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Sunday, February 12, 2023
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K-12

She helped kids and teachers solve problems. Can she do the same for Boston Public Schools?

After leaving the helm of Somerville’s schools last fall to lead BPS, former teacher Mary Skipper is confronting the challenge of her career: turning around a school system that fails thousands of children every year. Continue reading →

Politics

Trump’s former team of rivals returns to challenge him

At least four prominent figures from the Trump administration appear to be weighing a 2024 run for president against each other and the boss himself, an unusual scenario that could reignite the old rivalries of an administration well known for its infighting. Continue reading →

Health

A 15-year-old stayed in a hospital for 40 days. The reason? The state child welfare agency had no place to put him.

Massachusetts has had a child welfare crisis for years. But amid a shortage of beds in group and foster homes, the state is also holding children in hospitals for up to weeks or months on end, even when they’ve been medically cleared to leave. Continue reading →

Future of Work

After the ride-hailing revolution, the taxi industry is reinventing itself

The Globe spent a day on the streets of Boston with a survivor of a brutal few years for the cab industry. Continue reading →

The Nation

Nation

They died leaving labors of love undone. Strangers complete their work.

The growing roster of Loose Ends volunteers is made up of crafters from around the world with diverse fiber arts skills ranging from quilting to amigurumi. Continue reading →

Nation

For older Americans, the pandemic is not over

For older Americans, the pandemic still poses significant dangers. About three-quarters of COVID deaths have occurred in people older than 65, with the greatest losses concentrated among those older than 75. Continue reading →

Nation

After a two-year decline, suicide rates rose again in 2021

A two-year decline in yearly suicides ended in 2021, as suicide rates rose among younger Americans and people of color, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Continue reading →

The World

World

Anger over quake response challenges Erdogan before election

The deadliest earthquake to strike Turkey in almost a century killed at least 21,000 people this past week, with the bodies of countless others still buried in the rubble. It hit after a year of persistently high inflation that has impoverished Turkish families, leaving many with scarce resources to bounce back. Continue reading →

World

The fight over fox hunting: A cold war on England’s muddy fields

In simple terms, the conflict is between those who support fox hunting and those who are against it. But at a deeper level, the dispute reveals the class divides, clash of traditions and town-versus-country arguments that still fracture British society. Continue reading →

Editorial & Opinion

OPINION

There’s only one way to add an Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution

The late Ruth Bader Ginsburg advised ERA proponents: “Start over.” Continue reading →

OPINION

Celebrating Black History Month as Black history is being erased

The annual observance of past and present Black lives feels like it’s been silently marked with an expiration date. Continue reading →

LETTERS

After all these years, it’s public opinion of City Hall design that’s brutal

It’s fine for Boston City Hall to be reviled as "ugly." But to ignore that its bold, imaginative, memorable design has greater merit reduces architecture to "the tradition of taste." Continue reading →

Metro

Massachusetts

Bird sightings from Mass Audubon

Indications are that the wintering Smith’s longspur in Hadley may have departed. Continue reading →

YVONNE ABRAHAM

So far, a year of horrors

Though what we’re looking at here is an accident of timing, the immense, violent, pointless loss of life over the first weeks of 2023 feels like an epidemic. Continue reading →

Politics

Gus Bickford to step down as state Democratic Party chair

Bickford, who has led the party since 2016, announced his decision to step down at a State Committee meeting Saturday, and will remain chairman until its next meeting on April 24. Continue reading →

Sports

RED SOX

A first projection of who will be with the Red Sox on Opening Day, with analysis of the 26-man roster

Given Chris Sale's unavailability in recent seasons, Rafael Devers is considered the longest-tenured player on the roster, and the team will likely break camp with 10-11 players new to the organization. Continue reading →

CAPITALS 2, BRUINS 1

Bruins beaten in return from All-Star break, Capitals getting rare win at TD Garden

Washington became just the second team to beat the Bruins in regulation at TD Garden this season, dealing the NHL leaders their fourth loss in their last five games. Continue reading →

Sports

This year’s Super Bowl site brings back Patriots memories, and other thoughts

Glendale, Ariz., has been the scene of both heartbreak and heroics for the Patriots. Continue reading →

Business
Ideas

IDEAS

Scarce labor is warping our economy, but it could be good in the long run

We’re living through an existential shift in our collective thinking about what constitutes making a living. Continue reading →

IDEAS

What it takes to survive a disaster

Author Mike Tougias believes some key strategies for making it through a catastrophe also come in handy in everyday life. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Obituaries

Roslyn Pope, 84, dies; her manifesto helped fuel civil rights fight

As a senior at Spelman College in Atlanta, Roslyn Pope wrote a 1960 manifesto that set the stage for dramatic advances in civil rights in the city and inspired generations of activists around the country. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Dr. Dennis O’Leary, voice of calm after Reagan was shot, dies at 85

Dr. Dennis O’Leary, a Washington hospital administrator whose edifying medical briefings delivered in his calm baritone reassured a world shocked by the attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan in 1981, died Jan. 29 in Kansas City, Missouri. He was 85. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Jean Anderson, exacting and encyclopedic cookbook author, dies at 93

Jean Anderson, the indefatigable and exacting Southern-born food writer and author of nearly 20 cookbooks, including “The Doubleday Cookbook”— a kitchen bible that rivaled “The Joy of Cooking” — and “The Food of Portugal,” which introduced American cooks to the lore, culture and food ways of her favorite country, died last month at her home in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. She was 93. Continue reading →

Arts & Lifestyle

WHERE TO START

You know more opera music than you think you do

Even if you’ve never spent a night at the opera, you’ve probably heard these tunes. Continue reading →

Music

In Groton, the hills have never been more alive with the sound of music

Seven years since its groundbreaking, made possible by a large gift from an anonymous donor, the music center brings a consummate performance facility to Nashoba Valley. Continue reading →

CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK

Love the arts? Then watch the Super Bowl.

The NFL’s marquee event is anyone’s game. Continue reading →

Travel

TRAVEL

After a couple of pandemic-stalled winters, music is back in the mountains

There are plenty of people who love the cold air and love the snow and have no qualms about going out in subfreezing temperatures and less than ideal conditions to catch their favorite bands in their favorite places. Continue reading →

SURVEY SAYS

Get out of the water! America’s 10 deadliest beaches revealed.

The lesson here is don’t swim in Florida. Continue reading →

Real Estate

Real Estate

Healthier kitchens and baths for you — and the planet

A look at the pros, cons, and costs of including sustainable materials in your next home renovation. Continue reading →