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Wednesday, March 13, 2024
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K-12

Massachusetts school funding overhaul hits an inflation glitch

Nearly five years after lawmakers overhauled the state’s school funding formula, districts are struggling, prompting potential cuts to staff and programs, and property tax increases. Continue reading →

Health

Life-saving addiction treatment medicine is vastly underprescribed for youths

Buprenorphine, a synthetic opioid that goes by the brand name Suboxone, quells cravings and reduces painful withdrawal. Continue reading →

Money, Power, Inequality

In deeds, people of color were barred from buying homes. Now, they could validate special purpose credit programs.

The racist practice played a large part in why so much of the state is segregated along racial lines, with economic disparities that still resonate. Continue reading →

Transportation

Nervousness, suspicion, and cautious optimism among Mattapan’s Blue Hill Ave. businesses about center bus lanes

“We will work with the business community in our block-by-block planning to ensure that the spaces near their establishments match their needs,” a city transportation department spokesperson said. Continue reading →

Crime & Courts

Lawyer ordered to pay $2,000 for submitting AI-generated filing that invented cases in suit against Stoughton officers

Lawyers envision AI could enable attorneys to handle more clients for less money, benefiting the poor who often can’t afford representation. Continue reading →

Boston Globe Today

Boston Globe Today | March 12, 2024

WATCH: Tuesday's show. Stories include: The ‘Big 3’ things the Patriots should do to turn things around, and the quest to develop non-addictive painkillers. Watch →

Physician shortages impact patient care in Mass.

WATCH: Why are doctors leaving? And, what should you do if you can’t find care? Health reporter Felice Freyer shares insight and advice. Watch →

Ultimate guide to this year’s tax season

WATCH: There's improvements from the IRS this year to make the dreaded task easier. Consumer columnist Sean P. Murphy has what you should know before you file. Watch →

The Nation

Politics

Special counsel who investigated Biden offers fierce defense of report

For more than four enervating hours, Robert Hur sat at the witness table as alternating Democrats and Republicans pelted him with angry questions, pausing only to berate one another, or to deliver high-volume partisan speeches. Continue reading →

Nation

FAA audit of Boeing’s 737 Max production found dozens of issues

Since the episode of a hole in an Alaska Airlines jet, Boeing has come under intense scrutiny over its quality-control practices, and the findings add to the body of evidence about manufacturing lapses at the company. Continue reading →

Nation

Boeing crisis derails airline growth plans as output stalls

Major carriers have similar stories about how the plane maker's troubles are bleeding into their businesses. Continue reading →

The World

World

A pair of Israeli airstrikes deep into northeastern Lebanon kills at least two people, officials say

Efforts to aid desperate Gaza citizens advanced on Tuesday. An aid ship loaded with some 200 tons of food set sail in a pilot program for the opening of a sea corridor to the territory. Continue reading →

World

As leader resigns, Haitian politicians rush to create a new government

The deployment of a US-backed, Kenya-led security force to Haiti has been put on hold until a new government has been put in place, a Kenyan official said. Continue reading →

World

France’s love of frog legs is contributing to species decline, experts warn

The global harvest and trade in frog legs is poorly tracked and could be leading to species decline in countries such as Indonesia and Turkey, signatories said in an open letter to French President Emmanuel Macron. Continue reading →

Editorial & Opinion

OPINION

Only Haitians can fix Haiti

After a century of failed foreign interventions, Haitians must be told that no one is coming to rescue them. Continue reading →

EDITORIAL

Mold and mistreatment: The problems at Bridgewater State Hospital call for major changes

Massachusetts remains an outlier in how it runs mental health services for its prison population. Continue reading →

LETTERS

Poison is the wrong weapon in battle against Boston’s rustling rats

It’s absurd to essentially drop a Thanksgiving feast on the sidewalk every week, then call 311 to complain about what it attracts. Unfortunately, residents often turn to poison as a quick fix. Continue reading →

Metro

K-12

Legislation to mandate an admissions lottery for vocational schools advances on Beacon Hill with some changes

Social Justice advocates consider the redrafted bill a step in the right direction to increase student diversity at vocational schools, but the bill continues to face strong opposition from vocational school leaders. Continue reading →

Crime & Courts

Lawyers for Karen Read cite experts who conclude John O’Keefe’s injuries were ‘inconsistent’ with vehicle strike

Karen Read's lawyer told the judge the experts’ conclusion was contained in the thousands of pages that Acting US Attorney Joshua S. Levy’s office recently provided to the prosecution and defense. Continue reading →

Metro

A college rises in Nubian Square

The school, rebranded “Franklin Cummings Tech” after a philanthropic windfall, has been the subject of a stunning turnaround. Now, it will have a new campus. Continue reading →

Sports

On Hockey

The Bruins are running out of time to fix their game, and they know it

After 67 games, the Bruins pretty much know what they have, how to use it, and what wins for them, but have not figured out how to rid their game of nights like Monday. Continue reading →

RED SOX

Tanner Houck controls fate when it comes to starting season in Red Sox rotation

Location has been the issue in the past for Houck, whose Frisbee-like stuff plays but can be all over the place. "It’s all about pounding the zone," he said. Continue reading →

patriots notebook

Linebacker Josh Uche agrees to terms to return to Patriots

Uche will be entering his fifth season with New England in 2024. Continue reading →

Business

Business

A former Boeing manager who raised safety concerns is found dead. Coroner suspects he killed himself.

Barnett was a longtime Boeing employee and worked as a quality-control manager before he retired in 2017. In the years after that, he shared his concerns with journalists. Continue reading →

Business

‘Alarming’: One in four young people plan to leave Greater Boston in the next five years, report finds

A survey released Monday by the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce Foundation found the high cost of rent, the availability of jobs, and the ability to buy a home in the area clocking in as the most important variables in young people's decision to stay or go. Continue reading →

Real Estate

US contributes $335 million for realignment of Mass. Pike in Allston, critical financing for ‘transformational project’

The state still is expected to pay for the bulk of the project’s nearly $2 billion price tag, and Governor Maura Healey hopes to start work in 2027. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Obituaries

Ben Stern, Holocaust survivor who challenged neo-Nazis, dies at 102

A Holocaust survivor, Ben Stern endured years in Nazi concentration camps and two death marches before settling in Skokie, Ill., where he helped rally opposition to a planned neo-Nazi demonstration in the late 1970s that produced one of the most explosive cases in First Amendment law. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Eric Carmen, Raspberries frontman and ‘All By Myself’ singer, dies

His plaintive vocals soared above the crunching guitars of the 1970s power-pop pioneers the Raspberries before his soft rock crooning made him a mainstay of 1980s music. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Petra Mathers, author whose children’s stories soared, dies at 78

With wit and a spare style, she created kindly, often bumbling animal characters who were nonetheless quietly heroic and often risked much for love. Continue reading →

Arts & Lifestyle

WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH

Which trailblazing woman with Massachusetts ties should be memorialized with a permanent bust in the State House?

Senate President Karen E. Spilka put out a statewide call for nominations; the winning trailblazer will join a lineup of currently all-male busts in the Senate Chamber. Continue reading →

BOOKS

The Horn Book magazine celebrates a century of children’s art and literature, and lively debate

One of the children’s publishing industry’s most storied publications turns 100 this year. Its history and future are as colorful as its covers. Continue reading →

MOVIES

GBH makes Oscars history with winning doc ‘20 Days in Mariupol’

"It’s going to be great to be back in Boston," said FRONTLINE editor-in-chief and executive producer Raney Aronson-Rath. ‘The Boston support’s been incredible.” Continue reading →