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An exterior of the Casey home in Duxbury. Lindsay Casey has been charged in the deaths of her three young children and has been hospitalized after attempting to take her own life.

From a painful distance, we witness a family’s tragedy

As the mother of three (now young adult) children, I know firsthand that after childbirth, the focus is more on the baby’s well-being than the mother’s.

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He’ll let his ‘woke’ flag fly
It appears to me that anything that has to do with common sense is "woke."

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As they lived and breathed: 1971 experiment in integration resonates
There is a sense of wistfulness that can obscure why these efforts have floundered. Our country has lost the belief that schooling should benefit all children equally and that this in turn would benefit our communities and the larger society.

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A Boston Police officer and his K-9 arrived at Boston Latin Academy in May 2022 to search the school after a bag of bullets was found inside.

Two schools of thought on student safety: police presence, behavioral health

Every student deserves to feel safe in school, and a concerted effort to rapidly implement comprehensive behavioral health services and support in every district would help create that safe space. 2:30 a.m.

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Josh Sabey and Sarah Perkins played with their children at a park in Waltham in October 2022. The couple had their children taken away in the middle of the night last summer over a rib injury to one that they could not immediately explain.

It’s frightening that DCF can remove children without court order

It is traumatic and harmful for children to be ripped from their parents’ care, especially when there is no imminent threat. 2:30 a.m.

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A crossing guard worked outside Salemwood School in Malden on Oct. 18, 2022. Malden schools reopened that morning after the teachers union and district leaders reached a tentative agreement on a three-year contract the previous night, ending a one-day strike that shuttered all campuses.

In contract clashes, teachers unions are fighting for their schools

Massachusetts has the finest public schools in the country by many different measures. The people educating our youth are almost all unionized. Those two facts are related. 2:30 a.m.

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A runner jogs along the shore of Lake Michigan in Chicago.

On daily run, she’s seen more paths in more places than many will ever know

I haven’t managed streaks like Dan Shaughnessy’s. But I wouldn’t trade my 20-minute daily run for the world. 2:20 a.m.

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Matchmaker, find me a find, fine, but I pay, and for him it’s free?

In my own experience with a local matchmaking firm, the men I was matched with were not paying for the service while I was paying a considerable amount. 2:20 a.m.

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People gathered on Cohasset Common on Jan. 12 for an interfaith vigil held for Ana Walshe, who has been missing since the first of the year and whose husband, Brian Walshe, has been charged with murder in her disappearance.

A dominant culture that keeps leading to women being killed

We’re sending a subliminal message when we call women murdered by men a domestic violence issue. 2:30 a.m.

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Denzel Amoah, a graduate student at the Rhode Island School of Design, painted the road on June 7, 2022, in front of the Boston Public Library as part of a 10-day pilot program that opened Dartmouth Street between Copley Square Park and the library to pedestrians and closed it to motor vehicle traffic.

No pedestrian plaza — keep cars coursing through Copley Square

Dartmouth Street is one of two main through streets from the South End to Back Bay. Travel on this route was nothing short of a nightmare during the BPDA’s test period last summer. 2:25 a.m.

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Tent City Apartments at 130 Dartmouth St. in Boston.

Tent City board, manager intent on preserving, revamping storied property

The community needs significant capital improvements to remedy deferred upkeep and update its outdated infrastructure. 2:20 a.m.