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They warned in 2018 that weakening regulations could lead to failure like SVB. Now Elizabeth Warren and other Democrats want those changes back.

Democrats warned in 2018 that weakening regulations could lead to failure like SVB.

Boston’s tech, life science, and nonprofit communities hail SVB rescue, but worries persist Massachusetts affordable housing projects roiled by SVB meltdown

Bank blowups are dangerous, but this isn’t 2008

Vermont shocked by decision to remove books from state college libraries: ‘It’s an embarrassing decision’

Leaders of Vermont’s public colleges are taking an extraordinary step to save money: getting rid of most of the books in the campus libraries.

Dr. Fauci comes to the aid of two women in need of medical assistance at D.C. gala. He’s ‘the real deal.’
“It was an eventful evening for medical emergencies,” Anthony Fauci said of the Gridiron Dinner on Saturday in Washington, D.C.

MBTA to riders: Add 20 minutes to your commute each way

The MBTA Green Line and the Mattapan high-speed trolley continue to operate with a top speed of 25 miles an hour, while numerous "block speed" restrictions remain in effect on the Red, Orange, and Blue lines.

13-year-old Dorchester girl missing since Wednesday, Boston police say

Jamilianiz Montanez was last seen around 7:40 a.m. on March 8 near 530 Blue Hill Ave., Boston police said.

Police Commissioner Cox on Southie St. Patrick’s Day festivities: BPD is ‘prepared for almost anything’

Boston police are ready for this weekend’s St. Patrick’s Day festivities, which can draw hundreds of thousands of revelers to the city’s streets, officials told the public at a Monday afternoon news conference at Boston Police Headquarters.

Former Representative Pat Schroeder, pioneer for women’s rights, dies
A pioneer for women’s and family rights in Congress, former Colorado Representative Pat Schroeder, has died at the age of 82.

Denied by AI: How Medicare Advantage plans use algorithms to cut off care for seniors in need

Health insurance companies have rejected medical claims for as long as they’ve been around. But a STAT investigation found artificial intelligence is now driving their denials to new heights.

These maps show how much snow New England can expect from the nor’easter
A powerful nor’easter began moving into New England Monday night, bringing potentially damaging winds, rain, and heavy snow to the region, though forecasts indicate Boston will be spared the worst of the storm.

Children spent a February snow day in Grafton sledding at Fairview Cemetery.

School closures in Massachusetts for Tuesday, March 14

An intense pool of strong wids will rotate around the center of the storm Tuesday into early Wednesday as it pulls out to sea.

Forecast | Dave Epstein

Nor’easter will hit southern New England late Monday, continue into Tuesday

A bicyclist peddles down Noyes Street in the South End of Concord, N.H.

Live weather updates from Boston-area meteorologists

ROCKETS 111, CELTICS 109

Jaylen Brown’s 43 points not enough to save the Celtics from a loss to the NBA-worst Rockets
The Celtics rallied late and had a chance to send the game to overtime, but Jayson Tatum missed a layup at the buzzer. Boston (47-22) remains in second place in the East but is tied with the 76ers (45-22) in the loss column.

The Fallon Co., a commercial real estate developer, is teaming up with two Black-owned businesses to redevelop a piece of the Wentworth campus at Sweeney Field into a life sciences complex. From left to right, Ed Owens, Mike Fallon, and Clayton Turnbull walked the field while discussing the project.

Fallon Co. teams up with two Black-owned businesses to redevelop key Wentworth parcel

Wentworth Institute of Technology is trading in lacrosse balls for labs and soccer goals for centrifuges, with an ambitious plan to build a life sciences complex on the site of its main athletic field along Huntington Avenue.

Boston Public Schools plans to seek funding from the Massachusetts School Building Authority for a new elementary school building in Southern Dorchester or Mattapan. The school would house the merged Shaw and Taylor elementary schools.

Boston to seek state funding for new building for merged Shaw, Taylor schools

Boston Public Schools plans to seek state funding for a new elementary school building in Southern Dorchester or Mattapan to house two merged elementary schools.

The old Harbor Tunnel administration office in the North End will soon be redeveloped as a single-family home for developer and pizza magnate Sal Lupoli.

How developer and pizza magnate Sal Lupoli found his dream home, atop the harbor tunnels

A grand old state office building in the North End is set to become a prominent Merrimack Valley businessman's home in Boston.

Casey Affleck attends the Vanity Fair 95th Oscars Party at the The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills, Calif. on March 12, 2023.

95th Academy Awards

At glitzy Oscar parties: Casey Affleck’s about to start filming in Boston; Kraft still hoping Brady will retire a Patriot

Massachusetts was not only well represented at the 95th annual Academy Awards on Sunday, but at swanky viewing parties and after-parties, too.

‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ wins best picture, plus six more Oscars More Oscars coverage

Opinion

Capitol Hill in Washington on March 15, 2022. Senator Marco Rubio of Florida reintroduced legislation that would end the practice of turning clocks back one hour every November.

Charles A. Czeisler and Elizabeth B. Klerman

Making daylight saving time permanent would mean losing sleep — and lives

This legislation is not about protecting sunshine. Instead, it should be called “An Act to Force Americans to Wake Up an Hour Earlier Each Day.”

MARCELA GARCÍA

Confronting the teen mental health crisis, one anonymous post at a time

Auditor Diana DiZoglio is taking on Beacon Hill — as promised

Andrew Bacevich

The self-deceived deceivers of war

How to prevent MassHealth enrollees from losing their coverage

Cate Blanchett stars as Lydia Tár in director Todd Field's Tár.

The Emancipator

We need to talk about Tár’s racist ending

In a time of rising anti-Asian hate, Tár, starring Cate Blanchett as a world-famous conductor, carelessly relies on Asian stereotypes to portray its White protagonist’s fall from grace.

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photo illustration of David Sabatini. photo by Jonathan Wiggs /Globe Staff

Spotlight Report: Fate and the fallen star

Boston, MA—12/14/2022 - Commuters wait for the T to arrive at Ruggles Station. (Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff)

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

Members of the 2001 Patriots team that won the franchise’s first title.

Darkness on the edge of the Patriots dynasty

More recent News

McConnell is released from hospital and is headed to inpatient rehab
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell was released from the hospital Monday after treatment for a concussion and will continue to recover in an inpatient rehabilitation facility, a spokesman said.

Woman, 35, charged with attacking 13-year-old boy at Andrew MBTA station in South Boston

“Without provocation, the woman walked up to the boy and hit him in the face with a soda can that had jagged edges,” prosecutors said.

THE FINE PRINT

It’s tax season. Here’s what you need to know when filing this year.
The Internal Revenue Service is promising a much smoother tax season this year, including readily available phone assistance and quick refunds.

Colleges have been a small-town lifeline. What happens as they shrink?
As Americans have fewer children and a diminishing share of young adults pursue a degree, the once-burgeoning market for college slots has kicked into reverse.

Biden backs $8 billion Alaska oil project despite climate peril
President Biden authorized a giant ConocoPhillips oil project in northwest Alaska that environmentalists argue has no place in a warming world, even as he sought to bar future drilling across US Arctic waters and lands.

MATTHEW GILBERT | YOUR TV GPS

This week’s TV: The warm return of ‘Ted Lasso,’ Bob Odenkirk’s new dramedy, and an Elvis cartoon
“Ted Lasso” returns for its third, and possibly last, season, while new shows premiering this week include Bob Odenkirk in “Lucky Hank,” the horror thriller “Swarm,” and the animated series “Agent Elvis,” with Matthew McConaughey voicing Elvis.

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Violence has been on the rise in the Talbot Avenue corridor, especially 10 Helen St.

Tiny street in Dorchester is magnet for street violence. Police say one house is the source of so much trouble.

A teal-colored house on Helen St. has served as a hive of gang activity, raided by police at least three times in as many years, and has been shot at multiple times amid conflicts between rival street crews, police records and court documents show.

As food aid program winds down, another piece of the COVID-era safety net gets snipped away
People who've received expanded food benefits for the past three years face the program's end, even as food prices remain sky-high.

Waltham paid $17.4m for historic farmland. Now the city is placing a longtime community farm at risk, advocates say.
“I believe the citizens of Waltham should also have a chance to use this farm,” Mayor Jeannette McCarthy told city councilors at a recent meeting.

Telehealth at a crossroads: When does it work best? What should it cost?
The future of remote medical care remains unclear as patients flock back to the office, the rules shift once again, and insurers start to curtail their payments.

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Culture & Lifestyle

Nick Mohammed (left) and Jason Sudeikis in "Ted Lasso."

This week’s TV: The warm return of ‘Ted Lasso,’ Bob Odenkirk’s new dramedy, and an Elvis cartoon

On Thursday night in Symphony Hall, (from left to right) conductor Thomas Wilkins, guest artist Earl Howard, composer Anthony Davis, and clarinet soloist Anthony McGill took a bow after the BSO's performance of Davis's work "You Have the Right to Remain Silent."

A clarinet’s right to remain silent, and to speak out

GBH produces a yearly St. Patrick’s Day Celtic Sojourn every March.

Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day in Boston with trad, a 5K, and plenty of Irish cheer

Anthony Bova, co-owner of Bova's Bakery.

Movie starring Matt Damon and Casey Affleck to film at Bova’s Bakery in the North End

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Opinion, ideas, and commentary

Capitol Hill in Washington on March 15, 2022. Senator Marco Rubio of Florida reintroduced legislation that would end the practice of turning clocks back one hour every November.

Charles A. Czeisler and Elizabeth B. Klerman

Making daylight saving time permanent would mean losing sleep — and lives

Former secretary of state Colin Powell, right, took part in a meeting with President George W. Bush and former secretaries of defense and state to discuss the Iraq War at the White House on Jan. 5, 2006. Shown are former secretary of state (Reagan administration) Alexander Haig Jr., from left; former secretary of defense Robert McNamara (Kennedy/Johnson administrations); former secretary of defense Melvin Laird (Nixon administration); former secretary of defense James Schlesinger (Nixon/Ford administration); former secretary of defense Frank Carlucci (Reagan administration); former secretary of defense William Perry (Clinton administration); chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Peter Pace; former secretary of defense William Cohen (Clinton administration); Commanding General Multi National Forces Iraq George Casey; secretary of defense Donald Rumsfeld; Vice President Dick Cheney; President George W. Bush; Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Powell.

Andrew Bacevich

The self-deceived deceivers of war

MassHealth and the Massachusetts Health Connector have partnered with Health Care for All and other community organizations to knock on doors and talk to members in communities across the state about the need to update their personal information and complete the redetermination process.

How to prevent MassHealth enrollees from losing their coverage

"You can’t love poutine in the summer or in the south. It’s calorie-dense survival food for the darkest days of winter, those subzero stretches that make us dream of fat and salt and warmth."

IDEAS | GEORGE ROGERS

Lost winter: A season on thin ice is a bad time for poutine

Lawmakers reconsider the secrecy of the confessional

The Central Business District and the Chinatown in Singapore, which has an autocratic government and is known for its cleanliness and low rates of crime.

IDEAS | JASON MIKLIAN

Crazy rich autocracies: What are they doing better than democracies?

Metro

School closures in Massachusetts for Tuesday, March 14

With a nor‘easter expected to slam New England Monday night into Tuesday, schools in the Boston area and across Massachusetts began announcing plans to close for the storm.

Patricia Schroeder, congresswoman who wielded barbed wit, dies at 82

Ms. Schroeder was outspoken on issues that ranged from women’s rights and family matters to military policy.

Denied by AI: How Medicare Advantage plans use algorithms to cut off care for seniors in need

Health insurance companies have rejected medical claims for as long as they’ve been around. But a STAT investigation found artificial intelligence is now driving their denials to new heights.

These maps show how much snow New England can expect from the nor’easter

A powerful nor’easter began moving into New England Monday night, bringing potentially damaging winds, rain, and heavy snow to the region, though forecasts indicate Boston will be spared the worst of the storm.

Sports

Charlestown's Ricky Cabral (12) tries to fend off the pressure from Malden Catholic's Matthew Gaffney in Monday's Division 2 semifinal at Woburn High.

MIAA BOYS' BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT

In defense of its Division 2 championship, Malden Catholic boys’ basketball marches on to a title showdown vs. Mansfield

Buckley Moody (five 3-pointers, 7 assists) and Nick Martinez (18 points) paced the Lancers to semifinal win over Charlestown. Junior Eddie McCoy (28 points) continued his stellar play for Mansfield in victory over Nashoba.

Josh Allen has six years left on an eight-year, $258 million deal.

Bills rework Josh Allen, Von Miller deals to get under salary cap

The Bills freed up more than $30 million in space after restructuring the contracts.

Trevor Bauer, whose career was derailed following multiple sexual assault allegations, agreed to pitch for the Yokohama DeNA BayStars on a short-term deal.

Trevor Bauer, disgraced former Cy Young winner, signs in Japan

Following a lengthy investigation in April, MLB suspended Bauer for 324 games, or two full seasons, the longest suspension in the history of its domestic violence policy, but was later appealed down to 194 games.

NFL to consider making roughing-the-passer penalties and personal-foul penalties subject to video review

ROCKETS 111, CELTICS 109

Jaylen Brown’s 43 points not enough to save the Celtics from a loss to the NBA-worst Rockets

World Baseball Classic

Puerto Rico has a perfect game against Israel in World Baseball Classic

Business

Government officials offer assurances that banking system is safe

Depositors withdrew savings and investors broadly sold off bank shares Monday as the federal government raced to reassure Americans that the banking system was secure after two bank failures.

A running list of layoffs in the Boston-area tech sector

Dozens of companies have reduced their workforces, ranging from the regional offices of the tech giants to startups that have only been in a business a few years.

Gen Z likes to live it up

Boston’s tech, life science, and nonprofit communities hail SVB rescue, but worries persist

magazine

This week's daters: Sydney and Matthew.

Dinner with Cupid

Blind date: ‘I was 15 minutes late ... I did feel bad about that’

Boston Ballet’s "Don Quixote" opens on Thursday.

YOUR WEEK AHEAD

Five things to do for fun in and around Boston, March 13-19

The owners of this Lexington home wanted a space where they could entertain without the kids.

Softly rounded furniture offers seating, circulation space, and sizzle in a home cocktail lounge.

Clockwise from top left: A photograph from the Todd Webb in Africa exhibition; Jamez McCorkle in "Omar"; Simone Leigh’s Cupboard IX; a scene from Justin Peck's ballet "Everywhere We Go"; and The Great Mystery by Kent Monkman.

30 of the best dance, theater, book, art, and classical music events

metro

Jamilianiz Montanez was last seen around 7:40 a.m. on March 8 near 530 Blue Hill Ave., Boston police said.

13-year-old Dorchester girl missing since Wednesday, Boston police say

McKee poised to boost pay for top officials by up to 20 percent

Boston to seek state funding for new building for merged Shaw, Taylor schools

sports

Jimmy Garoppolo spent the last 5½ seasons with the 49ers.

NFL free agency: Jimmy Garoppolo headed to Raiders, where he’ll reunite with Josh McDaniels

Andover tested by Wachusett, but stays perfect in Division 1 girls’ basketball semifinals; Feehan fends off another Woburn rally

Lamees Alasaad steals a victory for Dracut in Division 2 girls’ basketball semifinals; Foxborough’s defense does the trick

business

New Chinese Premier Li Qiang at his first press conference at the Great Hall of the People on Monday.

As economy falters, China’s new premier tries to boost business confidence

Pfizer buys Seagen for $43 billion, boosts access to cancer drugs

Bank blowups are dangerous, but this isn’t 2008

politics

Ms. Schroeder, chatting with House Speaker Carl Albert in 1972.

Patricia Schroeder, congresswoman who wielded barbed wit, dies at 82

They warned in 2018 that weakening regulations could lead to failure like SVB. Now Elizabeth Warren and other Democrats want those changes back.

McConnell is released from hospital and is headed to inpatient rehab

Nation

A home with a swimming pool abuts the desert on the edge of the Las Vegas valley, July 20, 2022, in Henderson, Nev.

Las Vegas water agency seeks power to limit residential use

Former Representative Pat Schroeder, pioneer for women’s rights, dies

Cohen testifies in grand jury as Trump indictment appears near

World

Local authorities try to put out a fire at Royal Residence in Siem Reap, Cambodia, on March 12.

Fire damages part of Cambodian king’s residence near temple

Ukraine steps up calls for evacuation of Kupiansk under relentless Russian shelling

War in Ukraine puts centuries of Swiss neutrality to the test

opinion

The exterior of Boston Public School headquarters, where most administrative departments including those of the superintendent and School Committee, are located, in the Bruce C. Bolling Municipal Building in Roxbury.

Sure, they ask tough queries on Boston school panel, but votes tend to go mayor’s way

There are effective ways to curb rats without killing their predators

Actor Sizemore’s death ought to raise brain aneurysm awareness

lifestyle

How do we explain her past in pornography?

She never left her husband

The envelope (or e-mail), please: How to brace for college admissions season

food & dining

Nick Mohammed (left) and Jason Sudeikis in "Ted Lasso."

The warm return of ‘Ted Lasso’

Looking to buy a restaurant? There’s a ton for sale in R.I.

Where you should eat, drink, and celebrate for Saint Patrick’s Day in Rhode Island

travel

Ice prepares to greet admirers at the Kitty Cat Cafe in Peabody. He was recently adopted and will soon be in a permanent home.

Coffee, tea, or cats? A new cafe in Peabody caters to feline fanatics.

The Newport Car Museum is ‘not only a car museum . . . it’s an art museum’

A Costa Rican getaway turns into a 17-hour road trip to Texas

Arts

A visitor to the Museum of Fine Arts takes in David Drake’s “Storage jar, 1858” at the exhibition “Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina."

At the MFA, enslaved Black potters’ work brings lives into the light in ‘Hear Me Now’

Abstraction is women’s work, too, at Addison Gallery of American Art

The politics of play at Northeastern University’s Gallery 360

Books

Mr. Oe was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1994.

Kenzaburo Oe, Nobel laureate and critic of postwar Japan, dies at 88

Nancy Hopkins and her colleagues challenged a culture of male dominance at MIT in the 1990s — and won. Kate Zernike’s ‘The Exceptions’ tells us how.

Sabrina Orah Mark seeks the place where old and new collide

Movies

Casey Affleck attends the Vanity Fair 95th Oscars Party at the The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills, Calif. on March 12, 2023.

At glitzy Oscar parties: Casey Affleck’s about to start filming in Boston; Kraft still hoping Brady will retire a Patriot

The meaning behind the blue ribbons worn at the Oscars

Watching the Oscars with my friends

Television

Casey Affleck attends the Vanity Fair 95th Oscars Party at the The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills, Calif. on March 12, 2023.

At glitzy Oscar parties: Casey Affleck’s about to start filming in Boston; Kraft still hoping Brady will retire a Patriot

‘The Last of Us’ season finale: Tell us what you think

This week’s TV: The warm return of ‘Ted Lasso,’ Bob Odenkirk’s new dramedy, and an Elvis cartoon

music

On Thursday night in Symphony Hall, (from left to right) conductor Thomas Wilkins, guest artist Earl Howard, composer Anthony Davis, and clarinet soloist Anthony McGill took a bow after the BSO's performance of Davis's work "You Have the Right to Remain Silent."

A clarinet’s right to remain silent, and to speak out

Bill Janovitz goes deep to tell the story of Leon Russell, a rock showman teetering on a tightrope

In demand and on the move, Ambrose Akinmusire’s explorations lead to Boston and beyond

Theater/Dance

Rebecca Bradshaw

Rebecca Bradshaw named artistic director at Gloucester Stage

Bill T. Jones’s ‘Curriculum II’ puts us to the test

For comedian Fortune Feimster, ‘live, laugh, love’ is a way of life

globe local

Clare Fortune-Lad plays with her son Benton, 3, in their Billerica home.

‘Remember that time when there was nowhere else we needed to be?’

The Argument: Should Massachusetts provide rental assistance for all who qualify?

Police help the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile

Obituaries

Ms. Schroeder, chatting with House Speaker Carl Albert in 1972.

Patricia Schroeder, congresswoman who wielded barbed wit, dies at 82

Dick Fosbury, who reinvented high jumping with his ‘Fosbury Flop,’ dies at 76

Kenzaburo Oe, Nobel laureate and critic of postwar Japan, dies at 88