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A new hurdle for Wu’s BPDA revamp: the City Council

Mayor Wu wants to overhaul the Boston Planning & Development Agency but the City Council has questions.

FAA investigating close call at Logan Airport; JetBlue pilot takes evasive action to avoid collision with Learjet
“According to a preliminary review, the pilot of a Learjet 60 took off without clearance while JetBlue Flight 206 was preparing to land on an intersecting runway,” the FAA said.

Six years after pay raise law, many top Mass. officials rank as highest paid in the country

If not for some Massachusetts officials forgoing raises in past years, the pay of all six of the statewide constitutional officers would rank number one among their elected counterparts nationwide, according to a Globe analysis.

State inspector general instructs Boston schools to crack down on late buses

The Massachusetts inspector general’s office implored Boston school officials on Tuesday to hold its troubled busing contractor, Transdev, accountable for late school buses, following a two-month inquiry into how the company emerged as the only bidder for a new five-year contract.
THE GREAT DIVIDE

BPS defies federal court order for English learners, civil rights group says

Women are much more likely to say no to cholesterol-lowering drugs, Boston researchers find
The new study found that women were about 50 percent more likely than men to refuse a doctor's recommendation to take statins.

Missing Hopkinton teen found dead in Milford woods

Revere Mayor Brian M. Arrigo won’t seek reelection

You call that a snowstorm? Here’s what’s happening to winter snowfall in Boston.

New England is warming faster than the rest of the planet and as a result, the region is more often seeing rain instead of snow, according to federal data. And when snow does fall, it’s less likely to stick.
shirley leung

Former state labor secretary reflects on pandemic benefit payouts: ‘A bit like Hunger Games’

A year ago, Rosalin Acosta and her staff were faced with the unthinkable task of collecting more than $4 billion in pandemic-era unemployment benefits from people who had received errant checks.
ben volin | on football

49ers appear to leave the door wide open for Tom Brady, and other buzz from the NFL Combine

Brady is what the 49ers need to take advantage of their shrinking Super Bowl window. And let’s see how he feels when he’s missing training camp and his boyhood team comes calling.
Opinion
IDEAS | JOAN VENNOCHI

Threading the needle to keep clothing manufacturing alive in Massachusetts

“Left with scraps” after Brooks Brothers shut down its Haverhill factory in 2020, some workers have found new opportunity in a Lawrence startup.
EDITORIAL

Last year’s BPS agreement with the state begins to bear fruit
NEWSLETTER

I opposed Jimmy Carter, but I praise him
JEFF JACOBY

Let Nikki be Nikki
IDEAS | LISA WEISS

The spinal curve I’ve come to see as a question mark
The Emancipator

Saving Black homes lost to tax inequity

For decades, the sale of tax debt and unfair property assessments have disproportionately caused Black Americans to lose their homes across the United States. A Chicago program is helping some Black families keep their homes, but its leaders say structural change is needed.
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Black History Month

Black veterans close out Black History Month with appreciation brunch in Boston

Mayor Michelle Wu and the city's Office of Veterans' Services presented awards to honor three Black veterans for their years of continued service to the Boston community.
When Martin met Coretta in Boston, he found his match in more ways than one

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Spotlight Report: Fate and the fallen star

Boston doesn’t work if the T doesn’t work

Darkness on the edge of the Patriots dynasty

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‘It’s hard out there’: R.I. lacks shelter space as Cranston Street Armory could close in 2 months
Without the armory operating as a warming center, it’s unclear where these homeless individuals will go. One issue, some say, is the lack of a winter plan every year.

Conservative Supreme Court justices question President Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan

In arguments on Tuesday stretching well beyond the allotted two hours, Chief Justice John Roberts led his conservative colleagues in questioning the administration’s authority to broadly cancel federal student loans because of the COVID-19 emergency.
Local attorneys, advocates anxiously watch as high court weighs Biden’s student loan plan

tara sullivan
Trevor Story’s time with the Red Sox has seemed like one frustration after another
The sidelined shortstop is with the team, doing what he can, but what was supposed to be his bounce-back season is on hold.

Odie Henderson Review | ★★★
‘Creed III’ pulls no punches
Director-star Michael B. Jordan returns as Adonis Creed while Jonathan Majors shines as a formidable foe in this rousing drama.

ADDRESS
Home of the Week: Mendon Craftsman on 6.5 acres awaits a budding gardener
The house comes with four bedrooms, three full baths, fruit trees, horse facilities, and modern features like radiant heat flooring.

DINING OUT | DEVRA FIRST
Redefining Irish pub fare at the Dubliner
Chef Aidan Mc Gee serves gorgeous Sunday roasts and some of the city’s best fish and chips.

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Shipwreck fragments were found on Nantucket. Here’s what researchers learned.

Recently discovered shipwreck fragments on Nantucket have renewed interest in the island’s rich, though often tragic, seafaring past. “When you just say ‘shipwreck,’ people get very excited,” Evan Schwanfelder said.

Who will be guardians for legions of ‘unbefriended’ elders? A new initiative tries to address an urgent and growing problem in Mass.
Lawyers and advocates estimate there are at least 3,000 people in Massachusetts, mostly older adults, though some are younger with brain injuries, intellectual disabilities, or mental health problems, in need of a guardian.

Professor sues Babson College for discrimination
Lakshmi Balachandra, an associate professor of entrepreneurship, is suing because of alleged mistreatment and administrators’ failure to investigate her concerns.

A high-stakes divorce battle over control of iconic Boston real estate — and a really expensive collection of duck decoys
The divorce was going smoothly, as divorces go, but then came the revelations about the duck decoys.

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Culture & Lifestyle

Jazz singer Nnenna Freelon reckons with loss by embracing life

Is cabbage the new cauliflower (which was the new Brussels sprouts)?

Asa Brebner’s friends are still singing his praises — and his songs

In ‘Alma,’ an uncertain future for mother and daughter caught in political cross fire

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Two Weeks in America

We sent a dozen journalists on the road across this complex country. They found it’s better than you think.

Welcome Back to Boston

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

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

The changing face of Greater Boston neighborhoods.
Jeneé Osterheldt

A Beautiful Resistance

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

Opinion, ideas, and commentary

RENÉE GRAHAM

Ben Affleck and white liberals’ discomfort with Black history
SCOT LEHIGH

Civic honor is in short supply in America
Joan Fitzgerald, Julie Wormser, and Jonathan Lamontagne

Massachusetts needs a coastal adaptation agency
JOAN VENNOCHI

Is Richard Neal’s cheerleading giving a free pass to the company building MBTA cars?
Jill Collen Jefferson and Charles Meire

Bill would create an apartheid system in Jackson, Miss.
IDEAS | KAT ROSENFIELD

The illusion of a frictionless existence

Metro

RI FOOD & DINING NEWSLETTER

Where going out is a deal

There’s a ton of spots to grab a cheap bite in Rhode Island. But if you’re looking for a unique experience this month, check out these two deals.
HOMELESSNESS

‘It’s hard out there’: R.I. lacks shelter space as Cranston Street Armory could close in 2 months

Without the armory operating as a warming center, it’s unclear where these homeless individuals will go. One issue, some say, is the lack of a winter plan every year.

Celebrating a ‘rock star’ for Women’s History Month: Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler, first Black woman to earn medical degree in US

In honor of Women's History month in March, a special program on Crumpler's life will be held on Saturday at the Salvation Army Kroc Center in Roxbury.
Westwood

Viti has big plans as town’s first poet laureate

The daughter of a Baltimore tavern owner and schoolteacher, she started writing poetry as a child and didn’t share her work for many years.

Sports

dan shaughnessy

What happened in 1971 should be a cautionary tale for this year’s Bruins

Between bookend Stanley Cups in '70 and '72, the Bruins had their most dominant team, but the playoffs didn't go as they planned.
Bruins 4, Flames 3 (OT)

Charlie McAvoy scores with 4.3 seconds left in OT as Bruins close out road trip by beating Flames in Calgary

Dmitry Orlov scored his first two goals as a Bruin and Linus Ullmark made a career-high 54 saves.

Kobe Bryant family settles photo lawsuit for $28.5 million

The family of the late Kobe Bryant has agreed to settle legal issues surrounding photos of the body of the of the NBA star and others who were killed in a 2020 helicopter crash.
Boston College 71, Wake Forest 69

Boston College men’s basketball continues its roll, dumps Wake Forest 71-69
Bruins notebook

Brandon Carlo latest Bruins defenseman to sit for road trip finale in Calgary
MIAA girls' basketball roundup

Jenna Cappola leads No. 34 Plymouth North girls’ basketball in Division 1 preliminary-round road win over No. 31 Marshfield

Business

Chroma Medicine raises $135m for its epigenetic editing therapies

The Boston startup is partly based on the work of three local scientists.
HOMELESSNESS

‘It’s hard out there’: R.I. lacks shelter space as Cranston Street Armory could close in 2 months

Without the armory operating as a warming center, it’s unclear where these homeless individuals will go. One issue, some say, is the lack of a winter plan every year.

This stem cell startup is designing a therapy to restore and boost immunity

A new owner for Uno’s frozen pizza division

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CONNECTIONS

When cancer forced my pediatrician dad to close his practice, hundreds of letters followed

YOUR WEEK AHEAD

Five things to do for fun in and around Boston, Feb. 27-March 5
Style Watch

Design inspiration: Thumbed-through paperbacks make for a nice home library
Dinner with Cupid

Blind date: ‘Madison did giggle nervously at my stupid jokes. I take that as a courtesy, though.’

metro

State inspector general instructs Boston schools to crack down on late buses

Local attorneys, advocates anxiously watch as high court weighs Biden’s student loan plan

Revere Mayor Brian M. Arrigo won’t seek reelection

sports

Tuesday’s spring training report: Corey Kluber makes first Red Sox start ‘as realistic as possible’

The Celtics are content to live or die by the three, but is an adjustment needed on off shooting nights?

Rangers trade for Blackhawks star Patrick Kane

business

Drones fly deep inside Russia; Putin orders border tightened

A new hurdle for Wu’s BPDA revamp: the City Council

Lab space planned for former Gillette parking lots

politics

It might not be obvious, but Ron DeSantis just soft launched his 2024 presidential campaign

Supreme Court appears skeptical of Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan

Chicago Mayor Lightfoot ousted; Vallas, Johnson in runoff

Nation

RFK assassin Sirhan Sirhan returns to 16th parole hearing

Ohio senators ready rail safety bill after fiery crash

California, beleaguered by earlier storms, gets fresh snow

World

China dismisses FBI statement on COVID-19 lab leak theory

China rips new US House committee on countering Beijing

Head-on train crash in Greece kills at least 36, injures 85

opinion

Una inmigrante de East Boston está desaparecida desde noviembre. ¿Dónde está la cobertura constante de los medios?

Ben Affleck and white liberals’ discomfort with Black history

Civic honor is in short supply in America

lifestyle

Intimate moments of self-reflection in seemingly ordinary spaces in Helena Wurzel’s solo exhibition

Why ‘Massachusetts’ is misspelled on some new signs in Washington, D.C.

He doesn’t have time for me

food & dining

Where going out is a deal

Redefining Irish pub fare at the Dubliner

Dedham House of Pizza’s George Panagopoulos won’t serve peanut-butter-and-jelly pies

travel

A new low-cost airline will launch with flights from Boston to London this fall

Skiing Snowbasin, the best ski area you’ve never heard of

Lyft charged me $80 for damage to a car. But it wasn’t me!

Arts

At the MFA, a small photography show leaves a big impression

Intimate moments of self-reflection in seemingly ordinary spaces in Helena Wurzel’s solo exhibition

DeCordova announces suspension of indoor exhibitions for up to three years

Books

Bellingham author and illustrator works with Matthew McConaughey on new children’s book

Publisher to release ‘classic’ Roald Dahl books after backlash

Climate change is upon us. Jake Bittle’s ‘The Great Displacement’ is an unsettling look at the personal and financial costs of ever-growing threats.

Movies

‘Creed III’ pulls no punches

Gordon Pinsent, award-winning Canadian actor, dies at 92

Tom Luddy, a behind-the-scenes force in cinema, dies at 79

Television

Production design worth mooning over in ‘Hello Tomorrow!’

Berklee student scores golden ticket at ‘American Idol’ audition

This week’s TV: Chris Rock live, a Fleetwood Mac-like saga, and down with the ‘Succession’-verse

music

With a Tania León commission and ‘Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk,’ Boston Symphony Orchestra teases 2023-24 season

Jazz singer Nnenna Freelon reckons with loss by embracing life

Making ‘Quincy’ helped Western Mass. singer Kimaya Diggs push through the worst of times

Theater/Dance

Fran Lebowitz’s withering view of humankind is kvetched in stone

In playwright Lenelle Moïse’s ‘K-I-S-S-I-N-G,’ a portrait of the artist as a young woman

In ‘Alma,’ an uncertain future for mother and daughter caught in political cross fire

globe local

Viti has big plans as town’s first poet laureate

Milton asks governor to stop demolition of stairs at MBTA station

Where all dogs (and cats, rabbits, and birds) go to heaven

Obituaries

Gleb Pavlovsky, Putin image adviser who became harsh critic, dies at 71

Bob Richards, 97, pole-vaulting star who landed on Wheaties box, dies

Gordon Pinsent, award-winning Canadian actor, dies at 92