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Transportation

Planning your return to the MBTA? Here’s what you missed

What we learned is that trains and buses aren’t necessarily rolling virus factories, the T can indeed move quickly to adjust service, and that it’s easier to upgrade century-old infrastructure when barely anyone is using it. Continue reading →

Politics

Boston City Councilor Michelle Wu is running for mayor, Walsh says

City Councilor Michelle Wu told Mayor Martin J. Walsh that she is running for mayor next year, Walsh said Monday, setting up a potential heavyweight political clash that would see Wu attempt something not done in 70-plus years: oust a sitting Boston mayor. Continue reading →

Metro

Black Americans, suffering disproportionately from COVID-19, face a mounting mental health crisis

Black and Hispanic Americans — who have disproportionately suffered from COVID-19 and its economic fallout — appear to be shouldering an even heavier mental health burden as a racial justice movement has ripped open centuries-old wounds of systemic oppression. Continue reading →

Higher Education

Many faculty went back to school this summer with one goal: improve online classes

Institutions like MIT, UMass Boston, and all the state’s community colleges made plans early to go primarily remote, and professors have been focused on making the online transition. Reinvention has meant reworking syllabuses, prerecording lectures, reconsidering how to test students — and even how to bond with them virtually. Continue reading →

Politics

How Trump’s billion-dollar campaign lost its cash advantage

Five months ago, President Trump’s re-election campaign had a huge financial edge over Joe Biden’s. The New York Times conducted an extensive review of how the Trump team spent lavishly to show how that advantage evaporated. Continue reading →

The Nation

Politics

How Trump’s billion-dollar campaign lost its cash advantage

Five months ago, President Trump’s re-election campaign had a huge financial edge over Joe Biden’s. The New York Times conducted an extensive review of how the Trump team spent lavishly to show how that advantage evaporated. Continue reading →

Coronavirus

Mass. reports 8 new deaths, 222 new coronavirus cases on Monday

As of Monday, there have been 121,046 confirmed cases of the coronavirus in the state, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health reported. Continue reading →

The World
Editorial & Opinion

EDITORIAL

Police overtime abuse raises issues of trust

Mayor Walsh and the Boston City Council need to crack down on a culture of permissive of overtime prone to being exploited. Continue reading →

LETTERS

To correct mistakes of past, nuclear should be part of our energy future

"Climate change exponentially increases the urgency of using nuclear power. But our liberal leaders are still willfully blind." Continue reading →

OPINION

The ‘transformational’ Allston Multimodal project

You can’t build on the foundations of a transformational project that never gets built. Focus on the needs, not the wants. Continue reading →

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Metro

Metro

Black Americans, suffering disproportionately from COVID-19, face a mounting mental health crisis

Black and Hispanic Americans — who have disproportionately suffered from COVID-19 and its economic fallout — appear to be shouldering an even heavier mental health burden as a racial justice movement has ripped open centuries-old wounds of systemic oppression. Continue reading →

Transportation

Planning your return to the MBTA? Here’s what you missed

What we learned is that trains and buses aren’t necessarily rolling virus factories, the T can indeed move quickly to adjust service, and that it’s easier to upgrade century-old infrastructure when barely anyone is using it. Continue reading →

Politics

Boston City Councilor Michelle Wu is running for mayor, Walsh says

City Councilor Michelle Wu told Mayor Martin J. Walsh that she is running for mayor next year, Walsh said Monday, setting up a potential heavyweight political clash that would see Wu attempt something not done in 70-plus years: oust a sitting Boston mayor. Continue reading →

Sports

US Open

Serena Williams rallies in third set to advance to US Open quarterfinals

Williams defeated Maria Sakkari, who had defeated her less than two weeks ago at the Western & Southern Open. Continue reading →

Celtics

Paul George, Kawhi Leonard rally Clippers past Nuggets for 2-1 lead

Trailing by 7 in the fourth quarter, LA reels off a 14-4 run to take control and turn back Denver. Continue reading →

Celtics 111, Raptors 89

Celtics answer challenge and other observations of a Game 5 blowout of Raptors

Jaylen Brown stepped up and the Celtics' defense clamped down on Toronto to take a 3-2 series lead. Continue reading →

Business

Business

Meals at work: Once a perk, they’re now pitched as a safety measure

With lockdowns easing and employers coaxing workers back to the office, caterers are betting their own recovery on convincing companies that a simple catered boxed lunch is not just a frill, but a necessary safety measure. Continue reading →

Business

Meals at work: Once a perk, they’re now pitched as a safety measure

With lockdowns easing and employers coaxing workers back to the office, caterers are betting their own recovery on convincing companies that a simple catered boxed lunch is not just a frill, but a necessary safety measure. Continue reading →

Business

Nonprofit offers online help, and hope, to low-income immigrants

The legal-tech nonprofit in Allston is working to bridge the gap between immigrants and citizenship, virtually and free of charge. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Obituaries

Stephen Merrill, former New Hampshire governor, dies at 74

The fiscal conservative and formidable campaigner served two terms in office during the 1990s and was Senator Bob Dole's campaign manager during his run for the presidency in 1996. Continue reading →

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