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Thursday, March 23, 2023
Today's Headlines
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New England

Andrew’s Point in Rockport has long been open to the public. Now, an oceanfront homeowner is suing to end that.

Coastal access advocates up and down Massachusetts say it's an all-too-familiar story: a wealthy oceanfront homeowner brings a costly lawsuit in an attempt to pressure a cash-strapped local government into a compromise. Continue reading →

THE GREAT DIVIDE

Fewer Boston high school graduates are enrolling in college, while completion rates stagnate

The downward trend, beginning before the pandemic, is erasing one of the more impressive accomplishments for Boston Public Schools, which had relatively high college enrollment rates. Continue reading →

Spotlight Follow-Up

N.H. licensing agency launches investigation into former administrators at Catholic Medical Center

Some doctors have already been subpoenaed to provide testimony about the hospital’s oversight of Dr. Yvon Baribeau’s surgery practice. Continue reading →

Politics

Amid banking uncertainty, Federal Reserve increases key interest rate by a quarter point

The move, the most pivotal interest rate decision in years, came after the failures of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank have shaken the industry, roiled financial markets and forced federal intervention to prevent a broader contagion. Continue reading →

Investigations

State board allowed woman accused of abusing foster children to keep nursing license for more than a decade

The state nursing board received two complaints about Susan Blouin’s alleged “house of horrors” but took no action. Continue reading →

The Nation

Nation

Appeals court rules Trump lawyer must turn over evidence on classified documents

A federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that a lawyer representing former President Donald Trump in an inquiry into his handling of classified materials had to give prosecutors what are likely to be dozens of documents related to his legal work for Trump. Continue reading →

Nation

NYC neighborhood carries on during wait for Trump grand jury

As the world waits to see whether a grand jury in lower Manhattan indicts former president Donald Trump, neighborhood resident Barbara Malmet decided to give up her front-row seat. Continue reading →

Nation

Report: 119,000 people hurt by riot-control weapons since 2015

More than 119,000 people have been injured by tear gas and other chemical irritants around the world since 2015 and some 2,000 suffered injuries from “less lethal” impact projectiles, according to a report released Wednesday. Continue reading →

The World

World

Russia hits apartments and dorm in Ukraine, killing civilians

Russia stepped up its missile and drone attacks against Ukraine on Wednesday, killing students and other civilians, in a violent follow-up to dueling high-level diplomatic missions aimed at bringing peace after 13 months of war. Continue reading →

World

Ukrainian soldiers speed through US training on Patriot missiles

Several dozen Ukrainian soldiers are wrapping up their training on the Patriot missile system and within a few weeks will deploy to the war’s front lines, armed with America’s most advanced ground-based air defense to help protect against Russian missile attacks. Continue reading →

World

Uganda passes strict antigay bill that imposes death penalty for some

Lawmakers in Uganda have passed a sweeping antigay law that can bring punishments as severe as the death penalty — the culmination of a longrunning campaign to criminalize homosexuality and target LGBTQ people in the conservative nation in East Africa. Continue reading →

Editorial & Opinion

OPINION

Crime, Trump, and the ghost of James Michael Curley

How long will the faithful remain faithful to Trump because of some deeper, darker, political self-interest? Loyalty to Curley, after all, lasted a long time. Continue reading →

EDITORIAL

Schools need standards, resources to improve cybersecurity

Recent ransomware attacks against schools in Nantucket and Swansea highlight the growing risk for districts. Continue reading →

LETTERS

For safer social media, we have to get under the hood of tech

Without any legislative or regulatory mandate to do otherwise, these companies have kept researchers, lawmakers, and the American public in the dark. Continue reading →

Metro

Politics

Fired anti-vax Boston police officer followed Wu in a car after protesting at her house, documents say

Shana Cottone protested in front of the mayor’s home, yelling and screaming through a bullhorn, and on at least one occasion, followed Wu in a car, according to a summary of an internal affairs investigation. Continue reading →

Metro

Two bad apples? Let’s look at the whole barrel.

Former Suffolk assistant district attorney James Larkin and former Boston police sergeant detective Daniel Flynn were central to Kamara’s wrongful conviction, as they were to Robert Foxworth’s. Continue reading →

Politics

Number of homeless and migrant families living in emergency hotels rises in Massachusetts

The state’s emergency assistance program has effectively reached capacity, with about 600 homeless and migrant families living in state-subsidized hotels. Continue reading →

Sports

Red Sox

With Bobby Dalbec’s path to a Red Sox roster spot at the corners blocked, could he carve out a role up the middle?

Dalbec has been taking reps at shortstop — and played there in the last couple of innings against the Twins — as he tries to find a way onto the Opening Day roster. Continue reading →

christopher l. gasper

The Celtics looked unbeatable in Sacramento, so why am I still worried?

When everything isn't clicking on offense, the Celtics have to find another way to win, and too often they look like a team without a Plan B. Continue reading →

on football

Patriots have improved the pieces around Mac Jones. There are no excuses for him now.

With better receivers and coaches to work with — and with his ankle healed — Jones needs to produce results in 2023. Continue reading →

Business

AI/Robotics

IRobot wins patent dispute with SharkNinja, sort of

On Tuesday, the US International Trade Commission ruled that SharkNinja had violated an iRobot patent, and barred SharkNinja from importing any products that contained the patented technology, which enables a robotic floor cleaner to navigate the user’s floors. Continue reading →

Healthcare

At Senate hearing, Bernie Sanders grills Moderna CEO for quadrupling COVID vaccine price

Moderna has previously said it will make its COVID shots freely available to anyone without insurance, but senators were skeptical about how that would work. Continue reading →

Biotech

Can light reset brainwaves to treat Alzheimer’s? This Boston startup has $73 million to find out.

Cognito Therapeutics has started an advanced clinical study of its experimental device based on groundbreaking research at MIT. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Obituaries

Virginia Zeani, versatile and durable soprano, dies at 97

A Romanian soprano with a brilliant, powerful voice, Virginia Zeani overcame childhood poverty and the perils of war to become a fixture on the opera stage. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Warren Boroson, who surveyed psychiatrists on Goldwater, dies at 88

A journalist who conducted a survey of psychiatrists that declared 1964 Republican presidential nominee Barry Goldwater mentally unfit to be president, Warren Boroson provoked a libel suit from the candidate and prompting a psychiatric association to muzzle its members from ever diagnosing a public figure from afar. Continue reading →

Arts & Lifestyle

Movies

‘Can my dog be an extra?’: Filming for Damon, Affleck movie begins at North End’s Bova’s Bakery

The 24-hour bakery shut its doors for the first time in its 97-year history to accommodate the shoot for “The Instigators,” sending loyal fans of its signature cannolis to competing bakeries — if only for the week. Continue reading →

Theater

‘A Beautiful Noise’ to launch a national tour in the fall of 2024

The Providence Performing Arts Center will be the first stop for the Neil Diamond bio-musical that premiered last summer at Boston's Emerson Colonial Theatre. Continue reading →

Arts

A sports podcast for the thinking fan

Jody Avirgan’s “Good Sport” looks at players, teams, and the curiosities of athletic competition from interesting angles. Continue reading →