All of the headlines from today's paper.
Sunday, July 9, 2023
Today's Headlines
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Transportation

The MBTA’s new leader is more optimistic about Boston’s subway than you are

Can Phil Eng actually turn the dumpster fire of a transit agency around? “People think I’m crazy, but I’m happy I’m here,” he said. Continue reading →

Residential

‘A nightmare of epic proportions’: Thousands of Mass. residents languish on subsidized housing wait lists

The Globe talked to three residents about their years-long journey to find an affordable place to call home. Continue reading →

THE GREAT DIVIDE

As conservative activism targets sex ed, new Mass. guidelines are on the horizon

After five years of working on new standards, the state is bringing some clarity on sex education to the classroom. Continue reading →

Politics

Can Joe Biden make it ‘Morning in America’ again? Reagan’s ‘84 campaign offers a potential blueprint for reelection.

Ronald Reagan won a second term by running on a theme of economic renewal. Now, some political experts said Reagan’s legendary turnaround offers a potential template for victory for Joe Biden 40 years later. Continue reading →

The Nation

Politics

Biden is heading to Europe. A king and a war are on his agenda.

President Biden will meet with King Charles III for the first time since he was crowned. After that is the centerpiece of the trip, the NATO summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, and the topic will be the Ukraine war. Continue reading →

Nation

Climate change ratchets up the stress on farmworkers on the front lines of a warming Earth

Farm workers are 35 times more likely to die of heat exposure than workers in other industries, according to the National Institutes of Health, but there is no federal heat standard that ensures their health and safety. Continue reading →

Nation

An Iowa meteorologist started talking about climate change on newscasts. Then came the harassment

Many meteorologists say it’s a reflection of a more hostile political landscape that has also affected workers in a variety of jobs previously seen as nonpartisan, including librarians, school board officials and election workers. Continue reading →

The World

World

Bucha gets a remake, but pain lingers behind the facade

More than a year after Ukrainian forces wrested back Bucha from Russian troops, the town has drawn international investment that has physically transformed it, and it has become a stopping point for delegations of foreign leaders who come through almost weekly. And yet behind the veneer of revitalization, the pain that suffused Bucha during its month of horror under Russian occupation still lingers. Continue reading →

World

The UN refuses to retract its condemnation of Israel over the Jenin military operation

UN deputy spokesperson Farhan Haq said the secretary-general conveyed his views on Thursday “and he stands by those views.” Continue reading →

World

The Dutch prime minister hands in his resignation as the government collapses over migration

King Willem-Alexander flew back from a family vacation in Greece to meet with Rutte, who drove to the palace in his Saab station wagon for the meeting to explain the political crisis that toppled his administration. Continue reading →

Editorial & Opinion

LETTERS

Welcome to the drive-in. Tonight’s feature is — ‘airplane!’

Every few minutes or so, a plane would fly over. The roar of the engine was so loud we couldn’t hear the film. Continue reading →

LETTERS

Lynn’s woes are a crushing example of MBTA Communities Act’s failure

Rather than encouraging more residents to use mass transit, the state’s inaction is leading to more traffic congestion. Continue reading →

EDITORIAL

More can be done to ease the heavy burden of student debt

The US Supreme Court killed President Biden’s loan forgiveness program, but there are other things the government can do to help borrowers with excessive debt. Continue reading →

Metro

Massachusetts

Brockton hopes to see Liberty Tree rise again

Brockton's Liberty Tree can be tied to the Underground Railroad and historical abolitionist figures ranging from Frederick Douglass to Lucretia Mott. Continue reading →

Massachusetts

Cambridge enacts ambitious building emissions reduction standards

“It’s really quite groundbreaking,” said Councilor Quinton Zondervan, who worked on the legislation. Continue reading →

Metro

When it comes to extreme heat, we’re all in hot water. But some of us are in deeper than others.

The return of weather pattern El Niño has given us record-shattering air and water temperatures, alarming ice melt in Antarctica, and dangerous heat for tens of millions of people across the planet. Continue reading →

Sports

Gary Washburn | On Basketball

For Celtics, Summer League is a proving ground for prospects JD Davison and Jordan Walsh, both of whom could make the team

Davison spent most of last season with G-League Maine and Walsh was the team's top pick in 2023. Continue reading →

RED SOX 10, ATHLETICS 3

Jarren Duran, offense continue to click for streaking Red Sox in another win over the A’s

Duran was 3 for 5 with a single, double, and home run, and he scored three times. With 15 hits in their fourth straight victory, the Red Sox made it a majors-best seven consecutive games with 10-plus. Continue reading →

golf

Molly Smith, perhaps the first woman to qualify for the men’s Massachusetts Amateur, is breaking barriers on the golf course

Smith is believed to be the first woman to qualify for the championship since the tournament began in 1903. Continue reading →

Business

NH Business

Commercial fishing in N.H. needs new people to survive

New Hampshire only has 18 miles of coastline, but fishing is a big business. The New England Young Fishermen’s Alliance is hoping to inspire a new generation to join the industry. Continue reading →

Ideas

IDEAS

Dan Hendrycks wants to save us from an AI catastrophe. He’s not sure he’ll succeed.

An evangelical turned computer scientist has articulated how technology could all go wrong. Now he needs to figure out how to make it right. Continue reading →

IDEAS

In search of the lost apples of New England

Once, the fruit came in thousands of varieties. Most of them have vanished or will be gone soon — unless John Bunker can track them down. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Obituaries

Evva Hanes, who made Moravian cookies world famous, dies at 90

Evva Hanes, a North Carolina farm woman who took a centuries-old Moravian cookie tradition that she had learned by watching her mother bake on a wood-fired stove and turned it into a family business, one that now ships out millions of fragile, crispy Moravian cookies every year, died June 22 at her home in Clemmons. She was 90. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Jack Goldstein, a savior of Broadway theaters, dies at 74

Jack Goldstein, a preservationist who in the 1980s reacted to the razing of several venerable Broadway theaters under a Times Square redevelopment plan by helping to organize a successful campaign to give landmark status to more than two dozen other theaters, died June 16 in Cold Spring, New York, in Putnam County. He was 74. Continue reading →

Arts & Lifestyle

MATTHEW GILBERT

‘The Bear’ upends the TV-mom trope

The series' second season makes clear where Carmy's trauma comes from. Continue reading →

Music

Concerts create discord between Northampton arts center and city

Since May, the city has declared Bombyx a nightclub because it hosts concerts, ordered the center to shut down over a lack of indoor sprinklers before allowing it to reopen, and narrowed the scope of the organization’s entertainment license. Continue reading →

Visual Arts

At the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum this summer, art that lives and grows

Plants are the medium in this exhibition exploring the idea of art as a living system. Continue reading →

Travel

TRENDSPOTTING

Daydreaming about a daycation? It’s now a reality.

Hotels are renting out amenities — pools, spa visits, fitness centers, beach access, group activities, and even rooms — during the daytime, maximizing space and staff that often go unused during those hours. Continue reading →

TRAVEL

Cruising Antique Alley in the age of online shopping

New Hampshire’s road of yesteryear satisfies the touch-and-feel impulse. Continue reading →

Real Estate