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Thursday, January 9, 2025


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As she gears up for reelection, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu wades back into painful politics of school closures

News that the city plans to close three schools and consolidate two more comes as Wu seeks a second term as mayor.
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Business


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‘People need a second chance’: Amid nationwide truck driver shortage, a Mass. recruitment effort to train people behind bars

Emerge Career trains incarcerated students to get commercial learner’s permits, earn CDLs upon release, and find jobs with a starting pay averaging $75,000 a year.
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Wind-whipped walls of flame consume enclaves of Los Angeles

A series of firestorms raging out of control in Los Angeles on Wednesday decimated the affluent neighborhood of Pacific Palisades and was threatening an ever wider swath of America’s most populous county as night fell.
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A wellness check leads to a gruesome discovery: West Greenwich, R.I., family killed in triple-murder suicide

Police say Nicholas D. Arruda, 39, shot and killed his pregnant wife, Danielle, 39, and their two young children. “My brother committed the most cowardly despicable act one could perpetrate,” Arruda’s brother said.
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Housing


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SJC supports controversial housing law, but says details must be rewritten

The Supreme Judicial Court ruling in the Milton lawsuit is a win for Healey and Campbell, but could slow implementation of the state’s ambitious housing law.
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How long will frigid temperatures last?

It's freezing in New England as wildfires engulf parts of the Los Angeles area. Lead meteorologist Ken Mahan has the forecast for both sides of the country.
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Bitcoin: Golden opportunity or digital dumpster fire?

Business reporter Aaron Pressman and senior assistant business editor Andy Rosen look at both sides of the coin.
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Changes at Boston Calling 2025

In addition to a star-studded lineup, the festival is trying to make the experience better for concertgoers. Assistant digital editor Matt Juul explains.
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Trump asks Supreme Court to halt Friday’s hush money sentencing

President-elect Donald Trump is asking the Supreme Court to delay his planned sentencing Friday<b> </b>in his criminal hush money case, setting up a potential test of the high court's ruling to extend broad immunity from prosecution to former presidents.
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Obamacare enrollment hits record before Trump’s return

The number of Americans enrolled under the Affordable Care Act has doubled since President Biden took office, but could face risks as President-elect Donald Trump returns to office.
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US to continue protecting more than 2,000 Rocky Mountain grizzly bears

Federal officials also said they will reclassify the grizzly’s status so that ranchers would be able to shoot bears that are killing livestock.
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With stakes high, Lebanese lawmakers to try again to choose a president

Lebanon’s deeply divided parliament is set Thursday to try to elect a new president, potentially ending a yearslong political vacuum and ushering in a degree of stability for a country reeling from its bloodiest war in decades.
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Body of an Israeli hostage is found in Gaza, possibly alongside his son’s remains, army says

Israeli soldiers recovered the body of a 53-year-old hostage in an underground tunnel in southern Gaza, the military said Wednesday, and the army was determining if another set of remains belongs to the man’s son.
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How bodyguards are keeping South Korea’s leader from detention

South Korea’s Presidential Security Service, a​n agency​ assigned to protect the president, is now at the heart of South Korea’s biggest political mess in decades, acting as a final line of defense to prevent criminal investigators from detaining President Yoon Suk Yeol on​ charges of insurrection.
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EDITORIAL


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A loss for Milton is a victory for housing

The Supreme Judicial Court largely rejected the Town of Milton’s arguments against a 2021 state law aimed at increasing housing production in Eastern Massachusetts.
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OPINION


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Thanks to Jerod Mayo for not tanking his last game as Patriots coach

He did the right thing for the players, the Patriots organization, and the game of football.
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LETTERS


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Plan for affordable homes hits a wall in Milton

In the case of Milton’s town farm, the fig leaf is gone, and what appears to be on display for all to see is naked bias.
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Immigration


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Federal prosecutors file enhanced gun charges against unauthorized shelter resident with fentanyl, AR-15

The charges have prompted state leaders to urge stronger safety measures at the state shelters for migrant and homeless residents.
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Mass. House speaker doesn’t commit to following voter-backed legislative audit. ‘Compliance is in the eye of the beholder.’

State Auditor Diana DiZoglio said she intended to probe “high-risk areas” in the House and Senate, such as procurement procedures and the use of nondisclosure agreements, after voters gave her the authority to audit the Legislature.
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Clacking will end soon for area’s last typewriter repair shop

Cambridge Typewriter Co. to close in March after 45 years.
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ben volin | on football


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With the Patriots zooming through their coaching process, all signs point to Mike Vrabel

Robert Kraft has already satisfied the Rooney Rule by interviewing Pep Hamilton and Byron Leftwich in person, meaning the Patriots are the first of the six teams with a head-coaching vacancy who can make a hire.
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Christopher L. Gasper


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Stop crediting the Krafts for making the hard decision to fire Jerod Mayo. It was the easy way out.

Mayo deserved better. He deserved ownership that didn’t cower to a skeptical fan base.
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Bruins are heading outdoors again, this time to face the Lightning in Tampa on Feb. 1, 2026

It will be the sixth time the Bruins have played in an NHL outdoor extravaganza, and the first since Jan. 1, 2023, at Fenway Park.
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‘People need a second chance’: Amid nationwide truck driver shortage, a Mass. recruitment effort to train people behind bars

Emerge Career trains incarcerated students to get commercial learner’s permits, earn CDLs upon release, and find jobs with a starting pay averaging $75,000 a year.
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Real Estate


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Take a look at the first skyscraper proposed in downtown Boston since the pandemic

Newton-based The RMR Group has proposed a 447-foot hotel and residential tower at the corner of Causeway and North Washington streets.
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Retail


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Kelly’s Roast Beef ownership changes hands for the first time in seven-decade history

The North Shore sandwich staple was purchased by a Burlington-based investment firm — but the new owner promises changes to its grub will be minimal.
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Obituaries


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Friedrich St. Florian, architect of World War II Memorial, dies at 91

Friedrich St. Florian, an architect whose design for the World War II Memorial on the National Mall in Washington inspired criticism and controversy as well as praise, died Dec. 18 at his home in Providence, Rhode Island. He was 91.
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Richard Hays, theologian who saw God as capable of change, dies at 76

Richard Hays, a New Testament scholar and author who challenged conservative Christian opposition to homosexuality by reinterpreting scripture - and shifting his own views along the way - to argue that God’s judgment is capable of change, died Friday at his home in Nashville. He was 76.
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Louis Schittly, who helped start Doctors Without Borders, dies at 86

Louis Schittly, a French physician whose experiences in an African war zone in the late 1960s led him to help start Médecins Sans Frontières, or Doctors Without Borders, an aid group that received the Nobel Peace Prize for decades of work amid conflicts and disasters, died Jan. 1 in Mulhouse, France. He was 86.
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Arts


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Women of Revere elderly housing complex pose semi-nude for ‘Spectacular Seniors’ calendar

Rabbi Lior Nevo said the aim was simple: to celebrate, unashamedly, aging women and their bodies. “I thought it would be really fun and empowering.”
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‘Diary of a Wimpy Kid’ author Jeff Kinney has big plans to revitalize downtown Plainville

“We have this great bookstore and these great events — but we can amplify that in frequency and scale by changing the face of the downtown permanently,” Kinney said.
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Scarlett Johansson joins a long tradition of guest hosting as she heads to ‘Today’

For some guest hosts, it was the first step to their own show.
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