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Former Boston police commissioner Paul Evans defends handling of 1995 child molestation charges against Patrick Rose

Evans is demanding that the city release the full internal affairs files of an accused child molester, arguing it will show his department did everything it could to hold former patrolman Patrick Rose accountable when the allegations surfaced in 1995.
Read the full statement on Patrick Rose Boston police commissioner was notified of alleged molestation by officer, but patrolman was returned to duty amid union pushback, files show

JENEÉ OSTERHELDT
In Minneapolis, a person reacted after the verdict was read.
This isn’t justice — George Floyd is still dead
This country is many things. Just is not one of them. George Floyd should still be here, instead of being made a martyr for social change.

Justice Dept. to open sweeping investigation into Minneapolis policing
This May 25, 2020, file image from a police body camera shows bystanders including Darnella Frazier, third from right, filming as former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was recorded pressing his knee on George Floyd's neck for more than nine minutes in Minneapolis.

‘Darnella Frazier changed the world’: Following Chauvin verdict, praise pours in for teenager who captured Floyd’s murder

Globe Magazine

Illustration of a house, key, and outdoor activities to go with a story about how the pandemic has affected the real estate market, causing people to want more space and outdoor space in particular.
Top Spots to Live in Greater Boston in 2021
Even amid a pandemic, these 24 communities saw the biggest leaps in house prices north, south, and west of Boston, plus in the city itself.

How remote working brought a real estate boom to the Cape and Berkshires

“This was people making lifestyle decisions,” says one broker on Cape Cod, “this is where they wanted to raise their family.”

City living lost some appeal for condo hunters during the pandemic

Housing prices in some parts of Boston fell, if only a little, for the first time in years.
More Top Spots to Live
A gracious Victorian-era home in Dorchester, Boston’s largest neighborhood.

Boston neighborhoods
Rosebud American Kitchen & Bar in Somerville’s Davis Square.

North of Boston
Springtime at Mass Audubon’s Drumlin Farm in Lincoln.

West of Boston
A view of Buzzards Bay from Marion.

South of Boston
Bobby Valentine, who managed the Red Sox for one season in 2012, has been athletic director at Sacred Heart University in Connecticut since 2013.
stan grossfeld

Catching up with Bobby Valentine, who says he ‘shouldn’t have taken that job’ to manage Red Sox in 2012

Reflecting on his one ill-fated season at the Sox helm, Valentine says there were many problems, including a matter of trust.
Boston, MA - 4/21/2021: Hearts on the Bridge is displayed on the bridge at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, on April 21, 2021.

Brigham and Women’s Hospital holds ceremony, launches display to remember patients and lives lost to pandemic

Brigham and Women’s Hospital held a virtual “Remembrance Ceremony” Wednesday, one year after the hospital’s census of COVID-19 patients peaked with 171 inpatients, officials said.
From left, Tom Werner, Mike Gordon, and John Henry, the three top owners of Fenway Sports Group.
Soccer

John Henry apologizes to Liverpool fans and employees for involvement in failed Super League

Henry said he alone as principal owner was responsible for thrusting the team into the ill-conceived and now abandoned European Super League project.
European Super League implodes as English six, including Fenway Sports Group-owned Liverpool, pull out
Mass. coronavirus at a glance |
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Worcester District Attorney Joe Early addressed the media Wednesday morning outside the Worcester police station after a Worcester police officer fatally shot an armed suspect on Grafton Street early Wednesday.
Man claiming to have rifle, bomb fatally shot by Worcester police during confrontation
At a press briefing Wednesday, Worcester District Attorney Joseph D. Early Jr. identified the man as Phet Gouvonvong, 31, who he said had no prior record.

In an image from a police bodycam video that the Columbus Police Department played during a news conference Tuesday night, a teenage girl, foreground, appeared to wield a knife during an altercation before being shot by a police officer Tuesday in Columbus, Ohio.
Columbus police officer fatally shoots girl swinging knife
Officials showed a segment of the officer's bodycam footage Tuesday night, just hours after the shooting took place. The decision to swiftly release the video was a departure from protocol as the force faces immense scrutiny from the public following a series of recent high-profile police killings that have led to clashes.

More than 65 cats were taken into the Animal Rescue League's possession this week after they were rescued from a breeding facility in Martha's Vineyard in July.
Animal Rescue League will find homes for 65 cats rescued on Martha’s Vineyard
The cats — who were rescued from a Martha’s Vineyard private breeding facility in July 2020 — were officially signed over to the Animal Rescue League this week, officials said.

Color commentator Scott Zolak, producer Marc Cappello, and play by play announcer Bob Socci are shown in the Gillette Stadium radio booth prior to the season-opening Patriots broadcast on Sept. 13, 2020.
98.5 The Sports Hub takes top spot in winter radio ratings, WEEI finishes in fifth
All four of 98.5's local programs either led or were tied for first in their timeslots among men 25-54, while WEEI's finished no higher than fourth.

Musician Steven Van Zandt attended the special screening of "Western Stars," in New York in October 2019.
Rock star Van Zandt helping Connecticut students re-engage
Connecticut is turning to music in an effort to get kids more interested in school and help combat the learning loss suffered during the pandemic.

Boston police recover $13,000 flute, missing since 2012
The owner of a $13,000 flute who left her instrument in a taxi cab in 2012 was reunited with the flute on Monday after it was recovered from a music store, police said.

Opinion

People celebrate as the verdict is announced in the trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin outside the Hennepin County Government Center in Minneapolis on Tuesday. Chauvin was convicted of murder and manslaughter in the death of George Floyd in a case that roiled the United States for almost a year, laying bare deep racial divisions.
RENÉE GRAHAM

We knew Derek Chauvin murdered George Floyd. But Black people never expect justice

In a jury’s guilty verdict, a small step toward accountability.
People gathered after a guilty verdict was announced at the trial of former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin for the 2020 death of George Floyd at City Hall in Philadelphia on Tuesday.
EDITORIAL

A first step, but justice means far more
George W. Bush arrives at the presidential inauguration of Joe Biden in January.
SCOT LEHIGH

The Republican establishment strikes back
Children pass members of a Taliban unit in the Alingar District of Laghman Province in Afghanistan, March 13, 2020.
JEFF JACOBY

Biden’s blunder in Afghanistan
"Happiness — at least the pandemic version — is a group video call with all microphones on."
IDEAS | MARISSA CONRAD

Unmute that Zoom call

Recommended reads

adrian walker
Former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin, center, is taken into custody as his attorney, Eric Nelson, left, looks on, after the verdicts were read at Chauvin's trial for the 2020 death of George Floyd on Tuesday at the Hennepin County Courthouse in Minneapolis, Minn.
In Minneapolis, Chauvin’s jury said George Floyd’s life mattered
We’ve seen these cases play out in exactly the opposite way for decades. In communities of color, the fear that police can literally get away with murder is a palpable, everyday reality.

Joan Vennochi

Believe what you saw. Derek Chauvin murdered George Floyd

Watching that video is a gut punch, one that should lead a reasonable person to conclude that the force Chauvin used was unreasonable, excessive, and disproportionate to the situation.
RENÉE GRAHAM

Being Black isn’t exhausting. Racism is exhausting.

I will not perpetuate a narrative that tries to define Blackness as inherently broken or burdensome.

Republicans, out of power and squabbling, are targeting transgender kids to score political points, activists say

LGBTQ rights’ advocates argue that Republicans are targeting transgender youth now as a way to score political points with a segment of their base at a time when the party is out of power at the federal level and squabbling over some of the fundamental policies that used to unite them.

The Future of Work

The past year has shattered expectations of what workdays look like. Parenting while Zooming. An uncrowded T. Wary interactions with customers. In this special issue of Ideas, we explore which of these changes will stick — and how they’ll affect the quality of our lives.

metro

Boston, MA - 4/21/2021: Hearts on the Bridge is displayed on the bridge at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, on April 21, 2021.

Brigham and Women’s Hospital holds ceremony, launches display to remember patients and lives lost to pandemic

Brigham and Women’s Hospital held a virtual “Remembrance Ceremony” Wednesday, one year after the hospital’s census of COVID-19 patients peaked with 171 inpatients, officials said.
CORONAVIRUS

R.I. receives $1.5m in federal funding to track COVID-19 variants

Rock star Van Zandt helping Connecticut students re-engage

Sports

Bobby Valentine, who managed the Red Sox for one season in 2012, has been athletic director at Sacred Heart University in Connecticut since 2013.
stan grossfeld

Catching up with Bobby Valentine, who says he ‘shouldn’t have taken that job’ to manage Red Sox in 2012

Reflecting on his one ill-fated season at the Sox helm, Valentine says there were many problems, including a matter of trust.
Blue Jays at Red Sox | 7:10 p.m. (NESN)

Game 19: Blue Jays at Red Sox lineups and notes
SPORTS MEDIA

98.5 The Sports Hub takes top spot in winter radio ratings, WEEI finishes in fifth

business

Gisele Bündchen walked off the field after the NFL Super Bowl game between Tampa Bay and Kansas City on Sunday, Feb. 7, in Tampa, Fla.

Gisele Bündchen joins DraftKings as special adviser for environmental and social initiatives

Businesses scramble for help as would-be workers stay home

Massachusetts craft brewers team up to diversify their industry

politics

Vice President Kamala Harris tours Thomas Built Buses, Monday, April 19, 2021, in High Point, N.C.

Dems push $25b to electrify school buses, a Biden priority

Justice Dept. to open sweeping investigation into Minneapolis policing

Hitting latest vaccine milestone, Biden pushes shots for all

Living Arts

Chef and restaurant owner Tiffani Faison is participating in Boston's new B-Local rewards program

New citywide app lets residents get discounts at Boston stores and restaurants

Greta Thunberg docuseries amplifies her climate change fight
MOVIE REVIEW | ★ ★ ½

So happy ‘Together Together’? Maybe

education

Musician Steven Van Zandt attended the special screening of "Western Stars," in New York in October 2019.

Rock star Van Zandt helping Connecticut students re-engage
THE GREAT DIVIDE

Under pressure, state education officials vote to change admissions requirements for vocational schools

Mass. board of education waives MCAS graduation requirement for Class of 2022

rhode island

A volunteer prepares a COVID-19 vaccine at Central Falls High School in Central Falls, Rhode Island.
CORONAVIRUS

R.I. receives $1.5m in federal funding to track COVID-19 variants

3,000 chickens killed in early morning fire at R.I. poultry farm
RHODE MAP

CNN’s John King can’t wait to talk about Rhode Island and Jim Taricani tonight

Newton

video

Comfort Zone

Authors Emily Wibberley and Austin Siegemund-Broka's latest YA novel, "What's Not to Love" is out April 20 from Penguin Random House, following two high school seniors vying for a coveted spot at Harvard.
YA authors Emily Wibberley and Austin Siegemund-Broka on Harvard and high school love
The real life couple discuss their latest book, filled with hyper-competitive Ivy League longing.

The summer season at Jacob's Pillow will include a performance of “joyUS justUS" by CONTRA-TIEMPO.
After a lost summer, Jacob’s Pillow will return for a full season in 2021
The June 30-Aug. 29 season will also offer unprecedented online access to most festival programming.

COMFORT ZONE
Safiya Leslie
This musical journey around the globe comes once a month in a box
Berklee grad Safiya Leslie — a singer/songwriter and entrepreneur — is giving world music fans a chance to explore the sounds of a different country each month through her Safiya’s World Music Tour Playlist subscription boxes.

COMFORT ZONE
People in Boston and beyond can grab a free BlueBike to reach their vaccination site starting April 19.
Take a free Bluebike to your COVID-19 vaccine appointment
The complimentary trips will be available in Arlington, Boston, Brookline, Cambridge, Chelsea, Everett, Newton, Revere, Somerville, and Watertown.

COMFORT ZONE
Volunteer Coordinator Carol Carlson will read “Carl and the Meaning of Life” by Deborah Freedman and “Trees Make Perfect Pets” by Paul Czajak and Cathy Gendron at the Harvard Museum of Natural History.
Eight Earth Day events for the whole family
From your backyard to your favorite trail, enjoy these virtual (or socially distanced) events that make you proud to be an earthling.

Special Projects

Jeneé Osterheldt

A Beautiful Resistance

Black joy, Black lives, as celebrated by culture columnist Jeneé Osterheldt.
See the full project Follow @abeautifulresistance on Instagram

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

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PROJECT TAKEOUT | DEVRA FIRST
The Globe launches Project Takeout, an effort to help restaurants make it to the other side of this pandemic.
Get takeout. It’s your civic duty.
Ordering dinner will help small local businesses survive the pandemic. But that’s just the start.

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.

Boston Globe Spotlight Report
Boston’s hospital chiefs moonlight on corporate boards at rates far beyond the national level
Hospital chiefs and trustees defend this as boosting public-private partnerships, but critics say these board positions — some paying millions of dollars — raise troubling issues of conflict of interest and hospital priorities.

Opinion, ideas, and commentary

People are checked for a Florida ID as they enter a mass site to receive the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine on March 9 in Miami.
Harald Schmidt and Rebecca Weintraub

An ID shouldn’t be a requirement for the COVID vaccine
EDITORIAL

There’s too much secrecy in state government. It’s time for a constitutional amendment to change that
Migrants from Central American countries wait to be taken to a Border Patrol intake station after being smuggled across the Rio Grande river in Roma, Texas, on March 30.
MARCELA GARCÍA

A young migrant’s perilous journey and the cost of inaction
Students sit separated by plastic dividers during lunch at Wyandotte County High School in Kansas City, Kan. on the first day of in-person learning on March 31.
Paul Reville

Pandemic learning loss can be a post-pandemic opportunity for education reforms
Steven Prescod as Tereek (left) and Robert Tarango as Artie, in a scene from "Feeling Through."
Dave Power

What TikTok users who doubt Helen Keller can learn this Oscar season
ideas

The Future of Work

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
Person wearing a "Hello I am ... bored" sticker on their shirt.
Perspective

Dear Grads: Don’t believe the myth that work has to be a slog

Drawing of a young girl with a net trying to capture butterflies or something.
School Vacation

15 last-minute ideas for things to do with kids on school vacation
MassArt student Bobbi Colburn wearing a face mask she created.
College & COVID

‘There’s so much beautiful work that’s come out of this’: College art students in the COVID era
Authors Live in Your Living Room features Adrian Miller, author of "Black Smoke: African Americans and the United States of Barbecue," on April 15.
Your Week Ahead

Five things to do, April 12-25

sports

From left, Tom Werner, Mike Gordon, and John Henry, the three top owners of Fenway Sports Group.

John Henry apologizes to Liverpool fans and employees for involvement in failed Super League

Even before beating Blue Jays, return to Fenway mound a victory for Eduardo Rodriguez

Big fourth inning keeps Red Sox, Eduardo Rodriguez on winning track

metro

An early Wednesday morning fire struck a Johnston, R.I. poultry farm, killing 3,000 chickens.

3,000 chickens killed in early morning fire at R.I. poultry farm

Showers and scattered thunderstorms are in the forecast for Wednesday, as well as snow in the White Mountains

A stormy afternoon and evening are possible for parts of New England

Nation

The Emergent BioSolutions plant in Baltimore.

Baltimore plant with contaminated Johnson & Johnson vaccines had multiple failures, unsanitary conditions, FDA says

Dems push $25b to electrify school buses, a Biden priority

Here are the three charges Derek Chauvin was convicted of — and their possible sentences

World

Britain's Queen Elizabeth II follows the coffin in a car as it made its way past the Round Tower during the funeral of Prince Philip.

Queen Elizabeth expresses thanks for ‘support and kindness’

EU reaches major climate deal ahead of Biden climate summit

Queen Elizabeth marking 95th birthday in low-key fashion

politics

President Joe Biden, accompanied by Vice President Kamala Harris, speaks Tuesday.

‘A giant step forward in the march toward justice in America,’ Biden says after Chauvin verdict

Blowback after Speaker Pelosi thanks George Floyd for ‘sacrificing your life for justice’

Watch live: Reaction to convictions in the murder of George Floyd

business

Collin Knight, founder of Live Like A Local Tours in Boston, shared a drink with Ray Berry, founder of White Lion Brewing in Springfield.

Massachusetts craft brewers team up to diversify their industry

BJ’s has a new president and CEO

Bank of America looks to link bond issuers with minority-run banks

lifestyle

Occo's spices.

Occo delivers spices in smaller amounts — and with recipe ideas

New bon bons from Lady M, for Mother’s Day (or any day)

Recipe: Roll up lamb meatballs with minty yogurt sauce in flatbreads for this refreshing dinner

marijuana

Former Boston mayor Martin J. Walsh hands a pen to then-City Councilor Kim Janey after signing the new marijuana licensing ordinance she drafted at City Hall in 2019.

On 4/20, Boston’s acting mayor turns to marijuana industry for campaign cash

US House passes marijuana banking bill with bipartisan support

With marijuana legal in New York, and other states close behind, will Mass. dispensaries along state borders survive?

opinion

A crowd celebrates in George Floyd Square following the verdict in the Derek Chauvin trial on April 20 in Minneapolis.

The verdict is in. The work continues.

Biden’s blunder in Afghanistan

Unmute that Zoom call

food & dining

Wulf’s Fish, a seafood company, Deluxe Brunch Set for Mother’s Day.

Wulf’s Fish can ship you a lavish brunch, caviar and all

Recipe: Spoon a medley of sauteed mushrooms on crunchy crostini with creamy whipped burrata

Occo delivers spices in smaller amounts — and with recipe ideas

travel

People wait in line at National rental agency in the Miami International Airport Car Rental Center on April 12, in Miami. Customers are finding that car rental agencies have limited or no supply of vehicles as people begin traveling again after being locked down during the pandemic.

Why your next rental car might cost more than a plane ticket

All is not lost at The Lost Kitchen, as chef Erin French adjusts and reinvents, yet again

Chris Wallace on ear plugs, his Globe years, and that time he went to Russia right after a tough Putin interview

Books

Dartmouth College's Joshua Bennett is a 2021 Guggenheim fellow and Whiting Award winner

Dartmouth professor Joshua Bennett awarded two major literary prizes inside of a week

Brave women fighting Nazis in ‘The Light of Days’

For Ruth Ware, it was the year reading ‘got squeezed into odd corners’

Movies

Ed Helms and Patti Harrison in "Together Together."

So happy ‘Together Together’? Maybe

The pandemic has upended the Oscars. Good, producers say

When Orson Welles doesn’t make the cut

Television

The three-part series, a co-production between PBS and BBC Studios, premieres Thursday.

Greta Thunberg docuseries amplifies her climate change fight

Cristin Milioti and Ray Romano are easy to like in ‘Made for Love’

Some shows are meant to be binged, not savored

music

Meklit Hadero performing in 2017.

Better late than never: Meklit finally makes her Celebrity Series debut

This musical journey around the globe comes once a month in a box

On two new releases, fans can hear Mark Sandman’s ‘secret band’ in full

Theater/Dance

The summer season at Jacob's Pillow will include a performance of “joyUS justUS" by CONTRA-TIEMPO.

After a lost summer, Jacob’s Pillow will return for a full season in 2021

Theater without theater

Huntington Theatre announces a full 2021-22 season of indoor productions

globe local

Caitlin Harding was arraigned via Zoom Friday in Middlesex Superior Court.

Former Hudson middle school teacher charged with raping student

To cut paper waste, Belmont entrepreneurs sell reusable cloth gift wrap

Lexington confronts history of slavery in liberty’s birthplace

Obituaries

In addition to her many other accomplishments, Dr. Barbara Rockett was a fine equestrian.

Dr. Barbara Rockett, first female president of the Massachusetts Medical Society, dies at 89

Donald Junkins, poet who led UMass Amherst creative writing program, dies at 89

Alma Wahlberg, mother of Mark, Donnie Wahlberg, dies at 78