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Tuesday, February 14, 2023
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Higher Education

Students complain of culture shock as Northeastern University settles into Calif. outpost

The tension at the Oakland school, now known as Mills College at Northeastern University, reflects the challenges that colleges face when merging campus cultures and balancing the loyalties of students, faculty, and alumni. Continue reading →

Climate

A decade after Concord’s landmark ban on bottled water, plastic pollution remains a scourge

Concord passed a landmark plastic bottle ban 10 years ago, but its effect since then hasn't been what its proponents intended. Continue reading →

Investigations

Annie Dookhan took the blame for the state drug lab scandal, but she wasn’t the ‘sole bad actor,’ new documents show

Inspector General Glenn Cunha referred at least four state employees aside from Annie Dookhan for potential criminal prosecution in the state drug lab scandal, new records show, but no charges were brought. Continue reading →

Politics

Across the Capitol from McConnell, McCarthy tries the opposite of his peers: rewarding his opponents

Past congressional bosses of both parties have not been hesitant about punishing anyone who was perceived to go against the team. But House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is using a different approach. Continue reading →

Crime & Courts

Plotting killer or consumed by illness? Dueling portraits of Duxbury mother Lindsay Clancy emerge in court.

Prosecutors have aggressively sought to portray Clancy as a plotting killer who painstakingly planned the murder of her three children, while those who know her have described her as a devoted mother dogged in her pursuit of treatment for mental health issues. Continue reading →

The Nation

Nation

Georgia judge will release parts of report on Trump election inquiry

A Georgia judge said Monday that he would disclose parts of a grand jury report later this week that details an investigation into election interference by former president Donald Trump and his allies, though he would keep the jury’s specific recommendations secret for now. Continue reading →

Nation

Teen girls report record levels of sadness, CDC finds

Nearly 3 in 5 teenage girls felt persistent sadness in 2021, double the rate of boys, and 1 in 3 girls seriously considered attempting suicide, according to data released Monday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Continue reading →

Nation

$500 a month, no strings: Chicago experiments with a guaranteed income

Chicago and the surrounding suburbs of Cook County are conducting the largest experiment of its kind in the nation, an effort to supply thousands of residents with a basic level of subsistence, not in the form of food, housing, or child care — just cash. Continue reading →

The World

World

Shortages of shelter and medical supplies pose dangers to quake survivors

A week after a devastating earthquake struck Turkey and Syria, with families crowded under tarps and cardboard shelters, a severe shortage of tents, housing, and medical supplies is imperiling relief efforts, leaving survivors struggling amid ruins and in extreme cold. Continue reading →

World

Moldovan leader outlines Russian ‘plan’ to topple government

Moldova’s president outlined Monday what she described as a plot by Moscow to overthrow her country’s government using external saboteurs, put the nation “at the disposal of Russia,” and derail its aspirations to one day join the European Union. Continue reading →

World

Order for aid groups to leave Bakhmut could be prelude to Ukrainian withdrawal

Aid groups and civilians will not be able to enter Bakhmut starting Monday, Ukraine’s military said, as fighting continued to intensify in Russia’s monthslong campaign to seize the strategic city in eastern Ukraine. Continue reading →

Editorial & Opinion

EDITORIAL

The horror in Turkey was a nightmare waiting to happen

Earthquake’s toll worsened by President Erdogan’s government’s indifference to building codes. Continue reading →

OPINION

No, it’s not a crime to charge Lindsay Clancy with a crime

Plymouth District Attorney Timothy Cruz would be abdicating his responsibilities if he didn’t pursue charges against the Duxbury mother accused of killing her three children. Continue reading →

LETTERS

No reason to note woman’s marital status in story on her death

Once again, though, I am wondering why we continue as a society to feel it is necessary to comment on a woman’s marital status in lieu of all the other things that could be mentioned instead. Continue reading →

Metro

Politics

Mayor Michelle Wu files rent control proposal with City Council, setting up debate

The policy, which Wu made a centerpiece of her mayoral campaign and has been floating for weeks, would tie allowable rent increases to the economy, allowing hikes of 6 percent plus inflation, with a cap of 10 percent in high inflation years. Continue reading →

Crime & Courts

‘She was warm and loving and kind’: Andover woman killed by husband mourned by longtime friend

Linda Robinson “was an extraordinarily attentive, loving, close mother... that relationship was the defining relationship of her life,” said Mark DiSalvo, president and chief executive of North Andover-based Sema4 Inc. Continue reading →

Crime & Courts

16-year-old girl ordered held without bail on murder charge in fatal Jamaica Plain stabbing

The charges allege that she fatally stabbed a 21-year old woman and wounded a 17-year-old girl, both of whom then ran for safety into the Boston police station in Jamaica Plain on Saturday. Continue reading →

Sports

Men's Beanpot championship: Northeastern 3, Harvard 2

Northeastern skates off with men’s Beanpot after first-of-its-kind shootout win over Harvard

Northeastern claimed its fourth title in five Beanpots after goalie Devon Levi denied all three Harvard attempts, and Aidan McDonough was able to beat Harvard’s Mitchell Gibson. Continue reading →

christopher l. gasper

It’s hard to find a sense of spring renewal and hope regarding the Red Sox

Spring training traditionally is a time that buoys fans' spirits, but the Sox seem so irrelevant, so seemingly rudderless, so out of sync with their fan base. Continue reading →

on baseball

Red Sox facility was spared by Hurricane Ian last fall, but heartbreaking damage in the area remains

Scenes of destruction are painfully evident not far from JetBlue Park, and the wreckage likely will take years to repair. Continue reading →

Business

Commercial

More labs aim for hot corner of the South End

The Druker Co. is moving forward with plans to convert a one-story warehouse on Washington Street with two 150-foot life-science lab and office buildings. Continue reading →

Economy

‘Punxsutawney’ Powell and why investors need to cool their jets

The latest reading on inflation comes out Tuesday. The news should be good — but not good enough to change the Fed’s hawkish tune. Continue reading →

THE FINE PRINT

She was hit with a huge hospital bill she wasn’t expecting. Here’s how you can avoid the same fate.

Lori Handerhan, a 62-year-old Middleboro resident, said she was shocked when South Shore Hospital told her that her plan did not cover her stay in the hospital for a “complete heart block.” Continue reading →

Obituaries

Obituaries

De La Soul’s David Jolicoeur, who rapped as Trugoy the Dove, dies at 54

David Jolicoeur of De La Soul, the rap trio that expanded the stylistic vocabulary of hip-hop in the late 1980s and early ’90s with eclectic samples and offbeat humor, becoming MTV staples and cult heroes of the genre, died Sunday. He was 54. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Jürgen Flimm, director of festivals and opera houses, dies at 81

Mr. Flimm led some of Europe’s most important theaters, opera houses, and performing arts festivals. Continue reading →

Arts & Lifestyle

Food & Dining

It’s their sugary job — and how sweet it is

Ye Olde Pepper Candy Companie can trace its mouth-watering roots back to the 1800s. Continue reading →

MUSIC REVIEW

At UMass Amherst, Lviv National Philharmonic Orchestra of Ukraine summons home

The orchestra performed Thomas de Hartmann’s violin concerto, Dvorak’s Ninth Symphony, and Brahms’s ‘Tragic Overture’ amid 40-concert tour. Continue reading →

MUSIC REVIEW

Maggie Rogers gets her tour off to a rousing start at Roadrunner

“I’ve been thinking about playing this show for three years,” she told the crowd from the stage. “And it was so much better than I could have imagined.” Continue reading →