Activists and business leaders who have been pressing these ballot questions are set to meet with legislative leaders on Wednesday — but they could still walk away and go to voters.
The House on Tuesday night passed health care reform legislation that uses $337 million in new assessments to stabilize community hospitals.
Alleged sexual assault victim files suit against Hefner and Rosenberg
The civil lawsuit expands the legal trouble for Bryon Hefner, but marks the first court action taken against former Senate President Stanley Rosenberg.
GE is dropped from Dow Jones industrial average
General Electric, an original member of the stock index, will be removed and replaced by Walgreens.
Celtics unveil a gleaming new practice facility in Brighton
The Auerbach Center, said team owner Wyc Grousbeck, “is the foundation of our future excellence.”
Federal jury awards HIV patient $18.4m in malpractice lawsuit
Sean Stentiford alleged his doctors at Lahey Hospital & Medical Center in Burlington should have tested him for the virus that causes AIDS.
‘The man chased me and he grabbed my wrists’: Jogger describes kidnapping attempt
A woman who fought off an alleged kidnapping attempt in Bridgewater described the encounter that turned her jog into moments of terror.
The DiSarros said they hope for a just verdict, but whatever the outcome, they are grateful that decades of questions have finally been answered.
Trump administration pulls US out of UN human rights council
Trump envoy Nikki Haley says the United States is withdrawing from the United Nations Human Rights Council, calling it “not worthy of its name.”
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With millionaires tax off the ballot, how else do we pay for transportation and education?
Thurston and Buffy must be clinking champagne glasses at their Weston spread now that the Supreme Judicial Court has thrown the millionaires tax off the ballot.
Whittier workers officially reinstated, set to vote in union election
The 20 workers who were suddenly laid off from Whittier Street Health Center last week have been officially rehired — just in time to vote Wednesday on whether to unionize.
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The high cost of housing in the region is forcing some recent college graduates to move back in with mom and dad to save money.
‘We want to shine a light on something no one wants to shine a light on.’ A sister turns her grief into action
After her brother’s suicide, Alison Reeves decided to turn her grief into action.
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A dispiriting 27 percent of the country supports the so-called zero-tolerance policy that has led to a sudden, dramatic increase in families being separated at the southern border.
Youngest migrants held in ‘tender age’ shelters
The three centers have been rapidly repurposed to serve needs of children including some under 5.
GOP is looking for a solution on separation policy
President Trump and lawmakers searched anxiously Tuesday for a way to end the policy of separating families after illegal border crossings.
The Big Picture
The family separation crisis at the border, in photos
At least 2,000 children have been separated from their parents since April.
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Red Sox lose series opener to Twins
Eduardo Escobar singled home a pair of runs to put Minnesota ahead in the eighth inning.
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Blueberry bushes near Walden Pond are flowering earlier. Polar bear populations in the Arctic are dwindling. Marmots in Colorado are emerging from their winter slumber earlier.
FDA retreats: Maple syrup may not need an ‘added sugars’ label, after all
The Food and Drug Administration will rethink its controversial proposal to require maple syrup and honey producers to label their products as containing added sugars.
The Cannabis Control Commission will vote Thursday on whether to issue a license to a cultivation facility in Milford.
Miss Conduct
Miss Conduct’s common sense rules for socializing in the age of legal pot
Dos and don’ts for being around marijuana in social settings.
How to eat like a local on Newbury Street
A look at some of the street’s establishments that rise above the rest: for value, for charm, for sheer deliciousness.
Devra First
Learning how to make Bertucci’s beloved rolls
Everyone seems to adore them but me. Can the restaurant’s executive chef change my mind?
A radioman killed in WWII is getting his name back — Julius Heinrich Otto “Henry” Pieper — and a resting place beside his twin, who was killed the same day.
Lawmakers demand secret VA nursing home data be released after report
Both the Republican-led House and Senate VA committees requested briefings from VA officials following the investigative report by the Globe and USA Today.
Fans lined up in droves as Boston ‘Hamilton’ tickets went on sale Tuesday morning
They didn’t want to throw away their shot.
Is your commute about to get more expensive? Check this list for all the changes.
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Trump voters must protest his border outrage
Unless Trump supporters protest, they are enabling the president and his policy of separating families at the border.
IDEAS | THE BIG TECH ISSUE
Why Facebook and Google should pay you for your data
Users’ clicks and posts built Facebook and Google’s online empires. Isn’t it time they got paid for their labor?
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“Runnin’,” now available for purchase on Vimeo, takes an intimate look at a group of friends in Somerville who came of age as the opioid epidemic took hold and morphed into a national nightmare. It retraces the lives of friends lost, and one last member of the group struggling to avoid the same fate.
Seattle mayor Jenny Durkan spoke at a Globe event on how innovation is shaping our world, and she’s in high demand among the hundreds of mayors gathered in Boston.
Love Letters Podcast
Getting over a breakup
Meredith Goldstein explores how to move on when a relationship ends.
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Calling all foodies
Our new weekly summer newsletter, “Eat. Drink. Eat some more,” gives you 15 weeks of recipes and restaurant tips. Find out more.
All the talk of retirement could be just Brady flexing his muscles and extracting some concessions from the Patriots.
Jeff Weiss, who took over the job in July 2016, will resign on Aug. 31.
WASHINGTON -- A surge of construction in the Midwest drove US housing starts up 5 percent in May from the prior month.
Interviews with key groups and activists suggest things are still in flux, but there are some obvious places where they will make efforts.
President Trump directed officials to prepare new tariffs on $200 billion in Chinese imports.
Adding four underground train lines between North and South stations and a new station could boost the cost to $21.5 billion, but double commuter ridership, new state study says.
The series, which comes to Netflix on Friday, features chefs preparing food made with marijuana oils and butters.
As co-owner of Upstairs at the Pudding and later Upstairs on the Square, Deibel has been Harvard Square’s unofficial mayor.
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Spring House Hunt: Should parents buy property in a college town?
As the spring house hunt gets underway and National College Decision Day nears, thoughts are turning to campus housing.
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The Big Picture
This lone county jail in a remote corner of Appalachia offers an agonizing glimpse into how the tidal wave of opioids and methamphetamines has ravaged America.
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