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Tuesday, February 28, 2023
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Politics
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Healey pitches sweeping tax relief package that could cost Mass. close to $1b annually
Governor Maura Healey's proposal hews closely to one her Republican predecessor, Charlie Baker, first pushed a year ago before it ultimately died in a Democrat-dominated Legislature.
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Health
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Who will be guardians for legions of ‘unbefriended’ elders? A new initiative tries to address an urgent and growing problem in Mass.
Lawyers and advocates estimate there are at least 3,000 people in Massachusetts, mostly older adults, though some are younger with brain injuries, intellectual disabilities, or mental health problems, in need of a guardian.
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Massachusetts
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Facing scrutiny like never before, New England’s amateur balloonists are feeling the pressure
After a series of high-profile incidents involving balloons, New England balloonists worry their airborne projects could face more scrutiny.
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Politics
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Republicans are increasingly talking about ‘electability’ of their candidates ahead of 2024
GOP leaders lately have been telling their voters to select candidates who can win general elections.
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Crime & Courts
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Lawsuit filed in Chelsea Soldiers’ Home deaths from COVID
The families filed a class-action civil rights lawsuit against former and current state officials alleging that they caused the “premature and preventable deaths” of the three veterans, and at least 28 others.
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The Nation
Nation
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Supreme Court to take up case on fate of consumer watchdog
The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to hear a case that could hobble the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and advance a key project of the conservative legal movement: to limit the power of independent agencies.
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Nation
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Biden administration plans crackdown on migrant child labor
The Biden administration on Monday announced a wide crackdown on the labor exploitation of migrant children around the United States, including more aggressive investigations of companies benefiting from their work.
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Nation
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GOP donors in New York await a parade of presidential hopefuls
New York City’s heavy-hitting Republican-leaning donors in recent years were frozen in place at the presidential level by a fellow New Yorker, Donald Trump. But that was before Trump’s decampment to Florida, his plethora of legal entanglements, and his fall from grace after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol by a pro-Trump mob.
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The World
World
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Biden deploys high-powered aides, plus more aid, to bolster Ukraine
A week after President Biden traveled to Ukraine to pledge American support in the fight to repel Russia, he has dispatched two senior Cabinet members to redouble efforts to prop up the Ukrainian economy and to try to curb the Kremlin’s ability to skirt Western sanctions.
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To heal Brexit wound, UK and EU strike a Northern Ireland trade deal
Britain and the European Union struck a landmark agreement Monday to end a festering dispute over post-Brexit trade rules for Northern Ireland, potentially resolving one of the most poisonous legacies of Britain’s exit from Europe’s trade bloc in 2020.
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Dying children and frozen flocks in Afghanistan’s bitter winter of crisis
Afghanistan is gripped by a winter that Afghan officials and aid group officials are describing as the harshest in over a decade, battering millions of people already reeling from a humanitarian crisis.
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Editorial & Opinion
EDITORIAL
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Healey’s chance to go big on State Police reform
Scandal-ridden force in need of a culture change that an outsider can best bring.
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LETTERS
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Drive for Equal Rights Amendment has not lost its urgency
"Trusting this Supreme Court to protect the rights of women is trusting the fox to guard the hen house. Anything that is not in the Constitution appears to be fair game," writes Carolyn B. Maloney, former congresswoman from New York.
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LETTERS
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N.H. school sexual assault case revisited over Biden court pick
Two readers offer contrasting views on President Biden's nomination of attorney Michael Delaney to serve as a judge on the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in Boston.
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Metro
Health
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Local partnership fundraises to save newborns in Ukraine
As the war in Ukraine continues to damage hospitals and destroy medical equipment, thousands of babies are born without access to therapy for a common but serious condition: jaundice.
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Higher Education
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Professor sues Babson College for discrimination
Lakshmi Balachandra, an associate professor of entrepreneurship, is suing because of alleged mistreatment and administrators’ failure to investigate her concerns.
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‘We may not ever know’: Fauci says origin of coronavirus could remain a mystery
Anthony Fauci’s comments came after news reports Sunday that the Energy Department concluded that an accidental laboratory leak in China most likely caused the coronavirus pandemic.
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Sports
Celtics Notebook
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For Celtics’ Marcus Smart, getting into it with 76ers fans was all in good fun
“I was just laughing at them,” Smart said. “I basically told them, ‘You know what I do to people in the crowd. Everybody knows.’”
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Bruins Notebook
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Bruins’ Taylor Hall returns to Boston with lower-body injury
He'll miss games in Edmonton and Calgary.
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nfl scouting combine
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At Scouting Combine, NFL first turns some attention to matters of safety
There were team and league meetings in Indianapolis Monday before the prospects start taking the field for evaluations.
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Business
innovation beat
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Stephen Wolfram sees peril, and promise, in ChatGPT
The renowned researcher in computer science, AI, and physics said he has been surprised and impressed with ChatGPT’s ability to carry on simple conversations and sound much like a person.
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Business
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Chef launches products for distance runners and triathletes out of his Fenway food lab
Bold Types is our weekly roundup of the movers and shakers of Boston's business scene.
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Retail
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Milk Bar in Cambridge just closed. Is it because of a lease deal gone wrong, or a move to avoid a union?
Workers at Milk Bar on Brattle Street say company’s decision to close came just hours after a union vote, but company officials point to an expired sublease.
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Obituaries
Obituaries
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Tom Luddy, a behind-the-scenes force in cinema, dies at 79
The film archivist and movie producer was also a founder of the Telluride Film Festival.
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Gordon Pinsent, award-winning Canadian actor, dies at 92
Mr. Pinsent played opposite of Julie Christie in the acclaimed "Away from Her."
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Obituaries
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Gérard Latortue, former interim Haitian premier, dies at 88
A former exile, he was sworn in as interim prime minister following months of bloodshed and political strife that culminated in the ouster of former Jean-Bertrand Aristide as president.
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Arts & Lifestyle
Theater
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Comedy star Theo Von and his mullet are coming to town
Ahead of his six shows at the Wilbur and Chevalier theaters this week (five of which are sold out), the Louisiana native discussed his popular podcast, why he obsesses about his childhood, and how his comedy is evolving.
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OPERA REVIEW
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‘Awakenings’ is the stuff of dreams
It’s probably too soon to declare Tobias Picker and Aryeh Lev Stollman’s ‘Awakenings’ a modern classic, but it could become one given the opportunity.
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Music
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Asa Brebner’s friends are still singing his praises — and his songs
A show March 5 at the Burren is the latest in a line of tributes to the late Boston rock 'n' roller, who died in 2019.
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