Armstrong and jazz luminaries, dies at 87