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Saturday, June 3, 2023
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Real Estate

‘This is Boston’s big challenge’: A new plan to defend downtown against sea-level rise

A long-awaited resiliency plan for Boston’s Wharf District outlines $1.2 billion worth of upgrades to protect the waterfront from flooding. Continue reading →

Transportation

New records show the close calls on MBTA tracks that prompted federal safety demands

The T shared details about the dangerous episodes as it faces a Monday deadline to rewrite its plan for protecting workers from getting hurt on the job. Continue reading →

Economy

For some on a tight margin, debt ceiling deal could make things even tighter

The agreement passed by the House on Wednesday includes changes to food and cash assistance used widely across Massachusetts. Continue reading →

Politics

How a Boston court case could help prevent another debt limit crisis

Debt limit opponents argue the limit, adopted by Congress more than a century ago, is unconstitutional because it conflicts with a provision in the 14th Amendment. Continue reading →

Transportation

Why some street lights on I-93 — and around Boston — are bright purple

Defective LED street lights in Boston have started glowing purple, a phenomenon seen in cities across the country. Continue reading →

Boston Globe Today

Boston Globe Today: Sports | June 2, 2023

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Gary Washburn previews Celtics’ huge offseason decisions

The future of Jaylen Brown in Boston is very much in the air. Gary Washburn breaks down the chances that his time in Celtic green has come to an end. Continue reading →

Bruins’ fans worst nightmare: Panthers vs Bruce Cassidy

Gary Washburn and Ben Volin play “Devil’s Advocate” on what will hurt Bruins fans more: A Stanley Cup win by the Panthers or the Golden Knights. Continue reading →

The Nation

Politics

Pence won’t face charges in documents inquiry

Word that the case would be closed came days before the former vice president was set to announce his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination in Iowa. Continue reading →

Nation

Georgia probe of Trump broadens to activities in other states

Fulton County District Attorney Fani T. Willis launched an investigation more than two years ago to examine efforts by Trump and his allies to overturn his narrow 2020 defeat in Georgia. Continue reading →

Nation

Fort Bragg becomes Fort Liberty in Army’s most prominent move to erase Confederate names from bases

While other bases are being renamed for Black soldiers, US presidents, and trailblazing women, the North Carolina military installation is the only one not renamed after a person. Continue reading →

The World

World

Tanks, F-16 jets part of long-term aid for Ukraine, won’t be ready for upcoming offensive, US says

“Everyone recognizes Ukraine needs a modernized Air Force,” said US Army General Mark Milley, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff. “It’s going to take a considerable amount of time.” Continue reading →

World

US rebuffs cease-fire calls in its strategy for Ukraine resilience

Secretary of State Antony Blinken laid out US strategy for hardening Ukraine against long-term Russian threats. Continue reading →

World

Haitian businessman gets life sentence in 2021 assassination of Haiti’s president

Rodolphe Jaar, 51, is the first person to be convicted and sentenced in what US prosecutors have described as a broad plot by conspirators in Haiti and Florida to reap lucrative contracts under a new administration once Moïse was out of the way. Continue reading →

Editorial & Opinion

OPINION

Trying to close the gender pay gap — 60 years after the Equal Pay Act

Before becoming parents, men and women earn about the same. But after becoming parents, men earn 60 percent more than women. Continue reading →

EDITORIAL

Mass. owes feds $2.5 billion. Who’s going to pay?

The state wrongly used federal funds for jobless benefits during the pandemic, and now it needs to repay them. Continue reading →

LETTERS

Can MCAS be improved? Curbed? Learned from? All of the above?

If 20 years haven’t brought us to where we want to be, then we need to think about changing things. Continue reading →

Metro

Crime & Courts

‘I have a lot of regret,’ Charlestown bank robber says of 1990s carjacking, slaying of two security guards

Anthony Shea’s life sentence was slashed to 35 years. Continue reading →

K-12

Westwood High School seniors bid farewell to alma maters

Westwood seniors boarded school buses for a farewell tour of the district's five elementary schools — two of which are permanently closing next year — for the last time before graduating. Continue reading →

Politics

Plaintiffs ask federal judge to review Boston’s new redistricting map, citing concerns that race played too big a role

The group of residents and neighborhood groups that successfully blocked Boston’s first redistricting map are now taking issue — albeit much more minor issue — with its second attempt. Continue reading →

Sports

ON BASKETBALL

Nuggets have adopted Nikola Jokic’s selfless style, and now they’re three wins from an NBA title

The Nuggets are perhaps the deepest team in the NBA, and in Game 1 of the Finals, they exposed Miami's defensive efforts that focused on Jokic and Jamal Murray. Continue reading →

Alex Speier | On Baseball

Red Sox’ Chris Sale goes on IL with left shoulder inflammation: ‘I hate feeling like this’

" I started having fun playing baseball again, and now I’m back to not having fun. And that sucks,” Sale said. Continue reading →

RED SOX

Red Sox place Chris Sale on injured list with left shoulder inflammation

After making only 11 starts over the past three years, Sale had taken all 11 of his turns in the rotation this season. “If there’s anything I can prove it’s you’re not going to keep me down — you knock me down I get back up,” Sale said. Continue reading →

Business

Commercial

In a Back Bay nook, a new hotel project moves forward again

Developers have filed updated plans with the Boston Planning & Development Agency to build a 21-story, 300-room hotel at the former Red Lantern restaurant in Back Bay. Continue reading →

Retail

Wegmans to close massive Natick Mall location

The beloved grocery chain cited the "non-traditional location" as the reason behind the closure, which will happen later this summer. Continue reading →

Business

Employers add 339,000 jobs in May, strong growth that defies head winds

But the economy also gave new warning signs with an increase in the unemployment rate. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Obituaries

Amitai Etzioni, 94, dies; envisioned a society built on the common good

An Israeli American sociologist, Amitai Etzioni drew wide attention and storms of derision by fathering the communitarian movement, a vision of society in which people are asked to care less about their own rights than about one another. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Cynthia Weil, Grammy-winning lyricist who teamed husband Barry Mann, dead at 82

Cynthia Weil, a Grammy-winning lyricist of great range and endurance who enjoyed a decades-long partnership with husband Barry Mann and helped write “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feeling,” “On Broadway,” “Walking in the Rain” and dozens of other hits, has died at age 82 Continue reading →

Arts & Lifestyle

MUSIC REVIEW

Handel and Haydn Society’s ‘Crossing the Deep’ troubles the waters of early music

With its juxtaposition of Handel anthems and Black American spirituals, the program by conductor Anthony Trecek-King and countertenor Reginald Mobley asked audiences to sit back and reflect. Continue reading →

Arts

Boston Kids Comics Fest to celebrate ‘golden age for comics’

The third annual event will bring workshops, a quiet reading space, and an opportunity for young aspiring artists to sell their comic books. Continue reading →

Lifestyle

Mainers can’t get enough of retro flag, which will now appear on license plates

Maine’s chickadee and pine cone license plates are poised to fly away. Continue reading →