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For new Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, it’s trial by fire

Wu has already made Boston history as the first woman, person of color, millennial, and mother elected mayor. Now, with the fate of her early initiatives, she’ll show whether she can transform the city’s future.
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Business


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Another COVID surge, another desolate winter in downtown Boston

This year was supposed to mark a triumphant return for the heart of the city. But office workers have yet to return, theaters are canceling performances, and a lull has swept through the neighborhood — again.
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‘Jim Crow relic’: A short history of the filibuster

Dating to the 1800s, the filibuster has been used by lawmakers to both advance and thwart Black racial progress — but it is in the thwarting of that progress that it has been used with greatest frequency and success.
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Coronavirus Resources


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After a rough first year, CDC Director Rochelle Walensky tries to correct course

A series of stumbles by the former star physician and scientist from Massachusetts General Hospital have underscored just how rough the transition from running a 70-person infectious disease department at Mass General to a sprawling, public-facing government agency has been.
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In less vaccinated Western Mass., overwhelmed hospitals, but progress on vaccinations

As the highly contagious Omicron variant storms across the state, Hampden — home to Springfield, Chicopee, and Holyoke — remains the least vaccinated county in Massachusetts.
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King family rally in Arizona for voting bills for MLK Day

As the nation prepares to mark the birthday of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., some members of his family are spending it in conservative-leaning Arizona to mobilize support for languishing federal voting rights legislation.
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A bill proposed a new way to teach history. It got the history wrong.

Tucked inside a bill introduced by Wren Williams, a Republican delegate, was a glaring error: Among the concepts that school boards would be required to ensure students understood was “the first debate between Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass.”
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With voting bills dead, Democrats face costly fight to overcome Republican restrictions

Democratic officials and activists now say they are resigned to having to spend and organize their way around the new voting restrictions — a prospect many view with hard-earned skepticism, citing the difficulty of educating masses of voters on how to comply with the new rules.
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Marine Le Pen, kicking off her campaign, tries to embody credibility

Her speech’s peaceful overtones were a direct response to the violent messaging put forth by Éric Zemmour, another far-right candidate, whose campaign launch video was riddled with clips of crumbling churches, burning cars, and violent clashes with the police that projected an image of a chaotic France.
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Russia issuing subtle threats that go far beyond a Ukraine invasion

As the Biden administration and NATO conduct tabletop simulations about how the next few months could unfold, they are increasingly wary of another set of options for President Vladimir Putin, steps that are more far-reaching than simply rolling his troops and armor over Ukraine’s border.
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Tokyo COVID cases top 4,000 again as Omicron spreads over Japan

Tokyo reported 4,561 coronavirus cases on Saturday, topping 4,000 for a second day, with the highly contagious omicron variant spreading across Japan.
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In Charlestown, the seed for a new kind of school — in a city failing too many of its kids

Boston needs innovation schools that will experiment with early college programs and more, whether or not the Charlestown proposal succeeds.
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LETTERS


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Sizing up Mayor Wu’s push to make the T free

Readers react to David Scharfenberg's Jan. 9 Ideas cover story.
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Russia, China holding mirror up to US, and it’s not pretty

We need to develop less aggressive strategies to challenge our imagined and real enemies and work with our allies with an aim of diplomacy first and military options (if necessary) second.
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COVID-19 vaccine mandate begins in Boston amid demonstrations by opponents

The mandate that took effect Saturday requires all city workers and people seeking to enter certain indoor spaces in Boston show proof that they’ve had at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine.
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Baker spent $100,000 of campaign cash on MassGOP legal fight

Governor Charlie Baker is leaving office next year. His exit from Massachusetts Republican politics may not be so swift.
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At the mayor’s house, a measure of how low people can go

The ugly protests outside the Roslindale home of Mayor Michelle Wu are impossible to ignore. The folks protesting the city’s vaccine mandates have been particularly nasty, and personal. They have crossed all kinds of lines.
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Dan Shaughnessy


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The Buffalo-Boston sports history is glittered with, well, not much

Prior to Saturday, the Patriots and Bills only have played once in the playoffs, in 1963.
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BILLS 47, PATRIOTS 17


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It’s a stampede: Josh Allen, Bills embarrass Patriots in all phases of 47-17 rout

For the second straight meeting between the teams, the New England defense didn't force a Buffalo punt, and Josh Allen finished with more touchdown passes (5) than incompletions (4).
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Payton Pritchard back in time to replace injured Marcus Smart

He scored only 3 points against Indianapolis, when he was pressed into action straight off the airplane to replace the injured Marcus Smart.
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Another COVID surge, another desolate winter in downtown Boston

This year was supposed to mark a triumphant return for the heart of the city. But office workers have yet to return, theaters are canceling performances, and a lull has swept through the neighborhood — again.
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Another COVID surge, another desolate winter in downtown Boston

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IDEAS


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May I have a word: When you sense that you may be forgetting something

In search of a word that captures that familiar nagging feeling.
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IDEAS


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Students like mine are being left behind

Even when they’re back in school, they’re still far from being back on track.
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Obituaries






Obituaries


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Iran’s Iraj Pezeshkzad, who wrote ‘My Uncle Napoleon,’ dies

Iraj Pezeshkzad, an Iranian author whose bestselling comic novel, “My Uncle Napoleon,” lampooned Persian culture’s self-aggrandizing and paranoid behavior as the country entered the modern era, has died. He was 94.
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Beatrice Mintz, pioneering scientist in cancer and genetics, dies at 100

Beatrice Mintz, a scientist who, in decades of single-minded devotion to her research, produced seminal findings about cancer, how it develops, how it may be treated and the genetics underlying those discoveries, died Jan. 3 at her home in Elkins Park, Pa. She was 100.
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Visual Arts


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‘The Embrace,’ Boston’s long-awaited tribute to the Kings, will be unveiled on MLK Day 2023

Supply chain issues and COVID-19 led King Boston to push the memorial's unveiling back. But the Embrace Festival will take place this year.
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Lifestyle


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Like a good neighbor, tool libraries are there. Sites are popping up across the US

Across the country, there are more than 50 similar tool-lending libraries in cities such as Washington, Baltimore, Seattle, Atlanta and Denver.
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At the MFA, a sleeping giant awakens

More than two years after being shut down for renovations, the museum’s remarkable Galleries for Art of Ancient Greece, Rome, and the Byzantine Empire reopen.
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WINTER GETAWAYS


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New resort openings in the Caribbean

From the Bahamas to the US Virgin Islands, and from family-friendly resorts to luxe private-island retreats, here’s a roundup of new Caribbean properties to put on your radar.
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This Caribbean island is worth the effort, if you’re willing to put in the work

Our travel writer thought he had encountered a Caribbean disaster in San Andrés, until he found a golf cart and attitude adjustment.
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