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With spending on police in the spotlight, more than 30 Boston officers made more than $300,000 in 2020

Amid sustained calls for police reform, marches demanding an end to systemic racism, and an uptick in street violence, more than 30 Boston police officers made more than $300,000 last year thanks in part to overtime earnings that yet again exceeded what the city had budgeted for the year. By contrast, the mayor makes $199,000.
Who are the top paid police officers in Boston, and how much of their salaries are overtime?

Work crews dug up part of Liszt Street in Roslindale to replace lead service lines to homes.
Thousands of homes in Massachusetts still have lead water pipes, and many residents don’t know
Despite the grave dangers of lead, which can cause lifelong health problems, especially for children, there are an estimated 220,000 lead service lines in Massachusetts.

After all those eager for vaccination get their shots, how to reach the rest? Primary care doctors say they’re the answer

The system so far has favored people with the skills and motivation to get a vaccination in Massachusetts. What’s left are the people with doubts, obstacles, disabilities, or just too much else to do. And primary care doctors say they’re the ones who can coax and assist those people.
These 26 Massachusetts communities are at high risk for COVID-19

Tyler McGinley, the school board chair in Cumberland, Maine, with her children Bea, 5, and Ford, 7.
In Maine, the debate over schools returning full-time rages town by town
Unlike Massachusetts and New Hampshire, where state officials have ordered schools to reopen, Maine has deferred to its school boards and the principle of local control.

Mass. reports 718 new coronavirus cases among public school students, 94 among school staff over two-week period

Immune activation is often linked to changes in appetite, which could explain why you're dreaming of pizza.
‘I must have fondue’: Are COVID vaccine-induced cravings a real thing?
Evidence is anecdotal at best, but who knows? Plenty of us are dreaming of food after that shot.

Why do some people feel worse after their second COVID-19 vaccine dose? Your vaccine questions, answered
NFL Draft
Alabama quarterback Mac Jones won a national championship in January, and he was coached by Nick Saban, one of Bill Belichick’s most trusted friends.
Ben Volin I On football

A year after losing Tom Brady, the Patriots finally have a long-term plan at quarterback: Mac Jones

This wasn’t like in past years, when Bill Belichick laughed at what outsiders perceived as his biggest needs and instead took a safety or an offensive lineman.
NFL Draft 2021: How the first round unfolded The Patriots have two picks on Friday. See the rest of the draft order See more NFL Draft coverage

Mac Jones played college football at Alabama.
A closer look at new Patriots quarterback Mac Jones, who led Alabama to the national championship
Jones fell to 15th in the first round of the draft, but said he was thrilled to be chosen by the Patriots.

Patriots select quarterback Mac Jones with No. 15 pick

Despite drafting Mac Jones, Bill Belichick says Cam Newton is still the Patriots’ starting quarterback

What quarterback Mac Jones said about getting drafted by the Patriots

Scouting quarterback Mac Jones, who finally had a chance to shine for Alabama in 2020

No surprises with Jaguars picking Trevor Lawrence at No. 1, all surprises with Trey Lance to 49ers at No. 3

Peter Abraham | Rangers 4, Red Sox 1
Boston Red Sox manager Alex Cora, left front, comes to take the ball from starting pitcher Martin Perez, center front, as, from left rear to right, Rafael Devers, Xander Bogaerts, Marwin Gonzalez, Bobby Dalbec and Christian Vazquez, right front, stand on the mound in the sixth inning of a baseball game against the Texas Rangers in Arlington, Texas, on Thursday.
Sox enjoy normalcy of a road crowd, but suffer loss to Rangers
With ear-splitting indoor fireworks accompanying two home runs, the Rangers beat the Red Sox, 4-1.

Quiet bats, defensive lapses doom Red Sox in Arlington opener against Rangers

Bruins 5, Sabres 2
Bruins center Charlie Coyle (center) celebrates with Nick Ritchie (left) and Sean Kuraly (right) the end of a 28-game goal drought with his third-period tally that gave Boston a 3-2 lead in Thursday's 5-2 victory over the Sabres.
The end of Charlie Coyle’s 28-game goal drought opened the floodgates for the Bruins
Bruins rallied for a 5-2 win after Coyle's go-ahead tally at 7:48 was followed by goals from Taylor Hall and Brad Marchand.

Mass. coronavirus at a glance |
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On the Street

Known for its diversity, Fields Corner now must make room for development

Residents have come to know Dorchester’s Fields Corner as a place where newcomers can find a home. From Vietnamese to Haitian Creole to Spanish to Portuguese, signs in the store windows and chatter on the street reflect a neighborhood like few others in Boston.
A bicyclist made his way across Dorchester Avenue in Fields Corner.

Known for its diversity, Fields Corner now must make room for development

A new style of apartment building pictured on the left, with a past style pictured on the right, on Faulkner Street in Fields Corner.

Creating small-scale solutions to a big housing crunch

Explore the full 'On the Street' series
On the Street: Fields Corner
Fields Corner, a Vietnamese enclave, boasts locally owned businesses. But as development continues, rising costs threaten to displace residents. ( Shelby Lum/Globe Staf )

Former Fall River mayor Jasiel Corriea walked away from the John Joseph Moakley Federal Courthouse on Thursday.
Ex-girlfriend testifies about former Fall River mayor’s high-spending ways
On the fourth day of testimony in former Fall River mayor Jasiel Correia’s federal corruption trial, Natalie Cleveland, 25, told jurors she assumed Correia could afford the finer things because he had told her that an app he helped develop as a college student had sold for “a few million.”

Gerly Adrien, who made history by becoming the first Black woman elected to Everett City Council in 2019, plans to announce that she’s running for mayor.
Everett City Councilor to challenge mayor
Gerly Adrien, who made history by becoming the first Black woman elected to Everett City Council in 2019, plans to announce Friday that she’s running for mayor.

Jeneé Osterheldt
In this image from Senate Television video, Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., delivers the Republican response to President Joe Biden's speech to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday, April 28, 2021, in Washington. (Senate Television via AP)
Tim Scott is right. America has made progress. But it’s still racist
Tim Scott is right. America isn’t just a racist country. It’s a supremacist and individualistic nation where sometimes those who manage to navigate its hurdles tend to deny the systemic realities of a rotten foundation.

Palestinian protesters gathered outside the Damascus Gate in Jerusalem's Old City.
Religious festival stampede in Israel kills 44, hurts dozens
The director of an Israeli ambulance service has confirmed that nearly 40 people died in a stampede at a religious festival in northern Israel.

Cars were damaged after a hail storm hit Fort Worth, San Antonio, and Oklahoma City Wednesday evening.
Destructive hail bombards areas near Oklahoma City, Fort Worth, and San Antonio
Baseball- to softball-sized hail pummeled parts of Texas and Oklahoma Wednesday night, slamming places around Fort Worth, San Antonio and Oklahoma City, including Norman.

In an undated image provided by Dave Roth, “Disaster Girl,” by Dave Roth and starring his daughter, Zoë.
The world knows her as ‘disaster girl.’ She sold an NFT of her meme for $500,000
The name Zoë Roth might not ring any bells. But chances are you’ve seen her photo.

Opinion

The claim that the Capitol invasion was a "nonviolent protest" is one of many untruths that have been festering in Republican circles.
RENÉE GRAHAM

The Republican Party’s big little lies

From downplaying the deadly insurrection to falsehoods about the Biden administration, the GOP elevates disinformation over legislation.
Stacks of bitcoins sit near green lights on a data cable terminal in an office in London office.
Alex Beam

A cryptic crypto explainer
A police officer receives his COVID-19 vaccination at Gillette Stadium's vaccination site on January 15 in Foxborough. As of last month, 30 percent of State Police had not been vaccinated at department-run sites, indicating that many of them have yet to be vaccinated.
EDITORIAL

It’s time for employers to impose vaccine mandates
SCOT LEHIGH

Joe Biden rolls the liberal dice
US Attorney General Merrick Garland announced on April 26 that the Justice Department will begin an investigation into the policing practices of the Louisville Police Department in Kentucky.
Kimberly Atkins

Garland lays first blocks in rebuilding path to trust

Recommended reads

"Imagine Van Gogh" is one of two immersive Van Gogh exhibitions coming to Boston this year.
Two Van Gogh exhibits. Two Secret Bostons. And now, a swirl of controversy
Secret Boston founder Michelle McCormack has accused a competitor of causing confusion and hurting her reputation.

Analysis

Five takeaways from Biden’s first formal speech to Congress

President Biden used the pomp of the moment to try to build momentum for what seems to be a very ambitious — yet stalled — Biden agenda. In case you missed it, here are five takeaways from the president's prime time speech.

‘He asked me if I wanted to date a board member’: An Asian American grant writer on being treated like a commodity at work

Angela Chan O’Donnell is a grant writer for a local nonprofit. Here, she talks about the experience of being a young Asian American woman treated like a commodity by the older white men she used to work with.

Older teens are now eligible for the COVID vaccine, but will their vaccination rates catch up to those of their elders?

So far, roughly 28 percent of Massachusetts 16- and 17-year-olds have gotten at least a first shot, state data show.

The 10 best places to work in Massachusetts based on diversity and inclusion

Ten Massachusetts companies have been named to the Boston Globe’s first-ever Top Places to Work rankings based on diversity and inclusion.

metro

Brown University announced that it would give $470,000 to Providence public schools.
COLUMN: DAN MCGOWAN

Brown University can do more to help fix Providence schools. Here are a few ideas

Brown can't single-handedly fix Providence school system. But it can do more than the $470,000 it just gave the district.

Everett City Councilor to challenge mayor

Under pressure, Mass. Senate creates panel to help ensure $400 million soldiers’ home project includes minority-owned firms

Sports

Roger Goodell and the NFL will host this year's draft in Cleveland.
NFL DRAFT

2021 NFL Draft: The Patriots have nine picks left

The Patriots are scheduled to pick twice on Friday.
nfl draft

What quarterback Mac Jones said about getting drafted by the Patriots
NFL DRAFT

Despite drafting Mac Jones, Bill Belichick says Cam Newton is still the Patriots’ starting quarterback

business

CarGurus hired Brad Rosenfeld to be executive vice president of digital retail commercialization.

CarGurus hires Amazon executive to helm digital retail business

CHESTO MEANS BUSINESS

Former senator Scott Brown played a pivotal role in bringing back road races next month

Global chip drought hits Apple, BMW, Ford as crisis worsens

politics

President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden.
Analysis

Why the next 100 days will define the Biden presidency more than the first 100 days

Federal health officials vow again to ban menthol flavor in cigarettes, cigars

GOP’s Senator Scott delivers rebuttal of Biden’s speech to Congress, criticizing him over race, pandemic

Living Arts

Ralph Deuterio serves pizza to a customer at Galleria Umberto Rosicceria in North End in 2019. The beloved spot is one of several mentioned by Food and Wine in its 2021 list of the best state's for pizza.

Mass. boasts some of the best pizza in America, according to Food and Wine Magazine

It looks like John Mayer has another TV show

What’s happening in the arts world

education

A parent brought his child to the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. elementary school in Cambridge on Wednesday.

Mass. reports 718 new coronavirus cases among public school students, 94 among school staff over two-week period

In Maine, the debate over schools returning full-time rages town by town

More than $2 million awarded to 10 Mass. vocational schools for additional training programs

rhode island

Brown University announced that it would give $470,000 to Providence public schools.
COLUMN: DAN MCGOWAN

Brown University can do more to help fix Providence schools. Here are a few ideas
RI POLITICS

‘We have clearly reached a crisis’: House Speaker Shekarchi makes housing his priority
RI HEALTH

Health care has become less affordable in Rhode Island

Newton

Newton

Newton mayor ‘frustrated’ over pace of 52 bus route’s return to service

Here are the top Massachusetts high schools, according to the 2021 rankings from US News & World Report

video

Comfort Zone

Miss Lilly returns with some salvaged goods.
Meet the ‘rope broker’ who cleans up the Cape’s seafloor and supplies artists with the salvaged goods
Laura Ludwig will go to most any length to find new uses for rope, nets, buoys, traps, and other equipment hauled from the depths.

COMFORT ZONE
Arlen Weiser, the inspiration for his dad's book, "The Boy Who Wanted to Rock."
On the pages of his dad’s book, ‘The Boy Who Wanted to Rock’ gets his wish
While his scientist wife was working on the rollout of Pfizer's vaccine, keyboard programmer David Weiser of Haverhill wrote a book inspired by the couple's AC/DC-loving 6-year-old.

MUSIC
Dropkick Murphys St. Patrick's Day livestream
20 concerts made during quarantine that you can stream right now
Musicians got creative during the pandemic and put on unforgettable performances you can still enjoy without leaving the couch.

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.

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 bicyclist made his way across Dorchester Avenue in Fields Corner.

Known for its diversity, Fields Corner now must make room for development

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

See more from our business series ‘On the Street’: The changing face of Greater Boston neighborhoods

More

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

Packs of menthol cigarettes line a shelf at a grocery store in New York.
Mark A. Gottlieb and Richard Daynard

FDA finally moves to ban menthol cigarettes
If Governor Baker leaves office after two terms, what exactly did he stand for? He’s known for finding the safe middle ground, not for breaking new ground. And COVID-19 put any initiatives he did embrace on hold.
JOAN VENNOCHI

Baker will run. Probably.

Wooden arrows show the distances to various cities on King George Island, Antarctica.
IDEAS | BEN JACKSON

The bottom of the world rises to the top of social media
The author addressing the audience at a Concerned Lifers Organization Conference at the Washington State Reformatory, 2017.
IDEAS | CHRISTOPHER BLACKWELL

Letter to my younger self: hard-won insights from an incarcerated writer
David Daley

The winners and losers in the 2020 Census

Ingrid Zavala, right, with her mother and sister in 1990.
ideas

Left behind after my family’s deportations, I still dream of making it in America

STAT

Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 Transmission electron micrograph of a SARS-CoV-2 virus particle (UK B.1.1.7 variant), isolated from a patient sample and cultivated in cell culture. Image captured at the NIAID Integrated Research Facility (IRF) in Fort Detrick, Maryland. Credit: NIAID
We know a lot about Covid-19. Experts have many more questions
More than two dozen virologists, epidemiologists, and others responded to STAT's question about what they still most wanted to know.

Boston, MA -- 03/16/21 -- The cover of the summary report of the review hearing for Jospeh Messere, is seen on March 16, 2021, provided by his attorney David Apfel.(Kayana Szymczak for STAT)
Cement Head’s last fight: He was denied parole six times — until he was about to become a Covid-19 statistic
In lawyers' view, the Department of Correction was trying to make it seem like it had fewer Covid-19 deaths on its hands than it really did.

JAMA illo
Troubling podcast puts JAMA, the ‘voice of medicine,’ under fire for its mishandling of race
Critics say editors have asked authors to scrub the term racism from their articles even as they publish others that include racist notions.

SCT illo
Despite resistance, researchers investigate the possibility of a new mental health disorder
Many researchers say the study of sluggish cognitive tempo, which is still in its early stages, can’t yet support a formal diagnosis.

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.
On the Cover

Top Spots to Live in Greater Boston in 2021
The Citizens Bank Opera House and Emerson Paramount are among the many performing arts spaces that have been closed because of the COVID pandemic.
Top Spots to Live

City living lost some appeal for condo hunters
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

Caramelized pork with orange and sage.
Cooking

Oranges shine in 4 savory recipes, including a beef stir-fry

sports

Mac Jones.

Scouting quarterback Mac Jones, who finally had a chance to shine for Alabama in 2020

NFL Draft 2021: How the first round unfolded

A closer look at new Patriots quarterback Mac Jones, who led Alabama to the national championship

metro

In this image from Senate Television video, Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., delivers the Republican response to President Joe Biden's speech to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday, April 28, 2021, in Washington. (Senate Television via AP)

Tim Scott is right. America has made progress. But it’s still racist

Ex-girlfriend testifies about former Fall River mayor’s high-spending ways

‘We have clearly reached a crisis’: House Speaker Shekarchi makes housing his priority

Nation

Mark and Patricia McCloskey.

St. Louis couple who confronted protesters back in court

Judge seeks answers for jail’s Ghislaine Maxwell treatment

Rudy Giuliani defiant, a day after FBI raid of home and office

World

Palestinian protesters gathered outside the Damascus Gate in Jerusalem's Old City.

Religious festival stampede in Israel kills 44, hurts dozens

US aid to begin arriving in India amid record virus surge

Biden calls for US to enter a new superpower struggle

politics

The Massachusetts State House in Boston.

House unanimously passes $47.7 billion state budget

Politicians react to President Biden’s first formal address to Congress

Key moments from Biden’s first formal speech to Congress

business

People waited in line, resumes in hand, while waiting to apply for jobs during an outdoor hiring event for the Circa resort and casino Tuesday in Las Vegas. The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits dropped by 13,000 last week to 553,000, the lowest level since the pandemic hit last March and another sign the economy is recovering from the coronavirus recession.

Jobless claims hit new pandemic low for third straight week as labor market picks up

Terminated Marriott Copley workers launch hotel boycott

IBM to buy Boston-based Turbonomic in latest software deal

lifestyle

A woman rests her bare feet on an airplane tray table from this photo from the Instagram account Passenger Shaming.

Inside Passenger Shaming, the notorious Instagram of bad travel behavior

HGTV star David Bromstad loves his annual tan, his pillow, and the Cape

Major Food Group lands atop the Newbury, a fish house comes to Bay Village, and New York ramen hits the suburbs

marijuana

Kathleen Owens, left, and Linda Noel grow hemp at Terrapin Farm in Franklin.

‘We feel like the ugly stepchildren of cannabis.’ Mass. hemp farmers wait in regulatory purgatory

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

US House passes marijuana banking bill with bipartisan support

opinion

The claim that the Capitol invasion was a "nonviolent protest" is one of many untruths that have been festering in Republican circles.

The Republican Party’s big little lies

A cryptic crypto explainer

The path to better Northeast Corridor rail runs (slowly) through Connecticut

food & dining

A flatbread at the Punch Bowl restaurant in the new Hilton Garden Inn in Brookline Village.

A modern tavern inspired by a historical one

Major Food Group lands atop the Newbury, a fish house comes to Bay Village, and New York ramen hits the suburbs

Recipe: Giant break-apart sugar cookies to celebrate gathering for the first time in a long time in person

travel

David Bromstad in Mykonos, Greece.

HGTV star David Bromstad loves his annual tan, his pillow, and the Cape

Traveling with an autistic child is hopefully becoming less restrictive and stressful

Boston Harborwalk in four easy pieces

Books

Around the world

On finding freedom for every body

Reading Raymond Chandler and other mysteries

Movies

Ruth E. Carter, the Oscar-winning "Black Panther" costume designer, is the subject of an exhibition at the New Bedford Art Museum

Meet Ruth E. Carter, the costumer behind ‘Black Panther,’ ‘Malcolm X,’ and more

This year’s IFFBoston shows the virtues of going virtual

Alexa, Siri, look up ‘diva fit’

Television

According to Variety, John Mayer (pictured at a Grammy Awards rehearsal in March) is nearing a deal with Paramount+ to host a talk and music series modeled after the BBC’s “Later … With Jools Holland.”

It looks like John Mayer has another TV show

For the overwhelmed TV viewer, freedom from choice at last

Recalling when the magic happened at Presto Records

music

The Weeknd performs during the halftime show of the NFL Super Bowl 55 football game on Feb. 7, 2021, in Tampa, Fla.

Billboard Awards nominations include 16 nods for Weeknd, 6 for Morgan Wallen

English rockers Genesis announce 1st US tour in 14 years

On their new albums, punk stalwarts Dropkick Murphys and Mighty Mighty Bosstones chase the pandemic blues

Theater/Dance

Jared Troilo as TJ and Tah-Janay Shayoñe as Sally in the SpeakEasy Stage Company production of James Ijames's "TJ Loves Sally 4 Ever."

Playwright James Ijames on ‘TJ Loves Sally 4 Ever,’ reimagining history, and who gets to tell the story

In ‘Until the Flood,’ a portrait of a town and the ravages of racism

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

globe local

Road to Responsibility has outfitted a group home in Norwell with iPads and other high-tech devices that residents can employ to accomplish everyday tasks on their own.

Nonprofit outfits ‘smart home’ in Norwell for people with disabilities

Nomination papers for Newton’s city election in November available starting Monday

Helping shelter dogs get to their forever homes

Obituaries

CIA operative turned best-selling author Jason Matthews

Jason Matthews, author of ‘Red Sparrow’ thrillers, dies

Leo Stapleton, former Boston Fire Department commissioner, dies at 93

Michael Collins, who orbited moon during famous landing, has died