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Consolidation of senior care homes is uprooting hundreds across Massachusetts

Faced with rising costs, inadequate reimbursement, excess capacity, and acute staff shortages, nursing homes and assisted living facilities are closing across Massachusetts.

College sticker prices are deceptive with so many students getting aid. So one local university cut both.

Lasell University's president said the school has struggled with enrollment in the past few years, and the tuition cut is meant to reverse that slide by boosting price transparency and convincing families a liberal arts education might be within reach.

Mass. health department to lead regional effort to improve outbreak response

Program aims to deploy genomic science in public health.

Group in support of upholding driver’s license law drops $500k on Boston TV ad buy

The ad will appear on television, streaming services, and digital platforms in the Boston area and cost about $500,000, a spokeswoman for the Yes on 4 for Safer Roads campaign said.

SHIRLEY LEUNG

Answers to your questions about the millionaires tax
There's a good bit of conflicting information out there on the proposed tax for the highest earners.

What will happen to America if Trump wins again? Experts weigh in.

Experts in the presidency, political science, public administration, the military, intelligence, foreign affairs, economics and civil rights weigh in on what could happen if Donald Trump is elected in 2024.

The Planned Parenthood clinics at 1055 Commonwealth Ave. in Boston. Statewide, only nine hospitals routinely offer abortion services and seven of them are in Boston and Cambridge.

Massachusetts has expanded abortion rights. But even in the metro region, clinics can be distant.

No one provides routine abortion services on Cape Cod, Martha’s Vineyard, Plymouth County, or the entire South Coast. Abortion providers are even more scant in Western Massachusetts.

US states were supposed to improve systems for tracking dangerous drivers. Many still haven’t.
Almost half of US states and territories have yet to respond to the federal government's call to improve their systems for tracking dangerous drivers.

THE GREAT DIVIDE

New MCAS data underscores missed learning of the pandemic. What if kids can’t catch up?
With the MCAS reinforcing prior data indicating many students are more than half a school year behind, the state and districts risk moving too slowly to make up that time.

Dr. Beryl Benacerraf.

Dr. Beryl Benacerraf, groundbreaking ultrasound researcher and physician, dies at 73

"Pictures just speak to me," Dr. Benacerraf said of her uncommon ability to use ultrasound to diagnose fetal abnormalities.

A demonstrator wore an Oath Keepers anti-government organization badge on a protective vest during a protest outside the Supreme Court in Washington on Jan. 5, 2021.

Hundreds of Massachusetts residents joined the extremist Oath Keepers. Today, many are distancing themselves.

The group’s founder Stewart Rhodes is on trial for allegedly plotting to overthrow the government.

Blake Griffin pointed to a recent 2½ hour team dinner as evidence of the Celtics' cohesion.

gary washburn | on basketball

After drama-filled stops in Los Angeles and Brooklyn, Blake Griffin impressed by Celtics’ vibes

The chemistry of the defending Eastern Conference champions is something Blake Griffin noticed the moment he walked into the building.

Opinion

10TeenSocialMediaProject

Young people and the power of social media

Social media holds enormous power over young people. Can they find a way to navigate safely through its ever-changing landscape?

Home health care is a critical support for strained families and an aging society. It’s time we treated it that way.

Despite multiple scandals, Herschel Walker could still win

America needs a New Economic Patriotism plan

A slow writer’s lament

U.S. military to stop honoring Confederate history — finally
The Naming Commission's goal is to remove all official commemorations of the Confederacy, which Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Mark Milley has called “an act of rebellion. It was an act of treason.”

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150 years of The Boston Globe

Scenes from a century and a half, as covered by the Boston Globe.

Spotlight investigation

Part 1

A celebrated surgeon, a trail of secrets and death
Dr. Yvon Baribeau set a record for malpractice settlements, and many colleagues tried desperately to stop him. But hospital executives let him go on and on.

Timeline: What the public didn't know about Dr. Yvon Baribeau Video: What the Spotlight Team’s investigation discovered about Dr. Baribeau N.H. hospital promises review after revelations about doctor with 21 malpractice settlements

Dr. Yvon Baribeau

A crisis of conscience, with lives on the line

Alarmed doctors at Manchester's Catholic Medical Center tried to get a troubled colleague barred from surgery. But hospital leaders resisted. Then came the "summer of death."

More recent stories

Kevin Paul Dupont | On Hockey

Bruins will be challenged to stay in the hunt until some of their top players return from injury
With the Bruins season set to begin Wednesday, Brad Marchand, Charlie McAvoy, Matt Grzelcyk, and Taylor Hall are all recovering from injuries.

Bruins trio clears waivers; lineup for Wednesday’s opener still uncertain

This pharmacist has a prescription for keeping doo-wop real
Since 2006, Todd Baptista has been producing shows at the Zeiterion in New Bedford — there's another coming up Sunday — that bring the original artists back to the stage.

Bill Belichick isn’t interested in speculating on possibility of Bailey Zappe supplanting Mac Jones
“I’m not going to sit around here and dream up scenarios. We’ll take things as they come and go from there," the Patriots coach said Monday.

Tyquan Thornton has the wheels and the talent, but how will the Patriots use him?

Chris Christie once again stumps for Allan Fung on Federal Hill
The former New Jersey governor said he is thinking of running for president again in 2024 even if former President Donald Trump is in the race.

A few thoughts on what went wrong and what went right for the 2022 Red Sox
The bad far outweighed the good in a season when the top stars fell short in production and the team had an abysmal divisional record.

MATTHEW GILBERT | YOUR TV GPS

This week’s TV: A new CNN lineup, ‘Shantaram’ arrives, and the story of Tegan and Sara
On Monday, CNN is premiering a new nightly lineup that won't include Don Lemon, who is moving to mornings later this fall.

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Manuel's son carried a mattress though the streets of Somerville to the new residence early in the morning of Sept. 2. The family had to move late in the night, the only time when Manuel and Teresa did not have work.

Life in a single room

A look at one immigrant family’s epic quest for a home on the margins of Boston’s housing crisis.

Marijuana, with a side of music, may be coming soon to Faneuil Hall
For Soul Cannabis, a dispensary with a melody and a mission, the Faneuil Hall space is an opportunity to change the narrative of the marketplace.

FOOD & DINING NEWSLETTER

The ‘farm-to-table’ concept is all the rage among restaurants. But what about distilleries?
The Industrious Spirit Company recently relaunched its Blue Velvet Bourbon, which is created using 100 percent blue corn.

Double-parking at Boston churches often goes unchecked. Muslims say they want the same flexibility.
Public records show that people attending Friday prayers at the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center in Roxbury were much more likely to receive a parking ticket than those attending Sunday morning services at a handful of churches in other neighborhoods.

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Culture & Lifestyle

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Accidentally Wes Anderson has some postcards for you

Tess Lukey is the new associate curator of Native American art for The Trustees of Reservations.

Tess Lukey appointed first curator of Native American art for The Trustees of Reservations

Lia Cirio and Patrick Yocum in George Balanchine's "Apollo."

Boston Ballet’s ‘My Obsession’ is worth obsessing over

Jennifer Koh performs Bernstein's Serenade with Andris Nelsons and the BSO.

Nelsons and BSO make Shostakovich shine

Special Projects

Back to Boston

Welcome Back to Boston

Consider this our love letter to the city, a celebration of all it has to offer visitors and locals alike.

Top Spots to Live in Greater Boston in 2022

A guide to 36 Greater Boston communities where demand — and prices — are surging.

Jeneé Osterheldt

A Beautiful Resistance

Black joy, Black lives, as celebrated by culture columnist Jeneé Osterheldt.

‘On the Street’: The changing face of Greater Boston neighborhoods

The changing face of Greater Boston neighborhoods.

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Opinion, ideas, and commentary

A pseudo-colored scanning electron micrograph of an oral squamous cancer cell (white) being attacked by two cytotoxic T cells (red), part of a natural immune response.

IDEAS | DANIEL BAKER AND CARL JUNE

A disease-slaying drug that lives on in the body?

The author's western Pennsylvania garden in warmer days.

IDEAS | DARYLN BREWER HOFFSTOT

A garden must be put to bed, too

Two issues in particular have ignited Republican ire: Question 1 (the “millionaire’s tax”), which would apply a small surcharge to incomes over $1 million, and Question 4, allowing undocumented immigrants to get driver’s licenses in the state.

Proxy battles on the Massachusetts ballot

Police hold back demonstrators looking to confront anti-trans activist Chris Elston, outside of Boston Childrens Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, on September 18, 2022. - The demonstrators showed up as a counter-protest to a group that was against the hospital's programs that deal with gender affirmation surgeries and hormonal treatments.

Protecting transgender health care for the kids who need it

A couple sat outside tents at the State House in June in support of a bill that would allow undocumented people in Massachusetts to get driver's licenses.

MARCELA GARCÍA

Why is Question 4 so confusing?

A Democratic nominee for Congress, Joseph Alfonso, knocks on doors around downtown Plainwell, Mich.

IDEAS | DAVID SCHARFENBERG

‘What the hell are we doing?’: Democrats are letting beatable election-denying Republicans cruise to reelection

Metro

Group in support of upholding driver’s license law drops $500k on Boston TV ad buy

The ad will appear on television, streaming services, and digital platforms in the Boston area and cost about $500,000, a spokeswoman for the Yes on 4 for Safer Roads campaign said.

Hundreds of Massachusetts residents joined the extremist Oath Keepers. Today, many are distancing themselves.

The group’s founder Stewart Rhodes is on trial for allegedly plotting to overthrow the government.

Dr. Beryl Benacerraf, groundbreaking ultrasound researcher and physician, dies at 73

"Pictures just speak to me," Dr. Benacerraf said of her uncommon ability to use ultrasound to diagnose fetal abnormalities.

‘An opportunity to bring everyone together’: Honoring history, family heritage at center of holiday festivities

Across the Boston area, people celebrated both Columbus Day and Indigenous People’s Day with music, food, and family, all markers of the heritage that anchors the holidays jointly proclaimed by President Biden on Monday.

Sports

Davante Adams had a pair of touchdowns in the Raiders' loss.

Las Vegas WR Davante Adams apologizes after shoving cameraman following loss

After the game went final, he was seen walking off the field and toward the locker room. As he neared the tunnel, he shoved a cameraman, who was knocked to the ground.

Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce celebrates after scoring one of his four touchdowns Monday night.

Chiefs 30, Raiders 29

Raiders squander 17-point lead in Kansas City as Josh McDaniels falls to 1-4

The Chiefs were thwarted in the second quarter when a key fumble recovery was negated by a roughing the passer penalty.

Sacred Heart-bound Emily Sawyer (19) of King Philip celebrates a sweep of Bishop Feehan. Sawyer had five kills and three blocks.

Girls’ volleyball roundup: Trio of college commits set the bar for No. 4 King Philip

Check out the latest high school girls' volleyball scores and highlights.

gary washburn | on basketball

After drama-filled stops in Los Angeles and Brooklyn, Blake Griffin impressed by Celtics’ vibes

BASEBALL NOTEBOOK

Myles Straw, Guardians in New York for a Division Series encounter with the Yankees, and their fans

Braves lock up Spencer Strider with a $75 million, 6-year contract

Business

Supreme Court to hear case that could raise price of pork

The Supreme Court will hear arguments over a California animal cruelty law that could raise the cost of bacon and other pork products nationwide.

Protests in Iran over woman’s death reach key oil industry

Workers at refineries crucial for Iran’s oil and natural gas production protested Monday over the death of a 22-year-old woman, online videos appeared to show, escalating the crisis faced by Tehran.

Small business group files suit over Biden student loan plan

Former Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke shares Nobel economics prize for research on banks

magazine

The Education Issue

TikTok, Instagram, and the endless scroll of unattainable happiness

The Education Issue

The unauthorized school handbook for bewildered parents and caregivers

From left: Grade 9 students Dehlen Rabb, Marlon Benjamin, and Jose Jimenez.

THE GREAT DIVIDE

‘The Mary Lyon way’: A Boston inclusion school’s successful approach to re-engagement

This week's daters: Lucinda and Jamie

Dinner with Cupid

Blind date: ‘The craziness of the Fluff Festival helped break the ice’

metro

A ticket rested on a car in front of the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center in Boston on March 11, 2022.

Double-parking at Boston churches often goes unchecked. Muslims say they want the same flexibility.

New MCAS data underscores missed learning of the pandemic. What if kids can’t catch up?

US states were supposed to improve systems for tracking dangerous drivers. Many still haven’t.

sports

The Newton South boys' team has clinched a postseason berth for the first time since 2011.

Floyd Butler knew there was untapped potential for Newton South boys’ soccer. Now he’s unlocking it.

Tyquan Thornton has the wheels and the talent, but how will the Patriots use him?

EMass boys’ soccer: St. John’s Prep keeper Yianni Andrikopoulos’s two clean sheets, one against No. 3 Needham, highlight the Players of the Week

business

The exterior of Rhode Island College.

For adults who didn’t finish college, RIC creates a path to a degree

Grace Cotter Regan has drawn tens of millions in donations for BC High during her tenure

Marijuana, with a side of music, may be coming soon to Faneuil Hall

politics

In a move never before seen in the state, Republican Governor Ron DeSantis endorsed a slate of school board candidates, putting his weight behind conservatives who share his opposition to lessons on sexuality and what he deems critical race theory.

Conservative PACs inject millions into local school races

Majority in US see relations with adversaries souring, poll shows

Ohio Senate debate with Ryan, Vance descends into attacks

Nation

The Supreme Court in Washington.

Supreme Court to hear case that could raise price of pork

Uvalde school chief plans to retire after community outrage

California man charged in family’s kidnapping, slaying

World

A TV screen shows an image of North Korea's missile launch during a news program at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, Oct. 10, 2022. North Korea said Monday its recent barrage of missile launches were tests of its tactical nuclear weapons to “hit and wipe out” potential South Korean and U.S. targets, state media reported Monday.

North Korea says it is building underwater nuclear weapons silos

Putin unleashes barrage of missiles on Ukrainian civilian areas

Biden condemns ‘utter brutality of Mr. Putin’s illegal war’

opinion

A spider and its web, which was covered in sawdust that looks almost like water drops.

Spiders in the house? It’s a peaceful coexistence

Protecting transgender health care for the kids who need it

A disease-slaying drug that lives on in the body?

lifestyle

Tom Brady and Gisele Bündchen after the New England Patriots won Super Bowl LI against the Atlanta Falcons in 2017.

Tom Brady and Gisele Bündchen have reportedly hired divorce lawyers

Fake heiress Anna Sorokin talks deportation, house arrest

He was engaged when we met

food & dining

Manya Rubinstein, the co-founder and CEO of the Industrious Spirit Company (also known as ISCO), holds two ears of blue corn at the distillery in Providence, R.I.

The ‘farm-to-table’ concept is all the rage among restaurants. But what about distilleries?

Dunkin’ just rolled out a new rewards program, and some customers aren’t happy

Where to go apple picking in Massachusetts 🍎

travel

The flight ride attraction “FlyOver in Las Vegas” has launched “Windborne: Call of the Canadian Rockies,” which takes viewers on an immersive adventure to some of the most isolated and untouched areas of the mountain range.

Explore the world by bike, get a bird’s-eye view of the Rockies, and bring along a stuffed pal

When the Krishna River rises

This fall in the Berkshires, outdoor art rivals the foliage

Arts

Tess Lukey is the new associate curator of Native American art for The Trustees of Reservations.

Tess Lukey appointed first curator of Native American art for The Trustees of Reservations

Ever wanted to see the Northern Lights? ‘Borealis’ illuminates the Cambridge Science Festival.

At the MFA, a new show looks at what Life left out

Books

An image in "Accidentally Wes Anderson Postcards" from Instagram user @heath_travels

Accidentally Wes Anderson has some postcards for you

Existing on the edge of extinction

Sandra Cisneros on reading books to become a better writer

Movies

A still from the documentary "Good Night Oppy"

GlobeDocs 2022: from Massachusetts to Mars, and many destinations between

Going for the gold — and redemption — in ‘The Redeem Team’

Christian Bale thinks ‘we need to find something to be obsessed about’

Television

Don Lemon is moving from late night to mornings on CNN, where he will be joined by Poppy Harlow and Kaitlan Collins.

This week’s TV: A new CNN lineup, ‘Shantaram’ arrives, and the story of Tegan and Sara

‘Saturday Night Live’ takes on Marilyn Monroe’s fan mail, features Brendan Gleeson on mandolin

‘Inside Amy Schumer’ is back — with a new home

music

Todd Baptista (second from left) shown with the Tymes.

This pharmacist has a prescription for keeping doo-wop real

Kanye West’s Twitter, Instagram locked over offensive posts

Handel and Haydn Society steps confidently into a new era

Theater/Dance

A contortionist performs in "The Great Mr. Swindle’s Traveling Peculiarium."

A ‘Traveling Peculiarium’ brings some old-fashioned fun to the Seaport

Boston Ballet’s ‘My Obsession’ is worth obsessing over

A feminist take on ‘Dracula’ that bites back

globe local

Amelia Everett will continue her track career at Stanford University after graduating from Newton South High School this spring. Last year, Everett competed at the MIAA All-State track meet at Norwell High School and won the 1-mile race.

Newton South track star to continue running career at Stanford

Back to (home)school

Bluebirds are making a comeback — thanks to a little help from their friends

Obituaries

Dr. Beryl Benacerraf.

Dr. Beryl Benacerraf, groundbreaking ultrasound researcher and physician, dies at 73

Douglas Kirkland, who took portraits of movie stars, dies at 88

Rev. Samuel T. Lloyd III, former longtime rector of Trinity Church, dies at 72