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A rendering of Don Chiofaro's proposed tower on the Boston waterfront.
Judge nixes downtown harbor plan, imperiling long-planned skyscraper on Harbor Garage
Suffolk County judge Brian Davis this week dealt a potentially major blow to plans for a skyscraper on the edge of Boston Harbor in a ruling that could have broad implications for waterfront development all over Massachusetts.

Community colleges will receive a lifeline in new stimulus package

Across Massachusetts, community colleges are hoping the latest and largest infusion of aid — the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan recently signed by President Biden — will serve as incentive to keep students in school and bring back many of those who have walked away from their degree programs.

Opening Day

Kiké Hernández had a mixed debut for the Red Sox, including failing to come up with a critical ground ball in the sixth inning.
ORIOLES 3, RED SOX 0

Instant analysis: Opening Day is not necessarily a harbinger of what’s to come for 2021 Red Sox

Despite being limited to just two hits by John Means and Orioles relievers Friday, Boston's lineup should provide a lot more punch this season.

Red Sox bats go silent in Opening Day dud at Fenway Park

Red Sox owners John Henry and Tom Werner break their silence with radio interview
DAN SHAUGHNESSY

The refrain of Opening Day at Fenway: Sox have 161 to go better than that

More Opening Day coverage ⟶
Representative Matt Gaetz.

Prosecutors examine possible payments for sex in Matt Gaetz probe

Federal prosecutors are examining whether Florida Representative Matt Gaetz and a political ally who is facing sex trafficking allegations may have paid underage girls or offered them gifts in exchange for sex.
Few in GOP rush to defend Gaetz amid sex trafficking probe
Lt. Richard Zimmerman of the Minneapolis Police Department, testified on Friday in the trial of former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin at the Hennepin County Courthouse in Minneapolis, Minn.
Derek Chauvin trial

Kneeling on George Floyd’s neck was ‘totally unnecessary,’ lieutenant testifies at Chauvin trial

Kneeling on George Floyd ‘s neck while he was handcuffed and in the prone position was “top-tier, deadly force” and “totally unnecessary,” the head of the Minneapolis Police Department’s homicide division testified Friday.
Watch live: The trial of Derek Chauvin, ex-cop charged with the murder of George Floyd
Jonathan,10, Madeline, 8, and Benjamin, 6, were recently adopted by Jennifer Tveter of Derry, N.H.

‘It means I have a family.’ N.H. woman adopts three siblings who spent 4 years in state care

Jennifer Tveter, 35, had been a foster parent to Jonathan, 10, Madeline, 8, and Benjamin, 6, since January 2019.
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Bill Belichick has served as inspiration for some memorable memes.
What is the best Bill Belichick meme of all time?
Belichick’s string of success and his personality make him one of the most meme-worthy individuals in the NFL.

Bruins goalie Tuukka Rask grimaces after he apparently took a shot up high in the first period against the New Jersey Devils March 7.
Tuukka Rask’s status unclear after goalie fails to respond to treatment for upper-body injury
In 15 starts this season, Rask is 8-4-2 with a 2.40 goals-against average.

Ginkgo Bioworks hopes to expand into a life science campus being proposed for Fid Kennedy Avenue in the Seaport District.
Ginkgo Bioworks aims to keep growing with new building in the Seaport
The company, which launched in 2008 as a five-person startup, now has about 500 employees.

Former House Speaker John Boehner.
‘You could be a total moron and get elected’: Boehner’s new book takes swipes at Republicans
In an essay adapted from his new book and published by Politico on Friday, former House Speaker John Boehner unloads on members of the House past and present, as well as right-wing media personalities.

LOVE LETTERS
Love Letters
Wife wants to go on a college tour with her ex
Are exes who co-parent supposed to go on college tours together? Sleep in the same hotel room? This letter writer wants to know.

Vincent Petryk, founder and owner of J.P. Licks, opened the ice cream shop's doors in Jamaica Plain in 1981. The shop has remained a Boston staple ever since.
As Boston ice cream shop J.P. Licks celebrates its 40th anniversary, expect ‘flavors from the vault’
Vincent Petryk, founder and owner of the shop, said the business has come a long way from its original 500-square foot space, which he said had “just enough room in the basement for our freezer and ice cream machine.”

Opinion

A voter submits a ballot in an official drop box during early voting in Athens, Ga., Oct. 19, 2020. A new Georgia law, among other constraints on voting, restricts the availability of drop boxes for absentee ballots.
EDITORIAL

MLB, corporate leaders wake up to assault on voting rights

The question remains: What’s the long-term plan to protect the citizens of Georgia and other states threatened with disenfranchisement?
Anti-coup demonstrators prepare to confront police on Thursday in Yangon, Myanmar.
IDEAS | CHARLES DUNST

How to keep Myanmar from becoming another US failure
Ethiopian refugees in Hamdayet, Sudan, on Dec. 4. This is the first stop for new arrivals after crossing the border.
MARCELA GARCÍA

Is Biden afraid of appearing too soft on immigration?
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
A new red scare is sweeping the land — or certain pixilated right-wing precincts of it, anyway.
SCOT LEHIGH

Beware the red scare

Recommended reads

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

frozen four

How UMass became a national power in men’s hockey under Greg Carvel

In five seasons, Carvel has taken the Minutemen to two Frozen Fours, and he was the national Coach of the Year in 2019.

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.
Globe Magazine

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.
Globe Magazine

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

When oligarchs and ultra-wealthy around the world game the system to hide riches in Boston and other cities, everyone else pays.

metro

Governor Charlie Baker spoke in Chelsea on Thursday.

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.

Community colleges will receive a lifeline in new stimulus package

Michael Friedlander, urban architect of offbeat designs, dies at 63

Sports

Kevin Durant came under fire this week for inappropriate messages sent to actor Michael Rapaport, and was fined by the NBA Friday.
Sports Log

Kevin Durant fined $50,000 for offensive language on social media

Durant apologized for the comments Thursday.
DAN SHAUGHNESSY

The refrain of Opening Day at Fenway: Sox have 161 to go better than that

Tuukka Rask’s status unclear after goalie fails to respond to treatment for upper-body injury

business

The set of Harvard Business School's 24th annual New Venture Competition, which was held virtually this year because of the pandemic.

Plant-based diapers and tech for construction companies: A look at the winners from Harvard’s annual business competition

The US job engine shifts into high gear

Ginkgo Bioworks aims to keep growing with new building in the Seaport

politics

Representative Matt Gaetz

Few in GOP rush to defend Gaetz amid sex trafficking probe

Capitol Police officer killed after driver rams car into two officers outside US Capitol

Prosecutors examine possible payments for sex in Matt Gaetz probe

Living Arts

Vincent Petryk, founder and owner of J.P. Licks, opened the ice cream shop's doors in Jamaica Plain in 1981. The shop has remained a Boston staple ever since.

As Boston ice cream shop J.P. Licks celebrates its 40th anniversary, expect ‘flavors from the vault’
TELEVISION

3 singers with Boston ties advance to ‘American Idol’ all-star duets
TELEVISION

Roberts, Penn sign on for Starz’s ‘Gaslit’

education

Greenfield Community College student Tylor Gosselin did her school work on a laptop as her 9-year-old triplets, Toby, Hunter, and Carter, played nearby in their Hawley home.

Community colleges will receive a lifeline in new stimulus package

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

rhode island

Angelica Romero, 30, was inoculated with the Moderna vaccine by pharmacy student Kayla Sepe at Central Falls High School in Rhode Island in February.
CORONAVIRUS

If you’re 50 or older in RI, you can book an appointment Monday -- with a pharmacy
RI NEWS

Ancient coins found in R.I. may solve mystery of murderous 1600s pirate
RI BUSINESS

How could the American Jobs Plan improve Rhode Island’s infrastructure?

Newton

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Comfort Zone

COMFORT ZONE
Hikers took in views from the boardwalk at Stony Brook Wildlife Sanctuary in Norfolk.
5 boardwalks to elevate the hiking experience
These trails are accessible, kid-friendly, and just a skip from Boston.

TELEVISION
From left: Brennan Hepler (whose stage name is Beane), Grace Kinstler, and Colin Jamieson have made the Top 24 on "American Idol."
3 singers with Boston ties advance to ‘American Idol’ all-star duets
Locals will sing April 4 and 5 with Joss Stone, Josh Groban, and Tori Kelly.

Einat Cohen's “Royal & Gold Textured Bell-Shaped Earrings,” made with tyvek paper and resin.
CraftBoston permanently hangs its sign online
A forever version of the popular expo kicks off with an online earrings show.

FIRST PERSON
Online museum tours have been big during the pandemic.
Even in a year of staying put, I’ve gone far and wide — and even learned to folk dance
I’m taking full advantage of the virtual content that organizations have been offering during the pandemic. And it has gotten me through what would otherwise be a lonely time.

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.

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

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 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
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
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

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
Malcolm Cawthorne at Brookline High School.
on the cover

The exhaustion of being a Black teacher in a school when you’re one of too few educators of color

Illustration of someone shoveling piles of money.
Excerpt

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

An illustration of a pair of scissors cutting through a pair of blue and white checked boxer shorts.
Connections

What would it take to teach my son not to leave his boxers on the bathroom floor?
Rigatoni With Roman Broccoli Sauce.
Cooking

Recipes: Pasta dishes that take a break from red sauce

sports

Kiké Hernández had a mixed debut for the Red Sox, including failing to come up with a critical ground ball in the sixth inning.

Instant analysis: Opening Day is not necessarily a harbinger of what’s to come for 2021 Red Sox

Red Sox bats go silent in Opening Day dud at Fenway Park

MLB All-Star Game to move out of Atlanta in wake of Georgia’s voting-restriction legislation

metro

Jonathan,10, Madeline, 8, and Benjamin, 6, were recently adopted by Jennifer Tveter of Derry, N.H.

‘It means I have a family.’ N.H. woman adopts three siblings who spent 4 years in state care

If you’re 50 or older in RI, you can book an appointment Monday -- with a pharmacy

Opening Day at Fenway Park, kind of

Nation

Lt. Richard Zimmerman of the Minneapolis Police Department, testified on Friday in the trial of former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin at the Hennepin County Courthouse in Minneapolis, Minn.

Kneeling on George Floyd’s neck was ‘totally unnecessary,’ lieutenant testifies at Chauvin trial

Few in GOP rush to defend Gaetz amid sex trafficking probe

Capitol Police officer killed after driver rams car into two officers outside US Capitol

World

A woman received a COVID-19 vaccination at a pharmacy in Paris last month.

Vaccine ‘fiasco’ damages Europe’s credibility

Taiwan train crash kills dozens in deadliest accident in decades

‘Mommy, I have bad news’: For child migrants, Mexico can be the end of the road

politics

Former House speaker John Boehner

Biden administration reverses Trump decision, will provide $1 billion a month more in emergency food assistance

‘You could be a total moron and get elected’: Boehner’s new book takes swipes at Republicans

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

business

A rendering of Don Chiofaro's proposed tower on the Boston waterfront.

Judge nixes downtown harbor plan, imperiling long-planned skyscraper on Harbor Garage

US adds 916,000 jobs in March, nearly double February’s gain

FDA authorizes two changes to Moderna’s vaccine

lifestyle

Hikers took in views from the boardwalk at Stony Brook Wildlife Sanctuary in Norfolk.

5 boardwalks to elevate the hiking experience

Breweries team up for a Travis Roy tribute beer

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

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

A voter submits a ballot in an official drop box during early voting in Athens, Ga., Oct. 19, 2020. A new Georgia law, among other constraints on voting, restricts the availability of drop boxes for absentee ballots.

MLB, corporate leaders wake up to assault on voting rights

Is Biden afraid of appearing too soft on immigration?

How to keep Myanmar from becoming another US failure

food & dining

Vincent Petryk, founder and owner of J.P. Licks, opened the ice cream shop's doors in Jamaica Plain in 1981. The shop has remained a Boston staple ever since.

As Boston ice cream shop J.P. Licks celebrates its 40th anniversary, expect ‘flavors from the vault’

Breweries team up for a Travis Roy tribute beer

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

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

From left: Brennan Hepler (whose stage name is Beane), Grace Kinstler, and Colin Jamieson have made the Top 24 on "American Idol."

3 singers with Boston ties advance to ‘American Idol’ all-star duets

Roberts, Penn sign on for Starz’s ‘Gaslit’

Going back for more ‘CSI’

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

Architect Michael Friedlander held a model of a New York Sanitation Department salt shed he designed in front of construction of the building in New York in 2007.

Michael Friedlander, urban architect of offbeat designs, dies at 63

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