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Monday, August 15, 2022


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Climate


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Ten cities and towns are poised to ban fossil fuels from new buildings

A provision in the climate bill signed this week by Governor Charlie Baker allows up to 10 communities to participate in a pilot program to ban the use of fossil fuels in new buildings and major renovations.
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Massachusetts


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Have you apologized to your hydrangeas for the drought?

As gardeners fight to keep beloved plants alive, the drought’s toll has turned emotional.
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Future of Work


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Many office workers are back, but their favorite lunch spots are struggling with hybrid work

For some eateries, survival depends on how well they can adapt to making money across fewer hours, and with fewer regular customers.
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Crime & Courts


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Under Maura Healey, the attorney general’s office sued the Trump administration nearly 100 times. Most of the time, she prevailed.

A Globe analysis shows that the lawsuits led or joined by Healey succeeded about 77 percent of the time, either with a clear-cut court ruling or an order suspending the Trump initiatives.
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Mass. gaming regulators don’t seem to know how many residents in the state have a gambling problem. Now, sports betting is legal.

When asked if the Massachusetts Gaming Commission is tracking the prevalence of problem gambling over time, its top official offered this answer: “We may not have the precise number of problem gamblers, and I can’t say that we don’t have that,” said commission Chair Cathy Judd-Stein.
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Why abortion has become a centerpiece of Democratic TV ads in 2022

In Michigan, Democrats took aim at the Republican nominee for governor almost immediately after the primary with a television ad highlighting her opposition to abortion, without exceptions for rape or incest.
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Driver kills 1 and injures 17 at fund-raiser, then kills another, police say

In a pair of horrific scenes Saturday night that compounded the tragedy of a recent fatal fire in eastern Pennsylvania, a man plowed his car into a fund-raising event for families affected by that fire, killing one and injuring 17, then drove off and fatally beat a woman before police arrested him, authorities said.
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Condemnations of FBI in wake of Trump seizure worry lawmakers

Several lawmakers pushed back on Sunday against Republican criticism of the FBI's court-authorized seizure of documents from former president Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago Club, with even some in the GOP warning that the violent rhetoric was "dangerous" and "absurd."
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World


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Fire at church in Egypt leads to stampede and at least 41 deaths

A fire tore through a packed Egyptian Coptic Orthodox church in greater Cairo early Sunday, setting off a stampede and killing at least 41 people, including several children and the church’s bishop.
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World


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Threat to Ukraine nuclear plant increases as fighting rages

The main front in Russia’s military onslaught on Ukraine appears to have shifted dangerously to the south of the country, risking a catastrophe at Europe’s largest nuclear power plant and setting up a possible make-or-break struggle for an important regional capital seized by Russia at the start of its invasion.
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‘China threat’ emerges in elections from UK to Australia

It’s not just the economy. While inflation and recession fears weigh heavily on the minds of voters, another issue is popping up in political campaigns from Britain and Australia to the United States and beyond: the “China threat.”
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OPINION


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This is what it’s like to live in a drought: We can no longer count on running water every day

Sometimes there is water only in the mornings, other times there is water all day, but sometimes two, three, four days can pass without water. This has been my experience, but there are people who have had to go up to a month without water in their homes.
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EDITORIAL


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Pro-life pregnancy centers shouldn’t be allowed to manipulate women

State lawmakers should bar deceptive advertising by organizations that seek to draw in women interested in abortion under false pretenses.
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OPINION


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Droughts aren’t a ‘new normal,’ they’ll worsen unless we address the climate crisis

Human-caused climate change is fueling rising temperatures and worsening droughts across the nation. Does this mean Massachusetts will look more like the West?
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Rhode Island


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A R.I. wreck that may be Captain Cook’s Endeavour is being eaten by ‘shipworms’

Sometimes called termites of the ocean, the worm-like mollusk is attacking the ship’s exposed wood.
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THE GREAT DIVIDE


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State more than doubles investment in early college high school programs

Tucked into the state’s $52.7 billion budget is a $19 million investment to help scale up early college programs in schools throughout Massachussetts, an $8 million increase in funding.
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THE GREAT DIVIDE


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State education leaders to vote Monday on raising MCAS graduation requirements

The proposal has seen fierce opposition, including a letter from nearly 100 state legislators worried about the potential change’s effect on student mental health.
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Sports






Tennis


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At Thoreau Open, singles title not enough for CoCo Vandeweghe, she wins the doubles, too

In the singles final, she took a grinding, 6-3, 5-7, 6-4 win over Croatian-born Bernarda Pera, the tourney’s No. 2 seed.
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Tara Sullivan


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There won’t be a satisfactory ending for the Deshaun Watson imbroglio, and more thoughts

Watson’s return to the field Friday night was ugly in every way possible, an awkward apology before the game begetting an unsteady performance in it.
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dan shaughnessy


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With atmosphere at Fenway electric, it’s hard for Red Sox to admit this is a lost season

The last-place Sox are 15-30 against the American League East this year.
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Making a scene: Megaproject around TD Garden bounces back from COVID quiet

After opening shortly before the COVID-19 pandemic shut down live events and so much more, the Hub on Causeway is fully operational at last.
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Economy


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The MBTA is an asset we can’t afford to squander

Worse than being an embarrassment, our transit system is in danger of becoming an economic liability.
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Innovation Economy


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Somerville startup has a cool take on air conditioning

Transaera is working to design new air conditioners that require dramatically less energy. This month, it plans to announce that it has raised an initial funding round of $4.5 million.
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Obituaries






Obituaries


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Yvonne Daley, poet, professor, and award-winning journalist, dies at 77

Among her books was "Going Up the Country," about the hippies who moved to Vermont in search "of self, of a dream, of a future."
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Obituaries


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Elana Dykewomon, author who explored lesbian lives, dies at 72

Her three novels found an ardent following among lesbian readers. She also published five collections of poetry and short stories and contributed to many lesbian-themed publications.
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Arts & Lifestyle






Critic's Notebook


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‘They/Them’: Can a conversion-therapy slasher movie be uplifting?

Kevin Bacon plays an LGBTQ+ conversion camp leader who unleashes the real horrors in this Peacock film, which stars nonbinary actor Theo Germaine.
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MUSIC REVIEW


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Love connections from Kehlani at Leader Bank Pavilion

Live, Kehlani is a confident performer, delicately balancing the close-knit nature of their songs with the amphitheater-tour imperative to make the back row feel their performance as deeply as those up front.
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ASK AMY


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Merry Sunshine can’t continue to smile

Advice from Amy Dickinson.
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