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Monday, March 4, 2024
Today's Headlines

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Housing

‘It’s an invasion.’ In towns across Eastern Mass., resistance grows against ambitious state housing law.

The state's new housing law challenges Massachusetts' long, proud history of letting towns control their own zoning, and resistance is growing fast. Continue reading →

Crime & Courts

Archaic prostitution laws can hold back those seeking to leave the trade, advocates say. A new bill seeks to change that.

Authorities in Massachusetts have charged nearly twice as many people with selling sex as buying it over the past five years, according to state court data, including bringing dozens of charges under what advocates say are particularly archaic “common nightwalker” and “common streetwalker” laws. Continue reading →

Politics

Meet the donor who gave millions to outside groups supporting Trump and RFK Jr.

“He doesn’t come to all the Washington political balls and gatherings,” David McIntosh, president of the conservative Club for Growth, said of the donor. Continue reading →

Health

‘It’s a nightmare’: One of the most common children’s asthma meds is no longer available, leaving families scrambling

Senator Elizabeth Warren on Friday accused the drug's manufacturer, GlaxoSmithKline, of “price gouging.” Continue reading →

Obituary

Howard Hiatt, former Harvard dean who championed global health efforts, dies at 98

During his long career, Dr. Hiatt helped advance the practice of medicine in myriad ways, including serving as a mentor to young physicians, which he considered “a sacred commitment.” Continue reading →

The Nation

Nation

In a rural California region, a plan takes shape to provide shade from dangerous heat

Every year, heat kills more people than floods, hurricanes and tornadoes combined, and experts warn that extreme heat will become more intense, frequent, and lethal with climate change. Continue reading →

Politics

Supreme Court poised to rule on Monday on Trump’s eligibility to hold office

The Supreme Court announced Sunday that it would issue at least one decision Monday, a strong signal that it would rule then on former President Donald Trump’s eligibility for Colorado’s primary ballot. Continue reading →

Nation

In Hawaii, coral is the foundation of life. What happened to it after the Lahaina wildfire?

A deadly wildfire burned more than 2,000 buildings in the Hawaiian town of Lahaina on Maui in August and left behind piles of toxic debris. Continue reading →

The World

World

Vaccination rates dipped for years. Now, there’s a measles outbreak in Britain.

Across Europe, measles cases rose more than 40-fold in 2023 compared with a year earlier — from less than 1,000 to more than 40,000 — according to the World Health Organization. Continue reading →

World

Rival of Netanyahu visits US, signaling wider cracks in Israel’s wartime leadership

An Israeli official says a top Cabinet minister’s trip to Washington has angered Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Continue reading →

World

Norway’s King Harald V transferred to Oslo hospital after getting pacemaker in Malaysia

The 87-year-old monarch returned to Norway aboard a medical airplane late Sunday, a day after he was implanted with a pacemaker while on holiday in Malaysia. Continue reading →

Editorial & Opinion

OPINION

Housing for all must include equity

The call for production of more affordable housing must be conjoined with strategies to enhance the monitoring and enforcement of fair housing. Continue reading →

EDITORIAL

All eyes on the state’s next move on prison health care

With private equity firms dominating the field, the lawsuits just keep piling up. Continue reading →

OPINION

A decade after my son was killed by ISIS, a renewed hope has begun to shine

US hostage policies have begun to change and innocent Americans are coming home from kidnapping or wrongful detention abroad more frequently than ever before. Continue reading →

Metro

K-12

Boston Public Schools proposed a $1.5 billion budget. Here’s a breakdown of the district’s spending plan.

With the loss of federal pandemic relief funds, the district will experience almost $100 million in cuts, despite the general fund budget increasing by more than $300 million since 2020. Continue reading →

Cambridge

A documentarian spent the summer asking strangers in a Cambridge park for their stories. Here’s what he found.

A kickboxing coach. A child devastated by a lost soccer tournament. A father and son bonding over RC cars. These are the people you meet in Danehy Park. Continue reading →

New Hampshire Primary Election

‘We need you to keep the faith.’ Haley leaning on Massachusetts, other Super Tuesday states to keep campaign alive

Nikki Haley’s decision to steer her campaign to a wealthy Boston suburb on Saturday with a dual fundraiser and rally underscores the long odds — and tough math — the former South Carolina governor faces entering Super Tuesday. Continue reading →

Sports

bruins

Bruins showed a startling lack of pushback against Islanders. Will the club address issue before trade deadline?

With the trade deadline creeping up (3 p.m. Friday), high on the Bruins wish list is a smashmouth defender. Continue reading →

ON BASEBALL

Feeling refreshed and healthy, Masataka Yoshida is ready to make an impact in his second season with the Red Sox

The 29-year-old hopes a move to being the team's primary designated hitter and a more settled spring will pay dividends. Continue reading →

on basketball

With this master class, Celtics showed they learned their lessons from past mistakes against Warriors

Sunday’s game at TD Garden was an opportunity for the Celtics to exorcise demons on a national stage. Continue reading →

Business

Biotech

Healey’s life sciences plan: Another $1 billion investment, with some new areas of focus

Lawmakers are so far noncommittal on funding the proposal, which will be part of a broader economic development bill the Healey administration is expected to file soon. Continue reading →

innovation beat

AI for MBAs? One Harvard Business School lecturer is giving it a shot.

Students in the “Launching Tech Ventures” class could ask a specially trained bot to help with analysis of a case study, find definitions of unfamiliar terms, or even see when professors were holding office hours. Continue reading →

THE FINE PRINT

A billing dispute over hearing aids offers some valuable lessons

Months after paying $2,450 for hearing aids, Kevin Hamilton received a surprise "dispensing fee" bill for $1,000. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Obituary

Howard Hiatt, former Harvard dean who championed global health efforts, dies at 98

During his long career, Dr. Hiatt helped advance the practice of medicine in myriad ways, including serving as a mentor to young physicians, which he considered “a sacred commitment.” Continue reading →

Obituaries

Melvin Way, outsider artist who depicted inner mysteries, dies at 70

Melvin Way, whose hallucinatory diagrams, composed with ballpoint pens and markers on scraps of paper in New York City homeless shelters, were collected by prominent art museums around the world, died Feb. 4 in a hospital near his family’s home in Smoaks, South Carolina, a rural town northwest of Charleston. He was 70. Continue reading →

Arts & Lifestyle

MUSIC REVIEW

At TD Garden, an undiluted vision from Burna Boy

Surrounded by a congregation of rapt fans Saturday night at TD Garden, the Nigerian artist became the first African act to sell out the arena in its near 30-year history. Continue reading →

MUSIC REVIEW

Excellence goes only so far in ‘Eurydice’

The opera featured a new arrangement for small orchestra co-commissioned by Boston Lyric Opera and Opera Grand Rapids. Continue reading →

ASK AMY

For these brothers, the path is paved with eggshells

Advice from Amy Dickinson. Continue reading →