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Sunday, August 28, 2022
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Transportation

A cleaner faces double the time on public transit after Orange Line shutdown

Juan Peña, a cleaner, has seen his commute double after the Orange Line shutdown. Continue reading →

TRAVEL

In Florida, ‘Don’t Say Gay’ is now the law, and LGBTQ+ businesses fear the fallout

Gay-owned businesses in Florida, still catching their collective breath after two years of COVID-19 losses, face the very real possibility of losing LGBTQ+ tourists. "This law is by no means a reflection of us," the president of the Greater Fort Lauderdale LGBT Chamber of Commerce said. Continue reading →

Investigations

The law was supposed to protect victims of domestic and sexual violence. Critics say it’s largely protected police and perpetrators.

Massachusetts' uniquely broad privacy law requires police to keep all reports and arrests related to sexual and domestic violence secret, something no other state does. Continue reading →

Politics

Will Secretary of State Bill Galvin outlast us all?

Galvin, who turns 72 next month, has spent virtually his entire professional life in state government. Surely people will have an explanation for his endurance. Continue reading →

Politics

Democrats in Michigan hope to capitalize on swell of support for abortion rights

The state has seen a surge in the number of women who’ve registered to vote since Roe v. Wade was overturned in June after almost 50 years as settled precedent. Continue reading →

The Nation

Nation

California budget to cover some out-of-state abortion travel

While the fund will receive public money, it also accepts private donations. Continue reading →

Politics

Possibility of obstruction looms over Trump after thwarted efforts to recover documents

The crime of obstruction is a serious a threat to former president Trump or his close associates as the Justice Department investigates documents that were at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida. Continue reading →

Nation

Republicans, once outraged by Mar-a-Lago search, become quieter as details emerge

With the release of a redacted affidavit detailing the justification for the search, the former president’s allies were largely silent, a potentially telling reaction with ramifications for his political future. Continue reading →

The World

World

With disaster looming, inspectors set to visit Ukraine nuclear plant

As renewed shelling intensified fears about a nuclear accident at the Zaporizhzhia power plant, Ukrainian authorities stepped up emergency drills Saturday and rushed to hand out potassium iodide, a drug that can protect people from radiation-induced thyroid cancer, to tens of thousands of people living near the facility. Continue reading →

World

War brings Ukraine’s women new roles and new dangers

Women have become an omnipresent force in Ukraine’s war six months in as they confront long-held stereotypes about their role in the country’s post-Soviet society. Continue reading →

World

Pope expands ranks of cardinals who’ll likely pick successor

Of the churchmen being named new cardinals in the consistory ceremony in St. Peter's Basilica, 16 are younger than 80 and thus eligible to participate in a conclave — the ritual-shrouded, locked-door assembly of cardinals who cast paper ballots to elect a new pontiff. Continue reading →

Editorial & Opinion

OPINION

Beware: A more aggressive IRS is on the way

Middle-class Americans will be right in its crosshairs. Continue reading →

OPINION

With the midterms, a season of sore losers awaits

For Republicans devoted to Trump’s Big Lie, losing means never having to say "I concede." Continue reading →

LETTERS

No need to change the term to address monkeypox stigma

Creating euphemisms creates the impression that the stigma is warranted. Continue reading →

Metro

Massachusetts

Dorchester dances the day away at annual Caribbean Carnival

At festivities after the parade, a man was shot and suffered “serious, life-threatening injuries” in the area of Harambee Park, according to police. Continue reading →

Elections

‘Super pumped’: Voters across Mass. take advantage of in-person early voting

The early voting period runs through Friday. Voters can check early voting locations and hours on the secretary of state’s early voting web page. Continue reading →

RI HISTORY

How tree rings help make a case that a 19th century shipwreck in Argentina could be a ship built in Warren, R.I.

“I was really excited,” said researcher Ignacio Mundo. “The last ring corresponds to 1849, and knowing the Dolphin was launched in 1850 — you say, okay, we are really close.” Continue reading →

Sports

On baseball

Jarren Duran, demoted to Triple A, faces a career crossroads

Outside of Kiké Hernández, who will be a free agent after the season, the Sox don’t have another center fielder on the roster. Continue reading →

dan shaughnessy

Examining an ‘amazing’ statement by David Ortiz, and other thoughts

Regarding the suspension of steroid user Fernando Tatis Jr., Ortiz said MLB shouldn't "kill our product" this way. Continue reading →

Patriots

A day later, still not much good to say about Patriots’ preseason loss to Raiders

But rather than flush the bad memories, the Patriots will use them as motivation and a learning experience. Continue reading →

Business
Ideas

IDEAS

How the MBTA went off the rails

Nearly everything about Boston has changed in the past few decades, yet the T has the same big problem — a failure to prioritize the rider experience above all. Continue reading →

IDEAS

May I have a word: Wrong phrases that sound totally right

Something misheard, something gained: Readers offer up their favorite examples of erroneous expressions. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Obituaries

Virginia Patton Moss, ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ actress, dies at 97

The last surviving adult member of the cast of Frank Capra’s “It’s a Wonderful Life,” Virginia Patton Moss, three years after that film was released, left Hollywood to find her own wonderful life raising a family in Ann Arbor, Mich. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Howard Rosenthal, who quantified partisanship in Congress, dies at 83

Professor Howard Rosenthal, a political scientist whose pioneering research confirmed quantitatively that Congress is more politically polarized than at any point since Reconstruction, died July 28 at his home in San Francisco. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Paul Monti, whose efforts honored veterans’ graves with flags after his son’s death, dies at 76

"It was shocking that there were no flags," Mr. Monti said of the gravesites at Massachusetts National Cemetery in Bourne. “Something had to be done." Continue reading →

Arts & Lifestyle

Arts

Artist Steve Locke awarded Rappaport Prize by deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum

A MassArt graduate, Locke’s work probes questions of racial terror, male desire, and violence. His “art has increasingly changed my understanding of American history and our cultural and political environment today,” the museum's art director said. Continue reading →

THEATER

In Anna Deavere Smith’s ‘Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992,’ the voices of a shattered city

A searing examination of racial injustice, police brutality, and social tumult, “Twilight” was drawn from 320 interviews Smith conducted after the 1992 Los Angeles riots ignited by the acquittal of white police officers who were caught on videotape brutally beating Black motorist Rodney King. Continue reading →

Music

Resolute in the face of health challenges, Michael Tilson Thomas returns to Tanglewood

On Sunday, the celebrated conductor, who was diagnosed last summer with brain cancer, will lead the BSO and the Tanglewood Festival Chorus in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. Continue reading →

Travel

TRAVEL

In Florida, ‘Don’t Say Gay’ is now the law, and LGBTQ+ businesses fear the fallout

Gay-owned businesses in Florida, still catching their collective breath after two years of COVID-19 losses, face the very real possibility of losing LGBTQ+ tourists. "This law is by no means a reflection of us," the president of the Greater Fort Lauderdale LGBT Chamber of Commerce said. Continue reading →

TRAVEL

When ‘The Bear’ meets the Mainers

New York restaurateur Max Katzenberg always cherished his vacations in Maine, but would working there be another story? Continue reading →

Real Estate

Real Estate

They’re baaaack. Home buyers go where they swear they never would.

Returning to your hometown from the big city is the stuff of country tunes, sitcoms, and rom-coms. Continue reading →

Real Estate

Ask the Gardener: How to save your trees in this drought

Trees show distress when their leaves first droop, curl and brown, and finally drop. Unlike lawns, they are not going dormant; they are dying. Continue reading →