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From fire chief to mail clerks, no one seems able to find housing in Martha’s Vineyard

The housing crisis has separated families and left businesses scrambling for employees.
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Swing state Democrats beg for help from Biden as Republicans seek more control over elections

The growing chorus from Democrats in Arizona, Texas, Georgia, and other battleground states has dialed up the pressure on the White House and congressional Democrats to shore up voting rights with federal legislation.
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At Dartmouth College, first-year suicides a grim reminder of a year of loneliness

The deaths have devastated the small Ivy League campus and sparked deep outrage among students, who say the school’s mental health resources have been woefully inadequate during an academic year blighted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Another Boston police scandal is quietly unfolding

To date, 14 current or former Boston police employees, almost all from the evidence unit, have been charged with falsifying time sheets in order to collect more than $300,000 in fraudulent overtime.
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‘I’m not the one on trial here.’ Police Commissioner White’s ex-wife speaks out about abuse, his campaign to discredit her to save his job

Sybil Mason is speaking out about her frustration in seeing her own experiences negated, and her outrage in watching her ex-husband Dennis White turn his employment dispute into a referendum on her character.
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Nation


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Tensions rise in Memphis as slave trader’s remains are removed

Traditionally, Memphis residents celebrate Juneteenth at Robert R. Church Park, named for the city’s first Black millionaire. But this year, residents plan to celebrate the end of slavery one mile away, at a park where the remains of Nathan Bedford Forrest, a Confederate general and leader of the Ku Klux Klan who owned and traded enslaved workers, have been buried since 1905. Workers are digging up the coffins that hold the remains of Forrest and his wife, Mary Ann. The remains and a statue of Forrest will be moved 200 miles away, to the National Confederate Museum.
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California’s assault weapons ban overturned as federal judge compares AR-15 to a Swiss Army knife

A federal judge Friday night overturned California’s longtime ban on assault weapons, saying the state’s law was unconstitutional and that prohibiting such firearms for decades was “a failed experiment.”
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At once diminished and dominating, Trump prepares for his next act

The former president spoke on Saturday to the North Carolina Republican convention as he resumes political speeches and rallies.
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‘Hotel Rwanda’ dissident denied food and medicine in prison, family says

Paul Rusesabagina, a prominent dissident who was portrayed in the Oscar-nominated movie “Hotel Rwanda,” is being denied food and medicine in a prison in Rwanda where he is being held on terrorism-related charges, according to his family, lawyers, and foundation, even as the 66-year-old has complained of poor health.
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Nigeria blocks Twitter after president’s tweet is deleted

Nigeria has blocked Twitter after the social media site deleted a tweet by President Muhammadu Buhari that threatened secessionist groups in the southeast of the country who had been responsible for attacks on government offices.
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Sinkholes, collapsing canal walls, rickety bridges: Amsterdam is crumbling

Amsterdam, with its scenic canals lined with picturesque, 17th- and 18th-century buildings, a major European tourist destination, is slowly crumbling. Sinkholes are appearing in its small streets, and nearly half its 1,700 bridges are rickety and need repairs, frequently requiring trams to cross at a snail’s pace. As a huge project to shore up the canal walls gets underway, the city is beginning to look like one gigantic construction site.
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LETTERS


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Great Marsh restoration work should be a model for Boston resiliency plans

Let’s not stop at Newbury or Ipswich. Boston itself stands directly in the path of rising sea levels.
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Deadline looms for keeping state voting reforms

Boston’s upcoming election should force lawmakers to pick up the pace.
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A GOP grip on power, by any means necessary

Evil objectives are advanced when good people are prevented from acting.
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Lion dancers perform in Chinatown to chase away the coronavirus

The event, organized by City Councilor Ed Flynn and several neighborhood organizations, was the first of four lion dance performances planned to be held in Chinatown on all Saturdays in June.
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Nantucket votes to shoot down short-term rental rules

By a more than two-to-one margin, island residents shot down a proposal that would have barred many property owners from leasing homes to tourists for more than 45 nights a year, or for less than a week at a time.
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Dennis White’s scorched-earth strategy

The embattled Boston police commissioner is fighting with all his might to keep his job, dragging his troubled family into the spotlight. They’re not the only ones getting hurt.
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Dan Shaughnessy


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It turns out Ed Davis is no longer on the David Ortiz case, and other picked-up pieces from the sports world

The former Boston Police commissioner said the case in ongoing — “a very complicated and still-dangerous situation” — but he is no longer involved.
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Does the Celtics’ Brad Stevens have what it takes to be a good NBA general manager?

Stevens has never held a front office position and now jumps into this new role with new challenges.
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Islanders win a rough-and-tumble game to tie up series with Bruins at two games apiece

David Krejci scored Boston's only goal on the power play.
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How dissenting opinions win out in the end

The three liberal justices on today’s Supreme Court may be in a for an epic run of dissents. More than 100 years ago, one justice showed how to do it well.
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The real breakthrough for dementia: smashing the stigma

If a family member develops Alzheimer’s, you’re pretty much on your own — no one wants to talk about it. Changing that would improve people’s lives sooner than any drug will.
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Ganga Stone, who gave sustenance to AIDS patients, dies at 79

"My sense of my own role in life was to share with people what I know about the deathless nature of the human self," Ganga Stone once said in an interview. "But you can’t comfort people who haven’t eaten."
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Cornelia Hahn Oberlander, landscape architect and environmental champion, dies at 99

Considered a role model for women in a male-dominated field and known for forging uncommon working partnerships with architects, Cornelia Hahn Oberlander was a trailblazing designer of green roofs, in which a building’s rooftop is engineered with a soil-holding infrastructure and specific plants to trap rainwater and cool the building below.
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Arthur Staats, child psychologist and father of the ‘timeout,’ dies at 97

He may not have been a household name but Arthur Staats “invention” — as his elaboration of the timeout is sometimes styled — became a fixture in homes where young children bound and play, inevitably breaking things and rules as they go about the hard work of growing up and making sense of themselves and the world.
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ART REVIEW


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At last, a grandson recovers art lost to the Nazis

On display at Worcester Art Museum are 14 works from Richard Neumann's vast collection.
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A Charles M. Schulz might-have-been

The creator of "Peanuts" tried a different comic strip in the '50s, "Hagemeyer."
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Getting to the ‘Heights’

Lin-Manuel Miranda talks about how his breakout musical, “In the Heights,” finally got to the screen.
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CHRISTOPHER MUTHER


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The Provincetown Queer Council is rolling out the rainbow carpet

After the pandemic stripped Provincetown of its parties and tourism base, a group plots its “re-queerification.” “Provincetown welcomes everyone, but we never want to lose our queer edge.”
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CHRISTOPHER MUTHER


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JetBlue founder introduces a new, ‘nice’ airline

The airline, called Breeze, focuses on smaller, underserved airports such as Bradley and T.F. Green, with a smile, of course.
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