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Wednesday, January 17, 2024
Today's Headlines

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Politics

Healey pushes to expand free preschool and subsidize child care for more families

The governor announced sweeping changes, offering an early look into some of the administration’s priorities for the next year. Continue reading →

NH Politics

‘We gotta show big margins’: Leading in the polls, Trump calls for another blowout in New Hampshire

Spin aside, there was only one victor Monday night: the former president, whose enduring popularity among Republican voters in early states and across the country has kept him in a comfortable front-runner position for months. Continue reading →

Technology

Attaching EV chargers to utility poles is cheap, easy — and illegal in Massachusetts

The state’s 2022 climate law outlawed a preferred method of juicing up electric cars. Continue reading →

Politics

‘I support him no matter what’: Trump remains hugely popular among N.H. Republicans

A core group of supporters has powered his campaign through challenges that might have ended any other candidate’s career. Continue reading →

Crime & Courts

SWAT was called to Mattapan apartment building hours before man shot at firefighters, documents say

Boston Police Commissioner Michael Cox said that the department is reviewing the Dec. 30 incident that raises more questions about how police handle calls involving people in mental-health crises. Continue reading →

Boston Globe Today

Boston Globe Today | January 16, 2024

WATCH: Tuesday's episode. Stories include: In grim times, art is a necessity, not a luxury. Afternoon tea in Boston is a treat and a tradition. Watch →

Massachusetts public schools fail students with dyslexia

WATCH: ‘The Great Divide’ team found that districts aren't providing support. Education reporter Mandy McLaren explains the fight against a broken system. Watch →

Afternoon tea in Boston: a treat and a tradition

WATCH: ‘Dining Playbook’ went inside Silver Dove Afternoon Tea in Boston, a cozy and classy tearoom serving bites and brews from around the world. Watch →

The Nation

Nation

The Biden administration escalates its border dispute with Texas after 3 migrants drown

The request followed the drownings of a young Mexican mother and her two children who tried to enter the United States through the river near Shelby Park at Eagle Pass, Texas. Continue reading →

Politics

Lawmakers strike tax deal, but it faces long election-year odds in Congress

The plan includes $33 billion to partly extend a major expansion of the child tax credit that was initially beefed up for one year as part of the sweeping 2021 pandemic aid law, and another $33 billion to reinstate a set of expired business tax benefits related to research, business, and capital deductions. Continue reading →

POLITICAL NOTEBOOK

A new Republican mom wants to change House rules for postpartum voting

When she arrived in Congress last year, Representative Anna Paulina Luna, a hard-right Republican from Florida, joined the rest of her party in staunchly opposing proxy voting, a practice adopted by House Democrats to allow for remote legislating during the pandemic. Continue reading →

The World

World

US strikes Houthi targets, one of several attacks in Middle East

The inability to ensure safe passage for vessels in the Red Sea has bedeviled the Biden administration. Continue reading →

World

Israel unearths more of a subterranean fortress under Gaza

Israeli and US officials who have been in the tunnels say the scope, depth, and quality of the tunnels have astonished them. Continue reading →

World

Zelensky calls for peace, not more weapons, in Davos

In his speech, he promoted a Ukrainian peace plan and called for stiffer sanctions on Russia. But in a contrast with his comments to the forum last year, Zelensky made no direct appeals for weaponry for new offensives on the battlefield. Continue reading →

Editorial & Opinion

OPINION

Iowa deals Ron DeSantis a near-lethal blow and gives Nikki Haley a shot against a dominant Donald Trump

It’s now on to New Hampshire, which cares little about what Iowa voters think. Continue reading →

EDITORIAL

Scrutinize private equity’s involvement in health care

Higher prices, worse outcomes don’t serve patients or providers. Continue reading →

LETTERS

Nuclear ambitions in the push for renewable energy

"Nuclear power also is inherently dangerous. Changing the regulatory framework is a smokescreen," writes one observer. Another notes that Bill Gates "has been working on developing a small modular reactor in Wyoming." Continue reading →

Metro

NH Politics

Nikki Haley says she won’t debate in New Hampshire unless Trump shows up

"The next debate I do will either be with Donald Trump or with Joe Biden. I look forward to it," Haley said. Continue reading →

Somerville

In Somerville’s Davis Square, a bookstore curated to connect with the community

Mila Hossain plans to open Narrative, a curated store in the neighborhood, sometime in February. Continue reading →

Transportation

New year, same terrible T commute

An electrical fire and planned closure for track work left only one subway line fully working Tuesday morning. Transit chaos ensued. Continue reading →

Sports

red sox

Craig Breslow acknowledges that ‘it’s been a challenge’ to find starting pitching for the Red Sox

The team's new chief baseball officer said the cost in trades has been high because “starting pitching is highly, highly desirable.” Continue reading →

Christoper L. Gasper

Patriots need an experienced NFL personnel executive to help new coach Jerod Mayo

The main issue in the team’s decline the last few years was not coaching, it remains roster construction. Continue reading →

women's beanpot

BU, Northeastern sneak by in first round to set up Women’s Beanpot title match

BU beat BC in a shootout, while NU took a one-goal win over host Harvard. The championship game is next Tuesday, the first to be played at TD Garden. Continue reading →

Business

Startups

Last call for Drizly: Liquor delivery service shutting down

Uber paid $1.1 billion for the Boston firm in 2021. It will close at the end of March. Continue reading →

THE BIG IDEA

We don’t have a lot of babies in Mass. Here’s how that will impact the economy.

Who will consume goods and services? What happens when more and more of the population is over 50? And when older adults have fewer children to help them as they age? Continue reading →

Housing

Greater Boston housing market still frozen — and it’s not just the weather

Just about every metric that encapsulates the current moment in the housing market is trending in the wrong direction, as interest rates and a massive supply shortage continue to freeze out buyers and sellers. Continue reading →

Obituaries
Arts & Lifestyle

BOOKS

When haunted houses aren’t just about the dead

For millennial women in these 2023 novels, economic woes create a generational conflict that haunts the real estate they can’t afford. Continue reading →

Movies

‘Deep Sky’ takes Bostonians to deep space

The IMAX documentary on the James Webb Space Telescope premieres at the Museum of Science this Tuesday. Continue reading →

STAGE REVIEW

Apollinaire’s ‘Lunch Bunch’ could use a few more calories

To keep despair at bay, seven family-court attorneys take turns preparing elaborate lunches for their colleagues in Sarah Einspanier’s witty and incisive but underdeveloped play. Continue reading →