Wednesday, November 17, 2021 View web version
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Boston Mayoral Race

‘We have so much work to do.’ Michelle Wu sworn in as mayor of Boston

Michelle Wu is the first woman, first person of color, and first Asian American elected to lead the city. Continue reading →

Metro

‘The first time I set foot in Boston City Hall, I felt invisible’: But now, the outsiders have come into City Hall

The best sense of the change Michelle Wu represents may have come from the Black and brown faces that lined up to watch her swearing-in. Continue reading →

Politics

Biden returns to New Hampshire for first time since his primary loss to tout his new infrastructure law

New Hampshire was the first stop in a series of nationwide events by President Biden and top administration officials to promote the bipartisan infrastructure law. Continue reading →

Politics

Shattuck hospital would provide temporary housing for people at Mass. and Cass under state plan

State officials are planning to house several dozen of the people living in the homeless encampment around Massachusetts Avenue and Melnea Cass Boulevard in a “temporary cottage community” on the grounds of the Lemuel Shattuck Hospital campus in Jamaica Plain. Continue reading →

sports business

Fenway Sports Group is close to acquiring the Pittsburgh Penguins

The Red Sox parent company has been looking to add a sports property — perhaps an NBA or NHL team — since it got a $750 million capital boost in March. Continue reading →

The Nation

Nation

No verdict after daylong deliberations by Rittenhouse jury

Kyle Rittenhouse, 18, faces life in prison if convicted as charged for using a semi-automatic rifle to kill two men and wound a third during a night of protests against racial injustice in Kenosha in the summer of 2020. Continue reading →

Nation

Rittenhouse’s far-right supporters used shared enemies to raise millions of dollars

Rittenhouse’s legal team had raised more than $650,000 for his defense as of last month through the ‘’Free Kyle USA’' website. Continue reading →

Nation

Ahmaud Arbery was shot at very close range, medical examiner testifies in murder trial

On Tuesday, the focus turned to the final moments of the shaky cellphone video that thrust this case into the national spotlight — Ahmaud Arbery’s struggle with Travis McMichael, partially obscured. Continue reading →

The World

Analysis

US-China summit produces little more than polite words, but they help

The virtual meeting between President Biden and China’s leader, Xi Jinping, produced no breakthroughs in a relationship that has spiraled dangerously downward. That was not the intent. Continue reading →

World

Poland uses water cannons and tear gas as tensions rise at Belarus border

The tense standoff on the border between Poland and Belarus descended into a dangerous melee Tuesday morning when Polish border guards used water cannons and tear gas to repel what they said was an attempt by migrants to breach the heavily guarded frontier. Continue reading →

World

US allies drive much of world’s democratic decline, data shows

The United States and its allies accounted for a significantly outsize share of global democratic backsliding in the past decade, according to a new analysis. Continue reading →

Editorial & Opinion

OPINION

With democracy under duress, a few — but too few — Republicans speak up

Calculation and cowardice rule the right. Continue reading →

EDITORIAL

Real police reform in Boston starts now

Wu needs to dispel the mythology that changing the way policing is done, and getting a handle on police overtime, will somehow make the city less safe. Continue reading →

OPINION

The inflation hawks have been right all along

Everything costs more than it did a year ago. Are we headed back to the 1970s? Continue reading →

Metro

Metro

‘The first time I set foot in Boston City Hall, I felt invisible’: But now, the outsiders have come into City Hall

The best sense of the change Michelle Wu represents may have come from the Black and brown faces that lined up to watch her swearing-in. Continue reading →

Globe Local

A growing push to eliminate Native American mascots in Massachusetts schools

A bill would require about two dozen schools to abandon their current nicknames, bar the sale and distribution of materials with Native American symbols, and halt construction or renovation of team logo displays. Continue reading →

New England

A roadrunner got trapped in a moving van in Las Vegas — and ended up in Maine

A father and son were greeted by a strange and unusual passenger on Saturday when they opened the door of a moving van that had traveled from Las Vegas to Westbrook, Maine: A roadrunner that accidentally hitched a ride all the way across the country. Continue reading →

Sports

Sports

Danvers school leaders cite failings, pledge change following allegations of locker room misconduct

Danvers School Superintendent Lisa Dana and the School Committee issued a joint statement Tuesday night hailing the alleged victim for standing up to the abuse and effectively apologizing to the community for its lack of transparency. Continue reading →

on football

Last year Bill Belichick’s GM savvy had been questioned, but not anymore

Belichick’s offseason scorecard is filled with W’s. Most of his free agents have panned out, and the 2021 draft class is the Patriots' best in nearly a decade. Continue reading →

Celtics

Celtics’ Payton Pritchard sniffs around for an answer to his shooting woes

In the midst of a slump, the second-year Celtic took off the mask he has worn to protect his nose, which he broke in the preseason. Continue reading →

Business

Business

‘A more normal market.’ Home prices, sales in the Boston area are mellowing

It’s not like there are bargains to be had, but the frenzy of last fall and this spring seems to have subsided. Continue reading →

Business

Sh*t That I Knit tried out for the Olympics — and made it

Christina Pardy sold her first collection of knit hats at SoWa Open Market in 2014 before quitting her job to turn it into a full-time business. Seven years later, Sh*t That I Knit is an official licensee of Team USA. Continue reading →

Business

Retail sales jumped in October in a third straight month of gains

Retail sales jumped in October for the third straight month, the government said Tuesday, as Walmart and Home Depot both reported strong results for their latest quarters. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Obituaries

Ed Bullins, leading playwright of the Black Arts Movement, retired Northeastern professor, dies at 86

Mr. Bullins, who was among the most significant Black playwrights of the 20th century and a leading voice in the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and ’70s, died on Saturday at his home in Roxbury, Massachusetts. He was 86. Continue reading →

Arts & Lifestyle

Arts

First Asian American Muppet Arrives on ‘Sesame Street’

Ji-Young, a Korean American 7-year-old who loves playing her electric guitar and skateboarding, will make her debut next week. Continue reading →

Names

Guerilla Opera to perform works by Iranian women composers at the Museum of Science

Guerilla Opera will perform two works composed by Iranian women for one night only on Nov. 17. Continue reading →

Music

On his way to House of Blues, Finneas is embracing life as a solo artist

The Globe sat down with Finneas (virtually) to hear more about “Optimist," why a pessimist like him would pick that title, and which artists, besides sister Billie Eilish, he'd like to produce. Continue reading →