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Thursday, November 3, 2022
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Four Corners

She was supposed to visit Four Corners with her husband. She came for both of them.

Sherry Masulit-Alcala lives in Hawaii and had originally planned to come to the Four Corners last year with her husband, Raul “Rudy” Alcala — the tickets were all booked and everything. Continue reading →

Indiana

She has fostered 79 children. One of them was named Stevie.

Allie Missler never wanted a third child, until Stevie. By the time she volunteered her home for emergency short-term foster care in 2017, she and her husband had already raised two kids. Continue reading →

Elections

On track to be the first Gen Zer in Congress, a Florida Democrat hopes to boost his party’s future while remembering his family’s past

Maxwell Alejandro Frost is hoping to teach his fellow Democrats in Congress an important thing: the art of messaging. Continue reading →

Politics

After contentious process, Boston City Council approves new political maps

The vote caps a chaotic months-long process that saw dramatic shifts in leadership, accusations of Open Meeting Law violations, a number of controversial amendments, demands to delay the vote, deep racial tensions, a last-minute lawsuit, and, in one particularly shocking moment, an invocation of age-old tensions between Catholics and Protestants. Continue reading →

Politics

Mass. legislative leaders agree on $3.8b spending bill that omits tax relief measures

With $3 billion tax refunds going out to taxpayers under a separate law, legislators chose to include only “one-time investments” in the agreement that emerged Wednesday. Continue reading →

The Nation

Nation

Republicans, eyeing majority, float changes to Social Security and Medicare

Prominent Republicans are billing the moves as necessary to rein in government spending. Continue reading →

Political Notebook

Trump lawyers saw Thomas as key to blocking election results

Thomas is the justice who oversees emergency petitions from the circuit court that includes Georgia. Continue reading →

Nation

Capitol Police cameras caught break-in at Pelosi home, but no one was watching

Inside the command center for the US Capitol Police, a handful of officers were going through their routines early Friday morning, cycling through live feeds from the department’s 1,800 cameras used to monitor the nearby Capitol complex as well as some points beyond, when an officer stopped. Continue reading →

The World

World

Israeli results show a Netanyahu comeback powered by the far right

With 84 percent of ballots counted as of 10 a.m. local time Wednesday, Netanyahu’s right-wing bloc looked poised to pick up 65 seats, well beyond the 61 needed to form a majority in Israel’s 120-member Knesset. But the results will probably change as more ballots are tallied. Continue reading →

World

Russia rejoins grain deal after saying it received security guarantees

Russia said Wednesday that it was rejoining a deal that allows the shipment of grain from Ukrainian ports through the Black Sea. Continue reading →

World

Ethiopian government, Tigray agree to end fighting after 2 years

Ethiopia’s warring sides agreed Wednesday to a permanent cessation of hostilities in a two-year conflict whose victims could be counted in the hundreds of thousands, but enormous challenges lie ahead, including getting all parties to lay down arms or withdraw. Continue reading →

Editorial & Opinion

EDITORIAL

Yes on Question 1

The proposed constitutional amendment would make the state’s income tax fairer than it is now. Continue reading →

OPINION

At stake for John Kerry at COP27: Climate and his legacy

What Kerry can ultimately accomplish as special climate envoy matters to a legacy that has faced challenges. Continue reading →

LETTERS

Faneuil name has to go from this hallowed hall

It is the legacy of Colonial merchant Peter Faneuil that chains Boston’s reputation to the worst of our racist origins. Continue reading →

Metro

Crime & Courts

AG’s office offered $200,000 to man who spent 36 years in prison for a wrongful conviction. A jury awarded him $33 million.

Maura Healey’s last-minute offer to Fred Weichel underscores the pivotal role her office plays in compensation cases. Continue reading →

Politics

After mayor’s veto, Boston City Council backs away from $125,000 salary for councilors

Responding to a veto from the mayor, the Boston City Council on Wednesday approved a slightly more modest pay raise for elected officials, backing away from the $125,000 city councilor salary that had drawn public criticism. Continue reading →

Politics

‘Massachusetts isn’t in play’ this midterm cycle. So why is Kamala Harris in Boston?

The unstated motivation of her visit, some say, has far more to do with 2024 than 2022. Continue reading →

Sports

Chad Finn

Dreaming of how great Patriots running back Rhamondre Stevenson can be

Eight games into his second season, Stevenson is proving he can handle any expectations the Patriots put on him. Continue reading →

tara sullivan

The Nets are one big mess, and hiring Ime Udoka won’t help them get the message right

Their interest in Ime Udoka continues to expose them as a desperate franchise looking for any path to salvage what they still believe is a championship window. Continue reading →

On Baseball

Christian Vázquez was part of another iconic October moment, and the Astros’ Game 4 no-hitter has them back in the fight

Vázquez guided four pitchers through the second no-hitter in Fall Classic history, and Houston has life again. Continue reading →

Business

TECH LAB

No lithium? No problem, says Woburn battery startup

Alsym's founders say they’ve built a new kind of rechargeable battery that delivers the performance of lithium ion cells at half the cost. Continue reading →

CHESTO MEANS BUSINESS

After years of debate, it feels like a detente on the future of the Hynes Convention Center

The apparent ceasefire comes after three years in which the Back Bay Association fought against the Massachusetts Convention Center Authority’s efforts to close the Hynes and focus on a BCEC expansion. Continue reading →

The 2-minute drill

Federal Reserve lifts rates again, says more will be needed to tame inflation

But Fed chair Jerome Powell added that future rate hikes might be smaller. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Obituaries

Daniel Smith, 90, dies; thought to be the last child of an enslaved person in US

Mr. Smith sometimes joked that he was a bit like a “Black Forrest Gump,” who over a long and eventful life witnessed firsthand many of the central moments of the African American experience. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Julie Powell, food writer known for ‘Julie & Julia,’ dies at 49

Julie Powell narrated her struggles in the kitchen in a funny, lacerating voice that struck a nerve with a rising generation of disaffected contemporaries. Continue reading →

Arts & Lifestyle

WORKING ON IT

What’s the difference between philosophy and self-help?

'Life is Hard’ author and MIT philosophy professor Kieran Setiya has answers — and more questions. Continue reading →

Lifestyle

How social media helped L.L. Bean tote bags become a thing

“I was just the first person to be loud about it online,” says social media influencer Gracie Wiener. Continue reading →

TV CRITIC'S CORNER

Hulu’s ‘Reboot’ is solid and sly

Now that all of the first season has been released, you might want to take a look. Continue reading →