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Friday, March 15, 2024
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Metro

Braintree invested nearly half a million dollars in pickleball courts. Now it’s paying the cost of angry neighbors.

The town recently approved another $22,000 to install acoustic panels because of noise complaints. But neighbors say it won’t be enough. Continue reading →

Retail

T.J. Maxx and other retailers really need TikTok. They have remained silent on a possible ban.

The Chinese-owned app allows retailers to reach elusive Gen Z consumers, something other apps like Instagram and X can’t match. Continue reading →

Crime & Courts

As Mass. courts work through pandemic backlog, judicial vacancies add extra complications

Empty courtrooms are bogging down the process for civil cases in Superior Court. Continue reading →

Cambridge and Somerville

After cease-fire votes, some city councilors wonder if they should be debating foreign policy

Gaza resolutions passed with overwhelming support. But even some who voted for them are wondering if international affairs is the best use of their time. Continue reading →

World

Schumer urges new leadership in Israel, calling Netanyahu an obstacle to peace

Senator Chuck Schumer on Thursday delivered a pointed speech on the Senate floor excoriating Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel as a major obstacle to peace in the Middle East and calling for new leadership in Israel, five months into the war. Continue reading →

Boston Globe Today

Boston Globe Today | March 14, 2024

WATCH: Thursday's show. Stories include: How a tragedy on Mt. Katahdin created a life-saving service. Dartmouth basketball unionized. Will other schools follow? Watch →

How are reporters covering the Trump vs. Biden rematch?

WATCH: Washington bureau reporter Jim Puzzanghera shares new dynamics and what’s different four years later. Watch →

Methadone clinic rules jeopardize patients’ recovery

WATCH: STAT reporter Lev Facher explains how the U.S. is denying life-saving medication to people addicted to opioids. Watch →

The Nation

Nation

California prosecutors filing murder charges in more fentanyl deaths

Even in the liberal bastion of San Francisco, the district attorney’s office has been preparing to investigate fentanyl deaths as possible homicides, which would be a big shift in the city’s approach to drug-related crimes. Continue reading →

Nation

Manhattan prosecutors propose a 30-day delay of Trump trial

The district attorney’s office, which accuses the former president of covering up a sex scandal during and after the 2016 presidential campaign, said the delay would give his lawyers time to review a new batch of records. Continue reading →

Nation

Kamala Harris visits abortion clinic, in historic first

Vice President Kamala Harris described the flood of laws restricting abortion access as a “health care crisis” as she visited with abortion providers and staff members Thursday at a clinic in St. Paul, Minnesota. Continue reading →

The World

World

Israel signals support for more aid routes for Gaza

Israel’s military Thursday said it supported new initiatives to get humanitarian assistance into the Gaza Strip by land, air, and sea, just hours after the military’s chief spokesperson said it was trying to “flood” the enclave with sorely needed aid. Continue reading →

World

Palestinian Authority leader picks an insider to be prime minister

President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority appointed a longtime insider within the authority’s top ranks as prime minister Thursday, rejecting international pressure to empower an independent prime minister who could revitalize the sclerotic authority. Continue reading →

World

Report claims Yemen’s Houthis have a hypersonic missile, possibly raising stakes in Red Sea crisis

Yemen’s Houthi rebels claim to have a new, hypersonic missile in their arsenal, Russia’s state media reported Thursday, potentially raising the stakes in their ongoing attacks on shipping in the Red Sea and surrounding waterways against the backdrop of Israel’s war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Continue reading →

Editorial & Opinion

OPINION

How to fix Social Security

It requires an automatic balancing mechanism. Continue reading →

EDITORIAL

Healey’s pot pardon should be just the start of reform

Massachusetts still lags behind on adopting a clean slate law to allow automatic record sealing. Continue reading →

OPINION

The teachers association’s anti-MCAS crusade gets curiouser and curiouser

Massachusetts voters should reject teachers association's anti-MCAS crusade. Continue reading →

Metro

Metro

Braintree invested nearly half a million dollars in pickleball courts. Now it’s paying the cost of angry neighbors.

The town recently approved another $22,000 to install acoustic panels because of noise complaints. But neighbors say it won’t be enough. Continue reading →

K-12

Six eighth-grade Southwick Regional School students face criminal charges for ‘racist’ Snapchat posting, prosecutors say

The chat included “notions of violence toward people of color, racial slurs, derogatory pictures and videos,” Hampden District Attorney Anthony D. Gulluni said. Continue reading →

Politics

If White Stadium deal with professional soccer team falls apart, Mayor Wu suggests the city would spend its money elsewhere

The city would likely spend the $50 million it’s committed on other badly needed renovation projects in Boston Public Schools, Mayor Michelle Wu said. Continue reading →

Sports

red sox

Red Sox still have important decisions to make about their rotation, second base, outfield

Cooper Criswell and Tanner Houck are the leading candidates to fill out the starting staff, while the number of outfielders is in question. Continue reading →

tara sullivan

The Patriots can’t expect another Tom Brady in the draft, but Jerod Mayo has a chance to find a QB he can trust

They are in position to draft a possible franchise quarterback and have him build something strong. Continue reading →

Bruins notebook

Bruins defenseman Mason Lohrei blossoming into a solid pro before our eyes

The 6-5, 210-pounder is averaging 17 minutes of ice time and is playing in high-leverage situations, including manning the point on the second power-play unit. Continue reading →

Business

Future of Work

Salem Hospital physicians vote overwhelmingly to unionize

They are part of a growing number of doctors organizing amid concerns that the health care industry is becoming increasingly more corporate. Continue reading →

Biotech

‘Nothing else that has had this effect’: New treatment shrinks brain tumors in small clinical trial at Mass. General

The treatment involved a new form of CAR-T cell therapy, which extracts and reprograms a patient’s immune cells to help fight the disease. Continue reading →

Technology

Battle of the ban: TikTok fight is just getting started

Courts may eventually have to decide whether Congress can compel ByteDance to sell TikTok, and whether the law would violate the free speech rights of millions of TikTok users. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Obituaries

Ira M. Millstein, corporate lawyer with public impact, dies at 97

A venerable lawyer, Ira Millstein crusaded for greater independence by corporate boards of directors, invoked his bipartisan bona fides in helping to shepherd Ruth Bader Ginsburg onto the federal bench, and vigilantly helped New York City evade bankruptcy in the mid-1970s. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Paul Alexander, who spent seven decades using iron lung, dies at 78

Paul Alexander was stricken with polio as a boy and spent more than 70 years needing an iron lung chamber to help him breathe. He obtained a law degree and later gained a social media following as he recounted tales of his life. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Dorie Ladner, dauntless civil rights activist, dies at 81

Dorie Ladner joined the civil rights movement as a teenager in Mississippi, braving gunfire, tear gas, police dogs, and Ku Klux Klansmen in an undaunted campaign for racial equality. Continue reading →

Arts & Lifestyle

TELEVISION REVIEW

Binge-worthy ‘Apples Never Fall’ unmasks a family rotting at the core

What I like most about the Peacock miniseries is that it doesn’t pretend to be a high-prestige TV production or a larger statement. It’s a dish served hot. Continue reading →

Documentaries

Mary Mazzio’s ‘Bad River’ chronicles Wisconsin Native American community’s pipeline fight

Co-produced by former NBA star Grant Hill and narrated by model/actress Quannah ChasingHorse and actor Edward Norton, the David-and-Goliath documentary opens in theaters Friday. Continue reading →

STAGE REVIEW

‘Girl From the North Country’: Tangled up in Bob

Perhaps it’s fitting that a musical built around the songs of Bob Dylan alternates between entrancing and perplexing. Continue reading →