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Monday, September 26, 2022
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Massachusetts

Amid historic drought, some turn to an ancient practice in their quest for water

Those in need of a consistent water source appear to be shelving skepticism about dowsing, or water divining as it’s sometimes called, turning to the centuries-old practice to fill the void. Continue reading →

Elections

Baker allies helped Kim Driscoll win the Democratic primary for lieutenant governor through an unusual super PAC

Donors and a longtime adviser to the governor were the driving force behind a group that funded $1.2 million in advertisements ahead of the Sept. 6 primary, helping lift Driscoll in her three-way race for lieutenant governor onto the Democratic ticket alongside gubernatorial nominee Maura Healey. Continue reading →

Massachusetts

The incredible true story of the bears of Massachusetts

Bears have learned to live around people. The question now becomes: Are people ready to live around bears? Continue reading →

Investigations

Family of Brockton’s Elder Fernandes files $25 million malpractice claim against the Army for allegedly not doing enough to save his life

Sergeant Elder Fernandes’s mother is alleging in a $25 million malpractice claim that his 2020 death could have been prevented if the army hospital hadn't left her son to "fend for himself." Continue reading →

The Nation

Nation

Voters divided amid intense fight for control of Congress, poll finds

Heading into the final weeks of the midterm election campaign, Americans are split nationally in their vote for Congress, with Republicans holding sizable advantages on the economy, inflation, and crime and Democrats far more trusted to handle the issues of abortion and climate change, according to a Washington Post-ABC News poll. Continue reading →

Nation

Tropical Storm Ian could hit Florida as a major hurricane

Tropical Storm Ian, which formed late Friday over the central Caribbean Sea, was expected to intensify rapidly Sunday, potentially becoming a very strong hurricane near western Cuba before threatening Florida as a major hurricane this week, forecasters said. Continue reading →

Nation

An anti-Muslim symbol from India is paraded in a N.J. town

EDISON, N.J. — The India Day Parade featured a pretty standard lineup of festival fare. Continue reading →

The World

World

Russia begins mobilizing Ukrainians to fight against their own country

The drive to compel Ukrainians to battle other Ukrainians is part of a broader, if risky, effort by Moscow to mobilize hundreds of thousands of new fighters as its forces suffer huge casualties and struggle to hold off Ukrainian advances in the east and south. Continue reading →

World

Italy on course for far-right government after vote, according to projections

Italy seemed poised on Sunday for a norm-breaking election that would give the country its first-ever female prime minister — and its farthest-right government since the fall of Mussolini. Continue reading →

World

Ceremony and controversy await Harris during visit to Asia

Attending funerals on behalf of the United States is normally a straightforward assignment for a vice president, but Kamala Harris will confront controversy at nearly every turn as she visits Asia for the memorial honoring former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Continue reading →

Editorial & Opinion

LETTERS

Homework, book banners: Read Bradbury, report back

A reader suggests some required reading for anyone who seeks to have a book banned from a public library. Continue reading →

LETTERS

Grateful to be within range of ‘Eric in the Evening’

When I lived in New Hampshire before moving to Boston in 1987 — streaming was not an option, of course, back then — each of Eric Jackson’s shows reminded me of how lucky I was to be in range of his broadcasts. Continue reading →

LETTERS

Getting to know N.H.’s Free Staters, getting to know all about them

Progressives’ problem with the group can’t be because they’re moving into New Hampshire from somewhere else and changing the nature of the politics. Massachusetts liberals have been doing that in Southern New Hampshire and Maine for decades. Continue reading →

Metro

K-12

‘That looks like what I eat at home’: City Fresh Foods makes meals for BPS students, by Bostonians

The Roxbury-based food producers in May were awarded a $17 million contract, the largest non-construction contract ever given to a certified Black-owned business by the city. Continue reading →

Massachusetts

With new headstone, Marblehead won’t let enslaved woman be forgotten

Agnes, a woman who the town’s prominent Russell family enslaved as a domestic servant, died in 1718 at about age 43. Continue reading →

Health

This virus could cause paralysis in children, and health experts are on the lookout: ‘There are, and will be, more cases’

The virus, known as enterovirus D68, typically causes cold and respiratory symptoms but has been linked with the rare paralytic condition known as acute flaccid myelitis, or AFM. Continue reading →

Sports

on baseball

J.D. Martinez reflects on five years with the Red Sox as curious season winds down

Martinez will become a free agent after the World Series. There has been no contact from the Red Sox about an extension. Continue reading →

Ben Volin | On Football

Bill Belichick’s plan was to put the ball in Lamar Jackson’s hands, and it worked out — for the Ravens

Jackson became the first QB in NFL history to throw at least three touchdowns and rush for 100 yards in consecutive weeks. Continue reading →

Dan Shaughnessy

There was a time when championships were all we knew, but those glory days appear long gone

The golden era of sporting success in New England took another hit with the injury to Mac Jones and the play of the Patriots. Continue reading →

Business

Jobs

Working 9 to 5 is not a way to make a living, according to some Gen Zers: ‘It’s just not what I want to do with my life’

The monotonous nature of a typical office job is the subject of an extremely relatable viral TikTok trend. Continue reading →

Healthcare

Can Long Island become more than a recovery campus?

The reopening of Long Island will take years and hundreds of millions of dollars, but if it is to be an option at all, the planning needs to start. Continue reading →

Cybersecurity

Memes are no longer silly Internet jokes — they’re upending American politics

Harvard researcher Joan Donovan's new book, "Meme Wars," is the first in-depth account of how the Stop the Steal movement went from online subcultures to real life. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Obituaries

Roxanne Lowit, fashion photographer with a backstage view, dies at 80

An omnipresent fashion photographer, Roxanne Lowit's candid shots of top designers and models frolicking backstage at the world’s fashion shows revealed that the spectacle behind the curtain often rivaled the main event on the catwalk,. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Just Jaeckin, whose ‘Emmanuelle’ was a scandalous success, dies at 82

Just Jaeckin, a fashion photographer turned film director whose first movie, “Emmanuelle,” became a box-office sensation when it was released in 1974 after being blocked by French censors because of its soft-core depiction of a young woman’s erotic adventures, died Sept. 6 in Saint-Malo, France. He was 82. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Jim Post, known for a memorably ‘groovy’ hit song, dies at 82

Best known as half of the duo Friend & Lover, Jim Post's only hit was a memorable one — “Reach Out of the Darkness,” which proclaimed with flower-power earnestness, “I think it’s so groovy now that people are finally gettin’ together." Continue reading →

Arts & Lifestyle

OPERA REVIEW

In Boston Lyric Opera’s new ‘La bohème,’ the girl dies at the beginning - and it works

By reversing the order of the acts, director Yuval Sharon cast new light on an old warhorse. Continue reading →

Movies

‘The Collaboration’ and HBO’s ‘Julia’ filming around Boston this month

“The Collaboration,” a film about Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat, starring Paul Bettany and Jeremy Pope, began filming at Marina Studios recently. And filming for season 2 of HBO’s “Julia” is also underway. Continue reading →

ASK AMY

Husband confronts the call of his elder libido

Advice from Amy Dickinson. Continue reading →