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Healey seeks to cut gambling addiction aid
Critics blast proposal amid surge
in sports betting in Massachusetts
By Chris Serres
GLOBE STAFF
A year after Massachusetts le-
galized online sports betting, un-
leashing a torrent of gambling ad-
vertisements and wagering on ev-
erything from the Super Bowl to
college basketball, Governor
Maura Healey is proposing cuts
to the state’s main fund for com-
bating gambling addiction.
The proposal, tucked deep in-
side her $56 billion budget plan,
‘The mountains aren’t going anywhere. You can always do a different hike.’
MICHAEL WEJCHERT, speaking about the need to know when a climb is not the right choice
Globe reporter Mark Arsenault (right) and Michael Wejchert walked down from the summit of Mount Washington.
Lessons from above the tree line
On a winter climb of Mount Washington, danger and beauty abound
Michael Wejchert, a member of the Mountain Rescue Service,
demonstrated how he uses a bothy bag as an emergency shelter.
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Tuesday: Drizzly and rainy.
High: 44-49. Low: 41-46.
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Serving our community since 1872
would reduce by half the percent-
age of casino gambling revenues
earmarked for a public health
fund that, since 2018, has sup-
ported programs to reduce the
harm associated with gambling
and to research its effects. If en-
acted, money directed to the fund
could be cut by more than $6 mil-
lion.
The cuts would come as re-
searchers are still scrambling to
understand the public health ef-
Allen Weisselberg, former
president Donald Trump’s long-
time financial gatekeeper,
pleaded guilty to felony perjury
charges in a Manhattan court-
room. A2.
French legislators voted to
explicitly enshrine access to
abortion in the constitution,
making their country the first
in the world to do so. A3.
Jack D. Teixeira, the Massachu-
setts Air National Guardsman
accused of leaking classified
information, pleaded guilty to
all charges he faced after
striking a deal that calls for a
prison. B1.
JetBlue Airways and Spirit Air-
lines announced that they
would not seek to overturn a
court ruling that blocked their
planned $3.8 billion merger. D1.
Top court
agrees on
fects of a new era of legalized Casino gambling revenues directed to the
sports betting in Massachusetts. public health fund could be cut by more than
In the past year, online sports bet-
ting operators like DraftKings
and FanDuel have unleashed an
$6 million
Trump’s
avalanche of advertising and ce- At the same time, Healey’s proposed budget
lebrity endorsements. Increasing- calls for more than doubling state spending
ly, teenagers are circumventing on advertising the lottery to
$10 million
regulatory safeguards and gain-
ing access to the new digital bet-
eligibility
ting platforms, stoking concerns from $4.5 million
that the gambling industry may
be sowing the seeds of a future Massachusetts spent nearly
addiction crisis.
Since the onse t of mobile
sports betting here, gamblers
$12 million
on problem gambling services in the last
GAMBLING, Page A6 fiscal year No part of ruling addresses
whether former president
committed insurrection
By Adam Liptak
NEW YORK TIMES
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled
Monday that states may not bar former president
Donald Trump from running for another term, re-
jecting a challenge from Colorado to his eligibility
that threatened to upend the presidential race by
taking him off ballots around the nation.
Although the justices provided different rea-
sons, the decision’s bottom line was unanimous.
All the opinions focused on legal issues, and none
took a position on whether Trump had engaged in
insurrection, as Colorado courts had found.
All the justices agreed that individual states
may not bar candidates for the presidency under a
constitutional provision, Section 3 of the 14th
Amendment, that prohibits insurrectionists from
holding office. Four justices would have left it at
that, with the court’s three liberal members ex-
pressing dismay at what they said was the stun-
ning sweep of the majority’s approach.
But the five-justice majority, in an unsigned
opinion answering questions not directly before
the court, ruled that Congress must act to give Sec-
tion 3 force.
“The Constitution makes Congress, rather than
the states, responsible for enforcing Section 3
SUPREME COURT, Page A7
The call for
‘uncommitted’
grows louder
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Minn. Democrats angry
with Biden on Gaza want
primary to send a message
By Jim Puzzanghera
GLOBE STAFF
By Mark Arsenault MINNEAPOLIS — Friday prayers had just end-
GLOBE STAFF ed at the mosque in Karmel Mall, a sprawling gath-
AMMONOOSUC RAVINE TRAIL, N.H. — From the first ering place for the city’s large Somali community,
steps, the way up Mount Washington was hard-packed snow when Jaylani Hussein addressed the roughly 1,000
and ice, beneath just enough fresh powder to show the men as many rose to their stocking feet to leave.
pawprints of a small animal, a fox, perhaps, that had trotted First in Somali, then in English, he urged them
along the trail sometime earlier. to vote in the state’s presidential primary Tuesday.
The White Mountains don’t call everyone in the winter, but But his pitch wasn’t for a specific candidate. In a
for those who hear it, the call is hard to resist. Snow, ice, and sense, at least for now as war rages in Gaza, it was
wind reshape familiar places into alien landscapes, breathtak- against one.
ingly beautiful, delicate, and ephemeral, and yet, at times, fe- “We have protested, we have marched, we have
rocious. The exposed area above the tree line on Mount Wash- done everything possible, and President Biden has
ington and many of its neighbors is calling more winter climb- still not listened to our community, has not called
ers than ever, longtime hikers say, which means there are more for a cease-fire,” said Hussein, executive director of
people to get into trouble. the state’s chapter of the Council on American-Is-
More than an hour into the hike, the tall spruce parted, and lamic Relations, brandishing a large sample ballot
we had gained enough altitude to gaze across the Ammo- the size of a restaurant menu.
noosuc Ravine, a massive gouge on the western side of the “We need every single one of you to vote un-
mountain. committed,” he continued, punctuating his mes-
Michael Wejchert, guiding our little expedition, pointed to sage with the Arabic word “Inshallah,” meaning “if
MOUNT WASHINGTON, Page A10 MINNESOTA, Page A7
Lewiston survivors have their say
Panel hears harsh words for those who failed to take shooter’s weapons
By John Hilliard
GLOBE STAFF
LEWISTON, Maine — Survivors of the mass shooting at a bar
and bowling alley expressed anger Monday over authorities’ fail-
ure to prevent the rampage despite multiple warnings about the
assailant’s declining mental health, delusions, erratic behavior,
and access to guns.
“I’m a survivor of the situation,” Jason K. Barnett, who escaped
the shooting at Schemengees Bar & Grille in Lewiston, told a state
commission investigating the massacre. “I’m a victim of the peo-
ple who dropped the ball.”
In searing detail, Barnett and more than a dozen others spoke
of the horror that unfolded Oct. 25 when Army Reservist Robert
Card committed what would become the state’s worst mass shoot-
ing; he killed 18 people and wounded 13 others.
Steven R. Richards-Kretlow described how the night had be-
gun as a fun gathering at the bar to catch up with friends and play
cornhole. When it was his turn to play, he felt like something in
the kitchen had “exploded,” he said. Getting up from his table, CHARLES KRUPA/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Richards-Kretlow saw a horrific sight: a gunman, later identified Shooting survivor Danielle Grondin (right) embraced fellow
LEWISTON, Page A5 survivor Tammy Asselin before the hearing Monday.
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CELEBRATING BRAVERY — Jill Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken gave Fatou Baldeh of Gambia an International Women of
Courage Award during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House on Monday in Washington, D.C. Tweleve women recieved the
award, inlcuding a lawyer from Myanmar and a former political prisoner from Belarus. A6.
Critical week as Biden-Trump rematch looms
Rivals gear up
as likely contest
takes early shape
By Shane Goldmacher
and Maggie Haberman
NEW YORK TIMES
President Biden’s advisers
are eager for the coming general
election fight and counting on
voters to start paying more at-
tention to former president
Donald Trump, with the presi-
dent himself even proposing
and dashing off videos to ridi-
cule the things his Republican
rival says. Trump is relishing
the chance to contrast himself
with Biden, as he did along the
Texas-Mexico border last week,
and trusting that Biden has the
tougher job: convincing voters
that their views of how the
country is doing are wrong.
With Trump expected to
rack up big wins on Super Tues-
day and Biden preparing to de-
liver his State of the Union ad-
dress Thursday, this week is ex-
pected to clarify the coming
choice for an American public
that in many ways remains in
disbelief that 2024 is headed to-
ward a 2020 rematch.
The Supreme Court’s unani-
mous ruling Monday keeping
Trump on the ballot after some
states sought to bar him for his
role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack
on the Capitol kicked off a criti-
cal period that both campaigns
see setting the tone and defin-
ing the early contours of the
Trump business CFO pleads guilty to felony perjury
The two charges
stem from a July
2020 deposition
By Ben Protess and
William K. Rashbaum
NEW YORK TIMES
NEW YORK — Allen Weis-
selberg, former president Don-
ald Trump’s longtime financial
gatekeeper, pleaded guilty to
felony perjury charges in a
Manhattan courtroom Mon-
day, the latest twist in a tor-
tured legal odyssey.
Yet Weisselberg, who for
years has remained steadfastly
loyal to Trump in the face of in-
tense prosecutorial pressure,
did not implicate his former
boss. That unbroken streak of
loyalty has frustrated prosecu-
tors and now, at age 76, will
cost Weisselberg his freedom a
second time.
The plea agreement with
Manhattan District Attorney
Alvin Bragg comes weeks be-
fore the former president will
stand trial on unrelated crimi-
nal charges. That case, also
presidential campaign.
By most accounts, Biden be-
gins behind.
A New York Times/Siena
College survey over the week-
end showed Trump ahead 48
percent to 43 percent among
registered voters. Biden is ham-
pered by widespread concerns
about his age and his handling
of the job, fractures in the Dem-
ocratic coalition over Israel, and
a general sourness about the
state of the nation.
But Biden also enters the ex-
pected general election contest
with a number of key structural
advantages, including a sizable
financial edge and a lack of dis-
tractions on the scale of Trump’s
four criminal trials.
Quentin Fulks, Biden’s prin-
cipal deputy campaign manag-
er, said the campaign had been
preparing for a week that will
functionally serve as “the kick-
off to the general election.”
“ The problem that we’ve
been facing is that a number of
people are telling us that they’re
not aware that this is a choice
between Joe Biden and Donald
Trump,” Fulks said. “March is
going to be our time to make
that choice crystal clear.”
The month begins with Su-
per Tuesday and is set to end
with jury selection in Trump’s
first criminal trial, in New York,
for hush-mone y payments
made secretly to a porn actor in
the heat of the 2016 campaign.
In between, Trump is expected
to effectively clinch the nomina-
tion and complete a takeover
brought by Bragg, stems from
a hush-money payment made
on Trump’s behalf to a porn ac-
tor during the 2016 presiden-
tial campaign.
Weisselberg, who was led
into the courtroom in hand-
cuffs wearing a blue surgical
mask and a dark suit, conced-
ed that in recent years he had
lied under oath to the New
York attorney general’s office
w h e n i t w a s i nv e s t i g a t i n g
Trump for fraud. Attorney
General Letitia James sued
Trump in 2022, accusing him
o f w i l d l y i n f l at i n g h i s n e t
worth to obtain favorable loans
and other benefits.
That civil case recently end-
ed with a judge imposing a
huge financial penalty on the
former president — more than
$450 million with interest.
Weisselberg, who was also a
defendant in the case, was pe-
nalized $1 million plus interest
and permanently barred from
serving in a financial position
at any New York company.
Although Weisselberg nei-
ther committed violence nor
orches trated an elaborate
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that will give him operational
control of the Republican Na-
tional Committee.
“Whatever advantage they
may have in timing, we will far
surpass in the passion of our
supporters and our ability to or-
ganize them,” said Chris LaCivi-
ta, one of two co-managers of
the Trump campaign whom
Trump plans to install as chief
operating officer of the RNC.
Polls show Trump so far better
uniting his 2020 coalition than
Biden. Trump, however, does
‘March is going to be our time to make
that choice crystal clear.’
QUENTIN FULKS, Biden campaign official
have legal problems. His team
was elated last week when the
Supreme Court laid out a time-
line for hearing Trump’s claim
of immunity from prosecution
for his actions after his 2020
election loss to try to stay in
power. The Supreme Court’s
schedule pushes until late sum-
mer at the earliest Trump’s fed-
eral trial.
Nikki Haley is still running
in the Republican primary but
polls predict a wipeout on Super
Tuesday, with 15 states in play.
Trump’s team believes he could
surpass a majority of delegates
and secure the nomination as
early as March 12. On Friday,
the RNC is meeting in Texas and
is expected to ratify Trump’s
new pick to lead the party, Mi-
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Allen Weisselberg, former CFO of the Trump Organization,
appeared in criminal court in New York on Monday.
scheme, Bragg’s prosecutors
argued that perjury under-
mines the broader ends of jus-
tice and cannot be ignored.
Gary Fishman, one of the
prosecutors, on Monday un-
derscored the harm caused by
perjury, which he said “tears at
the very fabric of our justice
system.”
Prosecutors sought a five-
month sentence for Weissel-
berg, acknowledging his age in
coming to their recommenda-
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chael Whatley.
“We’re going to get 100 per-
cent control of the mechanics
we need,” LaCivita said.
The Biden team has long cir-
cled Thursday’s State of the
Union address as a pivot point,
knowing it will be the presi-
dent’s largest audience most
likely until the summer conven-
tion and a chance both to sell a
skeptical American public on
his accomplishments and fill in
a second-term agenda that has
so far been scarce on details.
After the speech, Fulks said,
the Biden campaign will un-
leash a “show of force,” with
Biden’s first two stops already
announced as events in Atlanta
and Philadelphia.
Biden, Vice President Kama-
la Harris, and first lady Jill
Biden are all expected to fan out
on the campaign trail. One sign
of the Biden campaign’s early
organizing edge: It is planning,
along with the party, to open 31
general election offices in the
next 30 days in the key battle-
ground of Wisconsin alone.
Trump has yet to announce
any general election staff in the
state.
Jill Biden’s Saturday appear-
ance in downtown Tucson of-
fered a warning sign of the pro-
tion. His sentencing before
J u d g e L a u r i e Pe t e r s o n i s
scheduled for April 10.
Weisselberg, who pleaded
guilty to two counts of perjury
related to his testimony in a
July 2020 deposition with
James’ office, stood placidly
Monday as he answered the
judge’s questions about his
plea, often with one-word re-
sponses.
He also admitted to lying at
the civil fraud trial but did not
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tests likely to greet the adminis-
tration’s leading figures on the
trail. Her “Women for Biden”
event was interrupted four
times in 15 minutes by dozens
of pro-Palestinian protesters
who object to her husband’s
support for Israel in the war.
Trump arranged his own
presidential-style photo op at
the border at the same time as
Biden’s official visit. Trump’s
trip was announced days before
Biden’s. In two Texas border cit-
ies, both men chatted with law
enforcement officers, Biden in-
doors, Trump outside overlook-
ing the Rio Grande — and
Trump’s team pronounced itself
pleased with the result.
But in a twist, many Demo-
crats are now hoping for in-
creased coverage of Trump. The
current Biden team thinking is
the more Trump the better, to
remind voters about what they
didn’t like about him in the first
place.
One concern Trump’s allies
have had for months is being
outraised — and therefore out-
spent — by the Biden campaign,
the Democratic Party and allied
groups. The main super politi-
cal action committee aligned
with Biden has already an-
nounced a $250 million televi-
sion and digital ad reservation
beginning in August. Trump’s
super PAC had less than $20
million on hand entering Febru-
ary, and was refunding $5 mil-
lion each month to an account
paying Trump’s mammoth legal
fees.
plead guilty to that, a move
that will spare him a steeper
sentence.
“Allen Weisselberg looks
forward to putting this situa-
tion behind him,” one of Weis-
selberg’s lawyers, Seth Rosen-
berg, said in a statement re-
leased by his firm, Clayman
Rosenberg Kirshner & Linder.
Weisselberg has often been
caught in the middle of
Trump’s legal travails, facing
pressure from several law en-
forcement agencies in both civ-
il and criminal cases. As the
long-serving chief financial of-
ficer for Trump’s family busi-
ness — his trusted moneyman
— Weisselberg was considered
a linchpin in efforts to impli-
cate him.
Weisselberg has been re-
warded for his loyalty to the
family he served for nearly a
half-century: When he left the
company, the Trump Organiza-
tion, last year, he was awarded
a $2 million severance package
that required him not to coop-
erate with any law enforce-
ment investigation unless le-
gally required.
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4 dead as masked
shooters fire upon
California revelers
KING CITY, Calif. — A group
of men in masks opened fire at
an outdoor party in central
California on Sunday, killing
four people and wounding sev-
en others, police said.
Police responded to a report-
ed shooting around 6 p.m. Sun-
day in King City and found
three men with gunshot
wounds who were pronounced
dead in a front yard, the King
City Police Department said in a
statement.
A woman also died after
someone took her to Mee
Memorial Hospital in King City,
about 106 miles south of San
Jose.
Police initially said three
wounded men were brought to
Natividad Hospital in Salinas
but later announced in a news
release that detectives subse-
quently learned of another four
adult victims with gunshot
wounds. They also were eventu-
ally taken to the hospital.
Several people were at the
party outside a home when
three men with dark masks and
clothes got out of a silver car
and fired at the group. The sus-
pects, who were not immediate-
ly identified, then fled the scene
in the car.
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Boarding school
owners charged
with kidnapping
The husband and wife
owners of a Missouri boarding
school for boys have been jailed
and charged with felony crimes
after a lengthy investigation by a
county sheriff.
Wayne County Sheriff Dean
Finch said in a news release that
Larry Musgraves Jr., 57, was ar-
rested Friday evening on the
ABM Ministries campus in Pied-
mont, a small town 130 miles
south of St. Louis. Carmen Mus-
graves, 64, was arrested around
3 a.m. Saturday when she came
to the jail to check on her hus-
band, Finch said. Both have
been charged with first-degree
kidnapping and jailed without
bond.
ABM Ministries’ website says
its facility, operated as Light-
house Christian Academy, is a
private Christian boarding
school for boys ages 10 to 13.
On average, it has around 40
students, the website says.
Finch said that since early
January, his office has received
reports of five runaways from
the school. In one instance, two
boys were picked up by a neigh-
boring resident and taken home.
The boys asked her to call 911.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Weather, aid help
ease threats from
Texas wildfire
McALLEN, Texas — An influx
of hundreds of firefighters and
more favorable weather condi-
tions on Monday helped author-
ities in the Texas Panhandle
keep the largest wildfire in state
history from threatening more
homes and communities, fire of-
ficials said.
Strong winds spread flames
and led to the evacuation of the
small town of Sanford on Sun-
day while airplanes dropped fire
retardants to stop a blaze that
was quickly contained thanks to
hundreds of firefighters who
were deployed on the ground,
said Deidra Thomas, a spokes-
woman for the Hutchinson
County Emergency Manage-
ment.
“The weather is going to be
favorable, the winds are going to
be much lower, the humidity is
coming up, and that’s fantastic
news for us,” Thomas said.
Although officials have not
released an official cause of the
largest fire, a lawsuit filed Friday
in Hemphill County alleges a
downed powerline near the
town of Stinnett on Feb. 26
sparked the blaze.
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France enshrines access to abortion
Right added
to constitution
as an amendment
By Catherine Porter
NEW YORK TIMES
PARIS — French legislators
Monday voted to explicitly en-
shrine access to abortion in the
constitution, making their
country the first in the world to
do so.
Acutely aware that they were
breaking historical ground
from the grand assembly room
inside Versailles Palace, the pol-
iticians delivered impassioned
speeches about women’s rights
around the world, paid homage
to the courageous Frenchwom-
en who had fought for abortion
rights when it was illegal, and
leaped up to offer standing ova-
tions.
“We are sending the mes-
sage to all women: Your body
belongs to you, and no one has
the right to control it in your
stead,” Prime Minister Gabriel
Attal said before the gathered
lawmakers voted 780-72 for the
amendment.
The amendment declares
abortion to be a “guaranteed
freedom,” overseen by Parlia-
ment’s laws. That means future
governments will not be able to
“drastically modify” the current
laws funding abortion for wom-
en who seek it, up to 14 weeks
into their pregnancies, accord-
ing to the French justice minis-
ter, Éric Dupond-Moretti.
Amending the constitution
is not unprecedented in France;
the current constitution has
been modified more than 20
times since it was adopted in
1958. But it is rare. Lawmakers
last amended the constitution
in 2008.
The impulse for the latest
change was the decision by the
US Supreme Court to overturn
Roe v. Wade in 2022, an issue
raised repeatedly by legislators.
China scraps
premier’s annual
news conference
BEIJING — China’s pre-
mier will no longer hold a
news conference after the
country’s annual legislative
meeting, Beijing announced
Monday, ending a three-de-
cadeslong practice that had
been an exceedingly rare op-
portunity for journalists to
interact with the nation’s top
leaders.
The decision, announced
a day before the opening of
this year’s legislative con-
clave, was to many observers
a sign of the country’s in-
creasing information opacity,
even as the government has
declared its commitment to
transparency and fostering a
friendly business environ-
ment.
It also reinforced how
China’s top leader, Xi Jin-
ping, has consolidated pow-
er, relegating all other offi-
cials, including the premier,
to much less visible roles.
China’s current premier, Li
Qiang, was widely consid-
ered to have been elevated to
the role last year because of
his loyalty to Xi.
“Barring any special cir-
cumstances, there will not be
a premier’s news conference
in the next few years after
this year’s legislative session
either,” Lou Qinjian, a
spokesperson for the legisla-
ture, said at a news briefing
about this year’s session.
Lou offered few details
about the decision, except to
say that there would be a
greater number of sessions
with lower-level officials in-
stead.
On Chinese social media,
censors were closely regulat-
ing discussion of the change.
The comments sections of
many official news reports
about the announcement
were closed.
NEW YORK TIMES
A woman shed tears Monday in Paris as lawmakers voted to anchor the right to abortion in the country’s constitution.
But the move also reflects the
widespread support for abor-
tion in France and a successful
campaign by a coalition of femi-
nist activists and lawmakers
from multiple parties.
“France is showing the right
to abortion is no longer an op-
tion; it’s a condition of our de-
mocracy,” said Mélanie Vogel, a
Green Party senator who has
been a major force behind the
bill. “The French Republic will
no longer remain democratic
without the right to abortion.”
Vogel said in an interview, “I
want to send a message to femi-
nists outside of France. Every-
one told me a year ago it was
impossible.” She added: “Noth-
ing is impossible when you mo-
bilize society.”
Ukraine touts infrastructure attacks
KYIV — Ukraine hinted
Monday that its agents were
responsible for an explosion
on a Russian railway bridge
used to transport ammuni-
tion, in what appears to be the
latest successful operation tar-
geting infrastructure deep be-
hind enemy lines as Ukrainian
forces struggle against advanc-
ing Russian troops.
Ukraine’s military intelli-
gence agency, the GUR, said
Monday that the explosion on
the railway bridge in Russia’s
Samara region about 650
miles from the Ukrainian bor-
der occurred about 6 a.m. lo-
cal time.
“Its use in the next few
St. Vincent deports suspects in US couple’s disappearance
KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent —
Three men from Grenada sus-
pected in the disappearance of
a US couple whose catamaran
was hijacked were ordered de-
ported from St. Vincent on
Monday.
Trevon Robertson, a 19-
year-old unemployed man; Abi-
ta Stanislaus, a 25-year-old
farmer; and Ron Mitchell, a 30-
year-old sailor, had pleaded
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The Conference of Bishops,
r e p r e s e n t i n g t h e C at h o l i c
Church in France, opposed the
amendment. But in France, a
country where calls to protest
regularly bring hundreds of
thousands to the streets, the op-
position was notably scarce.
With the vote, France be-
came the first country in the
world to explicitly write access
to abortion into its constitution,
according to five constitutional
experts.
“It’s not stating reproductive
choices or the right to have chil-
dren; it’s a very different lan-
guage when you say access to
abortion,” said Anna Sledzins-
ka-Simon, a professor of com-
parative constitutions and hu-
man rights law at the University
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weeks is impossible,” the agen-
cy said.
The GUR did not directly
assert responsibility for the at-
tack, but this wouldn’t be the
first time Ukraine’s security
services have targeted military
rail routes in Russia.
The Security Service of
Ukraine was responsible for
December explosions on rail-
way links between Russia and
North Korea, about 3,750
miles east of Ukraine, accord-
ing to Ukrainian intelligence
officials.
It’s unclear how much the
attacks have hindered Russia’s
ability to resupply its forces.
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guilty to immigration charges
in a court in the eastern Carib-
bean island of St. Vincent.
Senior Magistrate Colin
John ordered that they be repa-
triated “as soon as practicable.”
The men had escaped from
a police holding cell in Grenada
on Feb. 18 and are suspected of
hijacking the catamaran while
Ralph Hendry and Kathy Bran-
del were aboard.
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DIMITAR DILKOFF/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES
of Wroclaw in Poland. “ The
French are calling it by its name
— that’s crucial.” She added:
“The whole world is watching.”
The fight for legal abortion
in France burst into public view
i n 1 9 7 1 , w h e n 3 4 3 Fr e n c h
women signed a manifesto writ-
ten by French feminist Simone
de Beauvoir declaring that they
had undertaken clandestine, il-
legal abortions and demanding
that the law change.
Four years later, a female
minister, Simone Veil, success-
fully pushed through a tempo-
rary law decriminalizing abor-
tions and offering limited ac-
cess to health services to
terminate pregnancies.
Throughout the special leg-
islative session Monday, law-
NATACHA PISARENKO/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Hard-liners dominate Iran election
DUBAI, United Arab Emir-
ates — Iranian hard-line politi-
cians dominated the country’s
vote for parliament, results re-
leased Monday showed, main-
taining their hold on the legis-
lature in a vote that saw a re-
cord low turnout amid boycott
calls.
While praising Iranians for
withstanding “bad weather
and continuous propaganda
by the enemy,” Interior Minis-
ter Ahmad Vahidi said the
vote saw 25 million ballots
cast, a turnout of about 41
percent.
Friday’s vote came after au-
thorities kept polls open an
additional six hours. Parlia-
Police have said they believe
the couple were thrown over-
board as the suspects sailed to
St. Vincent, where they were
arrested on Feb. 21. They have
not been charged in the case.
The investigation is ongo-
ing, with authorities noting
there were signs of violence
aboard the couple’s boat found
abandoned in St. Vincent.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
makers paid tribute to Veil, a
Holocaust survivor and human
rights champion, as well as
Gisèle Halimi, the former law-
yer whose defense of a 16-year-
old student — who had had an
illegal abortion after being
raped — led to the student’s ac-
quittal in 1972. The case was a
turning point on the road to the
legalization of abortion.
“We have followed in your
footsteps, and like you, we suc-
ceeded,” said Senator Laurence
Rossignol, a former women’s
rights minister. She added that
French feminists would contin-
ue to fight internationally
against “those who resist,” cit-
ing politicians including Don-
ald Trump and President Vladi-
mir Putin of Russia.
NEWS AGENCY
SHUT DOWN —
Workers hugged
outside the state-
run Télam news
agency in Buenos
Aires on Monday.
Argentina’s new
libertarian
president, Javier
Milei, announced
the agency’s
impending closure
last week, calling it
the propaganda
arm of the
previous leftist
regime.
ment speaker Mohammad
Bagher Qalibaf even posted
online to urge people to call
“their friends or acquaintanc-
es right now and convince
them to participate in the elec-
tions.”
It remains unclear whether
turnout was depressed by vot-
er apathy or an active desire to
send a message to Iran’s theoc-
racy.
The vote also was the first
since the 2022 mass protests
over the death of 22-year-old
Mahsa Amini after being ar-
rested over allegedly not wear-
ing her required hijab to the
liking of authorities.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
KENTON CHANCE/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Abita Stanislaus and Trevon
Robertson are suspected of
hijacking the boat of Ralph
Hendry and Kathy Brandel.
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Harris
urges a
pause in
fighting
VP meets with
top Israeli official
By Michael D. Shear,
Zolan Kanno-Youngs,
and Erica L. Green
NEW YORK TIMES
WASHINGTON — Vice Presi-
dent Kamala Harris, who has
emerged as one of the leading
voices for Palestinians in closed-
door meetings, pressed for a
pause in fighting in the Gaza
Strip with a member of Israel’s
war Cabinet, Benny Gantz, at
the White House on Monday af-
ternoon, according to the White
House.
The vice president empha-
sized the urgency of securing a
hostage deal and reducing the
humanitarian crisis that has un-
folded alongside Israel’s war
against Hamas in response to at-
tacks on Oct. 7. She praised Isra-
el’s “constructive approach” to
seeking a six-week cease-fire but
urged the government to do
more to allow desperately need-
ed humanitarian aid to reach
those in need in Gaza.
“The vice president expressed
her deep concern about the hu-
manitarian conditions in Gaza
and the recent horrific tragedy
around an aid convoy in north-
ern Gaza,” a White House de-
scription of the meeting said. It
added that “she urged Israel to
take additional measures in co-
operation with the United States
and international partners to in-
crease the flow of humanitarian
assistance into Gaza.”
The meeting came as the
United States said it would con-
tinue airdrops of food that began
Saturday in an effort to confront
what humanitarian groups say is
a crisis for the more than 1 mil-
lion displaced Palestinians in
Rafah, in southern Gaza, as Isra-
el prepares to deploy ground
forces there.
Although Harris has not
strayed too far from President
Biden’s war message, in a speech
Sunday she took a tougher tone
in demanding an “immediate
cease-fire.” Still, she directed her
remarks at Hamas, not Israel’s
leadership, and repeated that
she and the president remained
“unwavering in our commit-
ment to Israel’s security.”
In meetings at the White
House, she has been forceful in
urging the administration not to
dismiss the anger from Palestin-
ian Americans and others in the
United States, who contend that
Biden has not done enough to
prevent the deaths of tens of
thousands of civilians in Gaza,
according to four people familiar
with the matter.
Harris’ remarks are a shift in
the administration’s public posi-
tion on Gaza and are meant in
part to address a deepening po-
litical liability for Biden as he
campaigns for reelection this
year. In Michigan last week,
about 100,000 voters in the
Democratic primary cast ballots
for “uncommitted,” many of
them to register anger about the
president’s unwavering support
for Israel.
Harris’ focus on Israel could
also help promote her foreign
policy credentials at a time when
many in her party have ques-
tioned whether she is ready to
take over for Biden if something
were to happen to him.
The public remarks from the
vice president come as the hu-
manitarian crisis in Gaza has
worsened. After 100 Palestinians
were killed in a chaotic scene at
an aid convoy last week, she is-
sued a statement that went be-
yond the careful comments from
other US national security offi-
cials. On Sunday, she said that
“people in Gaza are starving.
The conditions are inhumane.
And our common humanity
compels us to act.”
Gantz, a former chief of staff
of the Israeli military who visited
Washington last year, was sched-
uled to meet separately with
Jake Sullivan, the national secu-
rity adviser, his office said in a
statement.
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Israel-Hamas war shifts ties and military service beliefs
Ultra-Orthodox
exemptions at
center of debate
By Patrick Kingsley
and Natan Odenheimer
NEW YORK TIMES
BNEI BRAK, Israel — In a
neighborhood of Jerusalem, ul-
tra-Orthodox Jewish residents
cheered a soldier returning from
military service. At a seminary,
similarly devout students gath-
ered to hear an officer talk about
his military duties. And at a syn-
agogue attended by some of the
most obser vant Jews in the
country, members devoted a To-
rah scroll in memory of a soldier
slain in the Gaza Strip.
German
leader
exposes
divisions
Says country
won’t give Kyiv
Taurus missiles
By David E. Sanger and
Christopher F. Schuetze
NEW YORK TIMES
D R E S D E N, G e r m a n y —
First, it was France’s president,
Emmanuel Macron, who an-
gered his NATO allies by sug-
ges ting that soon the Wes t
could be forced to send troops
to Ukraine, portending a direct
confrontation with Russian
forces that the rest of the alli-
ance has long rejected.
Then Chancellor Olaf Scholz
of Germany took his turn, ex-
posing new divisions. Trying to
justify why Germany was with-
holding its most powerful mis-
sile, the Taurus, from Ukrainian
hands, he hinted that Britain,
France, and the United States
may secretly be helping
Ukraine target similar weap-
ons, a step he said Germany
simply could not take. While
neither Britain nor France has
commented officially — they al-
most never discuss how their
weapons are deployed — Scholz
was immediately accused by
former officials of revealing war
secrets.
“ S c h o l z ’s b e h a v i o r h a s
showed that as far as the securi-
ty of Europe goes he is the
wrong man in the wrong job at
the wrong time,” Ben Wallace,
Britain’s former defense minis-
ter, told The Evening Standard,
a London daily. Tobias Ellwood,
a Conservative who once
chaired a key defense commit-
tee in the House of Commons,
was widely quoted in the British
press calling the statement “a
flagrant abuse of intelligence.”
Coming in a week when Rus-
sian President Vladimir Putin
Church of England aims to raise $1b over links to slavery
Fund established
to reckon with its
past complicity
By Jill Lawless
ASSOCIATED PRESS
LONDON — The Church of
England should create a fund of
1 billion pounds ($1.27 billion)
to address its historic links to
slavery, an advisory panel said
Monday. That’s 10 times the
amount the church previously
set aside.
An independent oversight
group established by the church
said a 100-million-pound fund
announced last year was insuffi-
cient compared with the wealth
of the church and “the moral sin
and crime of African chattel en-
slavement.”
The Church Commissioners,
the church’s financial arm, said
it accepted the group’s recom-
mendations, including a target
of 1 billion pounds “and above”
for a pool of money known as
the Fund for Healing, Repair
and Justice.
The church said it won’t im-
mediately add to its 100-million-
pound commitment. But it will
The Hamas-led Oct. 7 attack
on Israel has prompted flashes
of greater solidarity between
sections of Israel’s ultra-Ortho-
dox Jewish minority and the sec-
ular mainstream, as fears of a
shared threat have accelerated
the integration of some of Isra-
el’s most insular citizens.
As the Israel-Hamas war
drags on in Gaza and Israeli re-
servists are called to serve elon-
gated or additional tours of duty,
long-simmering divisions about
military exemptions for the
country’s most religious Jews
are again at the center of a na-
tional debate.
But now, in the wake of the
deadliest day of attacks on Jews
since the Holocaust, parts of Isra-
el’s rapidly growing community
Germany has provided more arms and promised more aid to Ukraine than any nation bar the United States.
threatened nuclear escalation if
NATO troops entered the con-
flict, the tensions among West-
ern allies underscored the ways
they are struggling to maintain
unity at a moment of apparent
stalemate in the war and of flag-
ging support, particularly in
Washington.
For NATO, the challenge
now is to find some combina-
tion of new weapons and finan-
cial support without prompting
a direct confrontation with Pu-
tin, never knowing precisely
where that line is. It is a partic-
ularly difficult dance for Scholz.
Germany has provided more
arms and promised more aid to
Ukraine than any nation bar
the United States — but Scholz
has drawn the line at the Tau-
rus, whose powers, he fears,
could particularly provoke Pu-
tin.
Scholz’s problems deepened
over the weekend when an in-
tercepted 38-minute phone
conversation between Germa-
ny’s air force chief and other of-
ficers was published by Russian
state media, making it clear
there were contingency plans if
spend the initial money over five
years, rather than nine as origi-
nally scheduled, and hopes to
start distributing it by the end of
the year, said Church Commis-
sioners chief executive Gareth
Mostyn.
He said other institutions or
individuals wishing to address
their own slavery links could add
to the fund and “join us on this
journey.”
The fund was established as
part of efforts by the Anglican
church to reckon with its histor-
ic complicity in the trans-Atlan-
tic slave trade. The Church Com-
missioners, which administers
the church’s 10 billion-pound
($12.7 billion) wealth fund,
hired forensic accountants in
2019 to dig through the church’s
archives for evidence of slave
trade links.
They found that the church’s
huge assets had their roots in
Queen Anne’s Bounty, a fund es-
tablished in 1704 to help sup-
port impoverished clergy. It in-
vested heavily in the South Sea
Company, which held a monopo-
ly on transporting enslaved peo-
ple from Africa to Spanish-con-
trolled ports in the Americas.
Between 1714 and 1739, the
T h e B o s t o n
of ultra-Orthodox Jews, known
in Hebrew as Haredim, are re-
considering their role in the na-
tion’s fabric. Unusually high
numbers have expressed support
for or interest in military service,
according to polling data and
military statistics, even as the
vast majority of Haredim still
hope to retain their exemption.
Since Israel’s founding 76
years ago, Haredim have had a
fraught relationship with their
secular neighbors, in part be-
cause of the benefits the small
ultra-Orthodox community was
guaranteed around that time in
an agreement between religious
and secular leaders.
Unlike most Israelis, for
whom military service is manda-
tory, Haredim are exempt from
Scholz changed his mind and
decided to send the Taurus sys-
tem after all. The leak was wide-
ly interpreted in Berlin to be a
Russian operation meant to
stoke opposition toward giving
Ukraine more aid.
It triggered investigations in
Berlin because the top officers
were talking on an open line,
giving the Russians an easy way
to embarrass the German lead-
er in front of NATO allies and
before his own public at a mo-
ment when Germans remain
hesitant about getting more
deeply involved in the war.
Germany ’s militar y con-
firmed the audio was authentic
but did not comment on its con-
tents, including a discussion of
the need for German involve-
ment in running the system if it
were handed to Ukraine.
At most, Germany appears
to have available about 100 Tau-
rus missiles, which have a lon-
ger range than the Army Tacti-
cal Missile System that the
United States has provided, the
B r i t i s h S t o r m S h a d o w, o r
French SCALP missiles.
The European Parliament
GREGORIO BORGIA/ASSOCIATED PRESS/FILE
Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, who heads the
church, has promised to address its “shameful past.”
company transported 34,000
people on at least 96 voyages.
Queen Anne's Bounty also re-
ceived donations from individu-
als enriched by the slave trade,
including Edward Colston, a
British slave trader whose statue
in his home city of Bristol was
toppled by anti-racism protest-
ers in 2020.
Britain outlawed the slave
trade in 1807 but did not legis-
G l o b e
conscription to focus on reli-
gious study. They also receive
substantial state subsidies to
maintain an independent educa-
tion system that eschews math
and science for the study of
Scripture.
As the number of ultra-Or-
thodox Jews has exploded — to
more than 1 million people to-
day, roughly 13 percent of Israel’s
population, from about 40,000
in 1948 — those privileges and
exemptions have led to resent-
ment from secular Israelis. Many
Israelis feel that their own mili-
tary service and taxes provide
both physical protection and fi-
nancial reward to an underem-
ployed community that gives lit-
tle in return. Secular efforts to
draw the ultra-Orthodox into the
n a m e d t h e Ta u r u s s y s t e m
among several that Ukraine
needed in a nonbinding resolu-
tion that calls on all member
nations to provide more weap-
onry. But it is far from clear that
even if Germany did provide
Taurus missiles to Ukraine, as
Ukrainian President Volodymyr
Zelensky has urged, it would
make a decisive difference in
the conflict.
Germany’s decision to send
Leopard tanks last year did not
enable Ukraine to mount a suc-
cessful counteroffensive, and
there are doubts about whether
F-16 fighters, about to be deliv-
ered to Ukraine, will turn the
battle now.
What Ukraine needs most,
US officials say, is old-fashioned
artillery shells to fend off inch-
ing Russian territorial advances
and air defenses against missile
and drone attacks.
The reason not to give
Ukraine the Taurus is simple,
Scholz told voters at a town hall
event in Dresden, Germany, on
Thursday. While Germany will
provide $30 billion in arms to
Ukraine in the coming years,
late to emancipate slaves in its
territories until 1833.
Archbishop of Canterbury
Justin Welby, who heads the
Church of England, has prom-
ised to address its “shameful
past.” He said the recommenda-
tions were “the beginning of a
multigenerational response to
the appalling evil of trans-Atlan-
tic chattel enslavement.”
Money from the new fund
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army and the workforce have an-
gered many Haredim, who see
army service as a threat to their
lives of religious devotion.
The army may ultimately
come for some Haredim, wheth-
er they like it or not. The govern-
ment of Prime Minister Benja-
min Netanyahu faces a looming
deadline to either extend their
exemption or begin to include
them in the draft.
The decision, which pits
some Haredi lawmakers against
secular officials such as Defense
Minister Yoav Gallant, who
wants to increase Haredi in-
v o l v e m e n t i n t h e m i l i t a r y,
threatens to bring down the gov-
erning coalition.
Polling shows that the Israeli
mainstream is keener than ever
EFREM LUKATSKY/ASSOCIATED PRESS
the Taurus can strike at a dis-
tance of 500 kilometers, or 310
miles.
That would place Moscow at
risk, and he made it clear he did
not trust that Ukrainian forces
could restrain themselves from
bringing the war home to the
Kremlin. Nor could Germany be
seen as targeting Russia directly
without itself risking direct con-
frontation with Moscow.
Scholz noted that Germany
had given and pledged more
weapons than almost any other
country in the world, giving it
“the right to often say yes, but
also — sometimes — ‘not this
time.’”
But what got him in the
most trouble was his descrip-
tion of how advanced missile
systems could not simply be
handed over to Ukraine; he sug-
gested they needed NATO forc-
es to do the targeting of the
complex weaponry.
He said it was one thing to
give weapons to Ukraine and
another for Germany to aim
them at targets. “We must not
be linked at any point or in any
place to military targeting.”
will be invested in disadvan-
taged Black communities, aim-
ing to “back their most brilliant
social entrepreneurs, educators,
healthcare givers, asset manag-
ers and historians,” the oversight
committee’s report said.
The commitment falls short
of demands from some cam-
paigners for institutions that
benefited from slavery to pay
compensation to descendants of
the enslaved.
The oversight group also
called on the church to apologize
“for denying that black Africans
are made in the image of God
and for seeking to destroy di-
verse African traditional reli-
gious belief systems.”
Bishop of Croydon Rosema-
rie Mallett, who chaired the
oversight group, said no amount
of money can “fully atone for or
fully redress the centuries-long
impact of African chattel en-
slavement, the effects of which
are still felt around the world to-
day” in blighted life chances for
many Black people.
But she said the church was
“stepping forth quite boldly,
quite audaciously, and saying:
‘We can do this, others should
join in.’”
to force Haredim to enlist, par-
ticularly with a growing number
of soldiers returning from battle
in Gaza and questioning the ab-
sence of ultra-Orthodox on the
front lines.
But beyond that standoff,
some social divides are being
bridged rather than widened.
All of Israel was shaken by the
Hamas-led Oct. 7 raid, whose so-
cial and political consequences
are expected to play out for years.
“We see some change within
the Haredi community,” said Av-
igdor Liberman, leader of a na-
tionalist party that has long
campaigned to end Haredi privi-
leges. “They understand it is im-
possible to continue without
participating more in our soci-
ety.”
‘Zombie
fires’ rage
as Canada
prepares
Fire under snow
worsens season
By Ian Austen
NEW YORK TIMES
OTTAWA — Canada’s emer-
gency preparedness minister is
warning that this year’s wildfire
season will be worse than the
record-breaking season of 2023,
when thousands of fires burned
tens of millions of acres and set
off plumes of smoke that envel-
oped major US cities, including
New York and Washington.
This year’s fires could be es-
pecially bad in two of the coun-
try’s most fire-prone provinces,
where nearly 150 of the blazes
that started during last year’s
season are still burning this
winter under snow-covered
ground.
While so-called zombie fires,
a term recently popularized in
the Canadian media, are an an-
nual phenomenon in parts of
the country, never have so many
fires been reported in a single
winter, raising fears that many
may flare up again aboveg-
round.
The “zombie fires” persist
during winter because porous
peat and moss ground cover in
northern areas act as under-
ground fuel for them.
The risk of wildfire in Cana-
da has grown because of climate
change, which increases the
hot, dry, and gusty conditions
that have caused drought, ac-
cording to research published
last summer by World Weather
Attribution, a group of scien-
tists who model how climate
change impacts extreme weath-
er.
Given drought conditions in
parts of Western Canada and
other extreme weather effects,
Harjit Sajjan, Canada’s emer-
gency preparedness minister,
said it was not surprising that
the wildfire forecast was
“alarming.”
He added that climate
change “is the reality that we
face, and we need to get ready
for it.”
Many of the underground
fires — which are burning in the
provinces of British Columbia
and Alberta — don’t pose an in-
creased risk of triggering wild-
fires in the spring because they
are in places so charred that
there is no vegetation left to
burn.
But others are in areas that
droughts have turned into tin-
derboxes, prompting fears that
they will cause fires to erupt
aboveground once spring ar-
rives.
Last year’s wildfires burned
about 48 million acres of forest
across Canada, an area roughly
the size of Finland, and a stag-
gering increase of 170 percent
over the previous year, accord-
ing to the Canadian Interagency
Forest Fire Center.
Smoke from the fires, partic-
ularly blazes that burned in
Quebec, wafted as far south as
Florida and blanketed several
cities in the United States and
southern Canada in a noxious
cloud.
The drought in Western Can-
ada is now entering its third
year and is a major factor be-
hind fears of an even worse
2024 fire season, particularly in
British Columbia and Alberta.
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as Card, just as he opened fire.
“I told my friends, ‘Run, run,
hide, be safe,’ " he said. “And ev-
eryone is scattering. I could feel
the vibrations of the gun going
off everywhere.”
Richards-Kretlow, who is a
member of the local deaf com-
munity, offered his testimony
through an interpreter. He ran
from Card, but was shot in the
leg, he said. Unable to move, he
dove under a table and pretend-
ed he was dead, he told commis-
sioners.
Another person joined him
and they moved a chair to block
Card from seeing them. While
they survived, he said, four
friends were killed.
“It sounds like the military,
the police officers, many people
were warned that this was com-
ing,” Richards-Kretlow said.
“There [were] many red flags, I
don’t understand why the police
didn’t take his guns from him so
he was not a danger to others.”
Monday’s first-hand testimo-
ny was “a powerful message,”
said Daniel E. Wathen, the for-
mer chief justice of the Maine
Supreme Judicial Court who
serves as the commission’s chair-
person. The panel was formed
by Maine Governor Janet Mills
in the aftermath of the shoot-
ings.
“It’s a very unbelievable expe-
rience you’ve been through, and
to listen to it is striking, really,”
Wathen said at one point. “All of
you.”
Throughout the day’s session,
people described moments of
fear and heroism: helping peo-
ple find cover, triaging wounds,
calling for help.
Michael D. Roderick knocked
out the power inside Schemen-
gees during the attack —- which
saved lives, said commission
member Toby Dilworth.
Roderick had been playing
cornhole with his 18-year-old
son at the time of the shooting.
Roderick hid in a utility closet
and was able to turn off the
lights, he said. Now he worries
for his son, who carries the
T h e B o s t o n
Shooting survivor Danielle Grondin listened to other survivors speak to the commission.
memories from that night, he said, “because I was fleeing as
said. fast as I could.”
“My only hope is that we can While the couple escaped
prevent others from having suf- physically uninjured, Hatfield
fered the nightmares and trau- said he later learned a friend had
ma that will [stay with] us for been killed in the bowling alley.
the rest of our lives,” Roderick “I’m finding that her loss is
said. [at the] forefront quite often,”
Others described frantic ef- Hatfield said.
forts to find safety. Thomas C. Andrew R. Chessie, who was
Hatfield, who was at Just-In- at Schemengees, described hear-
Time Recreation, described see- ing the sound of people moaning
ing Card’s silhouette after hear- in agony and the fear that Card
ing a loud “pop.” would continue his rampage.
“It was unbelievable,” Hat- “It just felt like an eternity,”
field said. Chessie said. “We didn’t know if
He grabbed his girlfriend and it was safe to move.”
they ran from Card. They moved Members of the audience
swiftly, he said. were clearly moved by what they
“I grabbed her and we ran, heard. People would frequently
and I tell people she was like a nod in unison at the testimony.
kite [pulled] behind me,” he Commissioners themselves lis-
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Emotions were on display,
even before the session began.
Survivors greeted one another
with firm handshakes and long
hugs. One woman, clearly
moved, put her arms around two
other people and pulled them
close.
The session was held in
Lewiston’s City Council cham-
ber, which was decorated with
civic mementos including a
bronze plaque with a message of
sympathy Pope Francis sent fol-
lowing the shootings.
Many of the survivors who
spoke to the commission empha-
sized the importance of support
from the community since the
rampage. But for some, seeing
friends who also survived means
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facing a constant reminder of
what happened.
Others said the state’s mental
health system lacks enough re-
sources to provide people with
sufficient care, and described
difficulties finding proper help
— having to drive a long distance
to see a therapist or finding
someone with the necessary ex-
perience.
Ta m m y A s s e l i n a n d h e r
daughter Toni Asselin were both
at the bowling alley at the time
of the shooting. Toni remained
in the room briefly Monday, then
left before the testimony began.
Commissioners met with the girl
separately in a private session.
Tammy Asselin’s cousin, Tri-
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making the difficult phone calls
to loved ones to tell them what
happened.
“I never would have imag-
ined I would ever have to make
this phone call,” Asselin said.
She also described the an-
guish she experienced as a moth-
er — she became separated from
her daughter and spent part of
that night with uncertainty wait-
ing for news about Toni. She said
her daughter has demonstrated
“strength and resiliency” since
the shootings. But she reminded
commissioners that many chil-
dren experienced what hap-
pened firsthand.
Asselin wanted to provide
commissioners “with a face of a
child that was there that eve-
ning. ... I felt that it was impor-
tant,” she said.
Card was found dead Oct. 27
following a massive manhunt
that involved hundreds of police
officers. Investigators deter-
mined he died of a self-inflicted
gunshot wound.
On Thursday in Augusta, the
commission will invite members
of the US Army to speak, accord-
ing to a statement.
John Hilliard can be reached at
john.hilliard@globe.com.
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Ex-Trump lawyer’s emails detail roots of ‘fake electors’ plot
Scheme aimed at
overturning the
2020 election
By Luke Broadwater
and Maggie Haberman
NEW YORK TIMES
WASHINGTON — Just five
days after Election Day in 2020,
a conservative lawyer named
Kenneth Chesebro emailed a for-
mer judge who was working for
the Trump campaign in Wiscon-
sin, James R. Troupis, pitching
an idea for how to overturn the
results.
Through litigation, Chesebro
said, the Trump campaign could
allege “various systemic abuses”
and, with court proceedings
Texas law allowing
migrant arrests is
temporarily blocked
AUSTIN, Texas — The Su-
preme Court on Monday tempo-
rarily halted a new Texas law
that allows po-
POLITICAL lice to arrest
NOTEBOOK migrants who
enter the coun-
try illegally and set up another
legal showdown over the federal
government’s authority over im-
migration.
Hours after the Justice De-
partment asked the high court
to intervene, the court blocked
the Texas immigration law from
going into effect until next week.
The high court also requested a
response from the state by Mon-
day.
The emergency request came
after a federal appeals court over
the weekend stayed US District
Judge David Ezra’s sweeping re-
jection of the law signed by Re-
publican Governor Greg Abbott,
who for months has unveiled a
series of escalating measures on
the border that have tested the
boundaries of how far a state
can go keep migrants from en-
tering the country.
The law was set to take effect
Saturday unless the Supreme
Court intervened. The Justice
Department told the court the
law would profoundly alter “the
status quo that has existed be-
tween the United States and the
States in the context of immigra-
tion for almost 150 years.”
It went on to argue that the
law would have “significant and
immediate adverse effects” on
the country’s relationship with
Mexico and “create chaos” in en-
forcing federal immigration
laws in Texas.
The federal government cited
a 2012 Supreme Court ruling on
an Arizona law that would have
allowed police to arrest people
Healey’s plan to cut gambling addiction aid assailed as betting surges
uGAMBLING
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have wagered about $4.8 bil-
lion on various online platforms.
More than 1 million wagering ac-
counts were opened with online
sports betting platforms, which
recorded approximately 135 mil-
lion transactions in the last fiscal
year, according to data from the
state Gaming Commission.
“This is the absolute wrong
time to be scaling back funding
for problem gambling,” said
Representative Adam Scanlon, a
North Attleborough Democrat.
“It’s never been easier for people
in our state to place a bet and fall
into the trap of addiction and
now, with these cuts, we could
see programs turn people away.”
A spokesperson for the Exec-
utive Office for Administration
and Finance said the adminis-
tration had to explore “creative
solutions” to balance the 2025
budget amid lower-than-expect-
ed tax revenues. The change
would be a one-time cut to the
amount deposited in the Public
Health Trust Fund, which has a
balance that carries from year to
year. The money would be shift-
ed to support local aid, transpor-
tation, education, and economic
development, he said.
“There will be no impact to
programming supported by the
trust fund” in fiscal year 2025,
the spokesperson said in a state-
ment.
Under law, the fund receives
pending, encourage legislatures
to appoint “alternative” pro-Don-
ald Trump electors that could be
certified instead of the Joe Biden
electors chosen by the voters.
“At minimum, with such a
cloud of confusion, no votes
from WI (and perhaps also MI
and PA) should be counted, per-
haps enough to throw the elec-
tion to the House,” Chesebro
wrote to Troupis, referring to the
swing states of Wisconsin, Mich-
igan, and Pennsylvania.
Troupis quickly brought
Chesebro into the Trump legal
team, directed him to lay out the
plans in a series of memos now
central to the indictment of
Trump, and a month later —
with the help of Reince Priebus,
the former White House chief of
for federal immigration viola-
tions, often referred to by oppo-
nents as the “show me your pa-
pers” bill. The divided high
court found that the impasse in
Washington over immigration
reform did not justify state in-
trusion.
In a statement Monday, the
Texas attorney general’s office
said the Texas law mirrored fed-
eral law and “was adopted to ad-
dress the ongoing crisis at the
southern border, which hurts
Texans more than anyone else.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Biden says he is Democrats’
best option against Trump
In a wide-ranging Oval Office
interview with The New Yorker,
President Biden expressed confi-
dence that he would win reelec-
tion in 2024, laid out his ratio-
nale for running for a second
term despite questions over his
age, and said that he doubted
former president Donald Trump
would accept the results of the
November contest.
Biden, who has granted few-
er interviews with major news
publications than his predeces-
sors, faces discontent from vot-
ers in his own party and broad
dissatisfaction over his leader-
ship of the nation, polling
shows.
But he suggested to Evan Os-
nos of The New Yorker that he
was the strongest Democrat to
take on Trump in November,
saying he was the “only one who
has ever beat him.”
“And I’ll beat him again,” he
added.
Biden suggested that neither
he nor voters could afford for
him to sit out the election, ask-
ing a rhetorical question: “If you
thought you were best posi-
5 percent of the state’s gambling
revenues. The proposal seeks to
cut that percentage to 2.5 per-
cent. The fund has a balance of
about $25 million and helps pay
for the gambling help line as
well as a variety of initiatives to
prevent problem gambling and
to mitigate its harms.
The Gaming Commission es-
timates that the budget change
would have reduced by $6.4 mil-
lion the amount of money re-
ceived by the fund in the last fis-
cal year, had it been implement-
ed then. At the same time,
Healey’s proposed budget calls
for more than doubling state
spending on advertising the lot-
tery to $10 million from $4.5
million.
Massachusetts spent nearly
$12 million on problem gam-
bling services in the last fiscal
year — more per capita than al-
most any other state.
Yet gambling researchers,
public health advocates, and sev-
eral state lawmakers say they
fear losing ground in efforts to
track and combat compulsive
gambling — at a time when re-
cord numbers of people are plac-
ing bets online. There hasn’t
been a statewide study pub-
lished on the prevalence of gam-
bling problems since 2015,
when researchers at the Univer-
sity of Massachusetts Amherst
concluded that 2 percent of the
state’s adult population had a
gambling problem (in line with
T h e B o s t o n
staff — secured a meeting with
Trump at the White House.
T he email is the earliest
known evidence of Chesebro’s
involvement in what would be-
come known as the false elector
plot. It was released Monday
along with a trove of more than
1,400 pages of text messages and
emails belonging to Troupis and
Chesebro as they settled a law-
suit against them filed in Wis-
consin.
Taken together, the docu-
ments show in new detail how
the Trump campaign’s litigation
strategy was not designed to win
in court as much as it was de-
signed to give cover for their po-
litical efforts. And they under-
score the central role that Trou-
pis — previously a little-known
MAKING HER CASE — Republican presidential candidate and former governor of South Carolina Nikki Haley
spoke to voters during a campaign event in Spring, Texas, on Monday.
tioned to beat someone who, if
they won, would change the na-
ture of America, what would you
do?”
The latest New York Times/
Siena College national poll
showed that Biden was running
behind his rival, with Trump
leading him by 48 percent to 43
percent among registered vot-
ers.
Biden, however, said that the
news media had underestimated
him before and was doing so
again.
One of the biggest hurdles for
Biden, 81, remains voters’ per-
ception of his age. Osnos, who
has conducted several high-pro-
file interviews with Biden over
the years, wrote that the presi-
dent’s voice is now “thin and
clotted, and his gestures have
slowed, but, in our conversation,
his mind seemed unchanged.”
He continued, “He never bun-
gled a name or a date.”
NEW YORK TIMES
GameSense adviser Elidonne Dorsainval worked at the
Encore Boston Harbor Casino. Her job is to offer help to
those with a gambling problem.
national averages) and another 8
percent were at risk. In 2020, the
state, citing funding pressures,
abruptly discontinued an expan-
sive study exploring the econom-
ic and social effects of gambling
over time.
“With all the [gambling] ad-
vertising that’s happened over
the past year . . . we need to get a
good measure on its impact,”
said Senator John Keenan, a
Democrat from Quincy. “If we
don’t get out in front of the in-
dustry now, then we will have a
very significant public health
problem in the near future.”
Rachel Volberg, a research
G l o b e
figure in the effort to overturn
the election — played in further-
ing the plans.
The messages also detail how
Chesebro worked to get the false-
electors documents into the
hands of members of Congress
and how Chesebro — who has
since pleaded guilty in Georgia
to a felony conspiracy charge re-
lated to the scheme — celebrated
the crowd that was gathering in
Washington on Jan. 6, 2021, be-
fore a violent mob stormed the
Capitol.
“Enjoy the history you have
made possible today,” Troupis
wrote in a text message to Chese-
bro at 11:04 a.m. that day.
The new details come from
the settlement of a lawsuit filed
by progressive law firm Law For-
White House lifts COVID test
for people around president
WASHINGTON — The White
House on Monday lifted its
COVID-19 testing requirement
for those who plan to be in close
contact with President Biden,
Vice President Kamala Harris,
and their spouses, bringing to
an end the last coronavirus pre-
vention protocol at the White
House.
The White House said the
change aligns its policies with
the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention guidance. The
agency last week relaxed its rec-
ommendation that those who
test positive for COVID-19 iso-
late for five days. Now, the agen-
cy says people can return to
work or regular activities if their
symptoms are mild and improv-
ing and it’s been a day since
they’ve had a fever.
The White House testing pro-
tocol was instituted shortly after
the pandemic began in 2020
JOHN TLUMACKI/GLOBE STAFF
professor at UMass Amherst who
leads much of the state’s gam-
bling research, said she is con-
cerned that Healey’s budget pro-
posal would undercut efforts to
understand the impact of legal-
ized sports wagering, including
how many adolescents and other
vulnerable groups are using the
new technology and falling prey
to addiction. Rates of problem
gambling are significantly higher
among sports bettors, primarily
because they are engaged in a
wider range of gambling activi-
ties, according to a 2022 analysis
by Volberg and other UMass Am-
herst researchers.
T U E S D A Y, M A R C H 5 , 2 0 2 4
ward and Georgetown Universi-
ty Law Center’s Institute for Con-
stitutional Advocacy and Protec-
tion against Chesebro, Troupis,
and the so-called fake electors in
Wisconsin.
The suit was filed on behalf of
legitimate Wisconsin presiden-
tial electors and voters.
The purported electors have
already settled their portion of
the suit, admitting that Biden
won the 2020 election.
Troupis and Chesebro agreed
not to engage in similar work in
the future, including not partici-
pating in a scheme to advance
slates of false electors.
The settlement also included
a payment to the plaintiffs of an
undisclosed amount.
“As these documents show,
DAVID J. PHILLIP/ASSOCIATED PRESS
when former president Donald
Trump was in the White House.
It was further strengthened by
Biden’s administration when he
took office amid the pandemic
in January 2021. Both Trump
and Biden contracted the virus
while in office. Trump required
hospitalization after falling seri-
ously ill weeks before the 2020
presidential election; Biden had
minimal symptoms after catch-
ing it in the summer of 2022 af-
ter having been vaccinated.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Jill Biden honors ‘women of
courage’ in Washington
WASHINGTON — First lady
Jill Biden hosted a White House
ceremony on Monday for “wom-
en of courage” who have fought
political repression, sexual vio-
lence, economic hardship, and
gender discrimination around
the world.
“You’ve spoken out for your-
selves and for others in the face
“It does not seem to me to be
a good idea to cut back on re-
sources to minimize and miti-
gate gambling harm in Massa-
chusetts at the very point when
gambling opportunities have ex-
panded, explosively, in the Com-
monwealth,” Volberg said.
Among the problem-gam-
bling prevention programs that
could be affected by Healey’s
proposal is GameSense, which
received $2.7 million in state
funding last year and began
when lawmakers legalized casi-
no gambling in 2011. The pro-
gram employs green-shirted
staff on the casino floors who are
trained to identify bettors at risk
of developing a gambling prob-
lem, and can help them manage
their behavior by setting limits
or voluntarily banning them-
selves from betting. GameSense
advisers also provide round-the-
clock help to people betting on-
line through its live chat service.
Marlene Warner, chief execu-
tive of the Massachusetts Coun-
cil on Gaming and Health, a
nonprofit that helps people with
gambling problems and advo-
cates for protections, said the
budget change would be “poten-
tially devastating” to GameSense
and other outreach programs.
“We are still trying to assess
the impact of a year of online
sports wagering, and cutting vi-
tal services to at-risk populations
would be short-sighted,” she said.
In the last three months of
the fraudulent electors plot orig-
inated in Wisconsin, with Trump
campaign attorney James Trou-
pis and legal adviser Ken Chese-
bro concocting the scheme that
ultimately provided the false
narrative used by the rioters to
justify the attack on the Capitol,”
said Mary McCord, director of
Georgetown’s Institute for Con-
stitutional Advocacy and Protec-
tion.
In a statement, Troupis said
he entered into the settlement to
“avoid endless litigation, and
nothing in today’s settlement
constitutes an admission of
fault, nor should it.”
Chesebro’s memos were cen-
tral to the federal indictment of
Trump on charges of seeking to
overturn the 2020 election.
of fear and risk, and those who
have tried to steal your voices
away,” Biden said.
She added, “Change never
happens on its own. There is
power in this community of
women.”
Twelve women received the
awards, which were distributed
by the Department of State. It
was the 18th year the awards
have been given out. Among the
honorees were a lawyer from
Myanmar, a former political
prisoner from Belarus, a disabil-
ity rights advocate from Afghan-
istan, and a teacher from Ecua-
dor. Nine women from Nicara-
gua were also honored with the
Madeleine Albright Honorary
Group Award, which is named
for the first female US secretary
of state. The women were
among 222 political prisoners
who were released a year ago
and they now live in the United
States.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
2023, GameSense advisers had
nearly 44,000 interactions with
gamblers at the state’s three li-
censed casinos and fielded more
than 1,300 live chat requests, ac-
cording to the state Council on
Gaming and Health, which oper-
ates the program under a con-
tract with the Gaming Commis-
sion.
Many GameSense advisers
are former casino workers who
are familiar with the signs of
problem gambling.
Jolyn Barreuther spent 25
years working craps, roulette,
blackjack, and baccarat tables in
casinos before becoming a
GameSense manager at Encore
Boston Harbor. Barreuther said
she made the career move in
part because she felt guilty deal-
ing to bettors who were clearly
in distress over their gambling
problems, and she felt powerless
to help.
Now, Barreuther can inter-
vene and help people set volun-
tary betting limits and connect
them with addiction support
groups such as Gamblers Anony-
mous.
“Working on the other side of
the table, it was hard to see great
people slowly fall apart,” she
said. “Sometimes I felt like I was
contributing to the habit. At
least now, I can make a differ-
ence in people’s lives.”
Chris Serres can be reached at
chris.serres@globe.com.
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High court agrees Trump is eligible for ballots
uSUPREME COURT
Continued from Page A1
against federal officeholders
and candidates,” the majority
wrote, adding that detailed fed-
eral legislation was required to
determine who was disqualified
under the provision.
The decision was produced
on a rushed schedule, landing
the day before the Super Tues-
day primaries in Colorado and
around the nation. In a series of
unusual moves, the court did
not announce that it would issue
an opinion until Sunday and did
not take the bench to do so Mon-
day, instead simply posting the
decision on its website.
The decision was the court’s
most important ruling concern-
ing a presidential election since
George W. Bush prevailed in
Bush v. Gore in 2000.
In an interview on a conser-
vative radio program, Trump
said he was pleased by the out-
come. “I was very honored by a
9-to-nothing vote,” he said. “And
this is for future presidents; this
is not for me.”
The cour t’s three liberal
members — Justices Sonia Soto-
mayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketan-
ji Brown Jackson — expressed
frustration at what they said
was the majority’s needless over-
reach in a joint concurring opin-
ion. They said the majority opin-
ion was meant to insulate the
court and Trump “from future
controversy.”
An earlier version of the deci-
sion suggested that the gap be-
tween the majority and the
three liberal justices had once
been even wider. As noted by
Mark Joseph Stern, a legal af-
fairs reporter with Slate, a foren-
sic examination of the decision
posted on the court’s website ap-
peared to show that what even-
tually became the joint concur-
ring opinion was once a partial
dissent attributed to “Sotomay-
or, J., concurring in part and dis-
senting in part.”
The final product was thus
the apparent result of a compro-
mise in which all nine justices
could say they were united on a
narrow bottom line. Still, the
scope of the majority opinion
was the subject of harsh criti-
cism from the liberal justices.
“The court today needed to
resolve only a single question:
whether an individual state may
keep a presidential candidate
found to have engaged in insur-
rection off its ballot,” they wrote.
“The majority resolves much
more than the case before us.
“Although federal enforce-
ment of Section 3 is in no way at
issue,” the opinion said, “the ma-
jority announces novel rules for
how that enforcement must op-
erate. It reaches out to decide
Section 3 questions not before
us, and to foreclose future ef-
Democrats angry with Biden on Gaza want primary to send a message
uMINNESOTA
Continued from Page A1
God wills.” “This will send a
strong signal to this president
that the Democrats who elected
him are now telling him to stop
this war and to turn course.”
Similar pleas took place at
mosques around the state Fri-
day, part of a scramble by angry
Minnesota Democrats to contin-
ue the momentum that the per-
manent cease-fire movement
gained on Feb. 27. That’s when
more than 100,000 voters in
Michigan’s Democratic primary
checked “uncommitted” to pro-
test Biden’s continued strong
support for Israel in the war
started by the Oct. 7 Hamas ter-
rorist attack.
The surprisingly large num-
bers — 13.2 percent of the vote
in battleground Michigan — de-
livered a warning to Biden about
rising discontent among Demo-
crats as the Gaza Health Minis-
try reported last week that the
Pa l e s t i n i a n d e a t h t o l l h a d
topped 30,000 people. Organiz-
ers in Minnesota said they’re fo-
cused right now on simply send-
ing a message to Biden in the
primary, although some people
are so upset with Biden—“Geno-
cide Joe” some of them call
him—that they’re talking about
abandoning him altogether in
November.
“People are just so interested
in doing something,” Hussein,
who is working with Vote Un-
committed MN, told the Globe
after he showed some curious
voters how to choose the option
on his sample ballot. “And for a
large number of people who are
On a radio program after the decision, former president Donald Trump said, “I was very honored by the 9-to-nothing vote.”
Ruling ends similar challenge in Mass., Galvin says
By Matt Stout
and Samantha J. Gross
GLOBE STAFF
The Supreme Court ruling
on Monday restoring Donald
Trump to 2024 presidential pri-
mary ballots in Colorado and
elsewhere will end a similar
long-shot challenge in Massa-
chusetts on the eve of the state’s
presidential primary vote, the
state’s top elections official said.
Secretary of State William F.
Galvin said the ruling also plac-
es an added importance on
Tuesday’s election, where he ex-
pects more than 1 million peo-
ple to cast ballots between the
Democratic and Republican
primaries in Massachusetts.
“This morning’s decision of
the United States Supreme
Court makes it all the more ap-
parent and important that vot-
ers indeed take a responsibility .
. . to make the decision as to
who the president of the United
States is going to be,” Galvin
told repor ters at the State
House.
forts to disqualify a presidential
candidate under that provision.
In a sensitive case crying out for
judicial restraint, it abandons
that course.”
The first line of the concur-
rence appeared to be intended
to needle Chief Justice John
Roberts, who was probably a
principal author of the unsigned
majority opinion. Quoting a line
from Roberts’s concurrence in
not necessarily aiming to think
about punishing Biden beyond
the primary but felt, ‘What can I
do?’ this seems to be a very easy
thing to do.”
But spreading that word
quickly isn’t so easy.
“Michigan had three weeks.
Minnesota now has four and a
half days,” Asma Mohammed,
another Vote Uncommitted MN
organizer, said on a nationwide
Zoom call Thursday night to re-
cruit phonebank volunteers.
“We want every single person
that we know to vote uncommit-
ted. There are people who don’t
know this is an option. We need
to get the information out.”
Minnesota, along with Colo-
rado, North Carolina, and Wash-
ington state are the next targets
for the national campaign be-
cause each state has uncommit-
ted or a similar option on its Su-
per Tuesday ballot.
Biden has been pushing for a
temporary cease-fire to allow for
some Israeli hostages to be re-
leased, and the US began air-
dropping food into Gaza over the
weekend after more than 100
Palestinians were killed among
chaos and Israeli gunfire sur-
rounding an aid convoy. Vice
President Kamala Harris on
Sunday described the situation
in Gaza as “a humanitarian ca-
tastrophe” and called for an “im-
mediate cease-fire” for at least
six weeks.
Organizers with Vote Uncom-
mitted MN and the national
campaign said Harris was re-
sponding to pressure from vot-
ers, but repeated that their de-
mand remains a permanent
T h e B o s t o n
The Supreme Court released
its decision a day before Super
Tuesday, during which Massa-
chusetts and more than a dozen
other states will hold their pres-
idential primary elections. The
court ruled that states cannot
invoke a post-Civil War consti-
tutional provision to keep can-
didates from appearing on bal-
lots because that power rests
with Congress.
The decision is expected to
end a challenge in Massachu-
setts that was first filed — and
rejected by — the Massachu-
setts Ballot Law Commission,
which sought to remove Trump
from Massachusetts’ Republi-
can presidential primary ballot
because of his role in the Jan. 6,
2021, attack on the US Capitol.
The challenge, which was
filed by the group Free Speech
For People and attorney Shan-
non Liss-Riordan, made argu-
ments similar to those in Colo-
rado and Maine that Trump
was ineligible to hold office be-
cause he “engaged in rebellion
D o b b s v. Ja c k s o n Wo m e n’s
Health Organization, the 2022
decision eliminating the consti-
tutional right to abortion, the
three liberals wrote: “If it is not
necessary to decide more to dis-
pose of a case, then it is neces-
sary not to decide more.”
They added that the majority
had decided “novel constitution-
al questions to insulate this
court and petitioner” — Trump
THOMAS BEAUMONT/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Aishah Al-Sehaim (right) is upset by President Biden’s
approach to the war in Gaza but is voting for him in an effort
to stop former president Donald Trump.
cease-fire. And they’re not let-
ting up.
Minnesota is a promising tar-
get for uncommitted votes be-
cause of its significant Muslim
population, an active progres-
sive wing, and an independent
streak among its voters, who
elected a third-party governor in
1998. Even Minnesota’s Demo-
cratic Party name reflects its in-
dividualism: the Democratic-
Farmer-Labor Party.
Biden won the state by 7.1
percentage points in 2020, but
former secretary of state Hillary
Clinton topped Donald Trump
by only 1.5 percentage points in
2016. So there’s some risk here
for Biden as a national Wall
Street Journal poll released Sun-
day showed increased sympathy
for the Palestinian people and a
plurality of respondents — 42
percent — said Israel had gone
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REBECCA BLACKWELL/ASSOCIATED PRESS
and insurrection against the
Constitution of the United
States.”
The Massachusetts commis-
sion ruled that it did not have
the authority to remove Trump
because his name was not ap-
pearing on the ballot through a
procedure the body has juris-
diction over, such as the sub-
mission of nomination papers.
Rather, Trump’s name was
placed on the ballot after it was
submitted by the state Republi-
can Party.
Free Speech For People and
Liss-Riordan, a former state at-
torney general candidate, filed
an appeal with a single justice
at the Supreme Judicial Court,
who agreed with the Ballot Law
Commission. They then ap-
pealed to the full seven-member
SJC, which had yet to act ahead
of Monday’s Supreme Court rul-
ing.
But that’s now moot, Galvin
said.
Galvin said it also puts an
additional onus on voters them-
— “from future controversy.”
“In doing so,” the three jus-
tices wrote, “the majority shuts
the door on other potential
means of federal enforcement.”
They gave some examples of
ways in which the majority
opinion undermined the force of
Section 3. For instance, they
wrote, the majority “forecloses
judicial enforcement of that pro-
vision, such as might occur
too far in responding to the
Hamas attack.
“For me as local party chair,
I’ll be doing everything in my
power to defeat Donald Trump
in the fall. But we don’t defeat
Donald Trump by silencing im-
portant voices within our own
party,” said Joel Sipress, who
heads the DFL party in the dis-
trict that includes Duluth. “If
our party leaders and President
Biden listen to the voices of the
party rank and file and if we see
some meaningful change in US
policy towards Israel and Pales-
tine, I think Joe Biden will do
just fine in Minnesota.”
Sipress spoke after a rally Sat-
urday at a downtown Duluth
plaza that drew about 50 people.
Many of them held handmade
signs that urged “Ceasefire Now”
or “Free Gaza.” Some partici-
pants took direct aim at Biden
selves. “It also says to voters
that if you really are that con-
cerned about the insurrection
clause . . . it’s up to them,” in-
cluding who they vote to put in
Congress.
John Bonifaz, an Amherst
attorney and president of the
liberal Free Speech For People
group, said, “ The Supreme
Court’s decision today has made
a mockery of Section 3 of the
14th Amendment.”
Bonifaz called the ruling
“very dangerous.”
The Massachusetts Republi-
can Party hailed the ruling in a
statement Monday, calling it a
“victory for our democracy” and
saying it is the right of voters to
choose who they feel “most con-
fident in representing them.”
Matt Stout can be reached at
matt.stout@globe.com. Follow
him @mattpstout.
Samantha J. Gross can be
reached at
samantha.gross@globe.com.
Follow her @samanthajgross.
when a party is prosecuted by an
insurrectionist and raises a de-
fense on that score.” In requiring
tailored legislation from Con-
gress, the three justices wrote,
the majority seemed to be “rul-
ing out enforcement under gen-
eral federal statutes requiring
the government to comply with
the law.”
In all, the three justices add-
ed, “the majority attempts to in-
with their signs and their words.
Bob Kossuth, 76, of Duluth,
said he’s so disgusted with the
killing in Gaza that he might not
vote at all on Tuesday. If he does,
he’ ll vote uncommitted, al-
though he’s not sure it will do
anything to change Biden’s posi-
tion.
“Sure, it sends a message,”
said Kossuth, who has voted
third party for president for
years because he’s fed up with
Democrats and Republicans on
foreign policy. “Whether he’ll
hear it, I don’t know.”
Azrin Awal, a 27-year-old im-
migrant from Bangladesh who is
the first Muslim on the Duluth
City Council, was emotional
about the dilemma she and oth-
ers face in the election.
“ We don’ t want a second
Trump presidency, but at the
same time, continuously asking
us to choose the lesser of the two
evils is disingenuous,” she said
after speaking to the crowd.
Karl Bunday, 65, of Min-
netonka, a Minneapolis suburb,
said he supports calls for a cease-
fire. But he doesn’t think voting
uncommitted is the best way to
accomplish it because it could
weaken Biden and lead to a sec-
ond Trump presidency.
“I respect their reasons for
voting that way,” said Bunday, a
DFL volunteer. “I just thought
from the beginning of the cam-
paign that the most important
thing I could do as a Minnesota
voter is to show support for Pres-
ident Biden early and often be-
cause he’s got a whole bunch of
better policies than Trump has
on Israel and Gaza, and on a lot
The Nation A7
sulate all alleged insurrection-
ists from future challenges to
their holding federal office.”
Justice Amy Coney Barrett,
in a brief concurring opinion,
agreed that the majority had
go n e t o o f a r, s ay i n g t h at i t
should not have addressed “the
complicated question whether
federal legislation is the exclu-
sive vehicle through which Sec-
tion 3 can be enforced.”
But she urged the public to
focus on what was common
ground among the justices.
“This is not the time to am-
plify disagreement with striden-
cy,” she wrote. “The court has
settled a politically charged is-
sue in the volatile season of a
presidential election. Particular-
ly in this circumstance, writings
on the court should turn the na-
tional temperature down, not
up.
“For present purposes,” Bar-
rett wrote, “our differences are
far less important than our una-
nimity: All nine justices agree
on the outcome of this case.
That is the message Americans
should take home.”
There was, indeed, some-
thing approaching consensus on
both the scope of state power
and the undesirability of a
patc hw o r k o f d i ff e r i n g a p -
proaches.
“States may disqualify per-
sons holding or attempting to
hold state office,” the majority
wrote. “But states have no pow-
er under the Constitution to en-
force Section 3 with respect to
federal offices, especially the
presidency.”
The alternative, the majority
said, was chaos.
“An evolving electoral map
could dramatically change the
behavior of voters, parties and
states across the country, in dif-
ferent ways and at different
times,” they wrote. “The disrup-
tion would be all the more acute
— and could nullify the votes of
millions and change the election
result — if Section 3 enforce-
ment were attempted after the
nation has voted. Nothing in the
Constitution requires that we
endure such chaos — arriving at
any time or different times, up
to and perhaps beyond the inau-
guration.”
The case arose from a chal-
lenge brought by six Colorado
voters who sought to disqualify
Trump from the ballot for the
state’s Republican primar y
based on Section 3 of the 14th
Amendment. The provision was
adopted after the Civil War to
forbid those who had taken an
oath “to support the Constitu-
tion of the United States” from
holding office if they then “shall
have engaged in insurrection or
rebellion against the same, or
given aid or comfort to the ene-
mies thereof.”
of other issues.”
The state DFL chair, Ken
Martin, said on Friday that peo-
ple voting uncommitted are
sending an important message
and that “the president is listen-
ing,” but he downplayed the sig-
nificance in Minnesota.
“ That vote was relatively
small in Michigan, I expect it to
be even smaller in Minnesota,”
Martin told Minnesota Public
Radio.
Ismail Alwaisi, 53, of Minne-
apolis, approached Hussein at
the mosque to check out the
sample primary ballot. Alwaisi
sat out the 2020 election but the
situation in Gaza was pushing
him to vote this year — poten-
tially for Trump.
”We saw the four years when
he was president he doesn’ t
want any more wars,” he said,
adding he wasn’t sure about vot-
ing uncommitted but that his
college-student son planned to.
Trump’s even stronger support
for Israel doesn’t bother him.
“On that issue, no one is dif-
ferent,” Alwaisi said. “They all
worship Israel.”
Hussein said failure to re-
spond to the Democratic anger
“is a very dangerous calculation
by the president.” He noted that
people like Alwaisi flirting with
voting for Trump demonstrated
the depth of the anger in Minne-
sota.
“Muslims are so fed up …
they’re not even thinking clear-
ly,” he said.
Jim Puzzanghera can be reached
at jim.puzzanghera@globe.com.
Follow him @JimPuzzanghera.
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should shine too on

long-term care sector Editorial

For-profit tendrils making their way

into nursing homes, other sites
The reported financial problems of Steward Health Care are
Why do both Trump and Biden
not unique. For several years, nursing homes, hospice pro-
viders, and, more recently, physician practices have been
plagued by the acquisition of sites within their systems, the
want to risk inflation by
abandoning free trade?
sale and lease-back of facilities through real estate invest-
ment trusts, cutting of caregiving staff, and nonpayment of
vendors.

Governor Maura Healey should be commended for de-
manding audited financial reports from Steward in order to
better understand what’s gone wrong and take appropriate
action to serve the best interests of patients and hospital staff
(“Healey ups the heat on Steward,” Page A1, Feb. 21). Howev-
er, the Healey administration needs to take a more compre-
hensive approach to health care finances, not only of other
hospitals but also in the ownership and financial manage-
ment of long-term care providers across the state.
Nursing homes, in particular, have experienced death by a
thousand cuts in recent years as nonprofit owners sold out to
for-profit companies, which themselves are increasingly
owned by private equity firms and real estate investment
trusts. Some have closed; others have increased charges
while cutting staff and quality of care in an effort to increase
returns for investors.
State leaders need to expand the call for transparency and
accountability to include long-term care.
RICHARD T. MOORE
Uxbridge
The writer is a former Senate chair of the Joint Legislative
Committee on Health Care Financing and was the lead Senate
negotiator in the passage of the 2012 health care cost-contain-
ment law. He is also a cofounder and legislative chair of Dig-
nity Alliance Massachusetts.
Investigate the perilous condition
of nursing facilities
Private equity has put health care in an unholy mess. In his
March 1 op-ed, “Steward Health Care should face a full-scale
criminal investigation,” Robert Kuttner advocates for federal
and state agencies to take a close look at Steward to see
which laws might have been broken. However, Steward is on-
ly a big recent example of the corporate ability throughout
the health care industry to loot enterprises and exact profits
(and amass more than six-figure salaries).
Who is spotlighting nursing facilities that also place prof-
its over people? In Massachusetts our vulnerable residents
died in disproportionate numbers during the COVID-19 pan-
demic. About two-thirds of facilities in the state are for-prof-
it, but nonprofits can also be questionable. Closures terrify
residents and create stress for their families, and they can be
a signal of deeper financial concerns or even malfeasance.
Four facilities closed last year in the western part of the state
without the Department of Public Health putting any legal
delays in their way. In Roxbury the once-renowned Benjamin
Healthcare Center has announced that it will close, sending
its residents who knows where, after how long a wait. Mean-
while, its CEO, Tony Francis, took home a base salary of
$628,592 in 2021.
To the governor, attorney general, health and human ser-
vices secretary, and public health commissioner, I say: Fix
these grievous situations before the damage to our elders oc-
curs. Audit, survey, respond to complaints; put the worst cas-
es into receivership if necessary. Lawmakers, take action on
reform bills in front of you. Time is short. We are all waiting
for age justice.
MARGARET MORGANROTH GULLETTE
Newton
The writer is the author of “Ending Ageism, or How Not to
Shoot Old People.”
T
he notion of expanding free trade even
among comparably developed nations has
died in the United States, by the consent of
both political parties. But though it’s one
thing to call a halt to new free-trade agree-
ments, it’s quite another to erect new obstacles to further
impede the flow of goods and services between nations.
Yet that’s where we are.
The death knell for expanding untrammeled trade was
probably the revolt against the Trans-Pacific Partnership,
a would-be 12-nation arrangement that Barack Obama’s
team helped negotiate. In 2016, Hillary Clinton, who
eventually secured the Democratic presidential nomina-
tion, and Bernie Sanders, the favorite of the progressives,
both came out against the pact, which would have low-
ered or eliminated tariffs, liberalized and regularized reg-
ulation, strengthened labor standards, and set investment
and e-commerce rules. Congress never voted to approve
the agreement, and after Donald Trump became presi-
dent, the Republican formally withdrew this country.
American politics is now moving in the opposite di-
Imposing tariffs, and thereby making foreign imports more expensive,
increases costs for American consumers (and might well trigger a trade war).
rection. After a scattershot approach to tariffs in his first
term, Trump, an out-and-out protectionist, is proposing
a 10 percent tariff on all imports as he runs again for the
White House. He’s also talked of imposing a tariff of 60
percent or more on imports from China.
President Biden, a pro-labor Democrat, has embraced
protectionism from another direction, requiring that a
wide range of federally funded infrastructure and energy
projects use US-produced steel and other materials and
using tax credits to tilt the playing filed aggressively to-
ward American companies when it comes to green-ener-
gy projects and electric vehicles.
Neither is friendly to the consumers who ultimately
pay the bill — but Trump’s is much costlier.
Trump pretends that tariffs are a burden on only the
exporter or exporting country. In fact, tariffs are paid to
the federal government by whatever business is import-
ing the foreign products. A tariff is best understood as a
tax on a product imposed at the point of import rather
than at the time of sale, explains economist Douglas
Holtz-Eakin, president of the American Action Forum
and former director of the Congressional Budget Office.
The importing company then passes that cost along to
the consumer.
“The purchaser of the product pays the tax, and that’s
that,” he said.
Further, because other countries usually retaliate with
tariffs of their own, Trump’s proposal would make it
harder to sell US products abroad.
Still, President Biden has kept Trump-imposed tariffs
on Chinese goods, even while adding his own anti-free-
trade hurdles. Those come principally in the form of “buy
American” regulations and the tax credits for American
companies in his so-called Inflation Reduction Act.
As Foreign Policy magazine reports, “Through two
pieces of legislation, the CHIPS and Science Act and the
Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), the federal government is
providing direct tax subsidies, favorable loan terms, and
protection through domestic content requirements to
companies seen as central to the energy transition and to
building resilience in sensitive sectors, including semi-
conductors.”
One can make a strong case for doing that with strate-
gic sectors such as microchips, but the Biden approach is
much broader than that. All the steel and iron used
structurally in a wide range of government-funded proj-
ects must be produced in the United States absent a
waiver. At least 40 percent of cost of the materials used in
clean energy projects must be US-made to qualify for tax
credits, a percentage that will rise to 55 percent over the
next few years.
It is no surprise, then, that our trading partners have
protested those policies. But because the World Trade Or-
ganization’s dispute-resolution process has fallen apart,
there’s little it can do.
So why should Americans care?
Simple: The tariffs Trump imposed with little rhyme
or reason during his presidency hurt the economy and
increased the costs of goods to American consumers. If
enacted, Trump’s 10 percent tariffs would have a much
more significant price impact. According to the nonparti-
san Tax Foundation, it would be the equivalent of a $300
billion tax increase. Trump’s plan would also cost
500,000 jobs and reduce the size of our domestic econo-
my by about three-quarters of a percent.
Biden’s policies will also have an economic and infla-
tionary effect, though because they are largely policy
works in progress, estimates of those impacts are harder
to come by.
That said, of the two approaches, Biden’s is the less
objectionable because its reach is more constrained.
“The Trump across-the-board tariff on every import is
by far worse,” said Holtz-Eakin, who stresses that that
shouldn’t be construed as praise for the Biden approach.
At a time when Americans are still feeling the effects
of inflation, they should connect the current and future
dots. Imposing tariffs, and thereby making foreign im-
ports more expensive, increases costs for American con-
sumers (and might well trigger a trade war).
So do laws and regulations that impose domestic-con-
tent requirements or that effectively prevent foreign com-
panies from bidding on government-financed projects.
As Trump and Biden ballyhoo their rival approaches,
it’s important to understand that no matter what form it
takes, protectionism spells higher prices and economic
distortion. Despite their political appeal, both parties’ ap-
proaches are dubious policy.

After years of transit woes in Mattapan,

dedicated bus lanes would be welcome
Dedicated bus lanes along Blue Hill Avenue are a win for
faster and more reliable bus service in the region and for WARD SUTTON
healthier, thriving communities of color (“A smoother ride
coming at last to Blue Hill Ave.,” Page A1, Feb. 29).
For too long, Mattapan’s public transit has suffered, nega-
tively affecting the lives of residents in a neighborhood where
74 percent of the population is Black. Many don’t have the
luxury of alternative modes of transportation, so they rely on
public transit to get to doctors’ appointments, work, food
markets, and the breadth of other resources within and out-
side of Mattapan.
Timely and reliably getting to places fosters a better quali-
ty of life for people who rely on the bus system. The Blue Hill
Avenue dedicated bus lanes are a huge step in the right direc-
tion to address the years of underinvestment in this neigh-
borhood, an environmental justice community, and make
Mattapan a more thriving area of the city.
SHAVEL’LE OLIVIER
Executive director
Mattapan Food and Fitness Coalition
Mattapan

America: Melting pot

or loaf of white bread?
The notion of America as a uniformly Christian nation
(“Christian US concept misreads Founders, historians say,”
Page A8, Feb. 18) flies in the face of the longstanding view of
the United States as a multicultural society. For more than a
century, this country has been viewed as a “melting pot,” a
confluence of immigrants from diverse cultures blending to-
gether to create a shared American culture. More recently,
critics of the melting pot concept proposed a “salad bowl”
metaphor to more accurately reflect a heterogeneous society
where members retain many of the unique characteristics of
their culture while coexisting as Americans.
We can debate whether melting pot or salad bowl is a
more fitting description of current American society, but let’s
hope future generations will not be left to debate the relative
merits of “a loaf of white bread” or a “bowl of cream soup” as
metaphors for a Christian American nation.
ELIZABETH TRAGASH
Amherst, N.H. Ward Sutton is a cartoonist and illustrator. Follow him on Twitter @WardSutton and Instagram @wardsutton
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MARCELA GARCÍA

I signed up my dog for a brain study

at Harvard. Here’s what I learned.
B
enito, my yellow Lab, was admitted to Har-
vard University last week — only it was for a
research project into dog brains.
Who knew that the storied institution
studies pooches and their minds? Harvard’s
Canine Brains Project undertakes studies designed to not
only unlock the mysteries of dog brains, but to ultimately
find ways to help people too. When I learned through Ins-
tagram that the project’s scientists are always looking for
volunteer subjects, I couldn’t sign up Benito fast enough.
Our 2-year-old pup’s behavior and brain have been a
steady source of mystery. Benito is both a bullyish rogue
and an incredibly affectionate, sweet pet, one who has
shown to be a tad untrainable. When he was a puppy, one
trainer recommended we put him on Prozac, which we
didn’t do. Benito did get expelled from doggie daycare,
though, but I digress. By now we’ve pretty much accepted
his “thug life” vibes.
Maybe I’m anthropomorphizing, but Benito seemed ex-
cited to participate in the Canine Brains Project. It’s an ini-
tiative led by Erin Hecht, an evolutionary biologist and
neuroscientist, and her team of veterinarians, graduate stu-
dents, research fellows, and other canine professionals.
What makes Hecht’s project unique is that while most
canine brain research is studying dogs as one species —
How do dog brains work? What makes dog brains good at
interacting with people? How do they process the world? —
she and her team “are trying to zero in
on the differences between different
Hecht and her breeds or types of dogs,” Hecht said.
team are trying to “We are the only lab looking at varia-
tion within dogs.”
decode one of the Through various studies and the use
LANE TURNER/GLOBE STAFF
of several research tools, such as behav-
ultimate puzzles ioral tests and brain scans, Hecht and Benito let veterinarian Lauren Duffee examine him.
of behavior, her team are trying to decode one of
the ultimate puzzles of behavior, are both changing the brain,” Barton said. Recruited volun- communicates with humans, a separation test, and a V-de-
whether in whether in humans or our four-legged teer canines include those who are actively engaged in tour task that measures cognitive skills like route planning.
humans or our companions: the nature vs. nurture
question. For instance, Benito’s brain
work and those who have little to no training for specific
jobs. Enter Benito.
According to Barton, Benito showed that he’s “really skilled
at using people like tools,” looking at the humans for help.
four-legged images will be used for the lab’s Life Ex- The potential impact of Barton’s findings — and Espino- He also figured out the V-shaped test very quickly, which
periences study, led by Julia Espinosa, sa’s — is self-evident. For example, Barton has scanned the may or may not be a sign of high intelligence (that’s my un-
companions: the aimed at unraveling why dogs develop brains of scent detection dogs and service dogs, and her re- scientific conclusion, not Barton’s). Benito showed some
nature vs. nurture reactivity and aggression issues; and
the Working Breeds study, led by So-
search might help match certain dogs to specific tasks. Ol-
ivia Reilly, another researcher at the project, is leading the
anxiety and distress when he was left alone for the separa-
tion test, but Barton said “that’s actually a good sign that he
question. phie Barton. Dog-Child Bonding study, for which she is recruiting chil- has an attachment bond with you.”
Barton told me she’s interested in dren ages 8 to 10 who have a pet dog. “There’s some evi- And so Benito “graduated” from Harvard. Instead of a
learning “what parts of the brain are dence that the stronger the social attachment between kids diploma I received a scan of his brain, about the size of a
involved in working dog behaviors that people have histori- and dogs, the greater the therapeutic effects of that rela- large lemon or a medium-sized orange weighing between
cally selected dogs to perform, like hunting or herding.” To tionship,” Reilly told me. “And so in theory, our study can 110 to 120 grams and still a mystery that science promises
that end, she said, the lab has scanned the brains of about sort of help build a foundation for using or potentially to unlock.
120 dogs of specific breeds: Labrador retrievers, German matching dogs in the future with groups.”
shepherds, border collies, and sprint racing sled dogs, also Before Benito went in the lab for his MRI, Barton per- Marcela García is a Globe columnist. She can be reached at
known as Eurohounds. “We’re looking at the selective formed a series of behavioral tests on him, including one marcela.garcia@globe.com. Follow her @marcela_elisa
breeding as well as the training, and how those two forces called “the impossible task” that looks at how well the dog and on Instagram @marcela_elisa.

State needs a protocol for responding to warnings of violence

By Shan Soe-Lin, Jessica Stern, distinguish cries for help from actual threats. the shooter’s family and colleagues to law en- cluded the development of a statewide strategy
and John Horvath Research shows that schools that utilize threat forcement, no effective action was mounted in and establishment of threat assessment and

T
he Lewiston, Maine, mass shooter
— who killed 18 people and
wounded a dozen more in October
— exhibited multiple warning
signs of potential violence. Months
before the mass shootings, his family warned
law enforcement personnel that the shooter, an
Army reservist, was paranoid and hearing voic-
es and had recently recovered a weapons cache
from storage. A month before the shootings,
the Army Reserve sent a letter to the Sagadahoc
Sheriff’s Department warning them he was go-
ing to “commit a mass shooting.”
According to the National Institute of Jus-
tice, most people who commit a mass shooting
are in crisis beforehand and are likely to leak
their plans to others, resulting in the possibility
of intervention before it is too late. Studies have
found that more than 44 percent of mass shoot-
ers leaked specific plans beforehand to friends,
family, and/or coworkers. A higher percentage
displayed indirect forms of leakage — such as
drawings, poems, or an obsession with previ-
ous shootings.
Behavioral threat assessment and manage-
ment is a longstanding tool used to evaluate
and respond to warnings of violence. BTAM
teams, which include clinicians, law enforce-
ment, and, in schools, school administrators,
assessment teams are less likely to suspend or
expel students and have a lower rate of student
arrests, about 1 percent; there is no evidence of
Massachusetts has been a
national leader in gun
safety. While the state is
not yet a leader in targeted
violence prevention, it
could be.
racial bias in disciplinary decisions after evalu-
ation. The goal of BTAM is to avoid underreac-
tion as well as overreaction to warnings of vio-
lence. Many states, including Massachusetts,
recommend but do not mandate the formation
of behavioral threat assessment teams to evalu-
ate warning signs to ensure clinical or law en-
forcement intervention before it is too late.
In states without behavioral threat assess-
ment teams in place, a patchwork of prevention
relies primarily on law enforcement to detect
and deter events before they happen. But the
Lewiston event highlighted the many gaps in
this approach. Despite multiple warnings from
Maine to prevent the tragedy. We must do bet-
ter in Massachusetts.
Massachusetts has been a national leader in
gun safety. While the state is not yet a leader in
targeted violence prevention, it could be. The
state already has many of the necessary pieces,
including the Trauma and Community Resil-
ience Center at Boston Children’s Hospital that
specializes in reducing youth radicalization to
violence and the Brookline-based Parents for
Peace, which works directly with extremists
and their families to pull them out of hate. Mas-
sachusetts is also home to research teams, in-
cluding at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of
Public Health, conducting cutting-edge re-
search on what can be done to reduce violence.
Other states have made significant strides
toward strengthening their targeted violence
prevention capabilities. So far, 28 states includ-
ing Vermont and New Hampshire have either
developed or are in the process of developing
comprehensive state strategies. Colorado and
Michigan have set up comprehensive statewide
BTAM networks, along with anonymous
hotlines, to identify adolescents at risk for per-
petrating violence and connect them to care.
Following the 2022 Tops Friendly Markets
shooting in Buffalo, New York Governor Kathy
Hochul enacted Executive Order 18 to prevent
and respond to targeted violence; the order in-
management teams. There are now BTAM
teams in all 62 counties in New York, and in the
first 6 months of operation the network identi-
fied two individuals who had stockpiled weap-
ons and published manifestos threatening
mass violence.
Massachusetts should have the same pre-
vention capabilities. The state should imple-
ment the recommendations of the National
Governors Association, which include the de-
velopment of a state strategy and establishment
of threat assessment teams across the Com-
monwealth. To be effective, the strategy should
be comprehensive with clear lines of responsi-
bility and the state should sustainably resource
BTAM teams for training and ongoing opera-
tion. Given ever-increasing risks of violence,
the state must act now.
Shan Soe-Lin is managing director of the
Boston-based Pharos Global Health Advisors
and a lecturer in global health at the Jackson
School of Global Affairs at Yale University.
Jessica Stern, author of five books on targeted
violence, is a research professor at the Pardee
School at Boston University and is researching
violence prevention at the Harvard T.H. Chan
School of Public Health. John Horvath is chief of
police and emergency management director for
the town of Rockport.

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A10 The Region
Climbing lessons learned above the tree line
uMOUNT WASHINGTON
Continued from Page A1
a spot high on the ravine wall
where a Cog Railway train de-
posited him and other volun-
teers on Feb. 17 on a rescue mis-
sion. A solo hiker, Cole Matthes,
was freezing toward certain
death in whiteout conditions on
a mountain famous for two
things: bad weather and taking
human lives.
“You can sort of see the trail
we took,” he said, sweeping his
arm toward the ravine wall, high
above us. At the time of the res-
cue, sustained winds topped 90
miles per hour and the wind
chill was minus 52.
Wejchert is 37, slim and fit,
and an experienced climber. For
about the past dozen years he
has been a member of Mountain
Rescue Service, a volunteer
group of hard-core experts who
will drop whatever they’re doing
and climb into the mountains to
save people in trouble.
Matthes got out alive that
night due to the efforts of We-
jchert and about a dozen others.
The New Hampshire Fish and
Game Department was rough on
Matthes in its press release on
the incident, saying he made
“numerous poor decisions,”
lacked the right gear, didn’t plan
for the weather, and pressed on
when he should have turned
back. Matthes has acknowl-
edged his mistakes.
Rescuers say they see the
same errors in the White Moun-
tains as regularly as the seasons.
With that in mind, the Globe
wanted to report a story about
the right and wrong ways to win-
ter-climb Mount Washington,
while actually winter-climbing
Mount Washington.
Wejchert agreed to take me
and Globe photographer Jessica
Rinaldi as high up the 6,288-foot
mountain as was safe, in a win-
dow of decent weather last Tues-
day. Our trip was contingent on
the forecast; Wejchert has seen
too many cases of a syndrome he
calls “it has to be today.” That’s
the self-generated pressure to go
through with a hike because you
took a day off from work to do it
or drove for hours to the moun-
tains.
It is one of the biggest mis-
takes hikers make, because it ab-
solutely does not have to be to-
day if conditions are unfavor-
able.
“The mountains aren’t going
anywhere,” he said. “You can al-
ways do a different hike, you can
always recalibrate your day.”
. . .
Around noon on Feb. 17,
Matthes, 22, of Portsmouth,
N.H., was hiking in the Ammo-
noosuc Ravine when he lost the
trail in blowing snow. He slid in-
to a drainage ravine west of the
Westside Trail, north of its inter-
section with Crawford Path, a
major summit route on Mount
Washington, according to New
Hampshire Fish and Game. He
hurt an ankle and called 911.
That afternoon, Joe Lentini,
of Conway, N.H., a longtime
climbing guide who joined
Mountain Rescue Service in
1975, got a call from Fish and
Game that there was a hiker in
trouble. Lentini is the point of
contact for the rescue service.
When volunteers are needed to
hike up into the mountains, Len-
tini records a message that goes
out by phone to more than 50
members of MRS, who respond
by keypad whether or not they
can go.
“ We h a v e s o r t o f a j o k e
amongst a lot of the members —
when they hear my voice in the
middle of the night it means, ‘Oh
boy, life sucks,’” Lentini said.
Lentini’s recorded call about
Matthes went out at 1:21 p.m.
After receiving a call, volunteers
still need to gather gear, orga-
nize themselves by text and
phone, drive to trailheads, and
then hike, often for hours, to
reach a person in distress.
“A realistic response time in
the White Mountains, you’re
looking at, at least five hours be-
fore somebody comes and gets
you,” Wejchert said. “It’s not un-
realistic to assume 12 hours in
some instances.”
Knowing this, the experts
want hikers to ask themselves: If
something goes wrong, do you
have the gear and knowledge to
stave off hypothermia and stay
alive for at least 12 hours? Could
you survive a night in the moun-
tains if you had to? Lentini’s rec-
ommended gear list includes
warm layers; windproof shells;
shelter, such as a bivouac sack;
extra food; and chemical heat
packs, among a number of other
items.
On our Mount Washington
hike, Wejchert carried a bothy
bag, a light emergency shelter to
provide some defense from the
elements. Cell service is spotty in
the mountains; he also recom-
mends a satellite messenger, a
hand-held device that allows
communication over more reli-
able satellite networks.
“The pattern I’ve seen is that
people are traveling lighter,
which most of the time means
that they’re spending less time
above tree line where things can
go wrong,” Wejchert said, “but if
something does go wrong, those
consequences ratchet up pretty
quickly.”
Matthes reported by phone
that he had managed to climb
out of the ravine to the Lakes of
the Clouds Hut, a famous sea-
sonal hikers hut run by the Ap-
palachian Mountain Club, at
about 5,000 feet elevation. The
hut was shuttered for winter, but
Matthes made it into a basement
room available as an emergency
shelter. At least he was out of the
wind.
. . .
A frequent mistake in the
Whites is to rely on weather fore-
casts for the towns in the moun-
tain valleys. The weather in, say,
North Conway, often has little re-
lation to what’s going on atop
Mount Washington. The experts
use the higher summits forecast
from the Mount Washington Ob-
servatory. A little trick Lentini
shared is to text “forecast” to the
observatory at 603-356-2137.
The forecast gets texted back. I
did it early Tuesday before our
hike and got this:
“Starting in the clear under
T h e B o s t o n
increasingly cloudy skies then
trending into the clouds. Temper-
atures: lower 30s. Winds: ... 35-
50 mph increasing to 50-70 mph
w/ gusts up to 80 mph.”
Tuesday night’s forecast
called for possible snow and
sleet. We wanted no part of snow
and 80-mile-per-hour winds,
and intended to be well off the
mountain by the time the weath-
er arrived, even if that meant
turning back short of the sum-
mit.
I had climbed in New Hamp-
shire in the winter before,
though never Mount Washing-
ton. Once on a solo winter hike
of 5,249-foot Mount Lafayette, I
made one of the classic blun-
ders: going on a whim and not
telling anybody my plans. Had
some emergency happened, no-
body would have known to look
G l o b e
for me.
Last Tuesday, the first few
miles of the Ammonoosuc Ra-
vine Trail were hikable in mi-
crospikes, a rubbery traction de-
vice that slips over hiking boots.
A t L a ke s o f t h e C l o u d s , w e
peered into the shelter room
where rescuers first reached
Matthes more than six hours af-
ter he had called for help.
On that day, Wejchert and
several other volunteers boarded
a special Cog Railway train,
which let them off about three-
quarters up the mountain, at the
altitude of the Westside Trail.
They hiked generally south to-
ward the hut, about 2 miles
away, wearing headlamps in the
darkness, goggles, and face
masks, leaving no skin exposed
to the wind, the cold, and blind-
ing snow.
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“We were essentially navigat-
ing by memory and GPS,” We-
jchert said. “Every once in a
while, we’d get slightly off the
trail, realize we’re off, stop, pull
out the GPS and recalibrate —
‘OK, we’re 200 meters below the
trail.’ And then we’d get back
and follow it again.”
W h e n We j c h e r t a n d h i s
group arrived, other rescuers
who had gotten there earlier had
already started warming Mat-
thes with chemical heat packs,
dry clothing, and warm drinks,
he said. “We were really pleased
to see that he was being taken
care of and was alert, conscious.
The main thing was thawing out
his boots, knowing that once we
were able to switch socks and get
warm footwear back on, then we
had a good chance of convincing
him to hike down.”
Above, reporter Mark
Arsenault (left) and
Mountain Rescue Service
member Michael
Wejchert dug into their
packs to put on another
layer as the wind kicked
up above tree line on the
Ammonoosuc Ravine
Trail. Left, the pair hiked
along the Ammonoosuc
Ravine Trail. Below, when
hiker Cole Matthes
became stranded, he was
able to make his way to
the Lakes of the Clouds
Hut’s emergency shelter.
On the hike out, rescuers put
a short rope around Matthes’s
waist and held him from behind
for added security on the steep,
icy downhill. Wejchert linked
arms with Matthes as if he was
escorting him to his seat at a
wedding, and the crew began
the not-quite 3-mile trudge to-
gether.
They reached the Cog Rail-
way base station at the bottom at
10:50 p.m., about 11 hours after
Matthes initially fell. A tough
day, but a good one for the rescu-
ers who brought out a living per-
son. That’s not always the case.
“I am extremely grateful to all
11 of the men who saved my life
Saturday [Feb. 17] and am also
extremely sorry that they had to
risk their lives to save me,” Mat-
thes, who could not be reached
by the Globe, told The Associat-
ed Press.
. . .
We switched to full crampons
at Lakes of the Clouds for better
grip on ice that seemed hard as
iron. Skies above were blue, but
the horizon to the west was a
dirty smudge.
“That tells us that the weath-
er front is moving in, which the
forecast said it would,” Wejchert
said. It was then late morning.
“By the afternoon, it says there
will be decreased visibility and
the wind speed is gonna ramp
up to 70 to 80 miles an hour. We
don’t want to necessarily be
moving around in that.”
If the front was closer, this
was where we would have
turned back — adjusted our
goals, as Wejchert would say. It
was easy to see why people
sometimes push beyond their
experience and their gear in de-
teriorating conditions: Though
the summit was still about a
mile and a half of hard hiking
away, it looked right there.
The wind hit hardest the last
half mile or so. Big gusts tried to
shove us off the trail.
Soon we had outstanding
views of the rugged northern
mountains of the Presidential
Range — Mounts Jefferson, Ad-
ams, and Madison, lined up in
their powdered white wigs. The
wind-battered summit, which in
summer is typically swarmed by
tourists who come by train or
the auto road, was ours alone.
Mark Arsenault can be reached
at mark.arsenault@globe.com.
Follow him @bostonglobemark.

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Mother of toddler strapped to chair ‘in shock’ Teixeira
By Travis Andersen
and Nick Stoico
GLOBE STAFF
The mother of a 3-year-old boy
with special needs who was re-
strained in a chair with nylon straps
at the James F. Condon K-8 School in
South Boston last month said Mon-
day that she’s “furious” that her son
was treated in such a harsh manner.
“I’m still in shock,” Anacelia Cue-
vas, 30, of Hyde Park, said in a phone
interview. “I’m in denial. I just don’t
want to believe that this happened to
my son.”
Boston Public Schools officials are
investigating the incident and said
Sunday that several employees had
The Snow Moon rose over the Powder Point Bridge and Duxbury Beach in a photo taken with a lost but found camera (inset below).
DUXBURY — I am a knucklehead.
Recently, after photographing the
Duxbury Beach Reservation dune
nourishment project, I left my pricey
camera with a 500 mm telephoto lens
in the parking lot next to the Powder
Point Bridge.
That’s like
leaving a good
friend in the
dust and driving
away.
Unfortunate-
ly, this has hap-
pened before.
In the ’90s I
left my camera
bag, including photo gear, passport,
and 50 crispy $100 bills in the pocket
under the seat of an Aeroflot flight to
the outer reaches of the former
USSR. When I finally realized my
mistake and returned to the frozen
airport, the plane was locked up tight
in the snow, caps on the engines.
GROSSFELD, Page B3
15,000 Democrats left party, letting them vote in GOP primary
In Vt.’s biggest and most progressive city,
a referendum on the Progressive Party
Kevin Cullen
AROUND NEW ENGLAND
BURLINGTON, Vt. — On Tuesday,
this city of 45,000 souls on the banks of
Lake Champlain will hold a historic
election.
For the first time since it was incor-
porated in 1865, Vermont’s largest city
stands poised to elect a woman as may-
or. There’s also a chance that female
mayor will be the city’s first openly gay
chief executive.
But it’s not the prospect of making
history that is dominating the first
open mayoral campaign in 12 years. It’s
Metro
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Says she’s removed 3-year-old from the
Condon School after he was restrained
b e e n p l a c e d o n l e av e . A d i s t r i c t
spokesperson said the child was re-
strained in a classroom chair using
nylon straps and duct tape.
Superintendent Mary Skipper
briefly addressed the incident at a
School Committee budget hearing
Monday, calling the situation “deeply
concerning.”
“The safety and well-being of our
students is our number one priority,”
Skipper said.
She told the committee that as
soon as her administration was made
Stan Grossfeld
AS I SEE IT
Lost, then found
Lynn Atkins, who found and turned in the left behind camera, stood at the Powder Point Bridge at
sunset after picking up trash at Duxbury Beach. She refused to accept an award. “I’ve been really
fascinated lately by the concept of how strong it is to give up greed/power,” she said.
that this ultra-progressive city may be
looking for more moderate leadership.
The reasons are rooted in a growing
perception of lawlessness. Gunfire,
once rare, is more common. Drugs are
sold openly and overdoses are spiking;
a depleted police force and lenient
criminal justice system seem unable to
stem the tide. Rising homelessness is
also grabbing voters’ attention. Some
250 people are sleeping on city streets,
five times as many as just a year ago af-
ter a pandemic-era motel voucher sys-
tem ended.
The Progressive Party, which con-
trolled the City Council until the last
BURLINGTON, Page B4
aware of the incident, “we took imme-
diate action and we placed staff mem-
bers involved on leave.”
The school district did not release
the names of the employees placed on
leave following the incident, which
was first reported by WBZ-TV.
The Boston Teachers Union re-
ferred questions to Boston Public
Schools.
Cuevas said she wasn’t aware of
the Feb. 14 incident until about two
w e e k s l a t e r, w h e n t h e s t a t e
Department of Children and Families
In a shifting political climate,
Emma Mulvaney-Stanak finds
herself in a defensive position.
called her to say that a repor t of
possible abuse and neglect had been
filed after “my son was strapped to a
chair.”
“It feels like they’re just trying to
sweep this under the rug,” Cuevas
said.
A spokesperson for the Depart-
ment of Children and Families con-
firmed Monday that the agency has
received a report of the incident and
is investigating.
Cuevas said a teacher had walked
into her son’s classroom and had seen
that he was strapped to the chair, ac-
cording to the child welfare agency’s
report.
CUEVAS, Page B3
By Matt Stout
GLOBE STAFF
More than 15,000 Massachusetts
Democrats have left the party since the
beginning of the year to join the state’s
dominant bloc of unenrolled voters or
to become Republicans, moves that will
allow them to cast votes in Tuesday’s
GOP presidential primary.
Secretary of State William F. Galvin
on Monday called the shifts significant,
particularly for a GOP race in which
Nikki Haley is leaning on Massachu-
setts and more than a dozen other states
where voters will hit the polls on Super
Tuesday to keep her long shot bid alive
against Donald Trump in the Republi-
can primary.
The Democratic decampments have
echoes of 2016, when nearly 20,000
Democrats left the party ahead of that
year’s presidential primary. A record
637,703 voters later cast ballots in the
state’s GOP election that March, giving
Trump 49 percent of the vote and help-
B
pleads
guilty in
data leak
Deal calls for at least
11 years in prison
By Shelley Murphy
and Travis Andersen
GLOBE STAFF
Jack D. Teixeira, the Massachusetts
Air National Guardsman accused of
leaking vast amounts of classified infor-
mation in an internet chat group, plead-
ed guilty Monday to all charges he faced
after striking a deal with prosecutors
that calls for a sentence of at least 11
years in prison, but less than 17 years.
Teixeira, 22, of Dighton, pleaded
guilty in federal court in Boston to six
counts of willful retention and trans-
mission of Department of Defense in-
formation in violation of the Espionage
Act. He agreed to participate in a de-
briefing with military and government
officials, and provide any government
documents that may be in his posses-
sion or control, according to a plea
agreement filed in court Monday.
US District Judge Indira Talwani
scheduled sentencing for Sept. 27.
Prosecutors agreed to recommend
16 years and eight months in prison for
Teixeira, while the defense will recom-
mend 11 years, according to the plea
agreement. The judge will decide what
sentence to impose. Teixeira will get
credit for the time he has been held
without bail since his arrest last April,
as well as earned good time, meaning
he could be a free man when he’s 30 or
35 — depending on which recommen-
dation the judge adopts.
It’s unclear whether the military will
seek to impose an additional penalty
against Teixeira. A Defense official said
Monday that Teixeira remains in un-
paid active military status, meaning he
could still face a military judicial pro-
cess once his case in the civilian federal
courts concludes. The official said any
additional military legal action will fall
under the purview of the Air Force.
During his appearance in federal
court Monday, Teixeira acknowledged
that while working as a cyberdefense
operations journeyman assigned to the
102nd Intelligence Wing at Otis Air Na-
tional Guard Base on Cape Cod, he post-
ed hundreds of documents containing
classified military information about
the Ukraine war and other sensitive in-
telligence matters on Discord, a social
media platform popular with gamers.
He admitted that he knew the informa-
tion could cause damage to the national
security of the United States and pro-
vide an advantage to foreign adversar-
TEIXEIRA, Page B4
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Fight at Brockton high
A Brockton High School staff member
was injured Monday during what offi-
cials called a “physical altercation be-
tween students” at the troubled
school. B2
New police contract
Mayor Wu said Monday that a Boston
police detectives union has ratified a
new five-year collective bargaining
agreement with her administration. B3
ing fuel his march to the party’s nomi-
nation.
Galvin is not expecting the same lev-
el of activity this year, saying that he be-
lieves turnout will exceed 400,000 in
the GOP primary. He’s expecting anoth-
er 600,000 people to vote in the Demo-
cratic contest, where President Biden is
widely expected to win.
It’s impossible to know why each
person switched their voter registra-
tion, or how Democrats who switched
to being an independent or a Republi-
can intend to wield their ballot, if at all.
The vast majority — 13,042 in total —
chose to become unenrolled voters,
while 2,276 jumped to the GOP.
“That could be a factor in [Tues-
day’s] voting,” Galvin said, noting that
the presence of Trump remains a thread
in voter registration shifts going back
eight years.
“The one common theme between
2016, 2020, and 2024 is Donald
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B2 Metro
About 150 people marched from 495 Summer St. to South Station in Boston on Monday in protest of the war in Gaza.
Gaza protesters march to South Station
By Ava Berger
GLOBE CORRESPONDENT
About 150 people protesting
the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza
marched through the Seaport to
South Station on Monday morn-
ing before dispersing, according
to police and social media posts.
The protesters gathered near
the entrance to the Marine In-
dustrial Park around 8 a.m. and
began walking up Summer
Street, followed by a barrier of
Boston police officers on bicycles
and cruisers with flashing lights.
At the intersection of Summer
Street and Drydock Avenue, the
protestors blocked a line of cars,
causing a traffic jam, and many
drivers took U-turns to avoid the
street.
The protestors arrived at
South Station around 9:40 a.m.,
Brockton High staff is hurt as students fought
By Tonya Alanez
GLOBE STAFF
A Brockton High School staff
member was injured Monday
during what officials called a
“physical altercation between
students” at the troubled school,
where discipline issues and vio-
lence recently led four School
Committee members to request
the National Guard come to help
restore order.
The staff member was evalu-
ated by a nurse and sent home
for the day, school officials said.
Monday’s fight is the latest in
a series of violent incidents at
the school, the largest high
school in Massachusetts with
nearly 3,600 students, which has
been facing critical staffing
shortages amid a $14 million
school budget deficit.
The students involved will
face discipline in accordance
with district policy and proce-
12-year-old victim of Middleborough fire remembered
By Emily Sweeney
GLOBE STAFF
A 12-year-old who died in a
house fire in Middleborough
last month was a “smart yet
goofy girl” who loved her family
and friends, according to her
obituary.
Jasmine Marie Lane enjoyed
being a cheerleader and was
looking forward to baby-sitting,
her family said. “A smart yet
goofy girl, she loved life, her
family and friends and being a
cheerleader. Jasmine was taking
a babysitting class and was look-
ing forward to becoming a
babysitter.”
She was remembered by her
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according to police and social
media posts.
The protest ended and partic-
ipants were urged to disperse,
with many entering the MBTA’s
Red Line station while others
scattered throughout downtown
Boston. No arrests were report-
ed, police said.
Police briefly shut down
streets near the industrial park
Monday morning around 8 a.m.
but reopened them once protes-
tors left the area.
The demonstrators, a sea of
red, white, and green, chanted,
“From the river to the sea, Pales-
tine will be free,” while waving
two large Palestinian flags and
holding signs such as “You block
aid trucks, we block your trucks.”
The marchers, many wearing
keffiyeh scarves, also held signs
dures, a Brockton Public Schools
spokesperson said.
Brockton School Police are
working closely with the school’s
administration on the matter, a
Brockton Police Department
spokesperson said. Officials did
not release the names of the staff
member or students involved or
any further details.
T he turmoil at Brockton
Hi g h h a s b e e n b r e w i n g f o r
months, with fights breaking out
as many as three or four times a
week and making headlines na-
tionwide.At a recent School
Committee meeting, multiple
teachers described frequent stu-
dent fights and expressed con-
cern for their safety.
On the last Friday before Feb-
ruary break, four School Com-
mittee members called for the
National Guard to be deployed
to the school to help stamp out
campus violence. Governor
sister Sage
for her “big
a n d beautiful
e y e s ,” b y h e r
sister Serenity
for the hours
they spent
Jasmine playing Rob-
Lane lox, and by her
sister Trinity
for “the many dance parties”
they enjoyed, her obituary said.
“Jasmine loved all of us and
we all loved her,” the obituary
said. “We will speak of her often
and remember her with great
stories of laughter and love.”
Jasmine had attended Nich-
ols Middle School and in a mes-
This day in history
Connolly is 50. Actor Eva Mend-
es is 50.
ºIn 1770, the Boston Massa-
cre took place as British soldiers
who’d been taunted by a crowd
of colonists opened fire, killing
five people.
ºTwo hundred fifty years
ago, before a massive Boston
crowd seething with revolution-
ary fervor, John Hancock deliv-
ered the annual address com-
memorating the Boston Massa-
cre. It was the first large public
speaking event for Hancock,
chosen for the speech by revolu-
T h e B o s t o n
that read, “No justice, no peace,”
“GAZA MUST LIVE,” “Victory to
the Resistance,” and “Hey Biden
this is genocide.”
At South Station, protestors
put their signs away and stopped
chanting. Robin Chadwell, 25, of
Western Massachusetts, said the
protest is “our duty.”
“We’re here because Israel is
illegally settling on Palestinians’
land and are committing geno-
cide,” Chadwell said. “It’s our du-
ty to oppose the military-indus-
trial complex. While babies are
dying, the rich are getting rich-
er.”
A protestor, who declined to
give his name, said, “daily viola-
tions of human rights only seem
to matter when against specific
people and not Palestinians.”
This is “day 150” of houses
Maura Healey has said she has
no plans to send in the National
Guard. However, the state’s Edu-
cation Department will fund a
campus safety audit. Last week,
the Brockton School Committee
held a special meeting regarding
school safety.
The district, facing back-to-
back multimillion-dollar budget
deficits, was forced to cut jobs,
leaving classrooms and hallways
understaffed. High teacher ab-
sences and a shortage of substi-
tutes have left hundreds of stu-
dents stranded for hours in the
cafeteria instead of being in
class.
Multiple students told The
Boston Globe there are too few
adults to supervise them. Stu-
dents are also recovering from
learning disruptions and isola-
tion caused by the shuttering of
schools amid the COVID-19 pan-
demic, a confluence of factors
sage to parents school officials
described her death as a “devas-
tating loss.”
Her family said they have
been “overwhelmed by the love
and support shown to them”
and thanked the town’s fire de-
partment, police department,
and school system, as well as the
town manager and Pastor Jason
Genest and the First Baptist
Church family, the obituary
said.
In lieu of flowers, the family
asked mourners to consider con-
tributing to the town’s Fire De-
partment, “whose bravery and
love Jasmine’s family will always
remember,” the obituary said.
tionary leader Sam Adams, and
he wove in themes of taxation
without the consent of those
taxed and ridiculed the British
Parliament for sending troops to
Boston to enforce its “mad pre-
tensions.”
ºIn 1963, country music per-
formers Patsy Cline, Cowboy Co-
pas, and Hawkshaw Hawkins
died in the crash of their plane, a
Piper Comanche, near Camden,
Tenn., along with pilot Randy
Hughes (Cline’s manager).
ºIn 1998, NASA scientists
said enough water was frozen in
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demolished and people dying, he
said.
“As someone with direct fami-
ly [in Gaza] this hits harder to
me than most,” he said.
A 23-year-old Northeastern
University student, who declined
to be named, said the protests
are to “speak out against ongoing
genocide.”
“Because a lot of media has a
vested financial interest in sup-
porting Israel, it’s extra impor-
tant we get to the street and in
front of people’s faces,” he said.
Material from the Associated
Press was used in this report.
John R. Ellement of the Globe
staff contributed to this report.
Ava Berger can be reached at
ava.berger@globe.com. Follow
her @Ava_Berger_.
experts say has contributed to
ongoing behavioral issues.
Brockton High appears to be
doubling down on discipline.
The school will soon roll out a
controversial new cellphone pol-
icy, requiring students to secure
their phones in Yondr pouches
at the beginning of the day. The
pouches are used in dozens of
schools across the state.
The school’s new principal,
Kevin McCaskill, outlined at a
recent School Committee meet-
ing his plans for bringing stabili-
ty to the campus, including re-
suming in-house suspensions,
hiring six safety and security
specialists, and more strictly en-
forcing existing rules around
cellphones, drug use, weapons,
and violence.
Tonya Alanez can be reached at
tonya.alanez@globe.com. Follow
her @talanez.
Around 2 a.m. on Feb. 24,
firefighters responded to a re-
port that residents were trapped
inside a burning two-story home
on Pearl Street, officials said.
When they arrived, crews
found heavy flames coming
from both floors and began an
“aggressive attack” to prevent
the fire from spreading to near-
by buildings, prosecutors said.
Firefighters tried to get in-
side the house to rescue a girl
they were told was still inside
but were blocked by the heavy
flames, officials said.
Emily Sweeney can be reached
at emily.sweeney@globe.com.
the loose soil of the moon to sup-
port a lunar base.
ºIn 2020, Palestinian offi-
cials closed the Church of the
Nativity in Bethlehem over fears
of the coronavirus. Officials or-
dered a cruise ship with 3,500
people aboard to stay back from
the California coast until passen-
gers and crew could be tested; a
traveler from its previous voyage
died of the coronavirus.
ºIn 2022, a promised cease-
fire in the Ukrainian port city of
Mariupol collapsed amid scenes
of terror in the besieged town.
T U E S D A Y, M A R C H 5 , 2 0 2 4
Brookline to hold
off on changes to
9th grade English
By Christopher Huffaker
GLOBE STAFF
Brookline Public Schools
won’t eliminate the district’s
honors ninth-grade English
class next school year after all.
The district administration
recently sought to eliminate
the distinct honors and stan-
dard classes and replace them
with a class currently being pi-
loted, in part because of racial
disparities in honors-level en-
rollment. But after pushback
from families, the School Com-
mittee has decided to keep the
honors course.
The committee on Thurs-
day night voted 7-2 to keep the
existing standard and honors
level classes as well as a pilot
class. Committee members
said they wanted to see more
evidence that the pilot class is
raising academic achievement
or, at the very least, not lower-
ing it.
“We need more time in or-
der to see what those different
achievement levels look like,”
said committee chair David
Pearlman. “While certainly
having more representative de-
mographics in our classes is im-
portant to me, so is academic
excellence and improvement.”
Member Natalia Linos, one
of two members who voted to
support the district initiative,
said that given the negative so-
cioemotional impact of segre-
gation, she just wanted clear
evidence that the pilot class is
not harming students academ-
ically.
“As long as it’s equal or not
worse, that’s good enough for
me,” she said.
About one-fifth of
Brookline High ninth-graders
are taking the pilot class volun-
tarily this year.
The district already axed
ninth-grade honors social stud-
ies in 2019, and the phasing
out of honors English was ex-
pected to presage changes to
math and science courses. Dis-
tricts across the region and
country also are weighing
whether such advanced cours-
es put students of color at a dis-
advantage; there are often
stark racial disparities in who
takes advanced classes.
Brookline district leaders
said they hope universal ninth-
grade courses will help more
students of color feel equipped
to take on advanced classes in
later grades, rather than sign-
ing up for standard classes
when they enter high school
and sticking with the basic
classes for all four years.
Gabriel McCormick, the
district’s secondary school
teaching director, said in ad-
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well as academic research indi-
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were overwhelmingly against
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was insufficient evidence in fa-
vor of the change and worried
that it would water down the
rigor available to ninth-graders
without successfully increasing
enrollment of Black and Latino
students in later advanced
classes. Others worried that
the change would only exacer-
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higher-income families to pri-
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programs that less-wealthy res-
idents cannot afford.
But the committee also
heard favorable testimony, in-
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riculum coordinator until last
summer. Shiffman argued that
before eliminating honors so-
cial studies, the district saw
“social sorting” in ninth grade,
that many students taking the
honors class were not prepared
for it, and that the new class
has fewer behavioral issues
than the prior standard-levels
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schoolers, after previously
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Wu announces accord with Boston police detectives union
By Danny McDonald
GLOBE STAFF
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu
announced Monday that a Bos-
ton police detectives union has
ratified a new five-year collective
bargaining agreement with her
administration, in a deal that
mirrors a previous pact reached
with another police labor group
that included significant re-
forms to discipline.
The accord with the Boston
Police Detectives Benevolent So-
ciety would apply retroactively
from the summer of 2020 and
expire in the summer of 2025.
Wu’s office estimates it would
cost $22.2 million, or an in-
crease of 23 percent over the en-
tire period.
Similar to an agreement
reached with the Boston Police
Patrolmen’s Association late last
year, the contract with the detec-
tives’ union would give the city
the ability to fire officers accused
of serious offenses, such as mur-
der and rape, and bar them from
appealing those dismissals
through arbitration.
Previously, a police officer
facing any disciplinary matter
could seek arbitration, a process
Camera lost, found can be seen as metaphor for more
uGROSSFELD
Continued from Page B1
The cleaning crew was gone
and so was my camera bag. All I
had were my clothes and a roll
of soft toilet paper imported
from the USA.
It was too cold to cry. But as
dawn approached so did two
cleaning ladies, babushkas on
their heads and fear on their
faces. They had found my bag
but were so terrified that the
authorities were setting them
up that they recorded the serial
number of every bill and every
camera and lens.
Back to the present: On this
late February day in Duxbury,
my mind was elsewhere. I had
driven my wife to a medical
procedure and was nervously
awaiting a call from nurses for
me to pick her up. When the
phone rang, I put the camera
on the ground momentarily,
then promptly forgot it. Hur-
riedly I backed up and crossed
t h a t r i c k e t y Po w d e r Po i n t
Bridge, worr ying about my
wife.
The good news was that her
tests were negative. The bad
news was that it took three
hours for me to realize the cam-
era was missing.
Knucklehead.
The Duxbury Beach parking
lots are busy. Birders are look-
ing for owls and hawks, and
construction workers are
spreading truckloads of sand
there every day. I feared my
camera had the same fate as
Jimmy Hoffa.
I called Duxbur y police.
They said a woman had just re-
ported finding a camera with “a
very big lens.”
The woman is Lynn Atkins,
Mother of toddler strapped to chair at school ‘still in shock’
uCUEVAS
Continued from Page B1
“It was not a mechanical
chair for disabled children,”
Cuevas said, adding that straps
holding her son in the chair
were “duct-taped to the floor.”
Cuevas said her son “was
placed there because apparent-
ly he was in trouble. That was
the quote.”
Her child has symptoms of
autism but has not yet received
a formal diagnosis, she said.
“My son is basically nonver-
bal,” Cuevas said. “He can say a
few words here and there.”
Recently, her child had tak-
en to saying “trouble” at home
whenever a chair was men-
tioned.
Initially, she didn’t think
anything was amiss and as-
sumed he was using the word
incorrectly, since he didn’ t
come home with any “bruises
or cuts or visible trauma.”
But knowing what hap-
pened, Cuevas said “it makes a
lot of sense now that he was in
a chair for quite some time.”
Michael Krezmien, a
sometimes used to overturn dis-
ciplinary orders. Last year, city
officials said five members of the
department’s active sworn offi-
cers were fired only to be rehired
through arbitration.
“This historic contract builds
on the groundbreaking agree-
ment ratified by the BPPA late
last year,” said Wu in a state-
ment. “This contract includes
the same significant reforms to
overtime, paid details, and offi-
cer education, plus an additional
reform to how court overtime is
administered.”
Donald Caisey, president of
the Boston Police Detectives Be-
nevolent Society, said the agree-
ment “respects and honors the
leadership and exemplary inves-
tigative police service that the
men and women of the Detec-
tives Society provide every day.”
“We look forward to continu-
ing to work to make Boston a
safe city for all,” he said in a
statement.
Police Commissioner Michael
Cox said Monday he was pleased
the city was able to reach an
agreement with another Boston
police union.
“Once again, our officers
An excavator unloaded trucks of dirt and sand at Duxbury Beach as part of a dune replenishment project.
a shorebird monitor for the
Duxbury Beach Reservation.
Atkins wanted no reward.
Nothing.
Oh, I tried. Offering my first-
born son, cash, and a photo of
an ass-over-tea kettle Torii
Hunter chasing David Ortiz’
grand slam homerun in 2013.
Atkins doesn’t like baseball.
She has worked for the US-
DA Forest Service in Alaska,
she said, and then maintained
trails for the Weston Forest and
‘I’m in denial. I just don’t want to believe that this happened to my son.’
professor of special education at
the University of Massachusetts
Amherst, called the educators’
actions “draconic” and said the
use of manual restraints is
“never warranted.”
“Some students with autism
may display physical behaviors
that are difficult to manage, but
in those circumstances, school
personnel should have safely
utilized crisis prevention and in-
tervention strategies consistent
with their training,” Krezmien
said in an email Monday.
“Resorting to the use of avail-
able office supplies to mechani-
cally restrain the student was
unwarranted and hearkens back
to medieval responses to people
with individual differences.”
He said he was shocked that
the child’s mother was not noti-
fied within a day of the incident.
“I am deeply concerned that this
could represent wider unwar-
ranted and undocumented use
of physical restraints,” he said.
“Either these individuals
were ‘trained’ but engaged in
these egregious and abusive
practices or they were not
T h e B o s t o n
have shown leadership in agree-
ing to implement important re-
forms that will continue to rein-
force trust with those we serve,”
he said in a statement. “Through
this agreement, the Detectives
have shown their commitment
to elevating the standards of
transparency and accountability
expected of the Boston Police
Department.”
The detectives society has
265 members, according to the
Wu administration, making it
much smaller than the patrol-
men’s group, which has 1,500-
plus members. The latter’s con-
tract was met with a mostly posi-
tive response from experts and
reform advocates who applaud-
ed it as a win for police account-
ability, although there were crit-
ics who suggested it did not go
far enough.
As in the earlier deal with the
patrolmen, about 30 crimes
would now not be eligible for ar-
bitration, if a detective is indict-
ed for any of them or if they fea-
ture in a sustained internal de-
partment finding. They include
murder, rape, kidnapping, drug
trafficking, human trafficking,
armed robbery, and hate crimes.
Trails Association until she felt
guilty about her carbon foot-
p r i n t c o m m u t i n g f r o m he r
Pembroke home. She has lived
or worked much of her life, she
said, in wilderness areas, in-
c l u d i n g C a p e B r e t o n , Ne w
Hampshire, Vermont, Maine,
Montana, Idaho, and Alaska.
“Once you’ve experienced
those remote areas, the silence,
clean air and water, open spac-
es, and abundance of wildlife,
you never forget how incredible
ANACELIA CUEVAS, of Hyde Park
Anacelia Cuevas, the mother of a 3-year-old special needs student who was restrained in a
chair last month at the James F. Condon K-8 School, in her kitchen on Monday.
trained, indicating a potential
widespread lack of understand-
ing of the district policies on
G l o b e
Disciplinary measures related to
other allegations of misconduct,
such as use of excessive force,
would still be subject to arbitra-
tion.
The contract with the detec-
tives would also change the paid
detail system for its members,
fol low i ng a similar re for m
reached with the patrolmen.
Specifically, if details go unfilled
by police officers, they may be of-
fered first to Boston police retir-
ees, Boston Housing Authority
officers, and university or college
officers, then municipal officers
and civilian contract personnel.
About 40 percent of details go
unfilled in the city, according to
the Wu administration. Previ-
ously, Boston police officers were
the only eligible personnel to
perform paid details for events
or construction sites that involve
traffic disruption on city road-
ways.
The deal would also end the
practice of allowing officers who
finish a detail early to start a sec-
ond one, preventing officers
from collecting double pay for
the same period of time. It also
aims to streamline the adminis-
tration of the detail system.
it feels,” she said in an email.
“How deeply right.”
Now she routinely walks the
beaches and trails of the South
Shore picking up trash even
though her paid job doesn’ t
start until May.
“ That’s what I was doing
when I found your camera,” she
said.
“I’ve been really fascinated
lately by the concept of how
strong it is to give up greed/
power,” she said. “To be happy
physical restraint. Both circum-
stances are deeply disturbing.”
In a letter to parents with
The contract also calls for an
independent medical examiner
to settle disagreements between
an officer’s doctor and the de-
partment’s doctor regarding an
individual’s ability to return to
work.
Speaking during an appear-
ance on WBUR on Monday, Wu
said the agreement with the de-
tectives society includes an addi-
tional reform not featured in the
patrolmen’s contract, one that
aims to tighten the administra-
tion of court-related overtime.
According to Wu’s office, Bos-
ton police detectives who attend
court on behalf of the depart-
ment are entitled to overtime
pay. In the past, if a court pro-
ceeding was canceled within 72
hours of its scheduled date, de-
tectives could claim every hour
they were slated to be in court,
mandated at a minimum of four
hours of pay.
The new contract reduces the
cancellation window from 72
hours to 24 hours, “marking a
significant reform that will re-
duce the amount of mandatory
overtime paid out to officers,” ac-
cording to a press release from
the Wu administration.
with what I have, particularly
as an American, relative to
most of the world population.”
Atkins has a spiritual con-
nec tion to nature. C limate
change makes her want to “pull
her hair out .” She wonders
about the compatibility of geo-
thermal energy production and
land trusts. She worries about
clean water.
“It would be great if more
people realized how anything
they toss out or leave behind
JESSICA RINALDI/GLOBE STAFF
children in pre-kindergarten at
the Condon School on Thurs-
day, Region 2 Superintendent
Metro B3
On WBUR, Wu said the new
deal will reinforce trust and ben-
efit the health and well-being of
police officers. She called BPD
“the best police force in the
country.”
“It’s really exciting news,” she
said.
The city had been in collec-
tive bargaining with the detec-
tives society for almost a year-
and-a-half, meeting more than a
dozen times. The matter now
heads to the City Council, which
can approve or reject funding
the agreement. Wu’s administra-
tion plans to file the proposal
with the council next week. If it
is approved, it would leave two
Boston police unions without a
contract: the Boston Police Su-
perior Officers Federation and
the Boston Police Detectives Be-
nevolent Society, Superior Offi-
cers Unit, according to city au-
thorities.
Niki Griswold of Globe staff
contributed to this report.
Danny McDonald can be
reached at
daniel.mcdonald@globe.com.
Follow him
@Danny__McDonald.
will break down and enter the
water system we all drink from
(micro plastics for example), or
become a hazard for wildlife or
some barefoot child; that the
land and water everywhere is a
nursery for baby wildlife of
some kind — all of it sacred.”
A few days later, I walked
Duxbury Beach with her and
her mini Australian shepherd,
Angus. She scooped up plastic
straws, assorted garbage, and
discarded poop bags without
complaint.
As we watched, an excavator
unloaded piles of sand and soil
from trucks, for the Dune Res-
toration Project, which she sup-
ports.
“I’m not against human en-
gineering,” she says of the pri-
vately funded project.
Saving Duxbury Beach is im-
portant to her.
“It’s providing habitat for
lots of different wildlife, partic-
ularly the piping plovers, which
are endangered,” she says. “But
it also protects all these houses
from the intense wave action of
the ocean.”
As the sun sets behind the
Powder Point Bridge, Atkins re-
flects on how soothing it is to
hear the ocean and watch
hawks glide low over the dunes.
”Money is not important to
me,” she says. “Being connected
to nature, being kind to people
are.”
Amen to that and for in-
structing me to “let the waves
get in my soul.”
Thank you, Lynn Atkins, for
restoring my faith in humanity.
Stan Grossfeld can be reached
at
stanley.grossfeld@globe.com.
Mary Driscoll said the district’s
Office of Specialized Services
“is in direct contact with the
school to support staff with
proper district protocols re-
garding the use of student re-
straints.”
“I want to reassure you that
this matter is being fully ad-
dressed consistent with school
and district policies,” Driscoll
wrote.
Cuevas said she has re-
moved her son and his twin
brother from the Condon, and
officials are working on placing
them in a different school.
“It’s been a tough week,” she
said.
She said she is seeking a
school “that gives them the spe-
cial needs services they [re-
quire] and the safety, which is
very important right now.”
Travis Andersen can be reached
at travis.andersen@globe.com.
Nick Stoico can be reached at
nick.stoico@globe.com.
Christopher Huffaker of the
Globe staff contributed to this
report.
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US guardsman pleads guilty in leaked documents case
uTEIXEIRA
Continued from Page B1
ies.
“Are you in fact guilty of the
facts charged?” Talwani asked
Teixeira.
“Yes, your honor,” he said.
Teixeira has been held at the
Plymouth county jail since his
arrest and appeared in an or-
ange jail-issued uniform with
black rosary beads around his
neck. As he was led away in
handcuffs and shackles, he
smiled and nodded to his father,
mother, and stepfather, who
were seated in the spectator sec-
tion.
After the hearing, a lawyer
for Teixeira, Michael K. Bach-
rach, described his client as
“very much a kid” whose “youth
played such a significant role in
his conduct.”
“We believe there is going to
be substantial mitigation that
we’re going to be able to estab-
lish as to why a sentence of no
more than 11 years is, in fact,
the just and reasonable sentence
in this case,” Bachrach said.
Teixeira “absolutely” grasps
the gravity of his crimes, he said.
“He is significantly remorse-
ful for his conduct,” Bachrach
said. “He has accepted full re-
sponsibility for his conduct” and
will address the court at sentenc-
ing.
Teixeira’s parents declined to
comment after leaving the court-
house, but a spokesperson for
the family released a statement
on their behalf calling it “unfath-
omable to think your child
would ever be involved in some-
thing so serious, but he has tak-
en responsibility for his part in
this, and here we are.”
The statement read, “Our fo-
cus now remains on Jack — his
protection, health, and well-be-
ing, and taking care of whatever
A referendum on Progressive Party in Vt.’s most progressive city
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few years, is on the defensive as
critics charge that it has weak-
ened law and order. And sudden-
ly, in a city that once counted Ber-
nie Sanders as its mayor and
where being a Progressive with a
capital P has always carried ca-
chet, the Progressive mayoral
candidate Emma Mulvaney-
Stanak has had to defend her
party’s policies like never before.
The Progressives’ biggest crit-
ic, mayoral rival and Democratic
City Councilor Joan Shannon, is
benefiting from a campaign
heavily focused on public safety.
Garrison Nelson, a University
of Vermont political scientist,
says the election amounts to a
referendum on the Progressive
Party, whose political passions of-
ten go beyond the city’s borders.
“We’re the only city with a for-
eign policy,” Nelson quipped, re-
ferring to the Progressive em-
brace of international left-wing
movements.
But this election is about
what’s going on in places like
Burlington’s South End, not
South America.
The Progressive-led effort to
15,000 Democrats left party, letting them vote in GOP primary
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Tr u m p ,” s a i d G a l v i n , a n
e i g h t - t e r m Democrat. “It’s a
factor, however you want to play
it, or however you want to ob-
serve it.”
Haley, the former South Car-
olina governor, has routinely ap-
pealed to independent voters in
states where they can vote in the
GOP primary. Trump topped Ha-
ley by double digits in New
Hampshire, for example. But he
especially lagged among inde-
pendents in the state, where
they make up the largest voter
bloc.
In Massachusetts, Haley
would need a swell of support
from unenrolled voters if she
hopes to capture even a share of
the delegates available under the
state party rules, which award
all 40 to any candidate that
earns more than 50 percent of
the vote.
That said, not all the move-
ment in party registration in re-
cent months pointed toward the
GOP primary. An additional
5,000 voters who were previous-
ly unenrolled joined the Demo-
Jack Michael Teixeira (front) and Dawn Dufault left the courthouse Monday after their son, Jack Teixeira, pleaded guilty.
is in his best interest. Beyond
anything, Jack is a beloved son,
brother, nephew, and friend. But
above all, Jack is a good person.”
During a press conference on
Monday, Matthew Olsen, US As-
sistant Attorney General for na-
tional security, said Teixeira “cal-
lously disregarded the national
secretary of the United States
and he betrayed his solemn oath
to defend the country and the
trust of the American people
shrink the Police Department in
the wake of the 2020 murder of
George Floyd is Shannon’s stron-
gest hand, as she was the leading
opponent of the cuts. In 2020,
the City Council cut the police
budget by 30 percent and re-
duced the force by nearly a third,
reallocating money to programs
that support racial justice.
Many Burlingtonians saw
that decision as an overreaction.
Business owners say they’ve lost
money as wary shoppers avoided
downtown. Residents complain
911 calls often go unanswered.
Chaos at Decker Towers, an
11-story apartment building just
blocks from Lake Champlain, un-
derscores the belief among some
residents that the city’s permis-
sive, live-and-let-live ethos has
reached a breaking point.
Decker Towers houses 160
low-income residents, mostly the
elderly and disabled. But some
say the building has become a
magnet for the unhoused and
drug dealers, its stair wells
clogged with those looking to get
high or just a dry place to sleep.
A recent story in Seven Days,
a local newspaper, found those
stairwells reek of urine, excre-
cratic Party since Jan. 1, accord-
ing to state data. Fewer than 300
made the jump from being Re-
publicans to Democrats.
But the wider shift toward
the ranks of the unenrolled feeds
into what’s been a long-running
exodus from both major political
parties. Unenrolled voters now
account for 64 percent of the
state’s 4.95 million registered
voters, a rise from last year when
Massachusetts already had the
highest share of unaffiliated vot-
ers of any state.
That means membership in
both parties is waning, even if
Democrats still dominate at the
ballot box. Just 27 percent of
Massachusetts voters are now
registered as Democrats, and
just 8.4 percent are Republicans.
All told, independent voters out-
number Republicans more than
7-to-1 and Democrats more than
2-to-1 in the state.
“That’s really amazing to me,”
Galvin said.
The state’s past presidential
primaries broke records for
turnout. About 1.7 million vot-
ers cast ballots in the 2020 presi-
dential primaries. The vast ma-
T h e B o s t o n
that he swore to protect.”
Massachusetts Acting US At-
torney Joshua S. Levy said Teix-
eira “exploited his position of
trust” by posting “some of our
nation’s most guarded secrets”
online and will spend many
years behind bars for his crimes.
Levy declined to speculate on
Teixeira’s motive, but said he
“didn’t care at all about the con-
sequences. He was really acting
for himself.”
ment, and despair. With some
Decker Towers residents arming
themselves, the prospect of the
city’s most vulnerable people pit-
ted against each other captures a
growing sense of angst and frus-
tration in a place that has long
been one of the most safe and tol-
erant cities in New England.
As the leading candidates for
mayor, both Shannon and Mul-
vaney-Stanak portray themselves
as the person best suited to lead
the city out of its morass. It’s a
tougher road for Mulvaney-
Stanak, whose party seems to get
a bigger share of blame for the
current state of the city even
though the mayor for the last 12
years, Miro Weinberger, is — like
Shannon — a Democrat.
Mulvaney-Stanak rightly
points out that some Democrats
on the council voted for the po-
lice cuts. But there has already
been pushback against Progres-
sives. None of the six Progressive
councilors who championed the
cuts will remain on the incoming
council, having either lost their
seats or chosen not to run again.
In addition, last year 63 per-
cent of city voters rejected a Pro-
gressive-led charter change that
The decampments have echoes of 2016, when nearly 20,000
Democrats left the party ahead of the presidential primary.
jority — more than 1.4 million —
voted in the Democratic race in
which President Biden emerged
with a surprising victory that
helped cement his rise to the
nomination.
More than 1.8 million people
voted four years earlier, with
nearly double the number of vot-
ers casting ballots in that year’s
open Democratic contest than in
the GOP primary.
As of Monday, 479,778 peo-
G l o b e
Jodi Cohen, special agent in
charge of the FBI’s Boston field
office, said people typically think
of adversarial nations like Rus-
sia, Iran, and China when con-
s i d e r i n g n a t i o n a l s e c u r i ty
threats.
“ You wouldn’t think a 21-
year-old National Air Guards-
man who took an oath to defend
our country and the Constitu-
tion would make the list,” Cohen
said. “But today Jack Teixeira ad-
would have created a civilian
oversight board with the power
to discipline and fire police offi-
cers.
Despite the target on its back
this election, the Progressive Par-
ty will remain a force in Burling-
ton, Nelson predicts.
In an interview, Shannon said
she supports holding police ac-
countable. But she accused the
Progressive Party of creating hos-
tility toward police officers, lead-
ing some to quit while making it
harder to hire replacements.
Shannon, 59, who has served
on the City Council for 20 years
and works as a realtor, said the
lack of officers, not rogue officers,
is the problem. The police and
fire unions have endorsed her.
In many places, Shannon
would be considered a progres-
sive, with a small P.
“Only in Burlington could we
be the right wing,” she said. “I
have progressive goals, but I’m a
pragmatist.”
In an interview, Mulvaney-
Stanak, a state legislator, said
that beyond policy differences,
her identity “as a woman, a queer
person, a mom with two small
kids, brings a different perspec-
CRAIG F. WALKER/GLOBE STAFF
ple had already cast ballots for
this year’s presidential prima-
ries, mostly through mail-in vot-
ing. Of those, the majority, or
about 355,600, had voted in the
Democratic primary, according
to Galvin’s office.
Biden does not face a serious
challenge on the primary ballot,
which also includes US Repre-
sentative Dean Phillips of Min-
nesota and author Marianne
Williamson. But the president
T U E S D A Y, M A R C H 5 , 2 0 2 4
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mitted to endangering our na-
tional security and betraying our
country.”
An FBI affidavit filed in court
last year alleged that Teixeira
had also researched information
about mass shootings in military
databases and spoke on Discord
about killing people.
In court Monday, Assistant
US Attorney Jason Casey told
the judge that if the case went to
trial, prosecutors would prove
tive” than previous mayors.
Mulvaney-Stanak, 43, said it
wasn’t the cuts but the speed
with which they were imple-
mented that caused upheaval.
She said transitioning the Police
Department away from all armed
officers to a department with
more unarmed social workers
would take time and patience.
Mulvaney-Stanak avoids us-
ing the term public safety, prefer-
ring “community safety,” which
she says describes her holistic ap-
proach.
“Joan is framing this as more
police,” she said. “For me, it has
to be much more comprehen-
sive.”
While Shannon believes the
city should break up homeless
encampments before they take
root, Mulvaney-Stanak says she
would not scatter people who
have no place to go.
Both women support the idea
of creating a so-called overdose
prevention center, also known as
a safe injection site. But they dif-
fer on what to do about the open
drug use, particularly in city
parks.
Shannon says the city should
crack down on those using and
could face other headwinds.
Activists who support a
cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas
war are urging voters to choose
the “no preference” option to
register opposition to Biden’s
support for Israel. The effort
gained traction after more than
100,000 voters in Michigan’s
Democratic primary cast ballots
for “uncommitted” in the race,
enough to earn two delegates
from congressional districts
around Ann Arbor and Detroit
suburbs.
“Biden and the Democrats
have been taking our votes for
granted for too long,” Humayun
Morshed, a Muslim community
organizer in greater Boston, said
in a statement.
But it is unclear whether
Massachusetts voters will em-
brace it at a similar level as those
in Michigan, where the Arab
American population is the larg-
est, per capita, in the nation.
Tuesday’s primary will also
come on the heels of a momen-
tous Supreme Court decision re-
storing Trump’s name to 2024
presidential primary ballots af-
ter ruling that state can’t invoke
that from January 2022 until
April 2023, Teixeira conducted
hundreds of searches of intelli-
gence databases that weren’t re-
lated to his job and purposely
copied classified information
without approval and posted it
on Discord. In some instances,
Teixeira posted images of the
documents, and other times he
took notes from documents and
later posted that information,
Casey said.
Teixeira continued to access
information that was unrelated
to his duties “even after he was
admonished by his superiors on
two separate occasions not to
take notes or conduct deep dives
for information,” Casey said.
In January 2023, Teixeira ac-
cessed information from a se-
cure work station about equip-
ment being sent to Ukraine, as
well as how equipment would be
transferred and used upon re-
ceipt, Casey said.
Teixeira’s case captured glob-
al attention and fueled intense
criticism of the Defense Depart-
ment’s decision to grant Teixeira
a high-level security clearance
and its failure to detect his on-
line activities for months as he
posted classified information,
researched mass shootings, and
spoke of killing people.
The Air Force inspector gen-
eral issued a report in December
concluding that there was a lack
of supervision of Teixeira, and a
number of officials failed to take
required action after becoming
aware of his suspicious behavior.
As a result, 15 personnel were
disciplined last year, according
to the report.
Shelley Murphy can be reached
at shelley.murphy@globe.com.
Follow her @shelleymurph.
Travis Andersen can be reached
at travis.andersen@globe.com.
selling drugs openly, arresting
them if need be. Mulvaney-
Stanak said arresting people who
have an illness doesn’t address
the root causes of addiction and
homelessness.
“Incarceration is not hous-
ing,” Mulvaney-Stanak said. “In-
carceration is not treatment.”
Apart from the main issues in
the race, the fact that the leading
c a n d i d at e s a r e w o m e n h a s
brought its own acrimony. Both
women said they have faced sex-
ist remarks.
“It’s really unfortunate that
we’re living in these political
times where two women running
for this office are experiencing
any kind of negative behavior,”
Mulvaney-Stanak said.
Shannon says the campaign
has been about issues, not gen-
der or personality.
“It’s two women with differ-
ent ideas about social order,” she
said. “We have a difference of
opinion. That doesn’t mean we
think the other is a bad person.”
Kevin Cullen is a Globe reporter
and columnist. He can be reached
at kevin.cullen@globe.com.
a post-Civil War constitutional
provision to keep presidential
candidates from appearing. That
power, the court ruled, rests
with Congress.
The decision will end efforts
in Colorado, Illinois, and Maine
to keep Trump off the ballot, in
addition to a similar, long-shot
challenge in Massachusetts,
where the Free Speech For Peo-
ple and attorney Shannon Liss-
Riordan argued that Trump was
ineligible because he “engaged
in rebellion and insurrection
against the Constitution of the
United States.”
Galvin said it only added sig-
nificance to Tuesday’s vote.
“This morning’s decision
makes it all the more important
that those voters who have opin-
ions on the presidency take the
opportunity to express them,” he
told reporters at the State House
on Monday. “Because clearly,
what the court said today was
that they will not do anything to
decide the outcome of the presi-
dential election.”
Matt Stout can be reached at
matt.stout@globe.com.
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TV CRITIC’S CORNER LOVE LETTERS

BY MATTHEW GILBERT BY MEREDITH GOLDSTEIN

My friend saw him on a dating

Xfinity subscribers have been reporting negative experiences with Smart Resume.
An annoyance with Xfinity’s Smart Resume
I recently wrote about streaming’s grow-
ing affection for advertising, now that the
streaming industry is no longer expanding as
much as it did during its first 10 years. A few
people wrote to me about a related advertis-
ing phenomenon, this one on cable, specifi-
cally Xfinity: the Smart Resume double-
cross.
Smart Resume is a wonderful feature for
Xfinity customers (of which I am one). When
you record certain shows via your DVR such
as “Saturday Night Live,” then watch them
later, you can very easily fast forward
through the commercial break. You simply
press fast forward, and the Smart Resume
feature automatically and conveniently
brings you ahead to the very beginning of the
show’s next segment.
Or it should do that. For at least a few
months now, Smart Resume has been bring-
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ing viewers not to the next segment of the
show but to 30 seconds or so before. So you
wind up having to watch about 30 seconds of
ads before the show resumes.
I thought it was a problem with my TV
set-up somehow, but after hearing from Xfin-
ity subscribers last week and looking at the
Xfinity Community Forum, I can see that
others are having the same negative experi-
ence. Is there something wrong with Xfinity’s
tech, or is it intentional, to get more eyes on
some of the ads? Hmm.
It’s enraging, regardless, especially given
the prices people are paying for their cable
service. You’re led to believe you have this
convenient feature, and that you can dodge
one of the more annoying aspects of ad-sup-
ported TV — the loud commercials — but
then you’re more or less tricked into submit-
ting to some of them.
app. He said it was his twin.
Q. I’ve been dating a guy for nine months. We met schedule. It’s easier to let go of someone when you
through a dating app. have 10 things to look forward to. A trip. A night out.
At first, things seemed great. He was asking ques- A class. A goal (like running a 5K … or building some-
tions and messaging me consistently. He told me he’s thing). Arrange for a packed mid-March/April, and
been divorced for four years and had three kids with then you’ll know you have a buffer.
the same woman. He said he was looking to settle I’d do the breakup right before a trip to see a
down and wanted a committed relationship. friend. Start making calls to see who can host. If you
Months went by, and I never felt he was interested have concerns about being able to say the words to
in meeting my family or friends — or vice versa. Most him, write a script and don’t feel weird about reading
of our dates consisted of me seeing him late at night it when you see him in person. It doesn’t look cool, but
because of his work schedule. frankly, who cares? It’s important that the message is
Then, a month ago, after eight months of dating, clear.
one of my good friends saw him on a dating app. I If he tells you this is your issue and that you can get
confronted him and he said it was his twin brother over it, have a line ready — one you can repeat. “I ap-
who was “clowning” him. To make preciate the thought, but I’ve already
matters worse, I started to become made this decision, and I hope we
suspicious of his loyalty, and searched both can respect each other — and
and found out that he finalized his di- wish the best for each other — as we
vorce at the end of last year, but all move on.” (Whatever sounds right to
along he told me he was divorced, not you.)
separated. When I confronted him, he You do have the courage to do this.
said the court order was about his You just need a plan — and other ac-
kids — a “temporary order,” whatever tivities for later. So get to it.
that meant. MEREDITH
I feel like he waters down his re-
Meredith is seeking
plies. When I confront him about lies, READERS RESPOND:
questions about everything
I feel like he gaslights me and says from dating and marriage You say your feelings for him are
things like: “Sorry YOU feel that way,” to life after divorce. holding you back, but you gloss over
“I’m not going to prove anything to Scan the QR code to make how his behavior makes you feel.
you,” or “You don’t have to believe me; your anonymous submission. Doesn’t it make you angry? If a part-
I’m done explaining myself.” He de- ner ever treated me that way, I’d be
nied the dating app situation and the court thing. I furious. You ask how to leave him, but this may be less
have strong feelings for him and I know I need to find
the courage to leave, but I don’t know how.
about what to do and more about listening to and ac-
knowledging your own anger.
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A. Well, you know you have to walk away — which is Sometimes when you want something badly
great. I thought I was going to have to spend much of enough, it’s easy to be blind to the negatives that most
my response telling you why you shouldn’t stick others might find obvious (guilty, Your Honor). You
around for someone who doesn’t want to have a re- should want more for yourself.
spectful conversation. JOEYMAMA
But you’re aware, so this is more about how to let
go. There’s no easy way to walk away from someone
You are one of many letter writers who knows you care about, but you just have to do it and don’t
what they have to do, but can’t manage to do it for look back or rethink the decision. Look for a better
some reason. I don’t judge this, by the way. There are guy.
lots of things I need to do in life, and I tend to jump to FREEADVICEFORYOU
the easy stuff first — the tasks that bring the fastest re-
wards. Breaking up with this person will help you in Send your own relationship and dating questions to
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By Lauren Daley
GLOBE CORRESPONDENT
I happen to call Tom Rush at his
Kittery, Maine, home just a few days
after his 83rd birthday.
Last time we talked, I remind
him, he was about to celebrate his
79th birthday with a “First Annual
Farewell Tour” show in his home-
town of Portsmouth, N.H.
This year was a low-key birthday,
says Rush. “I’m actually trying to
book Symphony Hall for my 100th
birthday. It’s on a Saturday in 2041.
They’re not returning my calls.”
MUSIC
First things first: On Friday, he’ll
play City Winery in a benefit concert
for the Pine Street Inn. The solo show
also marks the release of his first al-
bum in half a decade, “Gardens Old,
Flowers New.”
That phrase appears in two songs
on the album, produced by Rush’s ac-
companist since 2014, talented
multi-instrumentalist and Berklee al-
um Matt Nakoa.
“It’s Matt’s pick for the title. He
said, ‘You’re no spring chicken, but
you’re coming up with great new
songs.’ So I’m the old garden and the
songs are the new flowers — at least
in Matt’s view,” says Rush.
Q. You said Nakoa “prodded” you into
making this album. Did he have to
prod hard?
A. No, he’s right. It’s time. In the old
days, record companies wanted an al-
bum a year or you were in big trou-
ble. That’s not the case anymore.
Q. For “The Harbor,” you wrote in the
liner notes that you visited “the Ports-
mouth, New Hampshire, hospital in
which I was born — it had been
turned into an old-ages home.”
A. [Laughs] Yeah. That got me think-
ing. It’s about somebody [who] can’t
quite remember who’s what, where
he is. And just wants to go back to the
harbor where it’s safe.
Q. You started “To See My Baby Smile”
in 1992 and finished it in 2019.
A. When my wife and I parted com-
pany.
Q. What was it like writing that?
A. Well, I’m writing about a painful ex-
perience. I guess it was cathartic. I had
two verses [from] when everything
was great. I somehow just couldn’t
come up with a third verse. It didn’t
feel done, but I didn’t know what the
third verse should be. When the
breakup happened, it became obvious.
Q. You said on a Facebook video that
you don’t know if you wrote “Give Me
Some of It.”
A. I finally found out. I thought it was
an old jugband tune. But Jim Kwes-
kin and Geoff Muldaur said they’d
never heard of it. I did it on a radio
show and said “If anybody knows
where this came from [let me know].”
I wrote the verses, but the chorus
went way back. Someone wrote in
[and said] it’s an old blues tune, “Cus-
tard Pie.” That’s where the chorus
comes from.
Q. When you arrived at Harvard in
Same day, different journey in Ronán Noone’s ‘Thirst’
By Don Aucoin
GLOBE STAFF
Time has not been kind to some of
Eugene O’Neill’s plays.
But the autobiographical “Long
Day’s Journey Into Night,” published
only after the playwright’s death per his
directive, still stands as an unassailable
masterpiece, its portrait of the despair-
wracked Tyrones still wrenching when
it’s done well.
For Boston-based dramatist Ronán
Noone, “Long Day’s Journey” presented
an opportunity to move the action from
upstairs to downstairs and tell a related
but wholly different story.
In “Thirst,” now at Lyric Stage Com-
pany of Boston under the direction of
Courtney O’Connor, Noone explores the
struggles of three Tyrone family em-
ployees — Cathleen, the maid; Bridget,
the cook and Cathleen’s aunt; and Jack,
the chauffeur — as well as, more broad-
ly, the Irish immigrant experience.
(Something about which Noone, a Gal-
way native, has firsthand knowledge.)
“Thirst” is a probing and finely
wrought if sometimes overly slow-
paced drama. Its shift in perspective,
from haves to have-nots, underscores
the self-absorption and self-indulgence
of the Tyrones, giving the play some-
thing of a political edge.
A revised version of Noone’s “The
Second Girl,” presented by The Hun-
tington in 2015, “Thirst” is largely de-
void of the fireworks that characterized
the early, explosive plays that made
Noone’s reputation, such as “Little
T h e
LivingArts
A new album sends
Tom Rush back
to the garden
TOM RUSH
Benefit for the Pine Street Inn.
At City Winery, 80 Beverly St.,
March 8 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets $50-
$85. citywinery.com/boston
1959, you weren’t into folk.
A. Actually, I’ll go off on a rant here.
Being a bit of an academic, I’m an-
noyed that “folk” has come to mean
virtually nothing except an acoustic
guitar. To me, folk music is tradition-
al tunes — songs that nobody wrote
that exist in a thousand variants. If
Black Dress,” “The Atheist,” and “The
Blowin of Baile Gall.”
Noone, who teaches in Boston Uni-
versity’s MFA playwriting program, has
chosen to work in a more muted key,
rendering “Thirst” as essentially a char-
acter study, in which the key battles are
mostly interior. Bridget (Aimee Do-
herty), Jack (Michael Kaye), and Cath-
leen (Kate Fitzgerald) each have a life-
changing decision to make, and there is
an element of risk attached to those de-
cisions.
“Thirst” unfolds over the course of
the same day in August 1912 chroni-
cled in “Long Day’s Journey," at the sea-
side Connecticut home of the Tyrone
family.
Unseen but heard often enough to
make their presence felt, they are: fa-
ther James, an actor who squandered
his gifts on a money-making role that
he played over and over again; mother
Mary, addicted to morphine in part be-
cause of her husband’s stinginess; older
son Jamie, who has pretty much given
up on life; and son Edmund, whose
worrisome cough, often audible
through the walls, suggests he is suffer-
ing from tuberculosis.
It’s suggested the Tyrones are not
the most benevolent of employers. The
view of the Tyrones held by their em-
ployees is a mixture of pity and eye-roll-
ing scorn, reflected in Bridget’s caustic
remark: “I’d love to tell them unfortu-
nates in there what I know. But what
would that make me? Them thinking I
think I’m better than them. Which I am
B o s t o n G l o b e
Tom Rush (top,
in 2017) is
coming out
with a new
album (above).
Rush (right) in
1962.
you wrote the song, it’s not a folk
song — even if your name is Woody
Guthrie. I bridle at the term “folk”
singer. I’m a singer/songwriter.
Q. What would you call Woody Guth-
rie?
A. A genre of his own. I mean, every-
by the way."
On a period-specific set by ace de-
signer Janie E. Howland, who always
seems to know how much or how little
is needed to create the right environ-
ment for a Lyric Stage production,
“Thirst” lingers over the details of
Bridget’s job in particular.
We see the many logistical steps that
go into preparing meals for the Ty-
rones, Bridget’s low-paid toil providing
a stark contrast with the leisured angst
of her employers. “We’re immigrants,"
Bridget says at one point. “Being taken
advantage of is our middle feckin
name."
The careworn, embittered Bridget,
who has been in America for 16 years,
SHOSHANNAH WHITE
JIM ENG
body calls him a folk singer so I’m not
gonna argue too hard.
Q. When you started in Cambridge,
you didn’t see yourself as a musician
— I won’t say “folk.”
A. I arrived in Cambridge for my
freshman year very enthusiastic
MARK S. HOWARD
is a type Doherty has not often played
during her sterling career on Boston
stages. Doherty ably conveys the world-
weariness of a woman who has made
sacrifices and experienced losses that
are made more painful by the fact that
they go unrecognized by her family.
Cathleen, Bridget’s young niece, is a
bundle of energy and ambition. Her fi-
ancé is back in Ireland, and she is newly
arrived in America after surviving the
sinking of the Titanic — a traumatic ex-
perience that “Thirst” should delve into
more than it does. Her goal is to be an
actress, and James Tyrone has been giv-
ing her acting lessons. Fitzgerald deftly
shades Cathleen’s exuberance with an
I’m-meant-for-bigger-things defiance.
T U E S D A Y, M A R C H 5 , 2 0 2 4
about Josh White. And I was told,
“No, no, no, Josh White is commer-
cial. We like people who build their
own instruments and live in a cabin
in the woods.”
But I’m still a Josh White fan. I
saw him play in Boston three nights
in a row. The first night, he breaks a
string. The bass player keeps playing,
Josh changes the string while sing-
ing, finishes the song with a new
string — the audience went nuts. The
second night, the same string broke.
The third night I saw him do it. I
think it was something that probably
happened one night and the crowd
loved it so much that he decided to
keep in the act. He was a showman.
Q. Part of going to a Tom Rush show
are the stories. Has that always been
part of your repertoire?
A. I get requests for the stories now.
Back in the Club 47 days, Robert L.
Jones was a wonderful storyteller. He
did mainly Woody Guthrie songs. He
shows up late one night and says “Sor-
ry, I’m late, I was at a National Guard
meeting …” And he strums a couple of
chords. Then he says, “But the inter-
esting thing was what happened at
the tollbooth …” He did 40 minutes
without doing a song. The crowd
loved it. It was eye-opening for me. If
you can engage the audience, they’re
more likely to like the song. That’s
why I started telling stories. Now I en-
joy them as much as the songs.
Q. One of your stories: You rode The
Festival Express.
A. An asylum of its own. It was a
train-load of musicians doing stadi-
um shows from Toronto to Winnipeg:
Janis Joplin, the Grateful Dead, Dela-
ney & Bonnie, The Band, Eric Ander-
sen — a bunch of others. We drank
the train dry four hours out of Toron-
to.
I feel bad for the staff; they were
in jackets and bow ties. All of a sud-
den they’ve got a train-load of luna-
tics smoking God-knows-what and
playing music until 5 a.m. We made
them stop in the middle of nowhere
to go to a liquor store. We bought ev-
erything — every bottle on the shelf
— and continued partying.
In Calgary, the promoters rented a
swimming pool. We wanted to go
skinny-dipping, which absolutely
horrified the administration, but they
couldn’t stop us. They had one rule:
Anyone with long hair had to wear a
bathing cap. I’m scarred for life by
the sight of Leslie West of Mountain
— huge guy — wearing nothing but a
bathing cap on his head and a second
bathing cap upside-down over his
beard. You cannot unsee that.
Q. [Laughs] Amazing. Do you have a
certain feeling you get when you’re
up onstage?
A. I can’t wait to get onstage so I can
relax. I love playing for people —
which is why I started [the online se-
ries] Rockport Sundays, now coming
up on three years, when venues shut
down. But I realized when you tell a
joke to a video camera, it doesn’t
laugh.
Interview was edited and condensed.
Lauren Daley can be reached at
ldaley33@gmail.com.
Kate Fitzgerald (far left) and Aimee
Doherty in “Thirst” at Lyric Stage
Company.
S TA G E R E V I E W
THIRST
Play by Ronán Noone. Directed by
Courtney O’Connor. Presented by
Lyric Stage Company of Boston.
Through March 17. Tickets $25-$75.
617-585-5678, lyricstage.com
As for Jack, he is eager to move to
Ohio and start his own rental-car busi-
ness — an aspiration complicated by
the fact that he wants Bridget to accom-
pany him and she seems implacably op-
posed to that. Kaye’s incisive portrayal
gives us a clear sense of the conflicting
impulses Jack is wrestling with.
The question undergirding “Thirst”
is: Will Bridget, Jack, and Cathleen —
unlike the emotionally immobilized Ty-
rones — find the inner resources to
change their circumstances?
O’Neill offers nary a glimmer of
hope for the Tyrones, but Noone fur-
nishes at least some reason to believe
that for his trio, it will be a long day’s
journey into light.
Don Aucoin can be reached at
donald.aucoin@globe.com. Follow him
@GlobeAucoin.
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Swing improvements
at hand(s) for Devers
By Julian McWilliams
GLOBE STAFF
LAKELAND, Fla. — Even
some of the best hitters need a
tweak here or there.
Rafael Devers is coming off a
season in which he added a sec-
ond Silver Slugger to his résumé
after hitting .271/.351/.500 with
an .851 OPS and 33 homers.
“The fear that Raffy puts in
the opposing pitcher is a differ-
ent type of fear,” said Devers’s
close friend and former team-
mate Xander Bogaerts during
the Sox’ visit to San Diego last
year.
BARRY CHIN/GLOBE STAFF
Yet despite that fear and the
Rafael Devers won another Silver Slugger in 2023 but his average dipped 24 points from ’22. results it brought Devers, some-
ºWinckowski’s rotation bid
starts to gain speed. C2
thing felt different about the
third baseman’s season at the
plate last season.
He didn’t have one of his typ-
ical summer streaks where no
matter what he saw, pitchers
couldn’t get him out.
Some of it entailed Devers’s
need to adjust to being the focal
point of an offense that once fea-
tured Bogaerts, J.D. Martinez,
and Mookie Betts. Opponents
would go into a series last year
with Devers’s name highlighted
on their scouting reports.
The other component related
to the evolution of the game.
Stuff is just better.
“ What these kids see on a
daily basis is just stupid,” Red
Sox manager Alex Cora said.
Devers always set his hands
high, just above his helmet, dur-
ing his setup. Then when the
pitcher went into his motion, he
slowly lowered his hands, synch-
ing them in the hitter’s slot, be-
fore initiating his load and going
forward toward the ball.
Yet Devers got caught in be-
tween a lot — too out in front or
too late. So he decided to lower
his hands this spring, placing
them near the le tters. T his
RED SOX, Page C2

Gary Washburn
ON BASKETBALL

Brown
shows he’s
up to the
challenge
Naming Jaylen Brown Eastern Conference
Player of the Week for the fourth time in his ca-
reer is the league’s way of tipping its cap to the
sometimes undervalued forward for his
seasonlong ascension.
The pressure was on Brown when he signed
a five-year, $304 million extension with the
Celtics in July. It was the richest contract in the
history of the NBA and while that may not be
the case for much longer, it catapulted Brown
to a new NBA neighborhood and added scruti-
ny and criticism.
Brown has responded with grace and a qui-
et motivation that has allowed him to produce
a career season. Like teammate Jayson Tatum,
Brown’s scoring is down from last year because
he’s taking fewer shots and averaging nearly
three fewer minutes per game.
But in five games since the All-Star break,
Brown is averaging 27.2 points, 5.8 rebounds,
shooting 59.6 percent from the field, and 45.2
FRANK GUNN/THE CANADIAN PRESS VIA AP
percent from the 3-point line. Those are MVP-
caliber numbers. Pavel Zacha sneaked his second goal of the game past Maple Leafs goalie Joseph Wall in the third period to restore a three-goal Bruins lead.
Yet on Sunday, he was the target of Golden

State’s wacky defensive strategy in the opening
period that allowed him to shoot uncontested
3-pointers. Brown scored 19 points in the first
seven minutes and then the Celtics responded
with a 23-1 run and suddenly the Warriors
were cooked.
Warriors coach Steve Kerr decided to muck
up the game by allowing the league’s highest-
paid player to shoot open shots, and Brown’s
stunned teammates just fed him the ball.
“I kept saying thank you, and kept empow-
ering Jaylen and credit his teammates for em-
powering him to just continue to play,” Celtics
coach Joe Mazzulla said. “Really it just comes
down to having gratitude for [opposing teams]
trying to expose us to do something different. If
we don’t take the lesson in that, we won’t be
able to apply it to later in the game.”
Brown said he viewed the strategy as disre-
spectful and it shows that mind games are still
prevalent in the NBA, especially when teams
are trying to get the Celtics out of their rhythm.
Last week, 76ers coach Nick Nurse called for
his players to chase the Celtics off the 3-point
ON BASKETBALL, Page C4
Game on
For one night, at least, Bruins regain form to beat Maple Leafs
By Kevin Paul Dupont ºMontgomery was in no mood to talk before able because of required treatment.
GLOBE STAFF
game against Maple Leafs. Notebook, C3 Zacha’s second goal, and 14th of the season,
Bruins 4 TORONTO — Some near-for- came at 10:35 of the third, boosting the Bruins
gotten shape, consistency, and Bruins for first place in the Atlantic Division. back to a three-goal lead after the Maple Leafs ear-
Maple Leafs 1 defensive elbow grease re- Zacha, without a goal since Feb. 8, scored twice ly in the period ended Swayman’s bid for a shutout
stored to their tattered game of late, the Bruins for the first time this season only 48 hours after ex- and briefly threatened again to push the Black and
pinned an impressive 4-1 loss on the Maple Leafs iting the action in the first period of a loss to the Is- Gold in a third-period fire drill.
Monday night at Scotiabank Arena, paced by a pair landers after getting injured on a crash into the David Pastrnak finished with three assists to
of goals from Pavel Zacha and single strikes from rear wall. improve his team-best points total to 38-52–90. It’s
Morgan Geekie and Jake DeBrusk. “He was really close [to being scratched from the third time in the 27-year-old’s career that he
The win, backed by Jeremy Swayman’s 32 the lineup] tonight,” coach Jim Montgomery said. has reached the 90-point plateau. The Czech super-
saves, left the Bruins with a 36-13-14 record in “I didn’t think he was going to play, to be honest.” star landed only two shots in each of his prior two
their Eastern Conference dogfight with the Pan- Zacha did not meet with the media after the outings and squeezed off 10 attempts in the win,
thers, who maintained their 2-point lead over the win, a team representative noting he was unavail- BRUINS, Page C3

UNH RB Laube put up some INSIDE

Bouncing ball

big numbers at the Combine

By Christopher Price
GLOBE STAFF
INDIANAPOLIS — If the goal
for a small-school, under-the-ra-
dar prospect at the NFL Com-
bine is to get noticed on a na-
tional level, then Dylan Laube
did his job this past week.
First, the running back from
the University of New Hamp-
shire was asked to take some
snaps while working as a wide
receiver, a sign some NFL teams
might be willing to gamble on
the versatility displayed by the 5-
foot-10-inch, 206-pounder.
Second, his numbers rivaled
the rest of his position group.
Laube’s 4.54-second 40-yard
ºWR Bourne receives an
offer from Patriots. C4
ºBroncos to cut Wilson. C4
dash (including a 1.52 10-yard
split, fifth best for all the run-
ning backs) and 6.84 in the
three-cone drill (third best
among all backs this week) are
the sorts of stats that will inevi-
tably draw the attention of
teams at next month’s draft.
And third, an old-school
WWE-style celebration from
Laube after a Saturday drill
drew the attention of ESPN me-
dia personality Pat McAfee, who
labeled Laube as a player who
helped his predraft stock with
his performance in Indianapolis.
Laube, who led the FCS in all-
purpose yards last season (209.5
yards per game), was also No. 2
in touchdowns (18) and points
per game (10.8). In addition, he
was third in kick return average
(31.1 yards per return).
While the numbers are unde-
niable, the small-school bias still
exists for Laube and others.
However this week — and a
week at the Senior Bowl in Feb-
ruary — has provided the UNH
product with an opportunity to
quash the belief that he can’t
compete against elite talent.
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North Andover stops
Newton North in sec-
ond round of boys’
basketball tourney. C6
Sailing on
Cohasset pulls away
from Frontier in round
of 16 in girls’ basket-
ball. C6
Ice men
Hingham shuts down
Braintree in second
round of Division 1
boys’ hockey tourna-
ment. C6
Wanted: Goals
After a dud in MLS
home opener and a
DARRON CUMMINGS/ASSOCIATED PRESS large crowd at Gillette,
UNH’s Dylan Laube, who led the FCS in all-purpose yards last it’s clear the Revolu-
season, had a solid 4.54-second 40-yard dash at the Combine. tion need a striker. C6
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Winckowski gains speed in bid to be starter

By Julian McWilliams attle on March 28.
GLOBE STAFF Tigers 2, Red Sox 1
At Publix Field at Joker Marchant Stadium, Lakeland, Fla.
Red Sox spring training report Jansen appeared in only six spring
LAKELAND, Fla. — Chief baseball DETROIT ab r h bi training games last season then allowed
BOSTON ab r h bi SCORE: Tigers 2, Red Sox 1
officer Craig Breslow highlighted Josh Hamilton 2b 3 0 1 0
Meadows dh
Ibáñez ph-dh
2 0 0 0
1 0 1 0 RECORD: 7-4-1 one earned run in his first 12 appear-
McDonough cf 1 0 0 0
Winckowski as a pitcher with intrigu- Rafaela cf 3 1 1 1
Sands pr-of
Greene lf
1 0 1 0
2 0 0 0
BREAKDOWN: The Sox ran out what essentially amounted ances of the regular season.
ing stuff during the
Chacon rf 1 0 0 0
Bigbie rf 1 0 0 0 to a minor league roster, seemingly unfair with Tarik “This is the best way for me,” Jansen
McGuire c 3 0 1 0
RED SOX Winter Meetings in Heineman c 1 0 0 0
Torkelson 1b
Hiura 1b
3 0 0 0
1 0 0 0
Skubal on the hill for Detroit. Skubal carved up the Red
said. “Get my body ready then start
Reyes ss 2 0 0 0 Sox lineup through three innings of one-hit ball, striking
NOTEBOOK early December. Sogard ss
Dalbec 1b
1 0 0 0
3 0 0 0
Canha rf
Malloy lf
2 1 1 0
0 0 0 0 out six in that span. “He’s good, man,” manager Alex Cora pitching and go right into the season.”
Keith 2b 2 0 1 0 said. “We’ve seen him for a while now and he keeps grow-
Breslow, the Sox’ Meidroth 3b 1 0 1 0
Baddoo cf 1 0 0 0
pitching group, and manager Alex Cora
MContreras lf-rf 2 0 0 0
Yorke 2b 2 0 0 0
Báez ss
Leonard ss
1 0 0 1
2 0 0 0
ing. The stuff was electric. The cutter is good but that
four-seamer is a game-changer.” Ceddanne Rafaela hit
Rafaela rebounds
Westbrook dh 3 0 0 0
Urshela 3b 2 0 0 0 his first home run of the spring, a solo shot, off Tigers re-
believed that Winclowski’s stuff could González 3b-lf 2 0 0 0
Bemboom c 2 0 0 0 Ceddanne Rafaela was overmatched
Rosier lf 0 0 0 0
Rogers c 2 0 1 0 liever Tyler Holton in the fourth inning.
play as a starter. The question, though, Guthrie rf 1 0 0 0
Jung pr-2b 1 0 0 0 NEXT: The Sox play a home game vs. the Rays at 1:05 p.m. by Detroit lefthander Tarik Skubal
Dunand 3b-1b 0 0 0 0
was could he maintain it? Vierling cf
Kreidler 3b
1 1 0 0
1 0 0 0
Tuesday. Garrett Whitlock is scheduled to start opposite Monday. Rafaela chased a four-seam
Winckowski, Tanner Houck, and
Totals 29 1 4 1
Totals 28 2 5 1 Tampa Bay’s Naoyuki Uwasawa. NESN will air the game. fastball above the zone before ultimate-
Boston.....................................................000 100 000 — 1 4 1 JULIAN McWILLIAMS
Garrett Whitlock are competing for the Detroit.....................................................010 010 00x — 2 5 0 TARIK SKUBAL ly swinging and missing on a changeup
E—González (1). 2B—Hamilton (1), McGuire (1), Rogers (2).
final rotation spot. There are question HR—Rafaela (1). CS—Hamilton (1), Rosier (1). SF—Báez. and two-seamer in what amounted to a
Boston IP H R ER BB SO
marks surrounding Houck and Whit- Winckowski 2„ 2 1 1 0 2 four-pitch at-bat. In his second at-bat,
Campbell 1‚ 0 0 0 0 1
lock, too. Jacques L 0-1 „ 2 1 1 2 0 of threw at that 80 percent. It’s still from [Fort Myers] and going over there however, Rafaela lifted his first homer
Hagenman 1‚ 0 0 0 1 1
Can Houck turnover a lineup more Rodríguez 1 1 0 0 0 1 something that I’m working on myself.” for three days.” of the spring against Tyler Holton on a
than once or twice? Can he fill up the Politi 1 0 0 0 2 1 changeup. Rafaela was out in front on
zone enough?
Detroit
Skubal
IP
3
H
1
R
0
ER BB SO
0 0 6
Dominican trip nears Jansen on schedule the pitch but caught just enough barrel
Holton 1 1 1 1 0 0
Can Whitlock stay healthy enough in Vest W 1-0 1 0 0 0 0 1 When the Red Sox travel to the Do- Kenley Jansen has yet to appear in a for a solo shot to left field. Rafaela also
Madden 2 1 0 0 1 3
order to maintain his starter status? Or Vasquez 1 0 0 0 2 1 minican Republic for the weekend to spring game. But that is by design. made a diving catch. The Sox, seeming-
is he more of a bullpen piece? Englert S 1 1 1 0 0
WP—Jacques. PB—McGuire. Umpires—Home, Sean Bar-
0 1 play the Rays in a pair of exhibitions in The 36-year-old closer threw off the ly, want Rafaela to be their everyday
Monday afternoon marked Winck- ber; First, Mark Wegner; Second, Roberto Ortiz; Third, Bren- Santo Domingo, Kutter Crawford will bullpen mound Monday. He will be center fielder out of camp. Cora said be-
nan Miller. T—2:25. A—6,932.
owski’s second chance to showcase start the Saturday game and be fol- back on the mound Thursday and again fore the game that the club has been
himself as he continues to build up this lowed Sunday by Whitlock.. Houck like- Sunday, with his first appearance in a impressed with Rafaela’s plate disci-
spring. The righthander hurled 2„ in- ly will be paired with Crawford and, game scheduled for March 12 against pline, an area of growth . . . The players
nings, yielding two hits and a run while ning of work, Winckowski’s second-to- perhaps, Winckowski with Whitlock for the Cardinals at JetBlue Park. who stayed back at Fenway South went
striking out a pair in the Sox’ 2-1 loss to last pitch was his hardest, clocking in at the finale. “My arm feels great,” said Jansen, through a two-hour workout . . . The
the Tigers. 96 miles per hour on the outside corner “We’re covered,” Cora said. who was slowed by some shoulder stiff- Sox, who have averaged 8,631 fans
“I’m just trying to make sure I hold of the plate. The Sox will bring along a solid ness early in camp and has been largely through four games at JetBlue Park
velo,” Winckowski said. “I want to be Winckowski’s velocity really plays number of everyday players for the on his own program since. “Everything (one sellout) host the Rays Tuesday.
more toward my reliever bullpen up, he said, when he’s letting his body trip,, including Triston Casas, Trevor is on schedule.”
through four, five, or six innings as we flow. Story, Tyler O’Neill, Rafael Devers, and Once he joins exhibition play, Jans- Peter Abraham of the Globe staff
build up in the spring. And then just “When I throw 80 percent, I usually Masataka Yoshida. en will pitch every few days with a final contributed to this report. Julian
working on the breaking balls, slider. throw harder,” he said. “The first two “We’re taking this very serious,” Cora appearance tentatively scheduled for McWilliams can be reached at
Just chipping away at that.” innings I was kind of out there trying to said. “I think it’s a good thing for us, March 25 at Texas. That would give him julian.mcwilliams@globe.com. Follow
Though it came in just his third in- chuck it. And then the last inning kind kind of like a change of pace, moving two days off before Opening Day in Se- him @byJulianMack.

Improvements at
hand(s) for Devers
to better his swing
uRED SOX
Continued from Page C1
helped to simplify his load, slow-
ing down his thought process,
and, thus, having his hands
ready to fire through the zone.
“I think for him the root of it
is consistency,” Red Sox hitting
coach Pete Fatse said. “When we
can get a good-to-very-good Ra-
fael Devers, more often than
not, he’s going to be in the MVP
conversation, which is our goal
for him.”
Only special hitters can have
so many different movements in
their setup and still be on time,
which is why Devers was still
able to compile more hardware
for a shelf at his home in the Do-
minican Republic. That said,
Devers’s movements last year
became too exaggerated, in part,
because he was trying to do too
much to catch up with velocity.
He became overzealous, throw-
ing his mechanics out of sorts.
“As much of it was shorten-
ing up the move, we’ve seen as a
hitting staff it has quieted his
body a lot now,” Fatse said. “We
feel like that’s where some of the
bigger moves tend to take place.
When his momentum and his
body gets really going. He kind
of stretched out, so to speak,
and he gets long, so just trying
to keep him more compact as
long as we can.”
The long swing led to Devers
becoming pull-happy last sea-
son. His ability to backspin a
ball to the opposite field with
authority escaped him. Case in
point: Devers did not hit an op-
posite-field homer from June 10
to Sept. 15. So far this spring,
Devers has two homers, both to
the opposite field.
“We’ve been very open about
talking about that with him,”
Fatse said. “His advantage, espe-
cially at Fenway Park, is that he
can mis-hit balls that go to the
fence.
“He can be late and hit home
runs and doubles. So a lot of it’s
just getting back to making that
the strength for him.”
Since pitchers supply much
of the power with the significant
uptick in velocity, hitters’ move-
ments have become more sim-
plified without sacrificing much
power.
That will be the case especial-
ly for Devers, who has some of
the quickest hands in baseball.
“We see around the league,
all the good hitters now have
their hands closer to their shoul-
der,” Cora said.
Devers has used his voice
more this spring. He has called
out ownership for not adding
talent around him. He has made
it known what his expectations
are for his Sox club despite the
outside noise picking them to
finish last in the American
League East for a third straight
season.
Ultimately, the noise will
have to come from Devers’s bat,
as it always has. The adjustment
of his hands from high to low
gives the Sox confidence that his
skill set will be amplified.
“He knows he can just touch
a ball and it can go 400 feet,”
Fatse said. “It’s about maximiz-
ing contact and using the whole
field.”
Julian McWilliams can be
reached at
BARRY CHIN/GLOBE STAFF
julian.mcwilliams@globe.com.
Follow him @byJulianMack. Despite being the focal point of the lineup for opposing pitching staffs, Rafael Devers had 33 homers and 100 RBIs last year.

Dartmouth men’s basketball players to vote on forming union Tuesday
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Dartmouth men's basketball players remain on
schedule to vote Tuesday on whether to form the
nation’s first-ever college athletes’ labor union af-
ter a National Labor Relations Board official reject-
ed the school’s request to reopen the case. NLRB
regional director Laura Sacks denied the college’s
request Monday, saying there was no new evidence
that wasn’t previously available to Dartmouth. Still
pending is a request by the school to put off the
vote. Sacks ruled Feb. 5 that Dartmouth basketball
players are employees of the school, clearing the
way for an election on whether they want to union-
ize.
BASEBALL
Donaldson, 38, is retiring
Josh Donaldson, 38, said he is retiring after a
13-year career in which he was voted the 2015 AL
MVP and was selected to three All-Star Games.
Donaldson split last season between the Yankees
and the Brewers. Donaldson was among the top
SportsLog
third basemen from 2013-17 with Oakland and To-
ronto.
Wheeler, Phillies: $126m deal
Zack Wheeler and the Phillies agreed on a $126
million, three-year contract for 2025-27, the
fourth-highest average salary in baseball history at
$42 million. The Phillies’ ace gets $23.5 million
this year in the final season of a $118 million, five-
year contract, one of the best free agent contracts
in Phillies history.
NHL
Ruff fired as coach of Devils
The Devils fired coach Lindy Ruff and named
assistant Travis Green as the interim replacement.
General manager Tom Fitzgerald made the sur-
prising move with less than 30 games left in the
NHL season. The Devils have lost five of seven to
fall further out of playoff contention. Ruff, 64, was
in his fourth season with the team . . . Capitals cen-
ter Evgeny Kuznetsov is expected to report to the
Hershey Bears after clearing waivers. Not yet
cleared to play while receiving care under the
NHL/NHLPA player assistance program, the 31-
year-old will not speak to reporters until he’s able
to take part in games.
GOLF
Eckroat wins delayed Cognizant
Austin Eckroat waited a long time to become a
winner on the PGA Tour. Another day didn’t hurt.
Eckroat got the first victory of his tour career, top-
ping Erik van Rooyen and Min Woo Lee by three
shots to win the weather-delayed Cognizant Classic
at Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. Among his prizes:
$1.62 million — by far his biggest golf payday —
along with tour status for two years and a trip to
the Masters for the first time. Eckroat shot a final
round of 4-under-par 67, finishing at 17-under
267. Van Rooyen had a 63 Sunday to finish at 14
BRENNAN ASPLEN/GETTY IMAGES
under. Cameron Young, K.H. Lee, Shane Lowry,
David Skinns, and Jake Knapp wrapped up at 13 Austin Eckroat captured his first PGA Tour
under Monday. win, and the spoils with it: a Masters invite.
T U E S D A Y, M A R C H 5 , 2 0 2 4 T h e B o s t o n G l o b e Sports C3

Bruins

Normally gregarious Montgomery goes gruff

By Kevin Paul Dupont
GLOBE STAFF
TORONTO — Like his team’s
play of late, coach Jim Mont-
gomery wasn’t himself follow-
ing the Bruins’
BRUINS day-of-game
NOTEBOOK skate Monday
morning at
Scotiabank Arena.
Normally gregarious and
happy to deal with the media’s
daily stream of questions, the
54-year-old bench boss had little
to share in the hallway outside
the dressing room.
Montgomery, while not rude
or impolite, was terse with his
comments, flat of disposition,
and overall acted like a man
wishing he’d pulled on a
HAZMAT suit prior to the gag-
gle that clocked in at precisely
two minutes — the length, per-
haps ironically, of a minor pen-
alty.
What was the topic in the
room after Montgomery and
staff reviewed videotape of Sat-
urday’s lackluster loss to the Is-
landers?
“Getting back to our check-
ing habits,” he told NESN re-
porter Sophia Jurksztowicz.
Why have those habits
slipped of late?
“It’s probably slipped since
the All-Star break,” rightly noted
Montgomery to a Toronto media
member’s inquiry, his Bruins
having lost 9 of 13 outings be-
fore beating the Maple Leafs,
4-1, Monday night. “It’s a matter
of [the coaching staff] not deliv-
ering the message well enough
and players not executing.”
What sense of urgency was
his team exhibiting?
“We’ve been talking about
getting our game going,” he said
in reply to another local report-
er’s question, “and raising our
level to get ready for the play-
offs.”
The entire brief session was
akin to those pins-in-the-eyes
media sessions that were the
trademark of one Bill Belichick
for most of his two-decade tour
as Patriots boss. No one in the
press corps was getting fat
(here’s to you, Mama Cass) off
the tiny morsels Montgomery
dished.
It was a marked departure
from how a humorous, animat-
ed Montgomery entertained me-
dia members during All Star
Weekend in the city when he
was the skipper of the Atlantic
Division bench.
The Bruins at the time stood
an impressive 31-9-9 and had
just slapped down the Flyers,
6-2, in a laugher on the road in
Philadelphia.
They had outscored the op-
position by 30 goals in 17 games
since the December holiday
break. Montgomery had them
rolling again, much like the re-
cord-setting 65-12-5 effort of his
first year behind the Boston
bench.
Perhaps the personality
change will turn out to be Mont-
gomery dialing in a change in
approach as part of an attempt
to recapture the attention of his
charges. In the 13 games prior
to Monday night’s win, the Bru-
ins had been outscored by 11
goals, production nearly polar
opposite of the pluck they dem-
onstrated leading up to All-Star
weekend.
Three of a kind
Morgan Geekie’s hat trick
last Thursday, pacing a 5-4 win
over the Golden Knights marked
the third time this season a Bru-
the Boston media that some-
thing could be cooking on the
trade front.
Jake DeBrusk, widely consid-
ered the Bruin most likely to be
traded ahead of the deadline,
finished with a goal and an as-
sist. The goal was the lone shot
he landed on net.
Hit or be hit
The teams combined on 106
hits, the most in a game this sea-
son involving the Bruins, who
delivered a season-high 51. The
previous combined high for the
Bruins was 89 in an overtime
loss Feb. 17 to the Kings. Lots of
contact, for sure, but no demoli-
tion-derby collisions . . . Star
Maple Leafs pivot Auston Mat-
thews, who leads the league
with 53 goals, was kept off the
FRANK GUNN/THE CANADIAN PRESS VIA AP
scoreboard despite landing five
John Tavares was the lone Maple Leaf to score on Bruins goalie Jeremy Swayman (32 saves). shots on net . . . David Pas-
trnak’s seven shots on net boost-
in clicked for his first career hat- trick for the Islanders in the Friday at 3 p.m. Coyle came to ed his league leading total to
tie — all at TD Garden. Geekie, opening 12:19 Saturday, as the Bruins as the deadline ap- 309; the Avalanche’s Nathan
playing in his 235th career humbling as it was for the Bru- proached in February 2019, MacKinnon is 13 back at 296 . . .
game, connected at even ins to endure, fell far outside the making him well acquainted The Bruins will face the Oilers
strength on all three goals. He NHL record for the fastest hat with what can be an unsettling on TD Garden ice Tuesday, and
started the scoring Monday trick to start a game. experience. the Maple Leafs will be on
night in the first period vs. the On Dec. 26, 1918, Cy Den- “It’s weird, it is, your whole Causeway Street for a rematch
Maple Leafs with his 14th goal neny of the Toronto Arenas world kind of changes,” he said. Thursday. The four-game home-
of the season. clicked for three in the opening “Maybe if you’re a single guy it stand will continue against the
Charlie Coyle, who scored 5:15 against the Ottawa Sena- can be a little easier . . . but if Penguins in a Saturday matinee
one on the power play, another tors. you are married and have kids, I before the Blues visit town Mon-
at even strength. and another In the game’s modern era, on don’t think a lot of people see day . . . Matt Grzelcyk was felled
into an empty net, delivered his Jan. 14, 1990, the Calgary that side of it. You have to pick and bloodied by a high stick
first career hat trick Nov. 9 in a Flames’ Brian MacLellan set the up and move and you are mov- while practicing as a penalty
5-2 win over the Islanders. It mark with his three, also good ing right away, while your wife killer late in the morning skate.
was his 798th regular-season for a 3-0 lead, in the opening and kid have to hold down the Bleeding around the mouth, the
game. 5:21 against the Blackhawks. fort. That can be a tough thing.” defenseman quickly righted
Danton Heinen scored twice Palmeiri, facing Linus Ull- General manager Don himself and made his way to the
at even strength and once on the mark in the Boston net, opened Sweeney and team president dressing room for repairs. He
power play in a 9-4 thumping of the scoring at 3:32, and followed Cam Neely were not spotted in played 20:48 vs. the Maple
the Canadiens Jan. 20. It was up at 5:27 and 12:19, for a the stands during the morning Leafs.
Heinen’s 450th career game. three-goal haul in a span of 8:47. workout. Typically, one or both
make a point of watching the Kevin Paul Dupont can be
Fast, not fastest Deadline draws near club’s workouts, and their ab- reached at
Kyle Palmieri’s natural hat The NHL trade deadline is sence led to speculation among kevin.dupont@globe.com.

NHL Bruins find game in Toronto

PANTHERS 4, RANGERS 2
Florida ......................................... 0 2 2 — 4
NY Rangers ................................ 1 1 0 — 2
First period — 1. NY Rangers, Cuylle 11 (Trouba,
Miller), 16:39 (pp). Penalties — Tkachuk, Fla (rough-
ing), 14:39. Stenlund, Fla (holding), 17:15. Edstrom,
NYR (interference), 19:22.
Second period — 2. Florida, Reinhart 43 (Barkov,
uBRUINS
EASTERN CONFERENCE Verhaeghe), 10:11 (pp). 3. Florida, Reinhart 44 (Bark- Continued from Page C1
ov, Forsling), 12:56. 4. NY Rangers, Kreider 31 (Tro-
ATLANTIC GP W L OL Pts. ROW GF GA check, Panarin), 15:26 (pp). Penalties — Trouba, NYR with seven making it to the net.
(tripping), 6:58. Rempe, NYR (tripping), 9:18. Lundell,
Florida 62 42 16 4 88 40 206 147 Fla, double minor (hi stick), 13:55. “One of those days,” said a
Boston 63 36 13 14 86 33 212 175 Third period — 5. Florida, Lomberg 5 (Forsling),
6:11. 6. Florida, Lundell 9 (Ekman-Larsson), 19:01 (en). smiling Pastrnak, noting that
Toronto 61 35 18 8 78 30 225 194 Penalties — None.
Shots on goal — Florida 7-10-12 — 29. NY Rangers despite all his shooting he end-
METROPOLITAN GP W L OL Pts. ROW GF GA 10-12-6 — 28.
Power plays — Florida 1-3; NY Rangers 2-4.
ed 0-3–3. “But, hey, Pav was
NY Rangers 62 40 18 4 84 39 206 172
Carolina 61 36 19 6 78 35 201 172
Goalies — Florida, Bobrovsky 31-11-2 (28 shots-26
saves). NY Rangers, Shesterkin 26-13-2 (28 shots-25
burying them. I recognized the
Philadelphia 63 32 23 8 72 28 190 186 saves). last couple of games I wasn’t
Referees — Wes McCauley, Peter MacDougall.
WILD-CARD GP W L OL Pts. ROW GF GA Linesmen — Mark Shewchyk, Derek Nansen. getting my shots . . . so that was
A — 18,006 (18,200). T — 2:30.
Detroit 61 33 22 6 72 31 216 195 my mind-set definitely tonight,
Tampa Bay 63 33 24 6 72 30 214 213 BLUES 2, FLYERS 1 to shoot.”
NY Islanders 60 26 20 14 66 25 180 201 Sw ayman, with rumors
St. Louis................................. 0 1 0 0 — 2
Washington 60 28 23 9 65 25 160 193 Philadelphia.......................... 1 0 0 0 — 1
New Jersey 61 30 27 4 64 30 202 214 Blues win shootout, 2-1
swirling that he is closing in on
Pittsburgh 59 27 24 8 62 25 174 166 First period — 1. Philadelphia, Laughton 10 (Poe- a rich contract extension (possi-
hling, Sanheim), 18:52. Penalties — Sundqvist, StL
Buffalo 62 29 29 4 62 28 183 187 (hooking), 12:33. bly for eight years), improved
Montreal 61 23 28 10 56 19 173 219 Second period — 2. St. Louis, Hayes 11 (Kapanen),
Ottawa 59 25 31 3 53 23 195 212
15:47. Penalties — Seeler, Phi (interference), 10:13. his record to 20-6-8. It’s the
Zamula, Phi (holding), 12:41.
Columbus 61 21 30 10 52 19 184 223 Third period — None. Penalties — Sundqvist, StL third consecutive season the ex-
(slashing), 11:21. Staal, Phi (tripping), 15:14.
Overtime — None. Penalties — None. UMaine standout has reached
WESTERN CONFERENCE Shootout — St. Louis 2 (Thomas NG, Neighbours G,
Schenn NG, Buchnevich G). Philadelphia 1 (Couturier
the 20-win plateau.
CENTRAL GP W L OL Pts. ROW GF GA NG, Foerster NG, Frost G, Tippett NG) “I wasn’t even aware this
Shots on goal — St. Louis 6-13-5-1 — 25. Philadel-
Winnipeg 60 39 16 5 83 39 187 144 phia 11-10-14-6 — 41. was my 20th tonight, cool,” an
Dallas 63 37 17 9 83 34 225 190 Power plays — St. Louis 0-3; Philadelphia 0-2.
*Colorado 62 37 20 5 79 35 227 194 Goalies — St. Louis, Binnington 22-16-3 (41 shots-40 animated Swayman said. “But
saves). Philadelphia, Ersson 17-12-5 (25 shots-24
PACIFIC GP W L OL Pts. ROW GF GA saves). you can’t do any of it without
Referees — Pierre Lambert, Brian Pochmara. Lines-
Vancouver 63 39 17 7 85 39 224 176 men — Brandon Gawryletz, Matt MacPherson. the team in front of you.”
Edmonton 59 37 20 2 76 35 212 172 A — 18,728 (19,523). T — 2:35.
It was NHL insider Elliotte
Vegas 62 33 22 7 73 29 201 185 Friedman who earlier in the
BLUE JACKETS 6, GOLDEN KNIGHTS 3
WILD-CARD GP W L OL Pts. ROW GF GA day reported Swayman was
Vegas .......................................... 2 0 1 — 3
Los Angeles 60 31 19 10 72 29 188 162 Columbus ................................... 2 1 3 — 6 inching toward a deal. He is on
Nashville 62 35 25 2 72 33 199 190 First period — 1. Columbus, Danforth 10 (Kuraly,
Werenski), 6:16. 2. Columbus, Nylander 2 (Texier, Pro- target once more to be a re-
St. Louis 61 32 26 3 67 29 176 187 vorov), 13:11. 3. Vegas, Morelli 3 (Froese), 17:19. 4. Ve-
*Calgary 60 30 25 5 65 30 189 187 gas, Karlsson 22 (Stephenson, Hague), 18:01. Penal- stricted free agent as of July 1.
ties — CSillinger, Cls (hooking), 7:17.
Minnesota 62 29 27 6 64 26 194 208 Second period — 5. Columbus, Gudbranson 4 (Gau- “I love Elliotte,” Swayman
*Seattle 60 26 23 11 63 23 166 171 dreau, Jenner), 17:21. Penalties — Amadio, VGK (hold-
said. “But I’ll leave that to my
ing), 11:56.
Arizona 61 25 31 5 55 23 180 201
Anaheim 61 22 36 3 47 21 162 216
Third period — 6. Columbus, Nylander 3
(CSillinger), 3:23. 7. Vegas, Stephenson 14 (Theodore,
agent.”
CLAUS ANDERSEN/GETTY IMAGES
San Jose 60 15 39 6 36 14 129 235 Amadio), 10:16. 8. Columbus, Chinakhov 16 (Marchen- The Bruins are back to work
ko, Bean), 11:20. 9. Columbus, Nylander 4 (Texier),
*Chicago 61 15 41 5 35 14 125 218 18:49 (en). Penalties — Cotter, VGK (slashing), 12:19. Tuesday night at the Garden to Morgan Geekie opened the scoring against Tyler Bertuzzi
* — Not including late game; ROW — Regulation plus overtime wins Shots on goal — Vegas 11-13-16 — 40. Columbus 11-
13-9 — 33. host the Oilers. (right) and the Maple Leafs with goal No. 14 of the season.
THE PLAYOFF FORMAT Power plays — Vegas 0-1; Columbus 0-2.
Goalies — Vegas, Hill 15-7-2 (32 shots-27 saves). Co- “Get home,” Pastrnak said,
Eight teams in each conference qualify. The top three teams from each division comprise the lumbus, Tarasov 5-8-2 (40 shots-37 saves).
first six spots. The two remaining teams with the most points, regardless of division, qualify for Referees — Francois St.Laurent, Furman South. “and get ready for those fly guys Just short of three minutes had no chance to stop it.
the final two wild-card spots. Linesmen — Ben O'Quinn, Kilian McNamara. tomorrow.” later, at 12:42, Zacha snapped DeBrusk’s goal, No. 14 for
A — 17,338 (18,144). T — 2:31.
MONDAY’S RESULTS In need of a strong 20 min- in a power-play goal for the the season but only his second
Boston 4 at Toronto 1 St. Louis 2 at Philadelphia 1 (OT) AVALANCHE 5, BLACKHAWKS 0 utes to re-establish their game, two-goal lead, again with Pas- since the All-Star break, provid-
At Columbus 6 Vegas 3 At Colorado 5 Chicago 0 Chicago....................................... 0 0 0 — 0 the Bruins came up with a gem trnak delivering the primary ed a 3-0 lead that the Bruins
Colorado ..................................... 2 2 1 — 5
Florida 4 at NY Rangers 2 Seattle at Calgary
First period — 1. Colorado, MacKinnon 38 (Toews, in the first period, strutting out apple. Zacha unloaded from the carried into the third. The
TUESDAY’S GAMES Makar), 12:31. 2. Colorado, Drouin 11 (Colton, Girard),
to a 2-0 lead on the strength of mid-slot, between the hash strike came with 5:07 gone in
17:22. Penalties — Cogliano, Col (tripping), 7:46. Ko-
Edmonton at Boston 7:30 Seattle at Winnipeg 8 rchinski, Chi (holding), 18:40.
Second period — 3. Colorado, Makar 14 (MacKin-
a 13-11 shot advantage. marks, and ex-Boston College the second and with help from
Florida at New Jersey 7 Chicago at Arizona 9 non, Rantanen), 12:38. 4. Colorado, Parise 4 (Jones,
MacKinnon), 17:38. Penalties — Cogliano, Col (trip-
During the club’s morning goaltender Joe Woll (23 saves) Charlie Coyle. The speedy De-
Columbus at Pittsburgh 7 Vancouver at Los Angeles 10:30 ping), 14:05. Makar, Col (interference), 18:40. meeting, coach Jim Montgom- Brusk ripped a sharp wrister by
Third period — 5. Colorado, MacKinnon 39 (Drouin,
St. Louis at NY Islanders 7:30 Dallas at San Jose 10:30 Lehkonen), 15:35 (pp). Penalties — Byram, Col (slash- ery said during his pregame in- Woll from the high inner edge
Montreal at Nashville 8 ing), 9:48. Donato, Chi (slashing), 14:25.
Shots on goal — Chicago 15-8-14 — 37. Colorado 12- terview with 98.5’s Bob Beers, Bruins 4, Maple Leafs 1 of the left wing circle.
SUNDAY’S RESULTS 14-11 — 37. At Scotiabank Arena, Toronto
Power plays — Chicago 0-4; Colorado 1-2. the Bruins watched video of no FIRST PERIOD
Overall, though, the Bruins
Arizona 5 at Washington 2 At Minnesota 4 San Jose 3 Goalies — Chicago, Mrazek 13-24-4 (37 shots-32
fewer than eight odd-man again were guilty of not push-
saves). Colorado, Annunen 3-2-1 (37 shots-37 saves). Penalty — Boston, Shattenkirk (hi stick) 6:25
At Los Angeles 5 New Jersey 1 Vancouver 2 at Anaheim 1 Boston 1, Toronto 0 — Geekie 14 (Pastrnak,
Referees — Carter Sandlak, Graham Skilliter. Lines-
men — Libor Suchanek, Bevan Mills.
breakdowns in Saturday night’s Lohrei) 9:43 ing the puck enough when
Winnipeg 5 at Buffalo 2 At Edmonton 6 Pittsburgh 1 A — 18,125 (17,809). T — 2:28. loss to the Islanders. Not the Penalty — Toronto, McCabe (slashing) 11:24 holding the lead. They were
Boston 2, Toronto 0 — Zacha 13 (Pastrnak,
way to please the coach. DeBrusk) 12:42 (pp) outshot, 13-7, in the middle pe-
“ We h av e t o ge t bac k to Penalty — Boston, Carlo (high stick) 19:22
SECOND PERIOD
riod, which could have been a
checking,” a frustrated Mont- Boston 3, Toronto 0 — DeBrusk 14 (Coyle, prescription for another night
Oilers thumbnails gomery said.
Marchand) 5:07
Penalty — Boston, Lohrei (hooking) 14:57 of chasing their lead. But the
Checking and shooting. Penalty — Toronto, Knies (hooking) 17:09 DeBrusk goal provided them
R When, where: Tuesday, 7:30 p.m., at TD Garden. THIRD PERIOD
R TV, radio: NESN, WBZ-FM (98.5). When the first period ended, Boston 3, Toronto 1 — Tavares 19 (Rielly, Ly- some valuable breathing space.
R Goals: Zach Hyman 42, Leon Draisaitl 30, Connor Geekie had his fourth goal in ubushkin) 3:52
The three-goal lead at 40:00
Boston 4, Toronto 1 — Zacha 14 (Pastrnak,
McDavid 23. three games, and Zacha his first Heinen) 10:35 was their biggest in nearly a
R Assists: McDavid 74, Draisaitl 48, Evan Bouchard Penalty — Boston, Grzelcyk (tripping) 18:26
43. strike in just shy of a month. SCORE BY PERIOD
month, dating to a 4-0 shutout
R Goaltending: Stuart Skinner (28-13-2, 2.64), Calvin Geekie, a throwback Boston 2 1 1 — 4 of the Canucks at TD Garden on
Toronto 0 0 1 — 1
Pickard (8-3-0, 2.40). straight-line player, dashed to Feb. 8. The Bruins had all four
SHOTS BY PERIOD
R Head to head: This is the second and final meet-
ing. The Bruins won the first, 6-5, in overtime, Feb.
the top of the crease and scored Boston 13 7 10 — 30 goals that night in the first two
Toronto 10 13 10 — 33
21. the opening goal at 9:43. Pas- Power plays — Boston 1 of 2; Toronto 0 of 4.
periods, and allowed the Ca-
R Miscellany: Edmonton has won four straight . . . trnak had the primary helper, Goalies — Boston, Swayman 20-6-8 (33 nucks only 17 shots.
McDavid is the NHL’s assist leader . . . Hyman is tied JASON FRANSON/CANADIAN PRESS VIA AP) shots-32 saves). Toronto, Woll 9-6-1 (30 shots-
dishing from the left wing circle 26 saves).
for second in goals . . . The Oilers score the third- Referees — Eric Furlatt, Jon McIsaac. Lines-
most goals per game (3.56) . . . Draisaitl recorded Zach Hyman (left) and Leon Draisaitl are a pair and putting the puck right on men — Ryan Daisy, Devin Berg. Kevin Paul Dupont can be
three assists in Sunday’s 6-1 win over the Penguins. of potent offensive weapons for Edmonton. Geekie’s stick blade at the top of Attendance — 18,911 (18,819). Time — 2:24. reached at
the blue paint. kevin.dupont@globe.com.
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Brown is
up to the NBA EASTERN CONFERENCE
Patriots offer WR Bourne
a deal before free agency
challenge
ATLANTIC W L Pct. GB Streak Home Conf.
Boston 48 12 .800 — W 11 29-3 33-6
New York 36 25 .590 12½ W1 20-11 25-13
Philadelphia 35 25 .583 13 W2 19-13 23-17
By Christopher Price the Patriots bring me back!” following an
Brooklyn 24 36 .400 24 W2 15-17 16-19
GLOBE STAFF Instagram post from DeMario Douglas.
uON BASKETBALL Toronto 23 38 .377 25½ W1 13-18 16-23 The Patriots have offered wide receiver Ken- Bourne is one of several pending free agents
Continued from Page C1 CENTRAL W L Pct. GB Streak Home Conf. drick Bourne a new deal ahead of free agency, on the Patriots roster, a group that includes of-
line and the result was Boston’s Milwaukee 40 21 .656 — W5 24-7 29-13 according to a league source on Monday. fensive lineman Mike Onwenu, safety Kyle
fewest 3-point attempts in three Cleveland 39 21 .650 ½ L1 20-11 26-15 Bourne, who will turn 29 in August, was Dugger, outside linebacker Josh Uche, and
Indiana 34 28 .548 6½ L2 20-12 25-15
years. *Chicago 28 32 .467 11½ L1 16-15 16-22 one of the most reliable aspects of the New tight ends Hunter Henry, Mike Gesicki, and
Mazzulla and Brown are all Detroit 9 51 .150 30½ L2 4-25 6-30 England passing game last season before sus- Pharaoh Brown.
about being challenged. For SOUTHEAST W L Pct. GB Streak Home Conf. taining a season-ending knee injury. In eight If Bourne reaches free agency later this
Mazzulla, he wants his team to Orlando 35 26 .574 — W3 21-8 24-15 games, he had 37 catches for 406 yards and month, he isn’t expected to be among the top-
be as ready as possible for the Miami 34 26 .567 ½ W1 16-13 22-16 four touchdowns. tier receivers on the market, but the smart,
Atlanta 26 34 .433 8½ L2 15-16 15-26
postseason and Kerr’s ploy to The 6-foot-1-inch, 205-pounder, who has well-respected, and versatile veteran should
Charlotte 15 46 .246 20 L4 8-22 9-29
force Brown into taking continu- *Washington 9 51 .150 25½ L 14 3-25 6-32 spent seven seasons in the NFL (four with San find no shortage of suitors. The Bills, Colts,
ous shots and therefore denying Francisco before joining the Patriots for the Browns, and Texans could be in the market for
Tatum, Derrick White, and Jrue WESTERN CONFERENCE 2021 season), has 264 career catches for 3,409 him.
Holiday the opportunity to score PACIFIC W L Pct. GB Streak Home Conf. yards and 21 touchdowns.
was daring, if not foolish. LA Clippers 39 20 .661 — W2 21-8 24-16 On social media this offseason, Bourne cer- Christopher Price can be reached at
*Sacramento 34 25 .576 5 W1 16-10 23-16
For Brown, he wants to quiet Phoenix 35 26 .574 5 L2 20-13 21-19 tainly has sounded amenable to the idea of a christopher.price@globe.com. Follow him
naysayers who complain about Golden State 32 28 .533 7½ L1 16-15 16-21 return to New England, commenting, “Make @cpriceglobe.
his salary or don’t feel he’s an *LA Lakers 33 29 .532 7½ L1 21-10 22-20
All-NBA player. During the past SOUTHWEST W L Pct. GB Streak Home Conf.
five games, Brown has seven New Orleans 36 25 .590 — W1 18-12 24-18 NFL NOTEBOOK
Dallas 34 27 .557 2 L2 18-14 21-18
turnovers in 156 minutes, an av-

Broncos to cut QB Wilson

Houston 26 34 .433 9½ W1 20-10 18-18
erage of 1.4 per game. Brown is Memphis 20 41 .328 16 L5 7-24 13-28
not only scoring at a personal- San Antonio 13 48 .213 23 W2 7-21 8-26
best clip, he’s taking care of the NORTHWEST W L Pct. GB Streak Home Conf.
ball. *Oklahoma City 42 18 .700 — W1 24-6 26-14
With Tatum and Brown play- Minnesota 42 19 .689 ½ L2 22-8 29-10 ASSOCIATED PRESS
Denver 42 19 .689 ½ W6 24-5 24-13
ing their best basketball of the *Utah 27 34 .443 15½ L3 18-11 14-22 The Broncos told Russell
season — Tatum was named Portland 17 42 .288 24½ W2 9-20 8-32 Wilson Monday that they’re
* — Not including late game
Eastern Conference Player of the going to release him next
MONDAY’S RESULTS
Month for February — the Celt- week, just 18 months after
ics are equipped for a key five- Memphis 106 at Brooklyn 102 Washington at Utah signing the Super Bowl-win-
At Milwaukee 113 LA Clippers 106 Chicago at Sacramento
game road trip that begins Tues- ning quarterback to a five-
At Minnesota 119 Portland 114 Okla. City at LA Lakers
day in Cleveland and takes the year, $242 million contract ex-
TUESDAY’S GAMES
Celtics to Denver for a show- tension.
BOSTON at Cleveland 7:30 New Orleans at Toronto 7:30
down against a team that won at The Broncos still owe Wil-
Orlando at Charlotte 7 San Antonio at Houston 8
the Garden (Jan. 19) and then son his $39 million salary for
Detroit at Miami 7:30 Indiana at Dallas 8:30
Phoenix, Portland, and Utah. 2024 minus whatever he’d
Philadelphia at Brooklyn 7:30 Phoenix at Denver 10 CANDICE WARD/GETTY IMAGES
The Celtics will be on nation- sign for with another team,
Atlanta at New York 7:30
al TV all week, a showcase op- which would likely be the vet- Russell Wilson will cost the Broncos a record $89 million
SUNDAY’S RESULTS
portunity for Tatum in his MVP eran’s minimum salary of hit in dead cap charges over the next two seasons.
At BOSTON 140 Golden St. 88 At Toronto 111 Charlotte 106
surge and Brown to continue to $1.21 million.
Philadelphia 120 at Dallas 116 New York 107 at Cleveland 98
display his improvement. Bos- One potential landing spot has agreed to a two-year, $52 Will the Chiefs be able to work
LA Clippers 89 at Minnesota 88 At San Antonio 117 Indiana 105
ton has won 11 consecutive is Pittsburgh. The Steelers are million contract to remain out a long-term contract with
At Orlando 113 Detroit 91 Okla. City 118 at Phoenix 110
games and are coasting toward set to visit Denver next sea- with the club that drafted him Jones, and can they likewise
the No. 1 seed in the Eastern son. seventh overall in 2014, a per- sign Sneed to a lengthy deal?
Conference. But there remains The Broncos also will take son familiar with the deal told
work to be done, including for GRIZZLIES 106, NETS 102 TIMBERWOLVES 119-114 a record $89 million hit in the Associated Press. Eagles’ Kelce retires
Brown, as the Celtics want to MEMPHIS PORTLAND dead cap charges over the next The person spoke to the AP Jason Kelce has retired af-
continue to overcome challenges FG FT Reb FG FT Reb
Min M-A M-A O-T A F Pt
two seasons. on condition of anonymity be- ter 13 seasons with the Eagles.
Min M-A M-A O-T A F Pt
from opposing coaches. Williams Jr. .............. 34 4-11 2-2 1-5 6 3 11 Walker ...................... 28 2-9 0-0 1-8 1 5 4 Wilson enjoyed a bounce- cause the contract had not Kelce, 36, officially called it
Aldama ..................... 32 5-11 0-0 1-5 4 1 12 Banton ...................... 33 7-20 3-5 3-7 4 1 18
“On this team, it’s about mak- Jemison..................... 19 5-6 0-0 1-7 0 6 10 Reath......................... 39 10-14 1-2 2-3 1 4 26 back year last season under been finalized. ESPN said it quits at the Eagles' NovaCare
Murray...................... 35 6-11 1-1 4-5 2 1 14
ing the right plays, letting guys Konchar .................... 31 2-3 4-4 2-8 4 3 9
Simons...................... 43 13-26 3-3 0-5 14 4 34 new coach Sean Payton, includes $35 million guaran- Complex, ending a career in
Kennard.................... 27 8-11 3-3 0-2 7 0 25
feel involved and I feel like I’ve Hurt ........................... 21 2-7 0-0 3-5 0 2 5
Hagans...................... 20
Brown.......................... 9
0-1
1-1
0-0
0-0
0-3 4 4
1-3 2 3
0
2
throwing for 26 touchdowns teed. which he became not only one
Jackson..................... 24 2-9 2-2 1-2 1 1 7
been doing that all season long Rupert ....................... 23 5-7 0-0 1-6 0 3 13 with eight interceptions. of the great centers of his era
and I’m going to keep doing
LaRavia ..................... 29 4-12
Stevens..................... 24 6-12
6-8 4-10 3 4
1-3 2-6 1 2
14
13
Minaya...................... 10 1-3 0-0 0-1 0 1
Totals ....................... 45-92 8-11 12-41 28 26
3
114 But it wasn’t good enough Chiefs tag CB Sneed who played a key role in the
Totals ....................... 38-82 18-22 15-50 26 22 106
that,” Brown said. “[Tuesday] is FG%: .463, FT%: .818. 3-pt. goals: 12-37, .324 (Wil-
FG%: .489, FT%: .727. 3-pt. goals: 16-39, .410 (Walk-
er 0-3, Banton 1-6, Reath 5-6, Murray 1-5, Simons 5-13,
and Payton benched him for The Chiefs placed the fran- franchise's lone Super Bowl
going to present other challeng- liams Jr. 1-4, Aldama 2-6, Konchar 1-1, Kennard 6-9, Rupert 3-3, Minaya 1-3). Team rebounds: 7. Team
turnovers: 14 (25 pts.). Blocks: 3 (Reath, Murray,
Jarrett Stidham for the final chise tag on L’Jarius Sneed, championship but a beloved
Hurt 1-6, Jackson 1-4, LaRavia 0-4, Stevens 0-3). Team
es. And the day after and next rebounds: 10. Team turnovers: 19 (25 pts.). Blocks: 3 Brown). Turnovers: 13 (Banton, Reath 3, Simons 4, two games. Stidham went 1-1 though it is uncertain whether Philadelphia personality and
(Jemison, Jackson, Stevens). Turnovers: 18 (Williams Hagans 3, Brown, Rupert). Steals: 5 (Reath, Murray,
week and we should just contin- Jr. 2, Aldama 2, Jemison, Konchar 2, Kennard 5, Hurt, Hagans 3). Technicals: Banton, 6:40/1st, team, and the Broncos finished 8-9, that means one of the top cor- popular podcast host.
Jackson 2, LaRavia 3). Steals: 7 (Williams Jr. 2, Kon- 10:27/2nd.
ue to focus on that and that’s char 2, Hurt, LaRavia 2). their seventh straight losing nerbacks due to hit free agen-
what we do, just focus on what’s BROOKLYN
MINNESOTA
FG FT Reb season and their eighth in a cy will remain with the Super A save for ex-player
FG FT Reb Min M-A M-A O-T A F Pt
next and we’ve done a good job Min M-A M-A O-T A F Pt McDaniels ................ 24 3-7 3-6 2-4 1 2 9 row outside the playoffs. Bowl champions next season. A man has been charged
Finney-Smith ........... 37 3-8 0-0 4-5 5 4 9 Towns ....................... 21 5-12 4-6 2-4 1 4 14
of that all season. I think when C.Johnson................. 37 6-15 3-4 0-5 3 4 18 Gobert....................... 39 9-10 7-7 5-16 0 6 25 Payton hinted at an im- The Chiefs entered the off- with attempted murder in a
Alexander-Walker... 21 4-6 2-2 0-1 1 1 13
that adversity comes, we’ve just Claxton ..................... 33 8-10 5-8 1-6 2 2 21
Conley....................... 29 6-13 5-5 2-2 7 1 19
pending split at the NFL season with Sneed and All-Pro locker room attack at a subur-
Schroder................... 37 5-13 1-3 2-2 9 2 13
got to be ready to embrace it.” Bridges...................... 39 4-14 4-9 1-5 5 1 14
A.Edwards................ 35 4-10
Reid ........................... 23 4-5
4-6
0-2
0-4 6 2
0-5 0 0
13
12
Scouting Combine last week defensive tackle Chris Jones ban Detroit YMCA that was
Sharpe ...................... 14 1-3 2-4 1-3 1 1 4
The Celtics’ response to ad- Walker IV ................. 14 5-10 0-0 0-1 1 3 13
Morris ....................... 19 2-8 1-1 1-1 7 0 5 when talking about Denver’s preparing to hit free agency, broken up by former NFL
Anderson.................. 29 3-8 2-2 0-3 5 1 9
versity this season has been the Wilson....................... 12 1-1 2-2 2-5 1 2 5 Totals ....................... 40-79 28-37 12-40 28 17 119 long string of middling quar- and general manager Brett player Braylon Edwards.
Smith Jr. ................... 17 2-5 0-0 1-1 0 1 5
best in a generation. They have Totals ....................... 35-79 17-30 12-33 27 20 102 FG%: .506, FT%: .757. 3-pt. goals: 11-28, .393 (Mc- terbacks and suggested his job Veach made it clear that he Edwards said he was “just
Daniels 0-3, Towns 0-3, Alexander-Walker 3-5, Conley
lost multiple games in a row FG%: .443, FT%: .567. 3-pt. goals: 15-42, .357 2-6, A.Edwards 1-3, Reid 4-4, Morris 0-2, Anderson was to make sure “the next hoped to keep both of them. minding my business” Friday
(Finney-Smith 3-6, C.Johnson 3-10, Schroder 2-7, 1-2). Team rebounds: 10. Team turnovers: 11 (16 pts.).
once — in November at Minne- Bridges 2-8, Sharpe 0-1, Walker IV 3-6, Wilson 1-1, Blocks: 7 (Towns 2, Gobert 3, Reid, Anderson). Turn- one” was the right QB to lead But the tag number of when he heard a dispute
Smith Jr. 1-3). Team rebounds: 12. Team turnovers: 13 overs: 11 (Towns, Gobert 3, Conley 2, A.Edwards 2,
sota and Philadelphia. (16 pts.). Blocks: 6 (Finney-Smith, C.Johnson, Claxton, Reid, Morris, Anderson). Steals: 9 (Gobert, Alexander- the Broncos. $19.8 million for Sneed is far about loud music at the recre-
Walker IV 2, Smith Jr.). Turnovers: 13 (Finney-Smith 3, Walker 2, Conley 3, A.Edwards, Morris, Anderson).
The opening challenge on more palatable than the ation center in Farmington
this road trip may have gotten
C.Johnson 3, Claxton, Bridges 3, Sharpe, Wilson,
Smith Jr.). Steals: 10 (Finney-Smith, C.Johnson 2,
Schroder, Bridges 2, Sharpe, Walker IV, Smith Jr. 2).
Portland ............................. 26
Minnesota.......................... 28
22
27
34
33
32
31
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—
114
119
Bucs’ Evans to stay? roughly $32 million that Hills, Mich.
easier with Cavaliers All-Star Technicals: Claxton, 2:06/3rd. Flagrant fouls: Walker
IV, 6:01/2nd.
A — 18,024 (19,356). T — 2:17. Officials — Kevin
Scott, Michael Smith, Evan Scott.
There’s still a chance Mike would be owed to Jones, mak- Edwards said he stopped
Donovan Mitchell out with a left Memphis ............................ 29 24 27 26 — 106 Evans could play his entire ca- ing the choice between the the assault of an 80-year-old
Brooklyn............................. 31 21 25 25 — 102
knee issue. Devin Booker LEADERS reer with the Buccaneers. players an easy one. man, who had a head injury.
A — 15,847 (17,732). T — 2:28. Officials — James Wil-
(sprained ankle) is questionable liams, Mitchell Ervin, CJ Washington. Not including yesterday’s games Instead of testing his worth The deadline to use the The 20-year-old suspect fled
to return by Saturday’s show- SCORING in free agency this winter, the franchise tag is Tuesday. on foot before he was cap-
down with the Suns. But the BUCKS 113, CLIPPERS 106 FG FT Pts. PPG
team’s career receiving leader Now comes the hard part: tured by police.
Doncic, DAL ........................... 622 381 1830 34.5
Celtics are more concerned with LA CLIPPERS
Gilgeous-Alexander,
OKC...................................
...... 653 461 1843 31.2
themselves, continuing their FG FT Reb

Laube proved he belonged

momentum and playing their
best basketball of the season be-
ginning in April. And that’s espe-
cially the case for Brown, who
has played with a quiet passion
all season because the pressure
was on.
“Having the right mentality
and being humble in our ap-
p r o a c h ,” B r o w n sa i d o f t he
team’s focus. “We could be on
the other side of that. We’ve had
some heartbreaking losses and
things not go in our direction
that cultivates that humility that
we play with. We’ve got to take
advantage of the moment.”
Gary Washburn is a Globe
columnist. He can be reached at
gary.washburn@globe.com.
Follow him @GwashburnGlobe.
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The cheers were for Jaylen
Brown, who lit up Golden
State Sunday at the Garden.
Antetokounmpo, MIL........... 679 430 1819 30.8
Min M-A M-A O-T A F Pt Mitchell, CLE ......................... 454 248 1315 28.0
Leonard .................... 37 6-19 2-3 0-4 5 2 16 Durant, PHX........................... 543 297 1500 27.8
George ...................... 36 10-17 3-7 1-5 1 5 29 Booker, PHX .......................... 480 307 1377 27.5
Zubac ........................ 24 2-4 2-2 4-11 4 3 6 Brunson, NYK........................ 550 301 1551 27.2
Curry, GSW............................ 508 249 1546 27.1
Mann......................... 19
Harden...................... 37 9-16
1-4 2-2
6-9
0-3 1 3
0-4 8 2
4
29 Tatum, BOS ........................... 524 319 1543 27.1
Powell ....................... 34 2-8 1-2 0-3 3 3 6 Fox, SAC................................. 498 232 1372 26.9
Theis.......................... 15 3-6 0-0 0-6 1 0 7 FIELD GOAL PERCENTAGE
Coffey ....................... 26 2-6 0-0 0-1 1 2 4 uCOMBINE LOCALS interior lineman who hopes to 4.57 time in the 40 (faster
FG Att. Pct.
Hyland....................... 11 2-4 0-0 0-1 1 1 5 Gafford, DAL .....................................234 343 .682
Continued from Page C1 be the latest in a line of BC of- than Florida State’s heralded
Totals ....................... 37-84 16-25 5-38 25 21 106 Poeltl, TOR ........................................248 378 .656
FG%: .440, FT%: .640. 3-pt. goals: 16-40, .400 (Leon- Zubac, LAC........................................236 361 .654 “I think the biggest take- fensive linemen (Pete Kendall, receiver Keon Coleman), led
Gobert, MIN.......................................306 473 .647
ard 2-8, George 6-10, Harden 5-10, Powell 1-6, Theis
1-2, Coffey 0-2, Hyland 1-2). Team rebounds: 13. Team Allen, CLE ..........................................356 562 .633
away from [the Senior Bowl] Dan Koppen, Damien Woody, FCS in touchdown catches last
turnovers: 14 (14 pts.). Blocks: 3 (Leonard, Harden,
Powell). Turnovers: 13 (Leonard, George 3, Zubac 2,
Duren, DET ........................................268 431 .622 was seeing if I’m able to com- Anthony Castonzo, and Tom season with 15.
Claxton, BKN.....................................260 419 .621
Mann, Harden 3, Powell, Coffey, Hyland). Steals: 9 Antetokounmpo, MIL ......................679 1097 .619 pete against the best of the Nalen) to make the leap to the Like fellow small-school
(Leonard 4, George 2, Powell 2, Coffey). Sabonis, SAC.....................................475 774 .614
MILWAUKEE Wagner, ORL.....................................251 423 .593 best,” he said. “ ‘Hey, like, am I NFL. prospect Laube, he’s hoping to
FG FT Reb REBOUNDS ready for it?’ And I think I kind “Boston College, because of make the most of his chance
Min M-A M-A O-T A F Pt
Crowder.................... 18 1-4 0-0 2-2 1 1 3
Off.
Sabonis, SAC ........................... 198
Def.
582
Tot.
780
Avg.
13.2
of showed I’m able to play that that lineage, those people, for this week.
Beasley ..................... 29 2-11 0-0 1-4 2 5 5
Lopez......................... 31 1-4 3-6 1-6 3 3 6
Gobert, MIN............................. 212 541 753 12.8 kind of caliber, and show ev- me and hopefully those people “It’s a huge opportunity,”
Davis, LAL ................................ 176 536 712 12.3
Beverley.................... 34 4-10 1-1 1-9 2 2 12 Jokic, DEN ................................ 169 553 722 12.2 eryone I truly belong.” after me, that’s why I went to said Coker, who had 59 catch-
Lillard........................ 42 12-22 13-13 0-4 4 3 41 Duren, DET............................... 147 384 531 11.8
Connaughton........... 17 2-3 3-4 0-1 0 1 8 Antetokounmpo, MIL............. 151 514 665 11.3 Laube, whose game plays BC,” Mahogany said. “It’s great es for 1,040 yards last season
Portis......................... 30 12-18 2-2 1-16 2 4 28 Nurkic, PHX ............................. 161 450 611 10.7
Gallinari .................... 17 1-2 2-2 1-2 3 1 4 Vucevic, CHI ............................ 155 432 587 10.7 like a slightly bulkier version to be here and great to show for the Crusaders. “I talk to
Green ........................ 22 2-4 0-0 0-2 3 0 6 Allen, CLE................................. 183
Adebayo, MIA.......................... 110
392
410
575
520
10.5
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of ex-Patriots running back my skills at the next level.” C.J. about it all the time. We’re
Totals ....................... 37-78 24-28 7-46 20 20 113
FG%: .474, FT%: .857. 3-pt. goals: 15-39, .385 ASSISTS Danny Woodhead (5-8, 204), Like Laube, Mahogany’s lo- so excited to be here. We’re so
(Crowder 1-3, Beasley 1-7, Lopez 1-2, Beverley 3-7, Lil- G Tot. Avg. would welcome the chance to cal ties make the possibility of honored to be here, just com-
lard 4-9, Connaughton 1-2, Portis 2-4, Gallinari 0-1, Haliburton, IND...................................49 556 11.3
Green 2-4). Team rebounds: 4. Team turnovers: 12 (15 Young, ATL..........................................51 553 10.8 stay in New England. being taken by the Patriots en- ing from Holy Cross, small-
pts.). Blocks: 3 (Lopez 2, Beverley). Turnovers: 11 Jokic, DEN............................................59 544 9.2
(Beasley, Beverley 2, Lillard 4, Connaughton, Portis, Doncic, DAL.........................................53 516 9.7 “That would be awesome. ticing. school guys. We just kind of
Gallinari, Green). Steals: 8 (Beasley 3, Beverley 4, Lil-
lard). Technicals: team, 5:02/4th.
Sabonis, SAC.......................................59
Harden, LAC........................................54
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448
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To be honest, that’s been my “It’s something I’ve been in have a chip on our shoulder,
LA Clippers ........................ 35 20 26 25 — 106 Jones, WAS..........................................60 435 7.3 home the past decade. So that that area for five years now, so, and really proud to represent
Milwaukee ......................... 25 23 25 40 — 113 James, LAL ..........................................54 427 7.9
A — 17,875 (17,500). T — 2:13. Officials — Curtis
VanVleet, HOU....................................53 420 7.9 would be pretty cool,” said playing for the Patriots would it.”
Gilgeous-Alexander, OKC.................59 385 6.5
Blair, Brent Barnaky, Matt Boland. Laube, a Westhampton, N.Y., be an experience for sure,” the Hanson, who called the op-
native who had an informal New Jersey native said. “I’ve portunity a “blessing,” is a 6-5,
meeting with the Patriots at been there. I know who they 300-pounder who started all
the combine. are. I mean, obviously they’ve 11 games last season at right
Cavaliers thumbnails “One of their scouts, Matt got a new coaching staff so I guard, ending as an All-ECAC
Evans, actually went to UNH. don’t know if they’ve watched selection.
R When, where: Tuesday, 7:30
p.m., at Rocket Mortgage Field- S o w e’ v e a l w a y s t a l k e d a me my whole career. But yeah, “It was an incredible mo-
House, Cleveland. bunch and connected with it would be nice to stay where ment for both of us,” said Han-
R TV, radio: TNT, NBCSB, WBOS- him a bunch.” you’ve been at.” son, recalling the moment he
FM (92.9).
R Scoring: Donovan Mitchell
Another pair of prospects While Boston College and Coker got the invitation.
(right) 28.0, Darius Garland 18.4, from larger programs but still standouts have been combine “ Pu tt i n g y o u r n a m e w i t h
Evan Mobley 15.9. with local ties are Boston Col- stalwarts over the years, play- someone like that, Gordie
R Rebounding: Jarrett Allen 10.5,
Mobley 10.3, Mitchell 5.4.
lege’s Christian Mahogany and ers from Holy Cross have been Lockbaum, is incredible. Up
R Assists: Mitchell 6.2, Garland 6.1, Elijah Jones. Jones made his few and far between. Wide re- for the Heisman Trophy, you
Caris LeVert 4.7. mark with a 42½-inch verti- ceiver Jalen Coker and offen- can’t do that anymore at Holy
R Head to head: This is the third MICHAEL REAVES/GETTY IMAGES
cal, best among all corner- sive lineman C.J. Hanson are Cross. So, it’s an incredible, in-
and final meeting. The Celtics won
Dec. 12 and 14 at TD Garden. backs. In addition, the 6-1½, the first Crusaders to get the credible honor.”
R Miscellany: Mitchell (knee) sat out Sunday’s loss to New York and will miss 185-pound Jones posted a call to Indy since Heisman fi-
another three games . . . Cleveland is 4-5 since its nine-game win streak ended 4.44 40 time, 10th overall in nalist Gordie Lockbaum in Christopher Price can be
. . . The Cavaliers entered Monday allowing the second-fewest points per game
(109.5) . . . Mitchell is fifth in scoring and third in 3-pointers per game (3.4) . . . his position group. 1988. reached at
Mobley is averaging 20.0 points and 14.3 rebounds over his last three games. Meanwhile, Mahogany, 6-3 Coker, a 6-1, 208-pound christopher.price@globe.com.
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INVITATION TO BID
The Woonsocket Housing Authority, Woonsocket, Rhode Is-
land, the Awarding Authority, invites sealed bids from Con-
tractors for completing roof replacement at Morin Heights,
RI 3-1 and Veterans’ Memorial, RI 3-2; in accordance with
the documents prepared by William Starck Architects, Inc.,
126 Cove Street, Fall River, Massachusetts.
The work generally includes, but is not limited to the fol-
lowing:
The scope of work, includes the removal and replacement
of existing asphalt-shingle roof assemblies at nineteen (19)
apartment buildings. Other incidental work shall include at-
tic ventilation, bathroom exhaust ventilation and encapsu-
lation of fascia/soffits/frieze boards with aluminum break
metal.
Bids are subject to Equal Employment Opportunities, bond-
ing requirements and other bidding and contract require-
ments as set forth in the construction documents.
Bids will be received until 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday,
March 27, 2024 at the Woonsocket Housing Authority, Mo-
rin Heights Administration Building, 66 Morin Heights Boule-
vard, Woonsocket, Rhode Island, 02895, at which time they
will be publicly opened and read aloud.
Bids shall be accompanied by a Bid Deposit that is not less
than five percent (5%) of the bid amount and made payable
to the Woonsocket Housing Authority.
Bid Forms and Bid Documents will be available for pick-up
free of charge, in PDF format on compact disc (CD) begin-
ning Wednesday, March 6, 2024 at the office of the Ar-
chitect, William Starck Architects, Inc., 126 Cove Street,
Fall River, Massachusetts, 02720, between the hours of
9:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m., Monday through Friday. Bidders
requesting Contract Documents to be mailed to them shall
include a separate check for thirty-five dollars ($35.00) per
set, payable to William Starck Architects, Inc., to cover
mailing and handling costs.
If mailed, bids shall be sent to the Woonsocket Housing
Authority, Morin Heights Administration Building, 66 Morin
Heights Boulevard, Woonsocket, Rhode Island, 02895 and
received no later than the date and time specified above.
A non-mandatory Pre-bid conference is scheduled for 9:30
A.M., Wednesday, March 13, 2024 at the project site,
Morin Heights Administration Building, 66 Morin Heights
Boulevard, Woonsocket, Rhode Island, 02895. Following,
the project site will be available for a Pre-Bid walk-through.
Attendance of prospective Bidders is strongly encouraged.
Bids are subject to prevailing wage rates as determined by
the U.S. Secretary of Labor.
The Woonsocket Housing Authority reserves the right to
reject any or all bids or to waive any informalities in the
bidding if it be in the public interest to do so.
WOONSOCKET HOUSING AUTHORITY
Todd A. Boisvert
Executive Director
AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY/AFFIRMATIVE ACTION EMPLOYER
INVITATION TO BID
The Woonsocket Housing Authority, Woonsocket, Rhode Is-
land, the Awarding Authority, invites sealed bids from Con-
tractors for completing basketball court improvements at
Morin Heights, RI 3-1; in accordance with the documents
prepared by William Starck Architects, Inc., 126 Cove Street,
Fall River, Massachusetts.
The work generally includes, but is not limited to the fol-
lowing:
Replacement of pole/hoop/backboard assemblies, chain-
link fencing and bituminous-paved court surface with new
sealcoating and line striping, and incidental items such as
new metal team benches and trash containers.
Bids are subject to Equal Employment Opportunities, bond-
ing requirements and other bidding and contract require-
ments as set forth in the construction documents.
Bids will be received until 9:00 A.M. on Wednesday,
March 27, 2024 at the Woonsocket Housing Authority,
Morin Heights Administration Building, 66 Morin Heights
Boulevard, Woonsocket, RhodeIsland, 02895, at which time
they will be publicly opened and read aloud.
Bids shall be accompanied by a Bid Deposit that is not less
than five percent (5%) of the bid amount and made payable
to the Woonsocket Housing Authority.
Bid Forms and Bid Documents will be available for pick-up
free of charge, in PDF format on compact disc (CD) begin-
ning Wednesday, March 6, 2024 at the office of the Ar-
chitect, William Starck Architects, Inc., 126 Cove Street,
Fall River, Massachusetts, 02720, between the hours of
9:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m., Monday through Friday. Bidders
requesting Contract Documents to be mailed to them shall
include a separate check for thirty-five dollars ($35.00) per
set, payable to William Starck Architects, Inc., to cover
mailing and handling costs.
If mailed, bids shall be sent to the Woonsocket Housing
Authority, Morin Heights Administration Building, 66 Morin
Heights Boulevard, Woonsocket, Rhode Island, 02895 and
received no later than the date and time specified above.
A non-mandatory Pre-bid conference is scheduled for 8:00
A.M., Wednesday, March 13, 2024 at the project site,
Morin Heights Administration Building, 66 Morin Heights
Boulevard, Woonsocket, Rhode Island, 02895. Following,
the project site will be available for a Pre-Bid walk-through.
Attendance of prospective Bidders is strongly encouraged.
Bids are subject to prevailing wage rates as determined by
the U.S. Secretary of Labor.
The Woonsocket Housing Authority reserves the right to
reject any or all bids or to waive any informalities in the
bidding if it be in the public interest to do so.
WOONSOCKET HOUSING AUTHORITY
Todd A. Boisvert
Executive Director
AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY/AFFIRMATIVE ACTION EMPLOYER
INVITATION TO BID
The Woonsocket Housing Authority, Woonsocket, Rhode Is-
land, the Awarding Authority, invites sealed bids from Con-
tractors for completing bathroom renovations and apart-
ment repairs at Morin Heights, RI 3-1; in accordance with
the documents prepared by William Starck Architects, Inc.,
126 Cove Street, Fall River, Massachusetts.
The work generally includes, but is not limited to the fol-
lowing:
The scope of work, includes bathroom renovations and
apartment repairs at Apartments 39, 53 (Building 7); Apart-
ments 59, 73 (Building 8); Apartments 119, 133 (Building
11); Apartments 155, 169 (Building 12); Apartments 720,
734 (Building 14); Apartment 225 (Building 35) for a total of
eleven (11) units.
Bids are subject to Equal Employment Opportunities, bond-
ing requirements and other bidding and contract require-
ments as set forth in the construction documents.
Bids will be received until 11:00 A.M. on Wednesday,
March 27, 2024 at the Woonsocket Housing Authority, Mo-
rin Heights Administration Building, 66 Morin Heights Boule-
vard, Woonsocket, Rhode Island, 02895, at which time they
will be publicly opened and read aloud.
Bids shall be accompanied by a Bid Deposit that is not less
than five percent (5%) of the bid amount and made payable
to the Woonsocket Housing Authority.
Bid Forms and Bid Documents will be available for pick-up
free of charge, in PDF format on compact disc (CD) begin-
ning Wednesday, March 6, 2024 at the office of the Ar-
chitect, William Starck Architects, Inc., 126 Cove Street,
Fall River, Massachusetts, 02720, between the hours of
9:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m., Monday through Friday. Bidders
requesting Contract Documents to be mailed to them shall
include a separate check for thirty-five dollars ($35.00) per
set, payable to William Starck Architects, Inc., to cover
mailing and handling costs.
If mailed, bids shall be sent to the Woonsocket Housing
Authority, Morin Heights Administration Building, 66 Morin
Heights Boulevard, Woonsocket, Rhode Island, 02895 and
received no later than the date and time specified above.
A non-mandatory Pre-bid conference is scheduled for 11:00
A.M., Wednesday, March 13, 2024 at the project site,
Morin Heights Administration Building, 66 Morin Heights
Boulevard, Woonsocket, Rhode Island, 02895. Following,
the project site will be available for a Pre-Bid walk-through.
Attendance of prospective Bidders is strongly encouraged.
Bids are subject to prevailing wage rates as determined by
the U.S. Secretary of Labor.
The Woonsocket Housing Authority reserves the right to
reject any or all bids or to waive any informalities in the
bidding if it be in the public interest to do so.
WOONSOCKET HOUSING AUTHORITY
Todd A. Boisvert
Executive Director
AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY/AFFIRMATIVE ACTION EMPLOYER
MORTGAGEE’S NOTICE OF SALE OF REAL ESTATE
By virtue and in execution of the Power of Sale contained
in a certain Mortgage given by Carlos M. Molina, Maria A.
Molina to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc.,
as nominee for Delta Funding Corp., its successors and as-
signs, dated June 30, 2005 and recorded with the Suffolk
County Registry of Deeds at Book 37510, Page 66, subse-
quently assigned to HSBC Bank USA, N.A., as Indenture
Trustee for the Registered Noteholders of Renaissance
Home Equity Loan Trust 2005-3, Renaissance Home Eq-
uity Loan Asset-Backed Notes, Series 2005-3 by Mortgage
Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for Delta
Funding Corp., its successors and assigns by assignment
recorded in said Suffolk County Registry of Deeds at Book
61386, Page 215 for breach of the conditions of said Mort-
gage and for the purpose of foreclosing same will be sold
at Public Auction at 11:00 AM on March 19, 2024 at 374
Geneva Avenue, Boston (Dorchester), MA, all and singular
the premises described in said Mortgage, to wit:
A certain parcel of land with the buildings thereon situated
in that part of said Boston, called Dorchester, being Lot 12
on Geneva Avenue on plan of H.T. Whitman, dated July 25,
1985 and recorded with Suffolk Deeds, Book 2369, End,
bounded and described as follows;
Westerly by Geneva Avenue on said plan, 43 feet; Northerly
by Lot 11 on said plan, 111.43 feet;
Easterly by Lots 1 and 2 on said plan, 45.40 feet; and
Southerly by Lot 13 on said plan, 96.88 feet.
Containing 4,478 square feet of land according to said plan.
For title reference see deed to us recorded with Suffolk
Deeds at Book 24289, Page 107.
The premises are to be sold subject to and with the benefit
of all easements, restrictions, encroachments, building and
zoning laws, liens, unpaid taxes, tax titles, water bills, mu-
nicipal liens and assessments, rights of tenants and parties
in possession, and attorney’s fees and costs.
TERMS OF SALE:
A deposit of FIFTEEN THOUSAND DOLLARS AND 00 CENTS
($15,000.00) in the form of a certified check, bank treasur-
er’s check or money order will be required to be delivered
at or before the time the bid is offered. The successful bid-
der will be required to execute a Foreclosure Sale Agree-
ment immediately after the close of the bidding. The bal-
ance of the purchase price shall be paid within thirty (30)
days from the sale date in the form of a certified check,
bank treasurer’s check or other check satisfactory to Mort-
gagee’s attorney. The Mortgagee reserves the right to bid
at the sale, to reject any and all bids, to continue the sale
and to amend the terms of the sale by written or oral an-
nouncement made before or during the foreclosure sale. If
the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the
sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid.
The purchaser shall have no further recourse against the
Mortgagor, the Mortgagee or the Mortgagee’s attorney. The
description/ of the premises contained in said mortgage
shall control in the event of an error in this publication. TIME
WILL BE OF THE ESSENCE.
Other terms, if any, to be announced at the sale.
HSBC Bank USA, N.A., as Indenture Trustee for the regis-
tered Noteholders of Renaissance Home Equity Loan Trust
2005-3, Renaissance Home Equity Loan Asset-Backed
Notes, Series 2005-3
Local Media Partners: Present Holder of said Mortgage,
By Its Attorneys,
ORLANS PC
PO Box 540540
Waltham, MA 02454
Phone: (781) 790-7800
23-008030
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NOTICE: PUBLIC HEARINGS FOR
VEGETATION MANAGEMENT PLAN
Pursuant to the Rights-of-Way Management Regulations
(333 CMR 11.00) in order to apply pesticides to control veg-
etation to maintain Rights-of Ways, the Department of Ag-
ricultural Resources must approve a Vegetation Manage-
ment Plan (VMP) and a Yearly Operational Plan (YOP). The
VMP is intended to justify the need to control vegetation,
identify target vegetation, describe the intended methods
of control, describe methods for identifying sensitive ar-
eas, describe operational guidelines for applicators, outline
a program of Integrated Pest Management (IPM) designed
to reduce the use of herbicides, and describe alternative
land use activities.
The following municipalities are advised that Massachu-
setts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) proposes to uti-
lize herbicides to treat their Rights-of-Way:
Boston, Brookline, Cambridge, Medford, Newton, Somer-
ville, Braintree, Milton, Quincy, Malden, Revere
To provide all interested parties an opportunity to com-
ment on the proposed VMP, a public ZOOM hearing will be
held at the following location:
Topic: MBTA Public Hearing
Time: Apr 5, 2024 09:00 AM Eastern Time (US and
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Available for Public Review Prior to Hearings:
Section 11.05 (3)(d) of the Row Management Regulations
provide: “At least 21 days prior to the end of the public
comment period, the applicant shall send a copy of the
proposed VMP to the chief elected official, the Board of
Health, and the Conservation Commission in affected
communities upon their request.” Such request should be
made to:
Arzu Kurkoglu Hemann PE, Deputy Director – MOW
MBTA Maintenance of Way
21 Arlington Ave
Charlestown, MA 02129
The proposed VMP is posted at http://www.mass.gov/
eea/agencies/agr/pesticides/vegetation-management-
and-yearly-operation-plans.html for reviewing. It is also
available for review at the Reference Desk of the following
public library:
Boston Public Library, 700 Boylston Street, Boston MA
02116
Written Comments Requested
The public hearings listed above will give interested parties
the opportunity to present data, views or arguments, orally
or in writing concerning the proposed VMP. Persons giv-
ing testimony are also requested to provide written com-
ments. Written comments in advance of the hearing dates
are welcome. The Department will accept written testimo-
ny concerning the MBTA VMP until the close of business
(5pm): April 8, 2024
Commentary should be sent to:
Rights-of -Way Program
Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources
225 Turnpike Road, 3rd Floor
Southborough, MA 01772
MORTGAGEE’S NOTICE OF SALE OF REAL ESTATE
By virtue and in execution of the Power of Sale contained
in a certain Mortgage given by James Taylor and Theresa
Ellison-Taylor AKA Theresa Taylor to Option One Mortgage
Corporation, a California Corporation, dated May 28, 2004
and recorded with the Suffolk County Registry of Deeds at
Book 34704, Page 174 as affected by a Loan Modification
recorded on October 12, 2005 in Said Registry of Deeds
at Book 38232, Page 132, subsequently assigned to Wells
Fargo Bank, N.A., as Trustee for ABFC 2004-OPT5 Trust,
ABFC Asset-Backed Certificates, Series 2004-OPT5 by Sand
Canyon Corporation f/k/a Option One Mortgage Corpora-
tion, a California Corporation by assignment recorded in
said Suffolk County Registry of Deeds at Book 48045, Page
87, subsequently assigned to Wells Fargo Bank, National
Association, as trustee for ABFC 2004-OPT5 Trust, ABFC
Asset-Backed certificates, Series 2004-OPT5 by Sand Can-
yon Corporation f/k/a Option One Mortgage Corporation
by assignment recorded in said Suffolk County Registry of
Deeds at Book 65904, Page 116 for breach of the condi-
tions of said Mortgage and for the purpose of foreclosing
same will be sold at Public Auction at 12:00 PM on March
26, 2024 at 6 Marden Avenue, Unit #6, Boston (Dorchester
Center), MA, all and singular the premises described in said
Mortgage, to wit:
The unit known as No. 6 in the Bradford Estates Condomini-
um a condominium in Dorchester, Massachusetts, pursuant
to Massachusetts General Laws, Chapter 183A by Master
Deed dated January 22, 1988 and recorded January 28, 1988
with Suffolk District Registry of Deeds in Book 14442, Page
155 and as amended by instruments duly recorded, which
unit is shown on the floor plans recorded simultaneously
with said Master Deed on the copy of the portion of said
plans attached to the Unit Ded for the above noted Unit and
made a part hereof, to which is affixed the verified state-
ment of a registered land surveyor in the form required by
Section 9 of said Chapter 183A. Together with the undivided
interest appurtenant thereto in the common areas and fa-
cilities of the Condominium described in said Master Deed.
For title see deed of Theresa Ellison-Taylor, recorded with
Suffolk Deeds in Book 22801, Page 156.
The premises are to be sold subject to and with the benefit
of all easements, restrictions, encroachments, building and
zoning laws, liens, unpaid taxes, tax titles, water bills, mu-
nicipal liens and assessments, rights of tenants and parties
in possession, and attorney’s fees and costs.
TERMS OF SALE:
A deposit of TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS AND 00 CENTS
($10,000.00) in the form of a certified check, bank treasur-
er’s check or money order will be required to be delivered at
or before the time the bid is offered. The successful bidder
will be required to execute a Foreclosure Sale Agreement
immediately after the close of the bidding. The balance of
the purchase price shall be paid within thirty (30) days from
the sale date in the form of a certified check, bank trea-
surer’s check or other check satisfactory to Mortgagee’s at-
torney. The Mortgagee reserves the right to bid at the sale,
to reject any and all bids, to continue the sale and to amend
the terms of the sale by written or oral announcement made
before or during the foreclosure sale. If the sale is set aside
for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled
only to a return of the deposit paid. The purchaser shall have
no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee
or the Mortgagee’s attorney. The description of the prem-
ises contained in said mortgage shall control in the event of
an error in this publication. TIME WILL BE OF THE ESSENCE.
Other terms, if any, to be announced at the sale.
Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as Trustee for ABFC
2004-OPT5 Trust, ABFC Asset-Backed Certificates, Series
2004-OPT5
Present Holder of said Mortgage,
By Its Attorneys,
ORLANS PC
PO Box 540540
Waltham, MA 02454
Phone: (781) 790-7800
22-000604
MORTGAGEE’S NOTICE OF SALE OF REAL ESTATE
By virtue and in execution of the Power of Sale contained
in a certain Mortgage given by Ryan W. Sullivan to Mortgage
Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for Sham-
rock Financial Corporation, its successors and assigns,
dated October 6, 2006 and recorded with the Middlesex
County (Southern District) Registry of Deeds at Book 48307,
Page 452, subsequently assigned to The Bank of New York
Mellon FKA The Bank of New York, as Trustee for the Certifi-
cateholders of the CWALT, Inc., Alternative Loan Trust 2006-
41CB, Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2006-
41CB by Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as
mortgagee, as nominee for Shamrock Financial Corpora-
tion, its successors and assigns by assignment recorded in
said Middlesex County (Southern District) Registry of Deeds
at Book 73997, Page 180 for breach of the conditions of said
Mortgage and for the purpose of foreclosing same will be
sold at Public Auction at 11:00 AM on March 26, 2024 at 5
Bower Street, Medford, MA, all and singular the premises
described in said Mortgage, to wit:
A certain parcel of land with the buildings thereon situated
in Medford, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, and being a
portion of Lot 2 on Bower Street, as shown on a plan of land
in Medford, dated August 1915, Dana E. Perkins, C.E., re-
corded with Middlesex South District Deeds at end of Book
4016, bounded and described as follows:
NORTHEASTERLY: by said Bower Street, thirty-eight (38)
feet;
SOUTHEASTERLY by the remaining portion of Lot 2, on said
plan, eighty-seven (87) feet;
SOUTHWESTERLY by part of Lot 4 on said plan, thirty-eight
(38) feet;
NORTHWESTERLY by Lot 3 on said plan, eighty-seven (87)
feet.
Deed 37608/458
The premises are to be sold subject to and with the benefit
of all easements, restrictions, encroachments, building and
zoning laws, liens, unpaid taxes, tax titles, water bills, mu-
nicipal liens and assessments, rights of tenants and parties
in possession, and attorney’s fees and costs.
TERMS OF SALE:
A deposit of TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS AND 00 CENTS
($10,000.00) in the form of a certified check, bank trea-
surer’s check or money order will be required to be deliv-
ered at or before the time the bid is offered. The success-
ful bidder will be required to execute a Foreclosure Sale
Agreement immediately after the close of the bidding. The
balance of the purchase price shall be paid within thirty (30)
days from the sale date in the form of a certified check,
bank treasurer’s check or other check satisfactory to Mort-
gagee’s attorney. The Mortgagee reserves the right to bid at
the sale, to reject any and all bids, to continue the sale and
to amend the terms of the sale by written or oral announce-
ment made before or during the foreclosure sale. If the sale
is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall
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MIAA GIRLS’ BASKETBALL ROUNDUP

Chenette has Cohasset rolling

By Trevor Hass
GLOBE CORRESPONDENT

Fueled by Middlebury-bound
senior forward Sarah Chenette,
the Cohasset girls’ basketball
team pulled away from Frontier,
56-32, in the Division 4 round of
16 Monday night.
Chenette, who returned from
an ACL injury earlier this season
and plays with a brace on her
left leg, erupted for 22 points.
The No. 6 Skippers (16-7) ad-
vanced to their third straight
quarterfinal, where they’ll face
No. 3 South Hadley.
“We played super well as a
team,” Chenette said. “Very flu-
id, very composed, we were get-
DEBEE TLUMACKI FOR THE GLOBE
ting the 50/50s.”
The surging Skippers have With a game-high 22 points, Cohasset senior Sarah Chenette
ripped off 10 wins in their last had her eye on the basket in a Division 4 second-round win.
11 games. The latest triumph
came against a plucky, 11th- very beginning, Sarah approach- ed Spartans (19-6) rolled to the
WINSLOW TOWNSON FOR THE GLOBE
seeded Red Hawks team (17-5) es every possession, every prac- second-round win in Lynn.
North Andover’s Zach Wolinski drives for 2 of his game-high 29 points against Newton North. that never relented. tice, every game like it’s a tryout. Division 4 State
Cohasset jumped out to a Nobody works harder.” Millis 57, Wahconah 28 — The
10-0 and extended the margin to Division 1 State fourth-seeded Mohawks (17-7)
MIAA BOYS’ BASKETBALL ROUNDUP 20-7 through one quarter. Chen- Lexington 50, Quincy 49 — put No. 13 Wahconah (15-7)

N. Andover moves on
By Matt Doherty
GLOBE CORRESPONDENT
Zach Wolinski dribbled at the
top of the key, pushed the ball
between his legs, and rose for a
shot in one smooth rhythm.
The home fans at Crozier
Gymnasium intently watched
the ball travel through the air
and then swish the net, prompt-
ing the biggest cheer of the night
from the capacity crowd.
Wolinski’s 3-pointer punctu-
ated a 9-0 fourth-quarter run,
helping fourth-seeded North
Andover pull away from a tough
Newton North squad for a 59-47
win in a Division 1 boys’ basket-
ball second-round matchup.
“We knew it was going to be a
rock fight,” said Wolinski. “We
had to be the tougher team. We
stayed physical with them. I’m
really proud of our team.”
Wolinski, the Merrimack Val-
ley Conference MVP, finished
with a game-high 29 points. He
made five 3-pointers and hit a
series of tough driving layups,
providing big buckets in a game
ruled by defense.
While Wolinski was fueling
the offense, the Scarlet Knights
(18-4) received a team effort on
defense. With the hosts on top,
42-39, entering the fourth,
guards Niko Catalano and Cam
Bethel, and forward Jake Saal-
frank provided stellar defense to
hold the No. 13 Tigers (15-7)
scoreless until 3:14 remained in
the quarter. By that point, the
hosts led, 51-41, and was on its
way to a second straight quar-
terfinal appearance, where it
will host Tuesday’s Methuen/
Xaverian winner on Friday.
Newton North forward Tea-
gan Swint, who entered averag-
ing 35.2 points over his last five
games, led the Tigers with 17
points and 10 rebounds. The ju-
nior drained a tough step back
from the left wing in the third to
give Newton North its first lead
at 35-32. But North Andover
battled back. In the end, Wolins-
ki and the NA defense was too
much for the Tigers, who
reached the semifinals last year
and the state final in 2022.
Worcester North 78, Waltham
40 — Senior Teshaun Steele was
dominant with 14 points, 8 re-
bounds, and 2 blocks for the top-
seeded Polar Bears (21-0) in a
second-round win over the No.
16 Hawks (18-4).
Division 2
Holyoke 73, Westwood 66 —
Davian Diaz led all scorers with
23 points, while Aden Cabrera
had 16 and Shawn Rivera 14 for
the host No. 8 Purple Knights
(15-7) in a second round win
o v e r t h e N o . 9 Wo l v e r i n e s
(14-8).
Division 3
Pittsfield 71, Watertown 45 —
Makai Shepardson and Malachi
Perry combined for 42 points for
the third-seeded Generals (18-5)
in a second-round win over the
14th-seeded Raiders (14-8).
Division 4
Burke 92, Case 56 — Jaeden
Roberts scored a team-high 25
points along with 7 assists and
Jasaad Fenton notched a double-
double with 17 points and 13 as-
sists that propelled the No. 6
Bulldogs (18-4) past the No. 22
Cardinals (12-10).
“We’ve been scoring a lot of
points so far,” said Burke coach
Joe Chatman. “We’ve really been
able to play our style.”
Malik Adamson chipped in
with 13 points, and Jaeshawn
Rogers flirted with a triple-dou-
ble, adding 14 points, 9 re-
bounds, and 8 assists.
Division 5
New Mission 78, Monson 51 —
The No. 2 Titans (16-6), fresh off
a 42-point win over Hopkins
Academy, cruised to another
dominant victory in the second
round over the No. 15 Mustangs
(16-6). Solis Blue led New Mis-
sion with 20 points, highlighted
by two emphatic dunks.
Senior Lawrence Davis
notched a double-double with
16 points and 12 rebounds for
the victors.
The Titans locked down and
were great in defensive transi-
tion, limiting the Mustangs of-
fensively and winning the battle
on the glass. In addition, the Ti-
tans shot 71 percent in the sec-
ond half.
ette and sophomore Addy An-
drews (12 points) did most of
their damage inside and at the
free throw line, shooting a com-
bined 8 for 8 from the stripe in
the quarter.
The Red Hawks settled in as
the half progressed, as freshman
Skyler Steele and junior Claire
Kirkendall (11 points apiece)
found a rhythm from the field.
Olivia Machon buried a deep 3-
pointer as time expired for the
Red Hawks, but Cohasset took a
34-19 edge into halftime thanks
to its dominant defense and post
play.
A bucket in the lane from
f r e s h m a n Mo l l y C a m p b e l l
helped the Skippers head into
the fourth up, 43-30.
Chenette, the program’s all-
time scoring leader, added 5
quick points in the fourth to
push the margin to 51-32 and
put the game out of reach. Co-
hasset held Frontier to 2 fourth-
quarter points.
“Our goal is to not allow any-
thing to be easy,” Cohasset coach
Mike Sacchitella said. “If they’re
going to score, they’re going to
have to work for it.”
This tournament run comes
after a long, arduous journey for
Chenette. She initially thought
she injured her meniscus during
an AAU game in April, but doc-
tors told her it was her ACL.
That began a lengthy rehab pro-
cess before she returned to game
action in late December.
She viewed the setback as ex-
tra motivation and incentive to
come back even stronger.
“The kid is just true grit,” Sac-
chitella said. “I said from the
With grit, toughness, and key
defensive stops, punctuated by
Sam Fortier denying Quincy’s
Alyssa Hopps (20 points) on the
final possession, the No. 8 Min-
utemen (18-4) survived the sec-
ond-round matchup.
Riley Hamilton had a team-
h i g h 1 5 p o i n t s a n d Ta y l o r
Wozniak added 10.
Wachusett 45, Braintree 31 —
Senior Mary Gibbons scored 19
points as the No. 2 Mountain-
eers (22-0) overcame a halftime
deficit to knock out the visiting
No. 15 Wamps (11-11) in the
second-round win.
Division 3 State
Foxborough 95, Wilmington 33
— Junior post Addie Ruter fin-
ished with a game-high 19
points as the top-seeded War-
riors (21-2) trounced the visiting
No. 17 Wildcats (11-11) in the
round of 16.
The Warriors broke open the
second-round matchup with a
28-0 blitz in the second quarter.
Kailey Sullivan netted 16 of her
18 points in the first half. Alaysia
Drummonds was the big second-
half scorer, finishing with 17
overall.
Hanover 52, Tantasqua 28 —
Noey Giardina netted 14 points
as the No. 4 Hawks (17-5) soared
to the second-round win over
No. 13 Tantasqua (17-6). Olivia
Damon added 8 points. Hanover
will host St. Mary’s Friday.
St. Mary’s 68, Apponequet 40
— Jill Roberts (14 points), Bella
Owumi (13 points, 10 re-
bounds), Reese Matela (12
points), and Lily Norton (10
points, seven assists) fueled a
balanced attack as the fifth-seed-
away with a 24-5 spurt in the
second quarter for a command-
ing 25-point halftime cushion.
Kyra Rice had a team-high 16
points.
South Hadley 63, Hamilton-
Wenham 42 — CC Gurek scored
13 points as the third-seeded Ti-
gers (19-3) beat the visiting No.
19 Generals (13-10) to advance
to the quarterfinals. Caitlin and
Cara Dean each had 10 points
for the home squad. Freshman
Grace Harres led H-W with 13
points.
Division 5 State
Hoosac Valley 63, Mahar 32 —
Junior Emma Meczywor had a
game-high 16 points as the top-
seeded Hurricanes (19-3)
topped the visiting No. 16 Sena-
tors (10-12) in the round of 16.
Seniors Taylor Garabedian and
Ashlyn Lesure had 13 points
each.
Maynard 42, Pioneer Valley Re-
gional 41 — Senior Nina Chiodo
had 13 points, 4 rebounds, and 5
steals as the No. 7 Tigers (11-11)
fended off the visiting No. 10
Panthers (16-6) to advance to
the quarterfinals. Sophomore
Calleigh Currier collected 8
points, 5 rebounds, 5 assists,
and 5 steals.
St. John Paul II 60, Pacific Rim
Charter 46 — Devin Crofford
finished with 23 points as the
No. 9 Lions (17-6) topped the
visiting No. 25 Dragons (16-4) to
advance to the quarterfinals.
Marlo Jumper helped out the
victors with 18 points.
Peyton Doyle, Ethan Kagno,
Craig Larson, and Jake Levin
contributed. To report scores,
call 617-929-2860/3235.

Hingham boys’ hockey rides outburst to Division 1 Elite Eight

By Jake Levin
GLOBE CORRESPONDENT
Hingham 3 CANTON — Fashionably late, the
Hi n g h a m b o y s ’ h o c ke y t e a m
Braintree 0 quickly made up for lost time on
the offensive end.
The eighth-seeded Harbormen surgically struck
for three goals in less than eight minutes in the sec-
ond period, and that was all they needed to beat
No. 24 Braintree, 3-0, in Monday’s Division 1 sec-
ond-round matchup at the Canton Ice House.
For the first time since the tournament moved
to a statewide format, Hingham (15-7-2) advanced
to the Elite Eight.
“Somehow it takes us a little longer than most
teams to score goals, but I’m happy we got the first
one,” Hingham coach Tony Messina said.
Conal Mulkerrin scored 4:30 into the second for
a 1-0 lead. Hingham took advantage of its lone
power play of the night with Cam McKenna’s strike
at 8:49. Paul Dzavik completed the burst at 11:52,
as the Harbormen improved to 2-0-1 against
Braintree (9-12-1) this season. Mike Karo stopped
all nine shots he faced for his second shutout in as
many rounds for the Harbormen, who blanked No.
25 Burlington, 5-0, in their postseason opener.
Next up for Hingham is top-seeded St. John’s
Prep (19-3-0) on Thursday (Stoneham Arena, 7:30
p.m.) — a team the Harbormen defeated, 2-1, in
just their second game of the season on Dec. 16 in
Middleton.
“They’re a fast team,” Messina said. “We beat
them, but that just means they’re going to be com-
ing at us much harder.”
One additional advantage Hingham could have
against the Prep is the return of top-line center Tra-
vis Rugg, who missed the first month of the season
with an upper-body injury. Rugg, who assisted on
the power-play goal Monday, has 10-18–28 totals
in 17 games back in the lineup.

After Sunday’s dud, it’s clear Revolution need strikers

By Frank Dell’Apa
GLOBE CORRESPONDENT
FOXBOROUGH — Revolution home
openers often are anonymous affairs, at-
tendance discouraged by climate. Not
Sunday. The Revolution attracted
29,293 for their first game of the MLS
season at Gillette Stadium, a 1-0 loss to
Toronto FC.
The stands were occupied by die-
hard supporters — some of whom have
been with the team since the inaugural
season in 1996 — and, apparently, thou-
sands of newcomers. This was the larg-
est home-opening gathering since the
venue opened as CMGI Field in 2002.
Unfortunately for the Revolution,
the result left fans frustrated — unlike
last year’s home-opening 3-0 victory
over the Houston Dynamo before
13,176.
This was an opportunity to capitalize
on the turnout, leave everyone feeling
positive, and encourage them to return.
But that is not how it often plays out for
the Revolution, who are 14-10-8 before
home attendances of 29,000-plus — vic-
tories less than half the time.
Supporters continue to come back,
though, and they are expected to do so
this season. Revolution officials are pro-
jecting average attendances of 28,000,
which would top last year’s team record
of more than 23,000 per game.
Why didn’t the Revolution come
through Sunday? Is not strong home
support supposed to provide a differ-
ence-making edge?
Actually, supporters did their part
with a rousing, choreographed presen-
tation in The Fort. The team responded
valiantly, competing to the end. Com-
bining application and motivation is
not always enough in sports, though.
The Revolution lost because Toronto
matched them on compete, and Loren-
zo Insigne converted what Revolution
coach Caleb Porter called a “rabbit out
of a hat” goal.
Last year, Toronto made Insigne the
league’s highest-paid player at $15 mil-
lion, expecting him to produce similar
finishes. He has rarely done so, and this
was the only time Toronto has convert-
ed in two games. But coach John Herd-
man appears to have organized the TFC
defense and convinced all, including
Federico Bernardeschi, to tirelessly
track down opponents.
Bernardeschi, who is earning $6.2
million annually, joined the team along
with Insigne last year and became a
center of controversy. He clashed with
coach Bob Bradley, who was fired. To-
ronto finished in last place, winning on-
ly four matches. But the Reds’ invest-
ment in Bernardeschi and Insigne could
pay off this year.
Meanwhile, the Revolution appear
to be buying in to Porter’s strategy,
which means dedication to defending.
The team displayed cohesion in elimi-
nating CA Independiente in the CON-
CACAF Champions Cup, qualifying for
a Round-of-16 home matchup with LD
Alajuelense of Costa Rica on Thursday.
However, the Revolution roster does
not include anyone with the finishing
ability of Insigne, who has more than
200 career goals. Captain Carles Gil reg-
ularly produces highlight reel moves
and last week landed a goal that topped
Insigne’s for degree of difficulty — but
he is a playmaker, not a forward.
So far this season, the Revolution’s
greatest vulnerability has proven to be
the striker position. Giacomo Vrioni,
briefly a Bernardeschi teammate at Ju-
ventus, has struggled — he missed the
Toronto game and will miss the Alajuela
match because of suspension. Bobby
Wood (knee) is injured. That forced
Tomás Chancalay to play up front; he
did provide a threat, but the Revolution
missed him on the left wing.
Simply put, they need another for-
ward. Last year’s roster included five
strikers, former coach Bruce Arena
stressing competition for the starting
role. Jozy Altidore, Gustavo Bou, and
Justin Rennicks have departed and not
been replaced.
Porter needs to solve the depth prob-
lem. A proven, powerful figure such as
Christian Benteke, who led D.C. United
to a 3-1 win over the Revolution on
Opening Day, would be great. The Revo-
lution missed out on him when they
had the chance two years ago.
More likely, the solution up front
would be someone similar to Cucho
Hernández, who played for Porter in
Columbus. Vrioni and Wood make the
right runs and have honed their posi-
tional sense, but they need service and
haven’t displayed the ability to conjure
goals when nothing seems to be going
right. Chancalay has shown those quali-
ties, but only when he has space on the
wing.
The Revolution can point to failings
at forward for contributing to both
league losses, the first time they have
opened 0-2-0 since 2017. Vrioni’s 25th-
minute red card against United meant
the Revolution competed with a numer-
ical disadvantage. His absence proved
costly against Toronto, and could do so
again against Alajuelense.
Vrioni could well go on to have a suc-
cessful season, but there is little evi-
dence he — or anyone on the Revolution
roster — will achieve the goal totals of
Benteke or Insigne.
Fact is, the Revolution will need to
make a bold move if they are to chal-
lenge this season. And due to cap rules,
they do not have significant funds avail-
able to lure an impact player. Good luck
petitioning the league to expand their
salary structure, or for Apple to donate
funds as it did for Leo Messi.
Unless something like that happens,
though, there could be more matches as
frustrating as Sunday’s.
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BC clinches another title

By Andrew Mahoney
GLOBE STAFF
With a highly decorated
freshman class, expectations
were high for Boston College
this season, and the young Ea-
gles have delivered. But on
Sunday, when goals were hard
to come by, it was senior cap-
tain Eamon Powell who
stepped up and found the back
of the net in a 1-0 win over
New Hampshire.
With the win, BC (27-5-1,
19-3-1) clinched its 18th Hock-
ey East regular-season title and
the No. 1 seed in the confer-
ence tournament, and that is
where the weekend review be-
gins.
R It seemed fitting that on
senior night at Conte Forum,
Powell would score the game’s
only goal. The upperclassmen
have been overshadowed by
the scoring prowess of sopho-
more Cutter Gauthier, and
freshmen Gabe Perreault, Will
Smith, and Ryan Leonard.
“It’s natural for people to be
attracted to the top scorers, but
in our locker room, everyone
knows how valuable the older
guys are,” said BC coach Greg
Brown. “They do so many
things on and off the ice.
They’re so steady, so reliable on
the ice.”
The role of the juniors and
seniors could take on greater
importance as the postseason
comes into focus, with scoring
at a premium
“It’s the older guys that
keep the game grounded, that
keep it close, and give us a
chance to win,” said Brown.
R Powell’s goal was a beauty,
with the defenseman carrying
the puck out of the BC zone
and flicking it up to Leonard
along the boards at the blue
line. Powell took off toward the
net and found himself alone
at the net. Luckily, it went in.”
Leonard extended his point
streak to 17 games, but Smith
had his streak snapped at 18.
Perreault, who leads the nation
at 1.67 points per game,
missed his third consecutive
game with an upper-body inju-
ry but is expected back for the
conference tournament.
R BC’s win also meant that
Steve Metcalf will not have to
drive around with the champi-
onship trophy rolling around
in his trunk for the next week.
The Hockey East commission-
er was on site for Sunday’s
game and presented Powell
with the trophy on the ice after
the postgame handshake line.
R Coaches often say there
are no moral victories, but it
was hard not to come away im-
pressed by UNH’s perfor-
mance. Three weeks earlier,
the Wildcats traveled to Chest-
nut Hill and were over-
whelmed with three early goals
and lost, 6-1. They were swept
this weekend, dropping a 5-3
affair at home Friday, but over-
all were a formidable oppo-
nent. The previous two week-
ends saw them sweep Maine
and split with UMass.
“I thought it was another
good game,” said UNH coach
Mike Souza. “I thought it was
two good games that we played
well enough to win both and
didn’t win either. So that’s frus-
trating in one sense, but I
think sometimes in defeat,
there’s positives and small vic-
tories you can take. I was
proud of the way our kids com-
peted against the best team in
the country.”
R The weekend did little to
clear the logjam around the
teams competing for third
place behind BC and Boston
University. Two points separate
Maine, UMass, and Provi-
night’s win that Ufko drew up
the play for the game-winner
during a timeout. Ufko said he
got idea from a goal he saw
posted by the Buffalo Sabres
on social media.
R UConn and Northeastern
split a home-and-home series,
with the road team prevailing
each night. Matthew Wood
notched a hat trick in UConn’s
4-3 win at Matthews Arena Fri-
day.
R Harvard may have posted
only six wins in the regular
season, but the Crimson man-
aged to scrape out enough
points in overtime and shoot-
outs to capture home ice for
the first round of the ECAC
playoffs.
The most recent example
came in the regular-season fi-
nale against Brown when Alex
Gaffney’s goal in the final two
minutes with the goalie pulled
for an extra skater forced over-
time.
The Crimson lost the shoot-
out, but came away with an-
other point. Harvard will host
Princeton in a single-elimina-
tion playoff Friday night.
R With playoff hockey come
the highs and lows of competi-
tion, often in the same game.
Bentley experienced both ends
of the spectrum in the first
round of the Atlantic Hockey
conference tournament Satur-
day night, rallying from a two-
goal deficit in the third period
to pull even with Robert Mor-
ris and send the game to over-
time. But the Falcons saw their
season come to an end whey
they allowed a goal with 10.1
seconds remaining in the extra
session for the 4-3 loss.
It was a solid debut for first-
year coach Andy Jones, whose
squad was picked last in the
11-team league but managed
to finish sixth and secure home
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Tue., March 5 — Second round 8:05 p.m. LA Angels at LA Dodgers MLB At La.-Monroe.... 2 ..Coastal Carolina
Nantucket at Monument Mtn., 5:30;
Georgetown at Lynn Tech, 6; Maimo-
PRO BASKETBALL
At Army............... 4½............ Holy Cross
UMass-Lowell..... 3½................at Maine
nides at Wareham, 6; Tyngsborough at
Manchester Essex, 6; David Prouty at NBCSB,
Alabama............. 1 .............. at Florida
At Bryant............. 7½................... Albany
Clinton, 6:30; Monomoy at Bourne, 7. 7:30 p.m. Boston at Cleveland
Wed., March 6 — Second round TNT At UMBC............. 3½..........Binghamton
At W. Michigan.. 1 ..... Bowling Green
New Heights Charter at Millbury, 7.
TBA — Quarterfinals
10 p.m. Phoenix at Denver TNT At VCU................ 5 ..............Duquesne
At Akron..............19½...........E. Michigan
Burke at TBA, TBA.
DIVISION 5 MEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL Harvard............... 6½....... at Dartmouth
At Cleveland St. 16 ......................IUPUI
Mon., March 4 — Second round
New Mission 78.....................Monson 51
7 p.m. Alabama at Florida ESPN Kent State.......... 1 ......... at Ball State
7 p.m. Mississippi at Georgia SEC Liberty................. 5½... at Middle Tenn.
Tue., March 5 — Second round At Navy............... 7½. Loyola Maryland
Minuteman at English High, 5:30; Athol 7 p.m. Notre Dame at North Carolina ACC At Georgia.......... 2 ............Mississippi
at Pioneer Valley Reg., 6; Old Colony at At N. Carolina.....15½..........Notre Dame
Mahar, 6; Ware at Hoosac Valley, 6. 7 p.m. Ohio at Buffalo CBSSN Ohio.....................10 ..............at Buffalo
Wed., March 6 — Second round
7 p.m. Providence at Georgetown FS1 Providence......... 7 .....at Georgetown
Douglas at Holbrook, 6; Granby at
Hopedale, 6; Rockport at Drury, 6. 7 p.m. Syracuse at Clemson ESPN2
At Illinois............ 2 ...................Purdue
At IPFW...............10½......... Robt. Morris
TBA — Quarterfinals
TBA at New Mission, TBA. 7 p.m. Virginia Tech at Louisville ESPNU At Clemson......... 9½............... Syracuse
Toledo.................. 1½...at Miami (Ohio)
GIRLS
DIVISION 1
9 p.m. Auburn at Missouri SEC At South Florida 7½................... Tulane
Vermont.............. 8½...................at UNH
Mon., March 4 — Second round 9 p.m. Dayton at Saint Louis CBSSN Virginia Tech..... 6 ..........at Louisville
Lexington 50............................ Quincy 49 At Oklahoma...... 4½............. Cincinnati
9 p.m. Georgia Tech at Wake Forest ACC
Wachusett 45.......................Braintree 31 At Milwaukee.....13 ................... Detroit
Tue., March 5 — Second round 9 p.m. Kansas State at Kansas ESPN At Lipscomb....... 8 .... North Alabama
Bridgewater-Raynham at Wellesley, 6;
9 p.m. St. Johns at DePaul FS1 At Austin Peay... 4 ........North Florida
Framingham at Central Catholic, 6; Texas Tech......... 2½.. at Oklahoma St.
Needham at Weymouth, 6:30; Taunton 11 p.m. Nevada at Boise State FS1 At Wyoming....... 6½............... Air Force
at Bishop Feehan, 6:30; Andover at Wo- At Texas State... 4 ....... Old Dominion
burn, 7. 11 p.m. San Diego State at UNLV CBSSN Auburn.................12½........... at Missouri
Wed., March 6 — Second round Dayton.................10½.......at Saint Louis
Attleboro at Springfield Central, 6. PRO HOCKEY At Pittsburgh...... 7½............. Florida St.
TBA — Quarterfinals
TBA at Wachusett; Lexington at TBA. 7:30 p.m. Edmonton at Boston NESN At Wake Forest..13½........Georgia Tech
At Kansas...........10 .............Kansas St.
DIVISION 2
Tue., March 5 — Second round
7:30 p.m. St. Louis at NY Islanders ESPN St. John's............17 .............. at DePaul
At Boise St.......... 5½.................. Nevada
Reading at Walpole, 6; Whitman-Han- 8 p.m. PWHL: Ottawa at Minnesota NESN+ San Diego St....... 1½.................at UNLV
son at Dartmouth, 6; Mansfield at NBA
Northampton, 6:30; Wakefield at MEN’S SOCCER Tuesday
Worcester South, 6:30; Leominster at
Medfield, 6:45; Norwood at Billerica, 7. 3 p.m. Champions: Paris SG at Real Sociedad CBS Favorite Pts. Underdog
Orlando............... 8½..........at Charlotte
Wed., March 6 — Second round 5:55 p.m. CONCACAF: Pachuca at Philadelphia FS1
Minnechaug at Oliver Ames, 6; Nasho-
At New York....... NL .................. Atlanta
At Cleveland....... NL ................... Boston
ba vs. Notre Dame (Hingham) at Hing- 7:55 p.m. CONCACAF: Tigres at Orlando City FS2
ham High School, Hingham, 6:30.
9:55 p.m. CONCACAF: Herediano vs. Robinhood FS2
At Miami............. NL ................... Detroit
New Orleans....... 7½.............at Toronto
DIVISION 3
Mon., March 4 — Second round
At Brooklyn........ NL ......... Philadelphia
Foxboro 95.......................Wilmington 33 TENNIS At Houston......... 6 ..........San Antonio
Hanover 52.........................Tantasqua 28 10 p.m. Indian Wells Tennis
At Dallas............. NL .................. Indiana
At Denver............ 7½................. Phoenix
St. Mary’s 68...................Apponequet 40
Tue., March 5 — Second round (for latest updates, go to bostonglobe.com/tvlistings) NHL
North Reading at Sandwich, 6; Pen-
tucket at Dover-Sherborn, 6; Spring-
Favorite Line Underdog
At Pittsburgh...Off Columbus......... Off
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when Leonard’s return pass
caught him in stride. He was
able to finish it off with a back-
hander over the shoulder of
UNH goalie Jakob Hellsten.
“He obviously made a great
pass,” said Powell. “I saw Smit-
ty on the back door, but the de-
fenseman was kind of cheating
over, so I shoveled something
MEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL NOTEBOOK
dence. The Black Bears split a
series at Vermont, while Provi-
dence split a home-and-home
with Merrimack.
UMass managed to get a
pair of wins over UMass Lowell
on the strength of junior Ryan
Ufko’s overtime winners in
both contests. Coach Greg
Carvel revealed after Saturday
ice for the first round.
“The comeback, the intent
that we play with in the third,
I’ve seen it all year from our
guys,” said Jones. “That’s why
I’m so proud of the group, be-
cause we just kept going.”
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@GlobeMahoney.
field Central at Medway, 6; Newbury-
port vs. Watertown at Waltham,
Waltham, 6:30; East Bridgewater at
Norwell, 7:15.
Fri., March 8 — Quarterfinals
TBA at Foxborough, 6; St. Mary’s at Ha-
nover, 6:30.
DIVISION 4
Mon., March 4 — Second round
Cohasset 56............................Frontier 32
Millis 57..............................Wahconah 28
S. Hadley 63........Hamilton-Wenham 42
Tue., March 5 — Second round
Carver at Littleton, 6.
Wed., March 6 — Second round
Millbury at Hampshire, 5; Georgetown
at Tyngsborough, 6; Rockland at Ca-
thedral, 6; Northbridge at Bourne, 6:30.
Thu., March 7 — Quarterfinals
Cohasset at South Hadley, 6.
TBA — Quarterfinals
Millis at TBA, TBA.
DIVISION 5
Mon., March 4 — Second round
Hoosac Valley 63.....................Mahar 32
Colleges
BASKETBALL
MEN
OTHER EAST
Howard 85......................Delaware St. 66
SOUTH
Duke 79................................N.C. State 64
Grambling St. 69......Beth.-Cookman 60
McNeese St. 87.......Houston Baptist 69
Morgan St. 88.................N.C. Central 79
Nicholls 68..............Northwestern St. 62
Norfolk St. 69......Maryland E. Shore 50
S. Carolina St. 61...............Coppin St. 58
Southern Univ. 58..........Florida A&M 44
SOUTHWEST
HOCKEY
Men’s Div. 1 poll
USCHO
The top 20 teams as of March 4, with
first-place votes in parentheses, re-
cords, total points, and previous rank:
Pts. LW
1. Boston College (50) ....... 1,000
2. Boston University.............. 931
3. North Dakota...................... 903
4. Denver................................. 843
5. Wisconsin ........................... 782
6. Michigan St. ....................... 776
At New Jersey. Off Florida...............Off
At Boston..........Off Edmonton.........Off
At NY Isles........Off St. Louis............Off
At Nashville....-220 Montreal........+180
At Winnipeg.....Off Seattle...............Off
At Arizona........ Off Chicago.............Off
Dallas...............-380 at San Jose....+300
At LA Kings.... -115 Vancouver......-105
Transactions
BASEBALL
LA Dodgers: 3B Andre Lipcius traded. P
Clayton Kershaw placed on 60-day IL.
Milwaukee: 3B Josh Donaldson retired.
Philadelphia: P Zack Wheeler signed.
1
2 Pittsburgh: P Jackson Wolf sent to mi-
nors.
3
5
4
NBA
Dallas: Shooting Guard AJ Lawson
signed for the rest of the season.
6

Morales sticks to plan at BU

By Trevor Hass
GLOBE CORRESPONDENT
As a young boy in the Arch-
dale Projects area of Roslin-
dale, Anthony Morales found
himself surrounded by gang ac-
tivity and violence.
He easily could have gone
down a different path, but he
learned from an early age to
stay in his lane.
“A lot of people in the com-
munity looked over me because
they saw I had a gift,” Morales
said. “I’m appreciative of that.
Even if I wanted to do some-
thing stupid, they wouldn’t al-
low me. Archdale Projects will
father bought him a Fisher
Price hoop and he spent hours
taking shot after shot. At age 8,
he played with fifth- and sixth-
graders on the Boston Ballers
AAU team and started to real-
ize his long-term potential.
As one of the taller players
in the MIAA, he expanded his
repertoire as a center for CM.
He transitioned to his natural
position of guard and small for-
ward at Beaver Country Day
and reclassified to give himself
an extra year.
“I didn’t want to just be
somebody who got a scholar-
ship and never touched the
ly, he didn’t need surgery; how-
ever, he ended up aggravating a
herniation in his back and
missing more time.
“If you would have asked
me before the season how I pic-
tured this year, I wouldn’t have
had this in the cards, being out
for more than half the year,”
Morales said.
Undeterred, Morales stayed
patient. Now, he’s averaging
21.9 minutes a night and an-
choring a team with legitimate
NCAA Tournament aspirations.
Morales dropped 24 points
against Loyola (Md.) and 21 vs.
Bucknell, hit a winning layup
Maynard 42.......Pioneer Valley Reg. 41
St. John Paul II 60........... Pacific Rim 46
Tue., March 5 — Second round
Drury at Lenox, 6; Hopedale at Palmer,
6; Narragansett at West Boylston, 7.
Wed., March 6 — Second round
Franklin County Tech at Westport,
5:30; Tahanto vs. Renaissance at Sci-
Tech, Springfield, 6.
TBA — Quarterfinals
Maynard at TBA, TBA; St. John Paul II
at Hoosac Valley, TBA.
HOCKEY
MIAA tourney
BOYS
DIVISION 1
Mon., March 4 — Second round
Hingham 3..............................Braintree 0
Wed., March 6 — Quarterfinals
Winchester vs. Catholic Memorial at
Loring Arena, Framingham, 5; Arling-
ton Catholic vs. Marshfield at Gallo
Arena, Bourne, 7:15.
Thu., March 7 — Quarterfinals
Franklin vs. Xaverian at Loring Arena,
Framingham, 7:30; Hingham vs. St.
John’s Prep at Stoneham Arena, 7:30.
DIVISION 2
Wed., March 6 — Quarterfinals
Auburn vs. Tewksbury at O'Brien Are-
na, Woburn, 5; Newburyport vs. Wo-
burn at O'Brien Arena, Woburn, 7:30.
Thu., March 7 — Quarterfinals
Boston Latin vs. Concord-Carlisle at
O'Brien Arena, Woburn, 5; Masconom-
et vs. Duxbury at Stoneham Arena, 5.
DIVISION 3
Wed., March 6 — Quarterfinals
Alcorn St. 82.............Texas Southern 79
Baylor 93.....................................Texas 85
Jackson St. 79......Prairie View A&M 76
Lamar 70..... Texas A&M-Commerce 53
SE Louisiana 73............................UIW 56
Texas A&M-CC 73........New Orleans 60
WEST
E. Washington 91.....Sacramento St. 88
Montana 79...........................Idaho St. 65
Montana St. 76...................Weber St. 64
No. Colorado 82..............No. Arizona 74
TOURNAMENTS
Atlantic Sun
Jacksonville 92.............Kennesaw St. 86
Queens University 69................FGCU 63
WOMEN
OTHER EAST
Howard 61......................Delaware St. 43
SOUTH
Coppin State 65...South Carolina St. 33
Grambling St. 64......Beth.-Cookman 54
N.C. Central 63.................Morgan St. 58
Norfolk St. 52......Maryland E. Shore 40
Southern Univ. 67..........Florida A&M 61
SOUTHWEST
Jackson St. 75......Prairie View A&M 65
Texas Southern 71.............Alcorn St. 63
WEST
E. Washington 72.....Sacramento St. 59
Idaho 60...........................Portland St. 44
Montana 67...........................Idaho St. 65
Montana St. 67...................Weber St. 65
No. Arizona 67..............No. Colorado 61
Men’s Div. 1 poll
ASSOCIATED PRESS
The top 25 teams as of March 4, with
first-place votes in parentheses, re-
cords through March 3, total points
based on 25 points for a first-place
vote through one point for a 25th-place
7. Quinnipiac .......................... 683 7 LA Lakers: Forward Harry Giles III
signed as free agent.
8. Minnesota........................... 667 8
9. Maine................................... 564 9
Milwaukee: Small Forward Jaylin Gal-
10. Colorado College............... 510 11
loway signed as free agent.
11. Providence.......................... 509 10
New Orleans: Shooting Izaiah Brock-
12. UMass.................................. 453 14
ington signed to 10-day contract.
13. Cornell................................. 356 13
Washington: Point Guard R.J. Hampton
14. Michigan ............................. 328 16 signed to 10-day contract.
15. Western Michigan............. 308 12
NHL
16. Omaha................................. 225
17. St. Cloud State................... 217
18
15
Calgary: RW Matt Coronato called up
from minors.
18. UNH...................................... 169
19. RIT.......................................... 94
17
19
Dallas: C Logan Stankoven called up
from minors.
20. Arizona St............................. 93 20 Nashville: C Tommy Novak contract
Also receiving votes: Bemidji State extended.
29, Northeastern 29, Clarkson 10, Holy Vancouver: C Matt Irwin sent to mi-
Cross 7, Penn State 0, Michigan Tech 3, nors.
Notre Dame 3, Colgate 2, Dartmouth 1 Washington: RW Pierrick Dube sent to
Women’s Div. 1 poll
minors.
USCHO
The top 15 teams as of March 4:
1. Ohio State (20) .................. 300
2. Wisconsin ........................... 280
Pts. LW
1
2
AHL
EASTERN CONFERENCE
3. Clarkson.............................. 260 3
4. Colgate................................ 235 5 Atlantic Division
W L OL SL Pts.
5. Minnesota........................... 216
6. Cornell................................. 207
4
6 Hershey.................. 41 10 0 4 86
Providence............. 34 16 3 2 73
7. St. Lawrence ...................... 181
8. Minn.-Duluth ...................... 160
7
8 WB/Scranton......... 28 19 7 1 64
Hartford.................. 28 17 6 1 63
9. Quinnipiac .......................... 131 9
Charlotte ................ 27 21 6 0 60
10. UConn.................................. 112 11
11. St. Cloud State................... 109 10 Springfield ............. 25 24 3 2
Lehigh Valley......... 23 22 5 2
55
53
12. Princeton .............................. 69 12
13. Northeastern........................ 58 14 Bridgeport.............. 18 29 6 1
North Division
43
14. Yale........................................ 43 13
15. Penn State............................ 38 15
Cleveland ............... 32 16 3 3
Syracuse ................ 31 17 3 2
70
67
Also receiving votes: Boston Col. 1
Belleville................. 28 21 2 3
Rochester............... 25 20 6 2
61
58
Toronto................... 23 18 9 2 57
Utica........................ 23 22 4 3 53

always be the place I represent
that’s in my heart.”
With four younger siblings
in his shadow, and a village be-
hind him, he mapped out a
blueprint that included playing
Division 1 basketball and be-
coming his family’s first college
graduate.
Now, the former Catholic
Memorial and Beaver Country
floor,” Morales said. “I kept
working to make sure my
dreams became a reality.”
Morales received significant
D1 interest and cut the field to
two. Vermont was intriguing,
but BU seemed more natural.
He felt welcomed from the
jump and could visualize him-
self playing in his home city.
Freshman year was tricky,
late against Loyola, and scored
20 against Holy Cross Saturday.
Jones highlighted Morales’s
ability to play multiple posi-
tions and said he has come a
long way defensively. Even if
Jones and Morales didn’t al-
ways see eye to eye on the
court, their mutual respect
never wavered.
Jones credits Morales for his
Marblehead vs. Scituate at Gallo Are-
na, Bourne, 5; Medfield vs. Shawsheen
at Loring Arena, Framingham, 7:30.
Thu., March 7 — Quarterfinals
W. Springfield vs. Som. Berkley at Lor-
ing Arena, Framingham, 5; Pembroke
vs. Nauset at Gallo Arena, Bourne, 7:15.
DIVISION 4
Wed., March 6 — Quarterfinals
Dover-Sherborn/Weston vs. Sandwich
at Stoneham Arena, 5; Ashland vs.
Winthrop at Stoneham Arena, 7:30.
Thu., March 7 — Quarterfinals
Stoneham vs. Nantucket at Gallo Are-
na, Bourne, 5; Hanover vs. Norwell at
O'Brien Arena, Woburn, 7:30.
GIRLS
DIVISION 1
Wed., March 6 — Quarterfinals
Hingham vs. Malden Catholic at John
PWHL
vote, and previous ranking: Laval ....................... 23 24 5 2 53
Rec. Pts. LW WESTERN CONFERENCE
1. Houston (52) ............ 26-3 1,539 1 W-L OW-L Pts.
Central Division
2. UConn (6).................. 26-3 1,462 3 W L OL SL Pts.
3. Purdue (4)................. 26-3 1,459 2
Montreal....................... 6-2 3-3 27 Milwaukee ............. 36 13 1 0 73
Minnesota.................... 6-4 2-3 25 Grand Rapids ........ 27 15 6 3 63
4. Tennessee................. 23-6 1,364
5. Arizona ...................... 23-6 1,252
4
6
Toronto......................... 6-5 3-0 24 Texas ...................... 26 22 3 2 57
Boston .......................... 4-5 2-2 18 Rockford................. 24 21 5 2 55
6. Iowa State ................ 23-6 1,212
7. North Carolina ......... 23-6 1,201
8
9
Ottawa.......................... 4-6 0-4 16 Manitoba................ 21 28 1 1 44
New York ..................... 2-6 4-2 16 Chicago .................. 19 27 3 2 43
8. Marquette................. 22-7 1,056 5 TUESDAY'S GAME Iowa ........................ 19 30 3 2 43
9. Duke........................... 23-6 1,051 10 Ottawa at Minnesota.............................8
10. Creighton .................. 22-8 983 12 WEDNESDAY'S GAMES
Pacific Division
Coachella Valley... 33 13 5 2 73
11. Baylor ........................ 21-8 901 15 Montreal at New York...........................7
12. Illinois ........................ 22-7 834 13 Boston at Toronto...................................7
Colorado................. 32 17 4 1
Tucson.................... 30 18 2 2
69
64
13. Auburn....................... 22-7 746 11 FRIDAY'S GAME
14. Kansas....................... 21-8 723 7 Montreal at Toronto...............................7
Ontario ................... 28 19 3 3
Abbotsford............. 28 19 4 2
62
62
15. Kentucky................... 21-8 711 16
16. Alabama.................... 20-9 592 14
Calgary................... 28 18 4 2
Bakersfield............. 27 19 2 2
62
58
17. South Carolina ......... 24-5 579 18
18. Washington St. ........ 23-7 484 19
Henderson ............. 23 25 2 4 52

Day standout is living out that
as he logged just 49 minutes
kind heart and loyalty. An over-
A. Ryan Arena, Watertown, 5:40; Pea-
body vs. Notre Dame (Hingham) at
John A. Ryan Arena, Watertown, 8.
19. Gonzaga .................... 24-6 396 23
20. BYU ............................ 21-8 343 26
NBA G League San Diego............... 18 24 8 0
San Jose ................. 17 27 8 2
MONDAY'S GAMES
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44

dream at Boston University.
The journey hasn’t been linear,
but it’s been gratifying, as he
has hit his stride in a breakout
senior season. Morales, a
smooth and versatile 6-foot-8-
inch, 195-pound forward, is av-
eraging a career-high 9.4
points, 4.1 rebounds, 1.4 as-
sists, 0.9 blocks, and 0.9 steals
for the Terriers (15-16, 10-8).
BU has ripped off five
over five games and didn’t de-
velop as he would have liked
because of COVID restrictions.
As a sophomore, Morales
averaged 3 points and 9.7 min-
utes in 29 games. As a junior,
he put on weight and rounded
out his game, averaging 5.1
points, 2.9 rebounds, and 1.3.
He put his name in the
transfer portal, but ultimately
decided to return to BU to com-
whelming sense of purpose,
stemming from his childhood,
has made this resurgence pos-
sible.
“He’s never complained,”
Jones said. “He’s just trying to
get it done. He’s trying to help
us win a championship.”
Merrimack rolls on
Merrimack clinched a share
of the Northeast Conference, its
Thu., March 7 — Quarterfinals
Shrewsbury vs. St. Mary’s at John A.
Ryan Skating Arena, Watertown, 5;
Belmont vs. Archbishop Williams at
The Bog, Kingston, 7:30.
DIVISION 2
Wed., March 6 — Quarterfinals
Milton vs. Duxbury at The Bog, Kings-
ton, 5; Algonquin vs. Nauset/Monomoy
at The Bog, Kingston, 7:30.
Thu., March 7 — Quarterfinals
Canton vs. Falmouth at The Bog, Kings-
ton, 5; Marshfield vs. Burlington at
John A. Ryan Arena, Watertown, 7:30.
R For updated scores and highlights,
go to bostonglobe.com/sports/high-
schools.
21. San Diego St............. 22-7 338 20
22. Utah State................. 24-5 285 22
23. Saint Mary's ............. 24-7 268 17
24. South Florida............ 22-5 154 25
25. Dayton ....................... 22-6
Also receiving votes: Nevada 42,
Florida 39, Boise St. 26, Texas Tech 10,
Texas 10, Indiana St. 9, Appalachian St.
6, New Mexico 5, James Madison 4, Fla.
Atlantic 4, Princeton 3, Michigan St. 2,
McNeese St. 2, Colorado St. 2, Villano-
va 2, Richmond 1
Women’s Div. 1 poll
ASSOCIATED PRESS
The top 25 teams as of March 4:
Rec. Pts. LW
1. S. Carolina (35)........ 29-0 875
2. Stanford .................... 26-4 822
3. Iowa ........................... 26-4 786
EASTERN CONFERENCE
W L Pct. GB
Grand Rapids..................... at Cleveland
Bakersfield......................... at San Diego
Delaware.................. 16 8 .667
Osceola..................... 14 7 .667 ½
--
TUESDAY'S GAME
50 21 Indiana...................... 15 9 .625 1 Calgary at Tucson.............................8:30
Capital City.............. 15 10 .600 1½
College Park ............ 15 10 .600 1½
Maine........................ 14 11 .560 2½
Long Island .............. 11 11 .500
Birmingham............. 12 13 .480 4½
Wisconsin................. 12 13 .480 4½
4
ECHL
EASTERN CONFERENCE
Motor City................ 12 13 .480 4½
Grand Rapids........... 11 13 .458 5 North Division
W L OL SL Pts.
Cleveland ................. 11 13 .458
Windy City ............... 10 13 .435 5½
5
Adirondack ............ 34 13 4 3 75
Norfolk.................... 32 19 4 0 68
Greensboro.............. 10 14 .417 6
Raptors....................... 9 15 .375 7 Newfoundland....... 25 23 7 2 59
Worcester .............. 23 24 4 2 52
Westchester .............. 7 17 .292
WESTERN CONFERENCE
9
Reading .................. 22 24 5 2 51
1
Sioux Falls................ 17 7 .708 -- Maine...................... 22 25 6 0 50
4
Stockton................... 15 9 .625 2 Trois-Rivieres ........ 21 25 3 3 48
6
Rio Grande Valley... 13 8 .619 2½ South Division

straight wins to capture the No.
2 seed in the Patriot League
tournament, and Morales’s as-
cension is a major reason.
“He stuck with it,” BU coach
Joe Jones said. “Now I think
he’s really one of the more tal-
ented players in our league. He
just presents a ton of issues for
you with his size, athleticism,
and skill. He’s carried us on his
back when he’s been healthy.”
Morales discovered the
plete his degree with his family
in mind. Morales had come too
far to pivot, and he prioritized
finishing what he started.
“That’s a pretty significant
achievement and something
that I think will make an im-
pact,” Jones said. “Being that
example for his siblings is so
important. I’m really happy for
him, and very proud of him.”
He entered this season opti-
mistic, but a partially torn MCL
third regular-season title in the
last five seasons. The Warriors
are the only team in the nation
undefeated in February (15-0)
in the last two seasons . . . After
starting off 6-17, Brown (11-17,
7-6 Ivy) ripped off five straight
wins to book its first trip to the
four-team Ivy League tourna-
ment . . . UMass is up to 19
wins in Frank Martin’s second
season — its most since the
2013-14 season, when the Min-
Premier League
GP W D L Pts.
Liverpool.................. 27 19 6 2 63
Manchester City .... 27 19 5 3 62
Arsenal..................... 27 19 4 4 61
Aston Villa............... 27 17 4 6 55
Tottenham............... 26 15 5 6 50
Man. United ............ 27 14 2 11 44
West Ham ............... 27 12 6 9 42
Newcastle................ 27 12 4 11 40
Brighton................... 27 10 9 8 39
Wolverhampton ..... 27 11 5 11 38
Chelsea .................... 26 10 6 10 36
Fulham..................... 27 10 5 12 35
Bournemouth.......... 26 8 7 11 31
Crystal Palace ........ 27 7 7 13 28
Brentford................. 27 7 5 15 26
Everton .................... 27 8 7 12 25
Nottinghm Forest... 27 6 6 15 24
Luton Town............. 26 5 5 16 20
Burnley..................... 27 3 4 20 13
Sheffield .................. 27 3 4 20 13
SUNDAY’S RESULTS
AFC Bournemouth 2...........at Burnley 0
4. Ohio State................. 25-4 761
5. USC............................. 23-5 699
6. Texas ......................... 27-4 687
7. UCLA .......................... 24-5 673
8. LSU............................. 26-4 638
9. UConn........................ 26-5 566 10
10. N.C. State.................. 25-5 526 12
11. Virginia Tech............ 23-6 513
12. Indiana ...................... 24-4 499 14
13. Oregon St.................. 23-6 472 11
14. Notre Dame .............. 23-6 470 17
15. Gonzaga .................... 29-2 399 16
16. Kansas St.................. 24-6 288 15
17. Baylor ........................ 23-6 273 21
18. Colorado.................... 21-8 259 13
19. Oklahoma.................. 21-8 239 20
20. Syracuse ................... 23-6 210 19
21. Creighton .................. 24-4 199 23
22. Utah ........................... 21-9 172 18
23. UNLV.......................... 26-2 113 24
24. Louisville ................... 23-8 108 22
25. Fairfield ..................... 26-1 60 26
Also receiving votes: Princeton 24,
Michigan St. 12, West Virginia 9, Mis-
sissippi 9, North Carolina 3, Duke 3, Co-
lumbia 3, Kansas 1, Jackson St. 1, Iowa
2 Greenville............... 38 16 2 0 78
7 Texas ........................ 14 10 .583 3
3 Rip City..................... 14 10 .583
South Bay................. 12 10 .545
3
4
Jacksonville ........... 34 17 4 1
South Carolina ...... 33 20 2 1
73
69
8
9 Austin........................ 12 10 .545 4 Florida..................... 28 17 7 2
Orlando................... 28 19 6 2
65
64
Santa Cruz ............... 13 11 .542 4
Mexico City.............. 12 11 .522 4½ Savannah ............... 22 28 4 1
Atlanta.................... 18 36 3 1
49
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5 Oklahoma City ........ 12 12 .500 5
Memphis .................. 12 13 .480 5½ WESTERN CONFERENCE
Salt Lake City.......... 10 13 .435 6½ Central Division
Ontario ..................... 10 13 .435 6½ W L OL SL Pts.
Iowa ............................ 6 16 .273 10 Toledo..................... 32 12 4 5 73
G League.................... 2 25 .074 16½ Indy ......................... 29 20 5 1 64
MONDAY'S GAMES Wheeling................ 31 23 1 1 64
Rip City 137....................... Memphis 111 Fort Wayne............ 28 23 2 3 61
Kalamazoo............. 28 21 3 0 59
Santa Cruz 117............ Mexico City 100
Iowa......................................... at Ontario Cincinnati............... 25 26 5 0 55
Iowa ........................ 22 26 5 2 51
TUESDAY'S GAMES
Motor City at Capital City...........11:30a Mountain Division
Kansas City............ 40 10 3 1 84
Sioux Falls at Oklahoma City.............12
Delaware at College Park.....................7 Idaho....................... 37 15 2 1 77
Tulsa ....................... 25 24 5 1 56
G League at Long Island.......................7
Greensboro at Grand Rapids................7 Allen........................ 25 25 2 1 53
Maine at Osceola Magic....................... 7 Utah ........................ 25 29 1 0
Wichita ................... 19 28 7 1
51
46
Texas at Salt Lake City..........................9
Iowa at South Bay................................10 Rapid City .............. 20 33 2 0
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ELLOWITZ, Charlotte (Brandwene)
BEVERLY
KAUFMAN, Abe Harry
BOSTON
EISENBERG, Arthur
HUNNEWELL, Horatio Hollis
BROOKLINE
CALLAHAN, Cornelia
CANTON
WINTHROP, Jeanette Irene (DeLello)
DANVERS
OSTROM, Janice
GLOUCESTER
ODER, Frederic Emil
MALDEN
AMATO, Ann M.
MEDFORD
YOUNG, Linda L. (Wheeler)
MELROSE
ODER, Frederic Emil
NAHANT
HUNNEWELL, Horatio Hollis
NORWOOD
GONZALEZ, Gladys Gulnara
JOSEPH, Paul M. Sr.
OAK BLUFFS
KEATING, Margaret Eileen
PEABODY
KAUFMAN, Abe Harry
ALBERICO, John P.
Of South Yarmouth,
formerly of Watertown,
died, March 2, 2024.
Beloved husband of the late Josephine
T. (DeFelice) Alberico. Loving father
of Bruce and his wife, Camille of
Yarmouthport, John, Jr. and his wife,
Marion of Windham, N.H., David and
partner, Michael of Yarmouthport and
Sandra Alberico of South Yarmouth.
Dear grandfather of Mari, Corey,
Victoria and Elizabeth. Brother of Fred
Alberico of Waltham, Marie Fantasia
of Mashpee and the late Vincent
Alberico. Funeral from the DeVito
Funeral Home, 761 Mount Auburn St.,
WATERTOWN, on Thursday, at 9 am,
followed by a Funeral Mass at 10 am, in
Sacred Heart Church. Burial to follow
in St. Patrick Cemetery. Relatives and
friends are invited to visit in the funeral
home on Wednesday, from 4 to 7 pm.
In lieu of flowers, please consider a
donation in memory of John to The
ALS Association, 1300 Wilson Blvd.,
Suite 600, Arlington, VA 22209 or
online at als.org/donate Please visit
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SAUGUS
YOUNG, Linda L. (Wheeler)
SHARON
WINTHROP, Jeanette Irene (DeLello)
SOMERVILLE
AMATO, Ann M.
YOUNG, Linda L. (Wheeler)
STONEHAM
YOUNG, Linda L. (Wheeler)
WAKEFIELD
ODER, Frederic Emil
WALPOLE
JOSEPH, Paul M. Sr.
TIMULTY, Brian
WATERTOWN
ALBERICO, John P.
WELLESLEY
HUNNEWELL, Horatio Hollis
WOBURN
AMATO, Ann M.
WRENTHAM
TIMULTY, Brian
YARMOUTH
ALBERICO, John P.
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ELLOWITZ, Charlotte (Brandwene)
CALLAHAN, Cornelia
Age 80, of Brookline, MA, passed away
on Feb. 22, 2024, after a sudden illness.
Cornelia was born in Manchester,
NH, on July 24, 1943, the daughter of
Cornelius and Margaret “Peg” (Phelan)
Callahan.
Cornelia is survived by her sister,
Mary Lou (Callahan) Knepple of Exeter.
Education was a passion of Cornelia’s
and she taught in the Boston Public
School system for 30 years.
Calling Hours at Lambert Funeral
Home & Crematory, MANCHESTER,
NH will be Friday, March 8, from 4 to
7 p.m. A Funeral will be celebrated on
Saturday, March 9, at 10am.
In lieu of flowers, please consider
a donation to The Wounded Warriors
Project. To view her full obituary, go to
www.lambertfuneralhome.com
Lambert Funeral Home -
Manchester, NH (603) 625-6951
EISENBERG, Arthur
“Archie”
Archie, age 90, of Boston, MA, passed
away on March 1, 2024. He is survived
by his wife, Elaine; brother, Harvey;
sisters, Edythe Kames and Davida
Fox-Melanson; children, Steven, Dana,
Arthur Eisenberg and Amy Mayer; six
grandchildren, five great-grandchildren,
one honorary grandchild and one
newborn great-great-grandchild. He
was preceded in death by his parents,
Morris and Lillian.
As a young man, Archie delivered
goods for his father’s pickle business.
While in graduate school, he drove
an ice cream truck. He began his
Social Work career with the JCC in
Brighton. Then, he directed and shared
ownership of a Boston retirement
home. In 1978, he transitioned to
academia, retiring after ten years from
his faculty position in the BU School
of Social Work at 55, expecting his life
would much shorter.
For fun, Arthur enjoyed the Celtics,
travel and documenting family history.
He loved dry humor, taking walks,
sunshine, ice cream, discussing life with
his brother, Celtics with his grandson
and reading obituaries.
A Celebration of Life will be held in
May 5, at a location TBD.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be
made to the ACLU.
The family will be receiving visitors
at Arthur’s home, March 8 and 9, 2 to 6
pm. For the address, please call or text
406-239-1106 or email
amayer47@gmail.com
ELLOWITZ, Charlotte
(Brandwene)
Age 97, of Palm Beach Gardens, FL,
formerly of Belmont, MA, passed away
peacefully in her home on February 26,
2024. Charlotte was born in Scranton,
PA to Eugene and Ida Brandwene.
GONZALEZ, Gladys Gulnara
Of Norwood, MA, 61, was born in
Suscal, Ecuador. She peacefully passed
away on March 1, 2024, surrounded
by her loving family. Gladys was
the beloved daughter of Magdalena
Heredia Espinoza and Julio Anibal
Cárdenas Andrade. Services to honor
and Celebrate Gladys’s Life will be
held at the Gillooly Funeral Home, 126
Walpole Street (Rt. 1A), NORWOOD, on
Wednesday, March 6, at 10 AM. Funeral
Mass in St. Catherine of Siena Parish,
547 Washington Street, Norwood, at
11 AM. Visiting Hours in the Funeral
Home on Tuesday, from 3 to 7 PM.
Interment at Highland Cemetery,
Norwood.
The Mass can be viewed at 11
AM, on Wednesday, through this link
https://stcatherinenorwood.org/live-
stream
The link to an additional obituary,
can be found at
www.GilloolyFuneralHome.com
Gillooly Funeral Home
Norwood (781) 762-0174
HUNNEWELL, Horatio Hollis
Of Nahant, MA, died peacefully on
February 25, 2024, at the age of 94.
The son of Hollis Hunnewell and Mary
Frances Oakes Greenway. Hollis grew
up on Pond Road in Wellesley, MA
and attended Charles River School,
as did his four children. The family
summered by the ocean in Nahant
and enjoyed their farmhouse in South
Tamworth, NH. He graduated from
St. Paul’s School in 1947 and from
Harvard College in 1951, where he sang
tenor with the Krokodiloes. Hollis lost
good friends in the Korean War. He
served in the National Guard and was
a member of The American Legion. He
launched his insurance career at Lloyd’s
of London, and owned Hollis, Perrin &
Attridge Insurance Company of Boston.
KAUFMAN, Abe Harry
Passed away peacefully on
March 4, 2024, at the age of
96. He was born and raised
in East Liverpool, Ohio, the youngest
of seven children born to Charles and
Lena Kaufman. In first grade, Abe
could not spell Abraham, so his teacher
suggested he go by Abe, which has been
his name since. Abe served in the Army
and was stationed in Korea, attaining
the rank of Tech 4. In one of his roles,
he served as a Rabbi’s assistant leading
services in Inchon, Korea. The GI Bill
enabled Abe to be the first member
of his family to attend college. He
attended Purdue University graduating
with a B.S. in chemical engineering.
He was a member of the Sigma Alpha
Mu fraternity, was vice president of
his class, played many intramural
sports and worked as a meat cutter,
carpenter and conducted services at
a local synagogue to cover his living
expenses. Upon graduation, Abe
worked at General Electric, rotating
through many of the facilities and
spending a year working on a prototype
of the Sea Wolf, the second nuclear
submarine, in Schenectady, NY. He
then accepted a permanent assignment
in the Instrument Department in Lynn,
MA, where he won the Top Manager
award. His highlight was playing on
a softball all-star team that played
against “The King and His Court” and
catching The King during his exhibition
after the game. Living in Lynn, Abe
frequented Kings Beach, where he
says he met his wife, Anita, although
she claims they met at a synagogue
in Lynn. Either way, he characterized
their meeting as his biggest claim to
fame. They were married on November
15, 1959 and soon welcomed son,
Stuart, and daughter, Joy. The family
settled in Beverly, MA, where they
lived for 50 years. At the age of 42, Abe
decided to change careers and joined
the Stockbroker Training Program at
Bache & Company. This was not an
easy change, he took a substantial cut
in pay, had to live away from his family
for long periods of time and competed
academically with people half his
age. Abe then spent 27 years with the
company becoming a Vice President of
Investments and a Certified Financial
Planner. He thoroughly enjoyed
his work. Abe participated in many
volunteer activities, including serving
on the boards of Camp Bauercrest
and the Brotherhood Credit Union.
However, most of his volunteer time
was at Temple B’nai Abraham (TBA)
in Beverly. There, he was a member
of the board of directors and served
on the Ritual, Membership, Finance,
KEATING, Margaret Eileen
100 years old, of Oak Bluffs, MA and
former resident of Arlington, MA,
died on Sunday, February 3, 2024, at
Martha’s Vineyard Hospital. She was
the beloved wife of the late James F.
Keating; loving mother of Sandra P.
Keating and Corinne M. Clark and her
husband, Scott M. Clark; the beloved
grandmother of Charlie Keating and
the late Sammy Keating, Haily Clark
and Baily Clark. Her life work was to
care and love her family. Margaret
had numerous friends and interests
including gardening, reading, knitting,
cooking, daily exercise and refinishing
furniture. She spent her winter in Siesta
Key, FL and many summers in the
family home on Martha’s Vineyard. She
adored her Sunday dinners with her
family and pups. The family would like
to acknowledge the professional, kind
and compassionate care our mother
received from the nursing staff at the
Martha’s Vineyard Hospital. Thank you
to everyone who helped us through this
difficult time. The Funeral Services will
remain private and Margaret will be
laid to rest at the National Cemetery
in Bourne, Massachusetts. For online
guestbook and more information,
please visit chapmanfuneral.com
CORRECTION
ODER, Frederic Emil, MD
Age 81 of Wakefield, previously of
Gloucester, died peacefully at home
Monday February 19. Born in Alham-
bra, California May 22, 1942, he was
the son of Frederic Carl Emil Oder, PhD
and Dorothy Gene Brumfield. He leaves
his devoted wife, Judith Oder. He leaves
the mother of his sons, Barbara Oder
and her husband, Tim Fish of Melrose.
He leaves his beloved sons, Terrence
Oder, MD of Hartford, Connecticut and
Patrick Oder, MD and his wife, Susan

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AMATO, Ann M. (Arigo)
Of Woburn, March 3, 2024. Beloved
wife for 62 years of Peter V. Amato.
Devoted mother of Peter Amato, Sr.
and his wife, Teresa of Wilmington and
Stephen Amato and his wife, Darlene
M. of Woburn. Loving grandmother of
Melissa Amato of Wilmington, Peter
Amato, Jr. of Tyngsboro, Nicholas
Amato of San Jose, CA and Ryan Amato
of Woburn. Sister of Marie Hines and
her husband, Richard of Reading, the
late Carmella Cox, Jacqueline Bartlett
and Saro Arigo. Sister-in-law of Vincent
Amato and his wife, Rose Ann of Bil-
lerica. Further survived by many nieces
and nephews. A Funeral Service will be
conducted in the McLaughlin - Dello
Russo Family Funeral Home, 60 Pleas-
ant St., WOBURN, Friday, March 8,
at 10 a.m. Services will conclude with
Burial at Oak Grove Cemetery, Med-
ford. Relatives and friends are respect-
fully invited to attend. Visiting Hours
will be held on Thursday, from 4 to 7
p.m. It has been requested that, in lieu
of flowers, contributions may be made
in Ann’s memory to the charity of one’s
choice. For additional obituary and to
leave an online message of condolence,
please visit www.dellorusso.net
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shortly after Howard graduated from
Lehigh University. They enjoyed over
72 years of marriage. She was also
predeceased by her sister, Guitelle.
Charlotte leaves three children, James
and his wife, Marsha Ellowitz of New
York, NY, Sue Lamb and her husband,
Paul of Palm Beach Gardens, FL and
Jeff and his wife, Cindy Schlessinger
of Lexington, MA. Charlotte also
leaves four grandchildren, Audrey
(Todd) Bertoson, Joanna Lamb and
Cal and Rebecca (Ruby) Ellowitz; and
one step-great-grandchild, Evelyn
Bertoson. Charlotte and Howard
raised their family in Belmont, MA
and became residents of Palm Beach
Gardens, Florida in the 1990s.
Charlotte was an active member
of her community, chairing many
committees and organizations in the
schools and synagogue. She worked
at Bank of America in Cambridge,
MA, opening accounts and supporting
customers. Charlotte was an excellent
bridge player, and also loved to play
Canasta and Mah Jong. Charlotte
played golf for many years and was
an avid Boston sports team fan, the
Red Sox, Patriots and Celtics had her
full support. Charlotte and Howard
enjoyed worldwide travel throughout
their marriage. Charlotte loved to
entertain friends and family, hosting
holidays and special events. She was an
accomplished baker and excellent cook.
Charlotte was a loving wife, mother,
grandmother, daughter, sister and
friend. She loved to look her best and
dress in style. She was admired and
loved by the staff and all her friends at
the Madyson Assisted Living facility,
active and engaged to the very end of
her 97 years. She was a great example
of how to live life well, with grace and
energy. She will be missed. Donations
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with friends. He crewed the last leg of
the replica Mayflower II to Plymouth,
MA. He hosted the “Hunnewell Hill
Climb” for the Vintage Sports Car Club
of America. At home he spent much of
his time in the woods pulling brush,
raising honeybees and winding his
many clocks.
He leaves his wife of 67 years,
Edith Elliott Hunnewell of Nahant,
MA; daughter, Elliott dB. Hunnewell
& husband, Joseph deBethune of
Pittsfield, MA, son, Hollis Hunnewell
of Cohasset, MA, daughter, Isabelle
Hunnewell Stafford of Stow, ME; and
seven grandchildren, John & Sarah
deBethune, Hollis, Fisher and Charlotte
Hunnewell, Thomas and Welles
Stafford. He was predeceased by his
son, Peter R. Hunnewell, 1966–1994.
The family thanks Jesmond Nursing
Home for their care and attention
during his last years.
A private service will be held with
immediate family. Arrangements
entrusted to Solomine Funeral Homes,
LYNN. Online guestbook for family and
friends to offer condolences, at www.
solimine.com
JOSEPH, Paul M. Sr.
Of Norwood, March 3,
2024. Dear and devoted
husband of the late Eileen
(Maloney). Loving father of Kathleen
Joseph and her husband, Steven
Griffin of E. Walpole, Georganne
Joseph and her husband, Bruce Willey
of E. Walpole and Paul M. Joseph,
Jr. of Norwood. Dear brother-in-law
of Barbara Joseph and Ruth Joseph,
both of ME. Loving son of the late
Marron and Annie (Rumya) Joseph.
Funeral from the Kraw-Kornack
Funeral Home, 1248 Washington St.,
NORWOOD, Friday, at 10 a.m. Funeral
Mass at St. Catherine of Siena at 11
a.m. Visiting Hours on Thursday, 4 to 7
p.m. Relatives and friends respectfully
invited to attend. In lieu of flowers,
contributions in Paul’s memory may be
made to the American Cancer Society,
3 Speen St., Suite 250, Framingham,
MA 07101. Proud U.S. Army Veteran of
the Korean War. Interment in Highland
Cemetery, Norwood. Guestbook and
other information, at
www.kraw-kornackfuneralhome.com
services. For many years, he served as ever seen.” He was the proud brother
the gabbai during high holiday services of Richard Oder of Old Chatham, New
and blew the shofar during Elul. In York and sister, Barbara Debes and her
2003, the Temple honored him with
the Distinguished Member Award.
After snow birding for many years, in
wife, Susan Messerschmitt of Rochester,
New York; and nephews, Jordan of
Rochester, New York and Remy of
2014, Abe and Anita sold their house Memphis, Tennessee.
in Beverly and moved to Florida, where Frederic leaves four grandchildren,
he enjoyed playing golf, going to the
Alexander Oder, Ethan Oder, both of
symphony and theater with Anita and Wakefield, Sophia Oder of New York
spending time with his friends from City and Celia Glosser; as well as nieces,
East Liverpool, who had also settled
great-nieces and a great-nephew.
in Florida. Abe and Anita moved to
A retired physician and psychiatrist,
Brooksby Village in Peabody in 2021 to
Dr. Oder graduated Harvard College,
be closer to family. Abe is survived by cum laude in 1963 and earned his MD
his wife, Anita (Berenzon); son, Stuart;
at the University of Rochester School of
daughter, Joy (Stewart Frankel); and
Medicine in 1967. Major Oder served
his grandchildren, Taylor Kaufman
in the U.S. Army Medical Corps in
and Ari Kaufman-Frankel. He was
Germany, 1968-1971. He settled in
predeceased by his father, Charles;
Gloucester. where he raised his family
mother, Lena; brother, Zalman; and
and was on the staff of Addison Gilbert
sisters, Ruth, Nelle, Charlotte, Pauline
Hospital. He loved his home on Good
and Florence. Services at Temple Bnai
Harbor Beach, overlooking the ocean,
Abraham, 200 E. Lothrop St., Beverly,
and jogging around Cape Ann. He
on Wednesday, March 6, at 11:00
was especially proud of his Boston
AM. Interment in Beverly. For Shiva
Marathon runs. He was a voracious
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Memorial contributions can be made
them, were Lincoln and Churchill. He
to the Abe Kaufman Fund of Temple
was an opera lover and member of the
B’nai Abraham, in Beverly, MA. For
Wakefield Opera Club. He could sing
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Cathedral, his favorite hymn, “Panis
Angelicus”. He also enjoyed playing
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OSTROM, Janice
Age 82, died, March 1, 2024, wife of
the late David M. Ostrom, II; mother
of Sarah Ostrom of West Warwick, RI
and Kristin Allen (Andrew) of Danvers,
MA; stepmother of Philip Collins of
CT and Holly Troiano (Anthony) of
Housatonic, MA; sister of Jean Sullivan
(John) of IN; grandmother of Joshua
and Rachel Allen, Olivia Ostrom
Ellis, Cameron and McKensie Collins,
Heather DelSoldato, Angela Troiano-
Bynack and Kevin Troiano; great-
grandmother of Benjamin, Sawyer
and Quinn. Her Funeral Services are
at 10AM, on Saturday, March 9, in
the Holy Trinity Methodist Church,
Sylvan St., Danvers. Burial is private.
Visitation will be held from 4 to 7PM,
on Fri., March 8, at C.R. Lyons &
Sons, Funeral Directors, 28 Elm St.,
DANVERS. In lieu of flowers, memorial
donations may be made to the Janice
Ostrom Memorial Fund, at the National
MS Society, www.nationalmssociety.
org or to the Brooksby Village
Scholarship Fund, Philanthropy Office,
300 Brooksby Village Dr., Peabody,
MA 01960. Additional obituary, at
www.LyonsFuneral.com
TIMULTY, Brian
Age 68, of Wrentham, MA, passed away
on March 1, 2024.
Born in Boston, son of the late
James and Eleanor Timulty. He is sur-
vived by his wife, Cheryl; and daughter,
Kerry Timulty. Brian graduated from
Catholic Memorial High School and re-
ceived his bachelor’s degree from Curry
College in 1976. He was a financial ana-
lyst at Siemens Diagnostics in Walpole,
MA. In his spare time, Brian loved fol-
lowing Boston sports, listening to Irish
music, cheering for his daughter’s swim
teams and walking his beagles.
Visitation will be held on Friday,
March 8, from 9:30 to 10:15 AM, in
the R.J. Ross Funeral Home, 135 South
Street, WRENTHAM, followed by a Fu-
neral Mass at 10:30 AM, in St. Mary’s
Church, 130 South Street, Wrentham.
Burial will follow in Wrentham Center
Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, a donation
can be made to Hope Health Hulitar
Hospice Center, at hopehealthco.org
In Memoriam
Robert “Bob” Gerald
Fitzgerald
It is with profound
sadness that we
announce the passing
of Robert “Bob”Gerald
Fitzgerald, 80, a
cherished member of
the Jamaica Plain,
Brockton, Duxbury and
Kingston communities
in Massachusetts.
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WINTHROP, Jeanette Irene
(DeLello)
Of Canton, passed away peacefully at
Hebrew Rehabilitation in Roslindale,
MA, on March 2, 2024. She is survived
by her beloved husband of sixty-six
years, Walter Winthrop; and their
children, David and his wife Claire,
Sara and her wife Melissa Leonard,
and Beth Delagi and her husband
Greg. Jeanette was the daughter of
the late Irene (Lanstein) and Frank
DeLello. She was predeceased by
Richard DeLello, her brother; and is
survived by her sister-in-law, Patricia
DeLello. Jeanette was Mimi to eight
grandchildren: Mia Winthrop, Ian
and Olivia Langol-Leonard, and
Matthew, Sam, Hannah, Evan and
Benjamin Delagi; one great-grandchild,
Matilda Jane Delagi; and many nieces,
nephews, great-nieces and nephews.
Jeanette was born and raised in
Boston, graduating in 1951 from Girl’s
High School and State Teacher’s College
at Boston in 1955. Later, Jeanette went
on to receive her Master’s Degree from
Bridgewater State University with a
concentration in reading. Jeanette was
a dedicated first grade teacher in both
the Cambridge and Canton school
systems, where she guided over 900
students and taught them to read. She
also mentored future teachers in her
classroom.
Jeanette was a longtime member of
the Poemworks Workshop for Published
Poets; her poems appeared in over
thirty journals and literary magazines.
She received an Urbanarts award
in 1987 for her poem “At Roxbury
Crossing,” which is carved in granite at
the Boston subway station from which
it takes its name.
Jeanette held leadership roles in
the Canton Chapter of Hadassah and
traveled to national conventions as
her chapter’s representative. Jeanette
was an expert and lightning-fast Mah
Jong player and taught her husband
and children to play during the
Blizzard of ’78! She and Walter were
always on the go in their retirement
and visited Italy, France, Israel, Great
Britain, Spain, Ireland, Hungary, and
the Czech Republic. With friends and
family, they toured U.S. historical sites,
cities, and national parks. Jeanette was
a voracious reader and movie goer,
although she was notorious for giving
away the plot. Jeanette was also an
advocate for many social justice issues,
and she and Walter were supporters of
many charitable causes.
Her service will be held at Temple
Sinai in Sharon on March 5 at 9 in the
morning. Interment will immediately
follow at Sharon Memorial Park. In lieu
of flowers, please consider a donation
to Rosie’s Place at 889 Harrison Ave.,
Boston, MA 02118.
Schlossberg Chapel on the Hill
“Family Owned”
781.828.6990
SchlossbergChapel.com
YOUNG, Linda L. (Wheeler)
Age 86, of Salem, formerly of Medford.
Beloved wife of the late John T. Young.
Devoted mother of Christopher Young
and his wife, Ginny, Laura Young
of Salem, MA and Timothy “Tim”
Young and his wife, Rainy. Cherished
grandmother of Kerri Thompson and
her husband, Mike; and the great-
grandmother of Allison and Brady
Thompson, all of Wakefield. Also
survived by many loving nieces and
nephews. Calling Hours will be held
in the George L. Doherty Funeral
Home, 855 Broadway (Powder
House Sq.), on Thursday, March 7,
from 4:00PM to 7:00PM. Relatives
and friends are invited. Funeral
Service and Burial are private. To
leave a message of condolence, visit
www.dohertyfuneralservice.com
George L. Doherty Funeral Home
Somerville, MA
T h e B o s t o n
Ross Gelbspan, 84, former Globe journalist
By Bryan Marquard
GLOBE STAFF
In the early 1990 s, Ross
Gelbspan had already been cov-
ering environmental issues for
two decades when he suggested
one day that Minnesota’s attor-
ney general force four climate
change skeptics who were testi-
fying at a legislative hearing on
coal burning to reveal who was
paying them for their research.
“Lo and behold, under oath,
they provide their list of fund-
ing and it’s all coming from the
fossil fuel industry,” Mr. Gelb-
span, the only reporter at the
hearing, later recalled in an in-
terview with the Columbia Jour-
nalism Review.
A groundbreaking writer
who was among the first to ex-
pose and publicize the fossil fuel
industry’s financial ties to scien-
tists in the climate change de-
nier camp, he was just as tough
on US journalists who lagged
behind their European counter-
parts in reporting on global
warming — and he zeroed in on
why.
“The reasons have to do with
the culture of newsrooms, the
misguided application of jour-
nalistic balance, the very hu-
man tendency to deny the mag-
nitude of so overwhelming a
threat, and, last though not
least, a decade-long campaign
of deception, disinformation,
and, at times, intimidation by
the fossil fuel lobby to keep this
issue off the public radar
screen,” he wrote in a 2005 es-
say for Mother Jones magazine.
Mr. Gelbspan, who helped
conceive, direct, and edit the
Globe’s “Race Factor” series on
race relations that was awarded
the 1984 Pulitzer Prize for local
investigative specialized report-
ing, died at home on Jan. 27 of
chronic obstructive pulmonary
disease. He was 84 and lived in
Boston.
While writing clearly about
the complex science of climate
change in ways nonscientists
could grasp, Mr. Gelbspan aug-
mented his recommendations
for how “to mend a fractured
world” with steady, dire warn-
ings.
“On Jan. 4 it was 64 degrees
in Boston. On Jan. 11 the city
celebrated a record 303rd day
without snow,” he wrote in the
Globe a couple of weeks after a
Januar y thaw in 2000. And
while predicting that Greater
Boston could “experience more
shirtsleeve December and Janu-
ary days in the coming years,”
he cautioned that “this is gift-
wrapping on a time bomb — a
precursor to climate chaos.”
After leaving the Globe in
the early 1990 s and turning
from daily journalism to books,
he wrote “The Heat Is On: The
Climate Crisis, The Cover-up,
The Prescription,” which was
published in 1997.
In 2004, he published “Boil-
ing Point: How Politicians, Big
Oil and Coal, Journalists and
Activists Have Fueled a Climate
Crisis — And What We Can Do
to Avert Disaster.”
In “Boiling Point,” Mr. Gelb-
span wrote that “what began as
a normal business response by
the fossil fuel lobby — denial
and delay — has now attained
the status of a crime against hu-
manity.”
He took issue with more
than the industry’s disinforma-
Mark Dodson; voiced ‘Star Wars’ and ‘Gremlins’ characters
By Yan Zhuang
and Ron DePasquale
NEW YORK TIMES
Mark Dodson, who voiced
strange puppet creatures in
“Star Wars,” including Salacious
B. Crumb, the cackling monkey-
lizard pet of Jabba the Hutt, and
“Gremlins” films, died Saturday.
He was 64.
His death was confirmed in
statements on social media by
his agent, Peter DeLorme, and
the Evansville Horror Con, the
Indiana fan convention where
he had been scheduled to appear
over the weekend. No cause of
death was given.
Mr. Dodson’s career began in
1983 on “Star Wars: Return of
the Jedi,” when he voiced Sala-
cious B. Crumb, the court jester
o f Ja b b a t h e Hu tt t h a t w a s
known for its maniacal laugh.
In a 2020 interview, Mr. Dod-
son explained how he had gotten
the role by accident.
He was auditioning for Admi-
G l o b e
Obituaries
Mr. Gelbspan, a former Boston Globe environmental reporter and editor, highlighted the
news media’s failure to address climate change. He died Jan. 27. He was 84.
tion campaign, however. Mr.
Gelbspan pointed out that, for
the sake of balance, reporters
kept quoting climate change-de-
nier scientists long after over-
whelming evidence had proved
them wrong.
“Part of what makes this
book important is its indict-
ment of the American news me-
dia’s coverage of global warm-
ing for the past two decades,” Al
Gore, the former vice president
who was awarded the Nobel
Peace Pri ze for his cli mat e
change activism, wrote in a New
York Times review.
“Indeed, when the author in-
vestigates why the United States
is virtually the only advanced
nation in the world that fails to
recognize the severity of this
growing crisis, he concludes
that the news coverage is ‘a
large reason for that failure,’”
Gore wrote.
In a 1997 Globe review, Rob-
ert Braile called “The Heat Is
On,” Mr. Gelbspan’s earlier
book, “an urgent, take-no-pris-
oners, in-your-face expose on
what the author considers the
reality of global warming, of our
societal denial of the problem,
of the self-serving, shortsighted,
morally bankrupt industry that
has manipulated us into that
denial, and of what will happen
to the planet and to us if we
don’t act now to solve the prob-
lem.”
In that book, Mr. Gelbspan
sharply criticized the fossil fuel
industry’s “propaganda cam-
paign” and the efforts of “hear-
no-science” high-profile Repub-
licans to downplay climate
change.
“Environmentalists have
been warning us about global
warming for years,” he wrote
then. “What is news is that glob-
al warming is no longer merely
a future possibility. The heat is
on. Now. Its early impacts, in
Mr. Dodson voiced several Mogwai in “Gremlins” and Salacious
B. Crumb, the pet of Jabba the Hutt, in the “Star Wars” series.
ral Ackbar, a leader during the
Clone Wars, but was so nervous
that he asked for a break to com-
pose himself, and was overheard
using a deranged voice that the
casting director thought was
perfect for Crumb.
That led to Mr. Dodson to
SUZANNE KREITER/GLOBE STAFF/FILE 1997
the form of more extreme and
unstable climate, are being felt
even as I write.”
Born in Chicago on June 1,
1939, Mr. Gelbspan grew up in
Chicago and nearby Winnetka.
His father, Eugene Gelbspan,
ran a company that supplied
equipment and materials to res-
taurants. His mother, Ruth Ross
Gelbspan, worked with Eugene
in his business until their chil-
dren were born.
Mr. G elbspan graduated
with a bachelor’s degree in po-
litical science from Kenyon Col-
lege, which years later awarded
him an honorary doctorate. He
also did graduate work at the
Johns Hopkins School of Ad-
vanced International Studies.
In 1973, he married Anne
Charlotte Broström of Sweden,
a year after they met while he
covered the United Nations
Conference on the Human Envi-
ronment in Stockholm, which
was considered the first interna-
tional gathering where the envi-
ronment was the major issue.
Anne, known as Tottie, spent
a quarter century as a nonprofit
developer of affordable housing
for homeless families in Boston,
New Bedford, and Lawrence.
Mr. Gelbspan also had writ-
ten for The Philadelphia Bulle-
tin, The Washington Post, and
The Village Voice. He was at the
Boston Herald American before
joining the Globe in 1979, and
was special projec ts editor
while directing 1983’s “Race
Factor” series with Globe editor
Ron Hutson, who died in 2020.
In 1985, Mr. Gelbspan revis-
ited the topic in an article, co-
written by Jonathan Kaufman,
which e xamined the Globe
newsroom’s slow efforts in hir-
ing and promoting reporters
and editors of color.
Though the number of Black
newsroom employees “includ-
ing secretaries and library staff”
WARNER BROTHERS
voice several of the Mogwai in
“Gremlins,” a 1984 comedy-hor-
ror film about a young man who
accidentally unleashes a horde
of malevolently mischievous
monsters on a small town on
Christmas Eve.
“Let’s say I did get Ackbar — I
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increased from 6.1 percent in
1982 to 8.7 percent in late 1985,
“a year and a half af ter the
Globe won a Pulitzer Prize for
its reporting on job discrimina-
tion against Blacks in the Bos-
ton area, no Blacks have as-
sumed top positions at the pa-
per,” they wrote. “At the Globe’s
10:30 a.m. news meetings, none
of the editors who decide the
day’s news budget are Black.”
In addition to his wife, Anne,
Mr. Gelbspan leaves their two
daughters, Thea of New York
City and Joby of Philadelphia;
and his sister, Jill of Boulder,
Colo.
A celebration of his life will
be announced.
Anne said her husband was
“religiously passionate” about
music, from classical to blue-
grass and the blues. As a youth-
ful harmonica player, he once
sat in with legendary blues har-
monica player Sonny Terry.
For an accomplished jour-
nalist and author, Mr. Gelbspan
“was a remarkably undefensive
person,” a careful, thoughtful
listener who was open to the
possibility of having his mind
changed, Thea said.
“There aren’t that many men
I know who have a lot of profes-
sional achievements and a great
depth of knowledge, and also
are able to remain humble,” she
said. “He was very quick to say,
‘Oh, I didn’t know that — tell
me more.’ ”
And he championed truth
and honesty wherever he was.
“He really brought me and
my sister up to be honest intel-
lectually and emotionally,” Thea
said, adding that for her father,
truthfulness was essential,
“even if the consequences really
make you grit your teeth.”
Bryan Marquard can be
reached at
bryan.marquard@globe.com.
never would’ ve gotten the
‘Gremlins,’ ” he said. “The ‘Grem-
lins’ came because the ‘Gremlins’
were made by the same guys
who made Salacious. That’s why
it came up, ‘They look a lot the
same. Wouldn’t it be great for
the Gremlins to have that same
voice! Who is that guy?’”
Mr. Dodson continued work-
ing in both franchises, voicing
characters in the 1985 television
movie “Ewoks: The Battle for
Endor” and “Gremlins 2: The
New Batch” (1990).
He voiced a scavenger in
“Star Wars: The Force Awakens”
(2015) and appeared as an un-
c r e d i t e d z o mb i e i n G e o r ge
Romero’s “Day of the Dead”
(1985).
He also voiced characters in
several video games, including
“Star Trek Online,” “Ghostrun-
ner,” “Bendy and the Dark Reviv-
al” and “Lego Star Wars: The
Skywalker Saga,” once again as
Crumb.
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Without immigration
New arrivals —
those here
legally and
the economy would take a hit
those who are Larry Edelman American workforce ages and birth ment rate, tens of thousands of open
undocumented rates decline, leaving many employers jobs are going unfilled,” Governor Mau-
— play an TRENDLINES shorthanded. ra Healey said in a letter in September
increasingly This demographic reality often gets to Alejandro Mayorkas, the US secre-
pivotal role as Donald Trump and Joe Biden made lost in the vitriolic fight over border tary of homeland security, in which she
the American split-screen appearances last week at walls and pathways to citizenship, drug asked for changes to the work authori-
workforce ages the US-Mexico border. Their visits — trafficking and asylum seeking, depor- zation process to allow migrants to se-
and birth rates and their rhetoric — left no doubt that tation and assimilation. cure work faster. “This is one of the big-
decline. the migrant crisis will be a defining po- As the country wrestles with the gest challenges to continued economic
litical issue of the presidential cam- competing demands to protect both its growth that we face.”
paign. borders and its commitment to provid- What the numbers show: Legal and
But immigration is also an economic ing safe haven, the needs of American illegal immigration declined sharply be-
issue. New arrivals — those here legally workers and employers hang in the bal- tween 2016 and mid-2021 due to
and those who are undocumented — ance. Trump administration policy changes,
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play an increasingly pivotal role as the “With a historically low unemploy- TRENDLINES, Page D4

JetBlue,
Spirit abort
$3.8b deal
Judge in Boston
blocked the merger
By J. Edward Moreno
NEW YORK TIMES

JetBlue Airways and Spirit Airlines

announced Monday that they would not
seek to overturn a court ruling that
blocked their planned $3.8 billion merg-
er. The decision is a big win for the Biden
administration, which has sought to lim-
it corporate consolidation.
Backing out of the agreement will
cost JetBlue. Under the terms of the
deal, it has to pay Spirit a breakup fee of
$69 million and Spirit’s shareholders
$400 million.
A federal judge in Boston blocked the
proposed merger Jan. 16, siding with the
Justice Department in determining that
the merger would reduce competition
and give airlines more leeway to raise
ticket prices. Judge William G. Young of
the US District Court for the District of
Massachusetts noted that Spirit played a
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JetBlue and Spirit had appealed 1. Fidelity Investments

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with Spirit to lay out a vision to chal-
Boston’s asset management companies are 7. Loomis, Sayles
lenge the status quo, but given the hur- turning to new technologies and products to keep 8. SLC Management
9. Arrowstreet Capital
dles to closing that remain, we decided
together that both airlines’ interests are the local industry a global powerhouse 10. Brightsphere Investment Group
better served by moving forward inde-
pendently,” JetBlue chief executive Joan- By Suchita Nayar vests in the cryptocurrency Bitcoin and is

na Geraghty said in a statement Monday.
“We wish the very best going forward to
the entire Spirit team.”
The decision to terminate the deal
was not unexpected. In a securities filing
Jan. 26, JetBlue said it might walk away.
Spirit said in its own filing the same day
that it believed “there is no basis for ter-
minating” the agreement.
As part of their merger agreement,
JetBlue had agreed to compensate Spirit
and its shareholders if the deal was
blocked.
“JetBlue has made several valiant at-
tempts and has stretched this deal out as
a long as possible. They had to provide
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GLOBE STAFF
oston’s money management
companies have grown over the
years by attracting investors sav-
ing for college and retirement
with index and exchange-traded
funds that charge low fees.
These funds typically track
broad stock and bond indexes and operate
without high-priced managers. But the finan-
cial companies are finding that low-cost prod-
ucts have one big drawback: smaller profits.
Now, money managers are turning to new
approaches, technologies, and funds to boost
their earnings. Fidelity Investments, for ex-
ample, recently introduced a fund that in-
seeking SEC approval for another cryptocur- Top share of assets under
rency fund that would trade Ethereum. management by location
Other players are adding funds that allow
investors to put their money into private eq-
uity funds that finance buyouts. Still others
are developing technologies and algorithms All others 30% New York
to customize investment strategies, increase 35%
returns, and squeeze out more profit. Percent
“Boston’s asset managers need to adapt London 4% of AUM
more than ever in order to maintain attrac-
tive business economics,” said Kevin Quirk, Los
principal at Casey Quirk, a unit of global con- Angeles 7%
sulting firm Deloitte. Boston 15%
Innovation has long been the hallmark of
Philadelphia 9%
Boston’s investment industry, which grew
MONEY, Page D2 SOURCES: Casey Quirk, financial filings, Pensions and Investments

BOLD TYPES
JERA executive looks to reuse plant
Bringing
as a clean energy connection point
offshore
wind power
By Jon Chesto
GLOBE STAFF
to the Canal
John O’Brien’s company, JERA, runs the last of
plant in
the so-called Filthy Five power plants, the little-used
Sandwich is one
Canal oil-and-gas plant in Sandwich. But O’Brien re-
of many items
on John
mains hopeful Canal will play an important role in
the renewable energy revolution.
O’Brien’s to-do
And now, with his recent promotion to JERA
list.
Americas chief operating officer, O’Brien has some
additional clout within the Japanese company
to pull it off: He wants to line up a deal with an
offshore wind developer to bring a transmis-
sion line to Canal to connect there with the
regional power grid.
Bringing offshore wind power to Canal is
one of many items on his busy to-do list at
CHRIS MORRIS FOR THE BOSTON GLOBE JERA, a Japanese joint venture whose US
INSIDE
corporate office is in Houston. (Its name is short for
Japan’s Energy for a New Era.) The company is also
studying how ammonia and hydrogen can be used
to fire up power plants currently fueled by coal and
ANTITRUST
natural gas, respectively. JERA hopes to test out
technologies, including big batteries, through its US EU fines Apple $2b, says it
plants that could be replicated in Japan to help re-
duce carbon emissions there. is using the App Store to
In many ways, O’Brien’s latest role represents the thwart competition D2
culmination of a long career in the energy business.
It began at the State House, where as a state senator
in the 1990s, O’Brien helped write the electricity de- ECONOMY
regulation law that spurred utilities to sell off their
power plants in Massachusetts. Then he joined the Trump’s tax cut fueled
Boston office of what was then Sithe Energies, investment but did not pay
launching a private-sector career that later took him
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EU fines Apple $2b on antitrust complaint Study finds

mixed results
By Tripp Mickle
and Adam Satariano
NEW YORK TIMES in Trump’s
2017 tax cut
SAN FRANCISCO — Apple on
Monday was fined $1.95 billion by
European Union regulators for
thwarting competition among
music streaming rivals, a severe By Jim Tankersley
punishment levied against the NEW YORK TIMES

tech giant in a long-simmering WASHINGTON — The corporate

battle over the powerful role it
plays as gatekeeper of the App
Store.
The penalty, announced by the
EU antitrust regulator, is the cul-
mination of a five-year investiga-
tion set in motion by one of its big-
gest rivals, Spotify. Regulators said
Apple illegally used its App Store
dominance to box out rivals.
“For a decade, Apple abused its
dominant position in the market
for the distribution of music
streaming apps through the App
Store,” said Margrethe Vestager,
the European Commission execu-
tive vice president who oversees
competition policy.
“From now on,” she said in a
news conference, “Apple will have
to allow music streaming develop-
ers to communicate freely with
their own users.” The size of the
fine, she added, “reflects both Ap-
ple’s financial power and the harm
that Apple’s conduct inflicted on
millions of European users.”
The action by the European
Commission, the EU executive
branch, is the latest in a series of
regulations and penalties to target
the App Store. Most of the dis-
putes are because Apple requires
EU Commission that apps use its in-app payment
vice president service for sales. It takes as much
Margrethe as a 30 percent commission on
Vestager said each transaction, a fee that many
Apple abused its developers say is excessive.
dominant Regulators in the Netherlands
position in and South Korea have passed laws
music streaming or orders to force Apple to allow
services through alternative payment services, but
its App Store. Apple has largely disregarded the
regulators’ challenges. In those
GEERT VANDEN WIJNGAERT/ASSOCIATED PRESS
countries it is allowing alterna-
tives but charging a 27 percent
commission, a solution that regu-
lators in the countries are contest-
ing.
Apple said it would appeal the
ruling. “While we respect the Eu-
ropean Commission, the facts sim-
ply don’t support this decision,”
Apple said in a statement Monday.
In a briefing last month, Apple
said European regulators had
been searching for a legal theory
for the case for nearly a decade, in
fits and starts. Apple challenged
the idea that Spotify users haven’t
been able to subscribe to music
services through other means, say-
ing that Spotify has added more
than 100 million subscribers out-
side its app over the past eight
years.
tax cuts that former president Don-
ald Trump signed into law in 2017
have boosted investment in the US
economy and delivered a modest pay
bump for workers, according to the
most rigorous and detailed study yet
of the law’s effects.
Those benefits are less than Re-
publicans promised, though, and
they have come at a high cost to the
federal budget. The corporate tax
cuts came nowhere close to paying
for themselves, as conservatives in-
sisted they would. Instead, they are
adding more than $100 billion a year
to America’s $34 trillion-and-grow-
ing national debt, according to the
quartet of researchers from Prince-
ton University, the University of Chi-
cago, Harvard University, and the
Treasury Department.
The researchers found the cuts
delivered wage gains that were “an
order of magnitude below” what
Trump officials predicted: about
$750 per worker per year on average
over the long run, compared with
promises of $4,000 to $9,000 per
worker.
The study is the first to use vast
data from corporate tax filings to
draw conclusions about the Tax Cuts
and Jobs Act, which passed with on-
ly Republican support. Its findings
could help shape debate on renew-
ing parts of the law that are set to ex-

Money managers focus on innovation pire or have begun to phase out.

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from managing the great fortunes
built-in trade and manufacturing
during the Colonial period and
early years of the Republic. MFS
Investment Management invent-
ed the modern mutual fund,
which marks its 100th anniversa-
ry this month. State Street in 1993
introduced the first exchange-
traded fund, which replicates S&P
500 stock index but can trade like
common stock.
While overshadowed in recent
years by the region’s biotechnolo-
gy and technology sectors, the in-
vestment industry remains a key
component of Greater Boston’s
economy. Ten of the largest local
money managers, led by titans
such as Fidelity and State Street,
manage over $12 trillion in assets,
making Boston, in terms of assets
under management, second only
to New York in the global industry,
according to an analysis by Casey
Quirk, based in Stamford, Conn.
The investment sector em-
ployed about 47,000 people in
Greater Boston at the end of last
year, according to the Labor De-
partment, but the economic im-
pact extends beyond those jobs.
These investment roles are sup-
ported by several ancillary jobs,
including accountants, lawyers,
and tax specialists, said Michael
Caccese, leader of global asset
management practice at law firm
K&L Gates.
“The multiplier effect is huge,”
Caccese said.
But costs of IT systems to man-
age and run compliance, trading,
and data have risen 6 percent each
year for the last three years, ac-
cording to Casey Quirk. Asset
managers typically spend 12.7
percent of their operating budgets
on information technology.
This means that the profits and
margins in traditional fund man-
agement have come under pres-
sure. For instance, as costs have
gone up, the average fee for an ac-
tively managed fund has fallen by
half a basis point, or 0.005 per-
cent, every year over the last 15
years, according to analysis by
Fuse Research of Needham.
That squeeze is leading to con-
solidation and cost-cutting. On
Jan. 1, Franklin Templeton com-
pleted its acquisition of Putnam
Investments, an old-line Boston
money manager. Separately, State
Street said it would cut 1,500 jobs
from its banking and asset man-
agement arm this year.
“There’re a handful of chal-
lenges for Boston firms that, based
on their response, may well deter-
mine their fate two to three years
from now,” said Neil Bathon,
Fuse’s managing partner.
The response has been more
innovation — in technology, prod-
ucts, and fund management.
Faster, slicker
From automated index funds,
in which mathematical formulas
drive trading, to quantitative in-
vestment strategies based on
lightning-fast number crunching,
asset management has morphed
into a faster, slicker version of it-
self.
For example, Loomis, Sayles,
which manages $335 billion of as-
sets, has spent some $250 million
over the last decade to bolster its
investment management plat-
form, proprietary operating ser-
vices, and other technology, said
operations chief John Gidman. Its
spending on collecting, storing,
and analyzing data has jumped to
$60 million a year from just $22
million in 2012.
“The firms that have already
built up their proprietary technol-
ogy infrastructure will be the ones
who pull away from the pack,”
said Kevin Charleston, the CEO at
Loomis, Sayles.
Columbia Threadneedle In-
vestments, which manages $637
billion, is bringing separately
managed accounts or SMAs to a
wider range of investors. Even
smaller asset managers can now
compete for clients in this increas-
ingly lucrative segment of the in-
dustry. These accounts were once
so expensive to establish and
maintain that large money man-
agers could offer them only to in-
stitutional clients, but advancing
technology has lowered costs and
allowed money managers to target
affluent individuals.
This market segment is expect-
ed to exceed $3 trillion this year,
according to industry estimates.
“Over time, we can deliver
those types of services at smaller
and smaller asset levels through
the use of technology,” said Dan
Beckman, president of Columbia
Funds at Columbia Threadneedle
Investments.
Not vanilla
Index-based ETFs and mutual
funds are known as passive invest-
ments because no fund manager
picks stocks and bonds. Such vehi-
cles merely track performance of
indexes that reflect broader mar-
kets.
But the passive side of fund
management is seeing rapid
change. Some money manage-
ment firms are entering new mar-
kets that might offer higher re-
turns for which investors might
pay higher fees. This year alone,
11 Bitcoin ETFs were launched.
Other companies are creating
actively managed ETFs, in which a
portfolio manager or an invest-
ment team aims to outperform a
benchmark index. Fidelity recent-
ly launched six actively managed
stock ETFs and is expected to soon
add an actively managed bond
ETF.
Fidelity and other money man-
agers are also taking advantage of
fractional share-ownership, in
which investors buy, say, a 10th or
100 th of a share, to customize
ETF investing. By holding these
small pieces of stock directly in
their brokerage accounts, clients
can weigh investments in index
funds based on their preferences.
For example, if clients in an S&P
500 ETF want to invest more in
Microsoft and less in Boeing, they
could adjust the underlying stock
holdings accordingly.
LOOMIS, SAYLES & COMPANY
The product, known as direct
indexing, “has been one of the
fastest growing trends in the in-
vestment industry,” said Skip Wie-
meyer, head of Fidelity’s Retail
Managed Solutions, with $705 bil-
lion assets under management.
“These clients are able to further
personalize their portfolios.”
Further afield
Offering investment opportu-
nities with higher growth poten-
tial (and risks) could help local
money managers maintain Bos-
ton’s dominance in the industry,
said Quirk, of Casey Quirk.
Conventional investment pros
have moved into alternative in-
vestments, such as private equity,
for investors willing to take bigger
risks for bigger returns. For exam-
ple, Meketa Investment Group,
which advises institutional inves-
tors, in July partnered with Pri-
mark Capital, an asset manager in
Denver, to offer the Primark Me-
keta Private Equity Investment
Fund to individual investors.
Firms also are branching into
funds for real estate and private
lending, which provides capital
for borrowers outside the regulat-
ed banking system.
“It used to be that Boston was
15 years behind New York City in
alternatives,” said Brynn Peltz, a
partner at Goodwin Proctor’s pri-
vate investments group, “but it’s
catching up.”
Suchita Nayar can be reached at
suchita.nayar@globe.com.
That includes a key provision tar-
geting investment, which the au-
thors identify as the most cost-effec-
tive corporate cut. That benefit,
which allowed companies to imme-
diately deduct investment spending
from their income taxes, would be re-
newed as part of a bipartisan tax bill
that passed the House in January.
It also challenges narratives
about the bill on both sides of the
aisle. Democrats have claimed the
tax cuts only rewarded shareholders
and did not help the economy. Re-
publicans have called them a cost-
free boon to the middle class. Both
appear to have been wrong.
In Greater “The evidence that taxes matter
Boston, money for investment really is there,” Gabriel
management Chodorow-Reich, a Harvard econo-
companies are mist and one of the paper’s authors,
adopting new said. “And the evidence that corporate
technologies tax cuts are expensive also is there.
and approaches They’re both just features of the data.”
to boost Republicans passed the tax pack-
earnings. Firms age in late 2017. The law was cen-
are focusing on tered on cuts for corporations, in-
adaptation to cluding a reduction in the corporate
remain income tax rate to 21 percent from a
competitive in top rate of 35 percent.
the asset For a limited time, it allowed
management companies to immediately deduct
industry. new investments from their income
taxes, instead of deducting them
over a period of several years.
In the years after the law passed,
investment grew, but at roughly the
same rate as it had in the years be-
fore its passage. That trend could be
deceptive; investment growth might
have slowed if not for the law. So the
authors of the new paper construct-
ed a more exact study.
Both the reduction in the corpo-
rate tax rate and the ability to imme-
diately write off all domestic invest-
ments spurred more investment.
The study contradicts conserva-
tives’ claims that increased growth
would fully offset federal revenue
lost from lower corporate tax bur-
dens, by spurring additional individ-
ual income and corporate profits
that would be subject to federal tax-
es. It suggests that over the course of
a decade, the law will have reduced
corporate tax revenues by 40 per-
cent. In the long run, the reduction
is slightly smaller: about one-third.

JetBlue, Spirit abort $3.8b FAA says Boeing fails to meet

merger; $69m breakup fee
uJET BLUE
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certainty for their shareholders
a n d e m p l o y e e s ,” s a i d B ra d
Haller, a partner at consulting
firm West Monroe.
The collapse of the deal could
be difficult for Spirit to bounce
back from.
Spirit is heavily indebted, and
last turned a profit before the
COVID-19 pandemic. Investors
saw the JetBlue acquisition as a
lifeline. Spirit CEO Ted Christie
said in a statement Monday that
“given the regulatory uncertain-
ty, we have always considered
the possibility of continuing to
operate as a stand-alone busi-
ness” and have been thinking of
ways to bolster profits.
It is unclear if another com-
pany will seek to acquire Spirit.
Buying the airline would quickly
allow other carriers to become
bigger at a time when airport
gates and takeoff and landing
slots are in short supply in many
popular US destinations.
But regulators are likely to
challenge a deal that they believe
would result in higher fares,
which suggests that only anoth-
er low-cost airline that does not
compete directly with Spirit on
many routes would be able to
pull off a deal. One possible can-
didate is Frontier Airlines, a low-
EVA MARIE UZCATEGUI/BLOOMBERG
cost carrier that had proposed
buying Spirit before JetBlue out-
bid it by about $1 billion.
Spirit’s stock price has lost
more than half its value since the
ruling that blocked the merger
and was down 10.84 percent
Monday. JetBlue’s stock was up
4.33 percent Monday because
investors believe the company
will save money by not having to
close the deal.
quality-control standards
ASSOCIATED PRESS
The Federal Aviation Administra-
tion said Monday its audit of 737 Max
manufacturing at airplane-maker
Boeing and its key supplier turned up
“multiple instances” of them failing to
make sure manufacturing met quality
As part of their standards.
merger The FAA said that it found “non-
agreement, compliance issues” with Boeing’s
JetBlue had manufacturing-process control and
agreed to parts handling and storage.
compensate The FAA said it gave a summary of
Spirit and its findings from its six-week audit to
shareholders if Boeing and supplier Spirit AeroSys-
the deal was tems. A spokeswoman said the FAA
blocked. can’t release details because its inves-
tigation of Boeing is continuing.
Spirit spokesman Joe Buccino said
the company welcomed the FAA audit
and will review the findings. “We are
in communication with Boeing and
the FAA on appropriate corrective ac-
tions,” he said.
Asked for comment, a Boeing
spokesman referred to a statement
last week in which CEO David Cal-
houn said the company now has a
“clear picture of what needs to be
done” and is “totally committed to
meeting this challenge.”
The FAA has stepped up its scruti-
ny of Boeing since Jan. 5, when a pan-
el blew off a Boeing 737 Max 9 as it
flew 16,000 feet above Oregon. Pilots
of the Alaska Airlines jet were able to
safely land the plane despite the hole
in its side.
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TALKING POINTS
REAL ESTATE Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. has extended its lease
in Cambridge’s Kendall Square through 2040.
Takeda staying
in Kendall
The Japanese drug giant, based in Tokyo, has its
global US hub in Cambridge. It has signed on for
a 10-year term for 223,000 square feet at 75/125
Executive looks
Square Binney St., a lab complex developed by
Alexandria Real Estate Equities. The company is
also planning to occupy a 16-story office and lab
to repurpose plant
building at 585 Third St. nearby, a BioMed Realty uBOLD TYPES of work — running real estate
project that’s under construction now and is Continued from Page D1 for tech companies — had much
slated to open next year. The lease extension to Philadelphia, New Jersey, of a future. In the work-from-
comes at a time when many biotech companies have drawn down their lease Dallas, and the Washington anywhere era, it was a natural
metro area. He became JERA’s question.
requirements, though the Cambridge market has fared better than its surrounding
vice president of government af- But as tech workers return to
neighbors. Lab availability is than 14 percent in Cambridge, compared with more than 18
fairs in 2021, and now works their offices, jobs such as Mira-
percent in the suburbs and 19 percent in Boston.— CATHERINE CARLOCK out of his Hingham home when bello’s have proven as important
he’s not visiting JERA facilities as ever, with companies getting
in the Northeast and Gulf Coast creative by reshaping workplac-
regions. es for a hybrid approach. And in
MEDIA The Martha’s Vineyard Times, a weekly newspaper on Martha’s Vineyard, says it is now
In New England, JERA has some cases, as with Mirabello’s
using artificial intelligence to translate articles into Portuguese for Brazilian residents.
stakes in plants in Dighton and previous employer, CarGurus,
Vineyard weekly “We need to reach out to the Brazilian community and invite them to be a part of our Milford and full ownership of those workplaces take the form
to translate coverage of issues that directly impact their lives, such as education and housing and
climate change,” Times publisher Charles Sennott said in the paper’s announcement. The
Canal and another plant in
Maine. Canal only runs a few
of a fancy new headquarters.
Last month, Mirabello be-
articles into new Brazilian edition will be called “O Tempo,” which means “The Times” in Portuguese. days each year when needed as came head of global real estate
Portuguese Roughly 20 percent of the island’s year-round population is Brazilian, and the Times said backup power for the grid. (The
other remaining “Filthy Five”
at marketing technology firm
Klaviyo. He doesn’t have an of-
it recognizes that it has not given enough attention to Brazilian residents in its coverage.
plant, Constellation’s Mystic fice tower to help design in his
Readers who want to use the translation services can click on a window on the bottom
plant in Everett, closes for good new job. But he still has plenty
left of their screen to translate articles into Portuguese. While the focus of the new at the end of May.) to keep him busy with a portfo-
services is translating stories into Portuguese, the service also allows readers to translate Because Canal runs so infre- lio of offices to manage in Den-
articles into other languages such as Serbian, Spanish, and French. The translation quently, O’Brien sees it as a per- ver, London, and Sydney, as well
services are being provided by GTranslate, a company that uses AI to translate webpages fect connection point for off- as Klaviyo’s 160,000-square-foot
from English to other languages. — AIDAN RYAN shore wind power. headquarters office in Boston’s
He hopes it can be included Financial District where about
as a potential connection point 600 employees are based.
for the next round of wind de- “I truly believe the future [of
GROCERIES Whole Foods Market is going small. The Amazon-owned grocer is opening new small- velopment bids, something state work] is flexibility,” Mirabello
format stores aimed at serving quick-trip urban consumers. Called Whole Foods Market regulators opted not to do when said. “How that shakes out var-
Whole Foods Daily Shop, stores will range between 7,000 to 14,000 square feet writing the rules for the current
round. Using Canal for an off-
ies business to business, and
person to person.”
to open — a fraction of Whole Foods stores, which average about 40,000
shore wind project could reduce
square feet. The Daily Shop will offer a similar but slimmer From Macy’s pain, TJX
small stores assortment of products, ranging from fresh produce and frozen
construction costs by up to half
a billion dollars, he said, and can gain
in cities food to prepackaged meals and Whole Foods’ 365 branded avoid local fights over a new Macy’s just announced plans
products. The locations won’t have buffet bars or meat counters. power line. to close 150 stores over the next
Austin-based Whole Foods plans to open the first Daily Shop on the “People are beginning to un- few years. Guess who’s looking
Upper East Side in Manhattan by this fall. It has signed five leases derstand the logic of using this forward to taking advantage of
point of interconnection,” the department store giant’s
in New York City for the concept and will explore expanding into
O’Brien said. “You basically troubles? That would be TJX
other cities across the United States. — BLOOMBERG NEWS
could take a Filthy Five plant Cos. chief executive Ernie Her-
and demonstrate how these rman.
plants could be repurposed.” In contrast to Macy’s, the
CONSULTING Bain & Co. is offering buyouts to staffers in London, the latest sign that global Framingham-based parent com-
Another local to the pany of the TJ Maxx, Marshalls,
consultancies are seeing a slowdown in demand for their services. The Boston-based firm
FERC?
Bain offering offered a range of packages to employees in London affected by the move, according to
There’s no official Massachu-
and HomeGoods chains contin-
ues to add brick-and-mortar lo-
buyouts in people familiar with the matter. Some staffers were given the option to depart with
multiple months pay or to transfer to other overseas offices, such as those in
setts seat at the Federal Energy cations. TJX reported it had
Regulatory Commission. But it more than 4,950 stores last
London Johannesburg and Sydney, one of the people said, asking not to be identified discussing might feel that way, now that month, a 2.5 percent increase in
personnel information. Management consultancies, long viewed as a bellwether for the the Biden administration has the past year.
white-collar economy, are looking to cut costs with a growing number of their clients nominated former state energy Herrman told analysts on an
and climate undersecretary Judy earnings call last week that the
looking to shelve long-term investments as they navigate an uncertain macroeconomic
Chang to the five-member com- Macy’s and TJX markets have “a
environment. — BLOOMBERG NEWS
mission. The nomination comes lot of overlap.” He expects to
about five years after former gain more business as Macy’s re-
Massachusetts utility executive trenches. There’s another bene-
LEGAL A Bayer trial in Delaware over claims that the Cheryl LaFleur wrapped up her fit, too: better deals from ven-
nine-year tenure as FERC com- dors. “One of the things that’s
company’s Roundup weed killer causes cancer
Roundup suit ended with the jury unable to reach a verdict.
missioner.
Chang, rumored to be in the
happening with all the store clo-
sures is the importance to the
ends in mistrial Jurors in state court in Wilmington deliberated
for about three days before saying Friday they
running for the past year, was vendor community keeps rising
part of a slate of three FERC for our merchants,” Herrman
couldn’t reach an agreement on whether Anthony nominees put forward by the said. “That is one of the things
Cloud’s non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma was caused by Biden administration last week, that will probably allow us to
exposure to Roundup made by Bayer’s Monsanto. along with energy analyst David ‘buy a little better’ on an ongo-
Rosner and West Virginia solici- ing basis.”
Judge Vivian Medinilla declared a mistrial and
tor general Lindsay See — a Re- How effectively that trans-
dismissed the panel. Bayer said it won a separate Roundup trial in state court in
publican nominee from Senate lates into more deals for TJX’s
Arkansas. Cloud, who died in 2021, worked for a decade as a groundskeeper for the South minority leader Mitch McCon- bargain-hunting customers re-
Carolina Baptist Convention’s White Oak Conference Center. His family said he routinely nell. (No more than three com- mains to be seen.
used Roundup to kill weeds at the 800-acre facility. — BLOOMBERG NEWS missioners can come from the
same party.) The nominees still When it comes to
need Senate approval. sports, the governor
It didn’t take long for the ac- has opinions
RETAIL Arkhouse Management and Brigade Capital Management are upping their offer to colades to flow for Chang, cur- Governor Maura Healey held
acquire Macy’s in a deal now valued at $6.6 billion. The investment firms announced rently managing principal at forth on key issues during a
New takeover bid Sunday that they had submitted an all-cash proposal of $24 for each of the remaining Analysis Group. Many leaders in Q&A session with Greater Bos-

for Macy’s shares in Macy’s they don’t already own — up from a earlier offer of $21 per share. Macy’s
rejected the previous deal, which was valued at $5.8 billion, in January. At the time, the
the state’s energy industry
worked with Chang when she
ton Chamber chief Jim Rooney
last week: housing, transporta-
served in former governor Char- tion, energy infrastructure, eco-
retailer said that its board reviewed the investment firms’ proposal and not only had
lie Baker’s administration. nomic development. But she re-
concerns about the financing plan, but also felt there was a “lack of compelling value.” —
Rebecca Tepper, energy sec- ally tried to get the chamber
ASSOCIATED PRESS retary for Governor Maura Hea- crowd going after Rooney tossed
ley, described Chang as “one of her a softball, on behalf of Mas-
the most respected energy con- sachusetts Competitive Part-
sultants in the country” with the nership chief executive Jay Ash,
PHARMACEUTICALS The first over-the-counter birth control pill will be available in US
“right mix of private and public by asking how many games the
stores later this month, allowing American women and teens to
sector experience.” Red Sox would win this year,
Over-the- purchase contraceptive medication as easily as they buy aspirin. To Brad Campbell, president and if they would make the play-
counter birth Manufacturer Perrigo said Monday it has begun shipping the
medication, Opill, to major retailers and pharmacies. A one-month
of the Conservation Law Foun-
dation, Chang is “well versed in
offs.
Optimism runs high in the
control pill to supply will cost about $20 and a three-month supply will cost the need for reforms at FERC” to governor’s office, apparently.
go on sale this around $50, according to the company’s suggested retail price. It will help boost renewable energy de-
velopment.
“Of course, they’re going to
make the playoffs,” Healey told
month also be sold online. — ASSOCIATED PRESS
And Seth Kaplan, director of Rooney. “It’s going to be a great
government affairs at Ocean year.”
Winds North America, said her The crowd’s silence spoke
MOVIES “Dune: Part Two,” the new installment in a sprawling film series based on the sci-fi story experiences in government and volumes. But she did get rau-
by Frank Herbert, opened with weekend ticket sales of $81.5 million in US and Canadian the private sector, including cous applause when she pivoted
‘Dune’ sequel theaters, delivering the best debut this year. The opening is the biggest since “Taylor
more than 20 years at consult-
ing firm The Brattle Group, will
to mention the Celtics, the NBA
team with the best record.
a hit at the Swift: The Eras Tour” brought in $93.2 million last October. It’s also the biggest opening
of the year after a slow start for the box office, with North American ticket sales down 18
prove crucial for FERC. “She is What about the Patriots?

box office percent through Feb. 25. — BLOOMBERG NEWS

used to looking at the world
from many different perspec-
Healey mentioned that she re-
cently told Kansas Governor
tives . . . the clean-energy per- Laura Kelley, a fan of Super
spective, the utility perspective, Bowl winner Kansas City Chiefs
the government perspective,” who play just across the state
AVIATION American Airlines agreed to buy 260 short-haul
Kaplan said. “She is very mind- line in Missouri, not to get too
aircraft that include a massive deal for Boeing Co.737 ful of the reliability concerns, excited, and that “you ain’t done
American Max jets, a key endorsement of the plane maker as it the cost concerns [and] trying to nothing yet.”
Airlines buys 260 works through a crisis of confidence following a near-
catastrophic accident in January. The carrier also has
hit that balance.” Rooney concluded, “Memo to
self: Always ask Governor Hea-
planes from options to order 193 more planes. It’s the first major
Klaviyo’s Mirabello ley a sports question.”
keeps it real
Boeing deal for Boeing’s marquee 737 Max since the issue on
During the COVID-19 pan- Jon Chesto can be reached at
an airborne Alaska Airlines jet earlier this year left
demic, Robert Mirabello was of- jon.chesto@globe.com. Follow
the plane maker in crisis. — BLOOMBERG NEWS ten asked about whether his line him @jonchesto.
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NOTICE OF FILING AND PUBLIC HEARINGS
D.P.U. 23-150 December 15, 2023 uTRENDLINES
Petition of Massachusetts Electric Company and Nantucket Electric Company, each d/b/a National Grid, pursuant to G.L. c. 164, § 94 and 220 CMR Continued from Page D1
5.00, for Approval of a General Increase in Base Distribution Rates for Electric Service, a Performance-Based Ratemaking Plan, and a Capital Recovery
Mechanism.
bureaucratic backlogs, and pan-
demic restrictions imposed in
On November 16, 2023, Massachusetts Electric Company (“MECo”) and Nantucket Electric Company (“Nantucket Electric”), each doing business as
National Grid (“National Grid” or “Company”), filed a petition with the Department of Public Utilities (“Department”) for an increase in electric base 2020. It has since roared back.
distribution rates. The Department has docketed this matter as D.P.U. 23-150 and has suspended the effective date of the proposed rate increase until Net international migration
October 1, 2024, to investigate the propriety of the Company’s request. The Company was last granted an increase in base distribution rates in
Massachusetts Electric Company and Nantucket Electric Company, D.P.U. 18-150 (2019).
tripled to 1.4 million in the year
National Grid seeks to increase its electric base distribution rates to generate $131,232,856 in additional base distribution revenues. The Company ended in June 2023 from the
also proposes to transfer costs recovered through certain reconciling mechanisms, along with associated income taxes, which results in an increase same period in 2021, according
of $389,766 to distribution revenues, effective October 1, 2024. Based on these proposals, the proposed overall increase to distribution revenues is
$131,622,621, which represents an approximately 12.7 percent increase in distribution revenue. The proposed base distribution rate increase is in addi-
to Census Bureau estimates
tion to changes to other rates, such as supply rates and reconciling mechanisms, that occur during the year. released in December. When
As part of its filing, National Grid proposes a Comprehensive Performance and Investment (“CPI”) Plan that includes two main features. First, the combined with a decline in
Company seeks to implement a performance-based ratemaking (“PBR”) mechanism for operation and maintenance (“O&M”) costs only, which
would allow the Company to adjust its base distribution rates on an annual basis through the application of a revenue-cap mathematical formula. The
COVID deaths, the gain lifted
Company proposes to implement the PBR mechanism for a term of five years. During the PBR term, the proposed revenue-cap formula increases base the US population by about 1
distribution revenues according to an O&M, utility-specific, inflation factor. The PBR plan also contains a component to aid in the recovery of certain percent to 334.9 million.
operating costs related to capital investments, a component to recover or return exogenous costs outside of the Company’s control, a component to share
excessive earnings, and an incurred debt recovery factor to request adjustments to revenues to reflect increases or decreases in interest rates during the Since February 2020, the US
five-year term. labor force — people with a job
Second, as part of the proposed CPI Plan, the Company seeks to implement an Infrastructure, Safety, Reliability, and Electrification (“ISRE”) reconcil- or looking for one — has grown
ing mechanism. According to National Grid, the ISRE reconciling mechanism would recover: (1) the Company’s investments in core capital projects
necessary to provide safe and reliable electric distribution service to customers; (2) National Grid’s investments in capital projects necessary to execute by 1.7 percent, with foreign-
the Company’s Electric Sector Modernization Plan (“ESMP”); and (3) expenses that fall under the ESMP. The Company’s ESMP will be filed on Janu- born workers generating all of
ary 29, 2024, and will be subject to investigation in docket Massachusetts Electric Company and Nantucket Electric Company, D.P.U. 24-11. In the
instant proceeding, the Company is not requesting that the Department review or approve any ESMP investments. Stakeholders who seek to participate the increase.
in the instant proceeding should recognize that the Department does not intend for this docket to be a second venue for adjudicating issues that may be Over the next five years the
more appropriately reviewable in docket D.P.U. 24-11.
labor force will expand by a
As part of its filing, National Grid also proposes a series of incentives and penalties associated with the Company’s progress and performance under the
PBR mechanism and with respect to the core capital projects under the ISRE reconciling mechanism. Further, the Company proposes a set of scorecard mere 0.5 percent annually, again
metrics to enable tracking and transparency of the Company’s operating performance in additional areas. driven solely by the influx of
In addition to these proposals, National Grid makes proposals regarding the continuation of full revenue decoupling, which is a rate mechanism that de- foreign-born workers, Moody’s
couples the Company’s revenues from its sales. The Company also makes proposals regarding the recovery of costs related to its vegetation management
program and the continuation and expansion of the enhanced vegetation management pilot program. These programs are intended to reduce costs and Analytics forecasts.
maintain or improve safety and reliability by providing for the reduction of vegetation-related safety hazards, service interruptions, and disturbances, in- A caveat: There’s no guaran-
cluding through the strengthening of the distribution system. The Company also seeks to modify certain provisions of its storm fund, which is designed
to maintain revenue support to address larger-scale weather events. National Grid also proposes adjustments to certain revenue and expense categories;
tee that foreign-born workers,
the recovery of certain capital investments made through 2023; a temporary modification of the service quality guidelines; the accelerated deprecia- who accounted for a record 18.7
tion of certain meters; and to transfer recovery of existing meter-related capital costs to the annual advanced meter infrastructure (“AMI”) reconciling percent of the US labor force in
mechanism.
National Grid’s filing also contains various rate design proposals, including changes to the customer and demand charges; an electrification pricing
January, will continue to offset
option for residential customers on rate class R-1 using high throughput technologies, such as electric heat pumps and at-home electric vehicle chargers; the loss of native-born workers.
a multi-tiered low-income discount based on income levels for customers on rate class R-2; revised streetlighting pricing proposals; and a variety of tariff “There’s a lot of uncertainty
changes.
The foregoing is not intended to be an exhaustive list of proposals set forth in the Company’s filing. Additional information regarding the foregoing
regarding immigration as it
proposals, and all other proposals set forth by National Grid, can be found in the Company’s filing, which is located on the Department’s website as rests on what lawmakers decide
noted below. to do or not do, and when they
National Grid states that if its petition is approved as requested, customers can expect the bill impacts set forth below. The following bill impacts do not
include potential rate changes resulting from the Company’s proposal to transfer meter-related capital costs to the AMI reconciling mechanism, as noted
do it,” said Mark Zandi, chief
above: economist at Moody’s Analytics.
For MECo customers: Zoom in: The Massachusetts
• A residential basic service customer receiving service under Rate R-1 that uses on average 600 kWh of electricity per month will experience a economy is especially vulnerable
monthly bill increase of $7.86 (3.7 percent).
to the changing demographics.
• A residential basic service customer receiving service under Rate R-1, with the electrification pricing option, that uses on average 1,000 kWh of
electricity per month will experience a monthly bill decrease of $17.88 (5.1 percent). Our population dipped over
• A residential basic service customer receiving service under Rate R-2 that uses on average 600 kWh of electricity per month can expect bill impacts the past three years. We have a
to vary depending on the applicable low-income discount percentage: higher percentage of residents
o Customers with a 32 percent discount will experience a monthly bill increase of $5.35 (3.9 percent);
65 years or older than the coun-
o Customers with a 36 percent discount will experience a monthly bill decrease of $2.99 (2.2 percent);
o Customers with a 44 percent discount will experience a monthly bill decrease of $19.66 (14.4 percent);
try as a whole. And we’ve got an
o Customers with a 49 percent discount will experience a monthly bill decrease of $30.08 (22.1 percent); and “out-migration” problem: work-
o Customers with a 55 percent discount will experience a monthly bill decrease of $42.59 (31.2 percent).
• Commercial and industrial (“C&I”) basic service customers can expect bill impacts to vary depending on usage and rate class. The Company states
that the average monthly bill impact for C&I customers at each class’s average use will range from an increase of 0.7 percent to an increase of 16.4
ers and retirees leaving for
warmer and cheaper locales.
Without immigration and a
Markets
percent. C&I customers should contact the Company, as indicated below, for specific bill impacts.
For Nantucket Electric customers:
• A residential basic service customer receiving service under Rate R-1 that uses on average 600 kWh of electricity per month will experience a
higher-than-average worker par-
ticipation rate, the 1.9 percent
Wall Street edges lower
monthly bill increase of $7.86 (3.7 percent). decline in the state’s labor force Momentum slowed for US stocks following their roar higher
• A residential basic service customer receiving service under Rate R-1, with the electrification pricing option, that uses on average 1,000 kWh of from its July 2020 post-pandem- on excitement that inflation appears to be cooling, cuts to in-
electricity per month will experience a monthly bill decrease of $17.88 (5.1 percent).
ic peak to the end of 2023 would terest rates may be coming, and the US economy has so far
• A residential basic service customer receiving service under Rate R-2 that uses on average 600 kWh of electricity per month can expect bill impacts
to vary depending on the applicable low-income discount percentage: have been even steeper. The US shrugged off predictions for a recession. Super Micro Com-
o Customers with a 32 percent discount will experience a monthly bill increase of $5.35 (3.9 percent); labor force grew 4.5 percent in puter, which sells server and storage systems used in AI and
o Customers with a 36 percent discount will experience a monthly bill decrease of $3.03 (2.2 percent); the same period. other computing, jumped 8.6 percent Monday. Nvidia, whose
o Customers with a 44 percent discount will experience a monthly bill decrease of $19.77 (14.4 percent); The state will add an average chips are powering much of the move into AI, rose another
o Customers with a 49 percent discount will experience a monthly bill decrease of $30.24 (22.1 percent); and
of just 5,000 workers a year 3.6 percent Monday. On Wednesday, the chair of the Federal
o Customers with a 55 percent discount will experience a monthly bill decrease of $42.80 (31.2 percent).
from 2024 through 2028, ac- Reserve will offer testimony before a House of Representa-
• C&I basic service customers can expect bill impacts to vary depending on usage and rate class. The Company states that the average monthly bill
impact for C&I customers at each class’s average use will range from an increase of 0.7 percent to an increase of 16.2 percent. C&I customers should cording to projections used by tives committee about monetary policy. Wall Street’s hope has
contact the Company, as indicated below, for specific bill impacts. the state to calculate its future been that inflation is cooling enough for the Fed to cut its
Additional bill impact information and additional detail about the Company’s filing can be found at: https://www.mass.gov/info-details/dpu-23-150-na- unemployment benefits require- main interest rate from its highest level since 2001. Macy’s
tional-grid-electric-base-distribution-rate- case.
The Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (“Attorney General”) has filed a notice of intervention in this matter pursuant to G.L. c. ments. That compares with a jumped 13.5 percent after two investment firms raised their
12, § 11E(a). Further, pursuant to G.L. c. 12, § 11E(b), the Attorney General has filed a notice of retention of experts and consultants to assist in her gain of more than 32,000 work- offer to buy the shares they don’t already own. Spirit Airlines
investigation of the Company’s filing and has requested Department approval to spend up to $550,000 in this regard. Pursuant to G.L. c. 12, § 11E(b), ers in 2023. lost 10.8 percent. JetBlue Airways is ending their proposed
the costs incurred by the Attorney General relative to her retention of experts and consultants may be recovered in the Company’s rates.
The Department will conduct six in-person public hearings to receive comments on the Company’s petition as follows: Why it matters: An expand- $3.8 billion combination after a court ruling blocked their
March 12, 2024, at 7:00 p.m. ing economy needs an expand- merger. JetBlue rose 4.3 percent. Apple fell 2.5 percent after
South Lawrence East Elementary School Auditorium ing labor force to keep hum- the European Union hit it with a fine of nearly $2 billion for
165 Crawford Street, Lawrence, MA 01843 (Spanish interpretation available)
ming. unfairly favoring its own music streaming service over Spotify
March 14, 2024, at 7:00 p.m.
Shaw’s Center One argument used by advo- and other rivals. In the bond market, the yield on the 10-year
1 Feinberg Way, Brockton, MA 02301(Spanish, Portuguese, Haitian-Creole interpretation available) cates for increasing immigra- Treasury rose to 4.21 percent from 4.18 percent late Friday.
March 19, 2024, at 7:00 p.m. tion, including many corporate
North Quincy High School
316 Hancock Street, Quincy, MA 02171 (Mandarin interpretation available) leaders, is that economic growth DOW JONES industrial average
April 3, 2024, at 7:00 p.m. will be curbed if employers can’t
Worcester Technical High School, Auditorium find enough workers. Moreover,
1 Officer Manny Familia Way, Worcester, MA 01605 (Spanish, Portuguese interpretation available)
April 4, 2024, at 7:00 p.m.
an excessively tight labor market
PSF Community Room may drive up wages and poten-
4 Fairgrounds Road, Nantucket, MA 02554 (Spanish interpretation available) tially fuel inflation.
April 9, 2024, at 7:00 p.m.
Monument Mountain Regional High School
Opponents of increased im-
600 Stockbridge Road, Great Barrington, MA 01230 (Spanish interpretation available) migration argue that a surge of
The Department also will conduct two virtual public hearings using Zoom videoconferencing on March 21, 2024. The first session will begin at 2:00 migrants will hold down wages
p.m., and the second session will begin at 7:00 p.m. Attendees can join either session by entering the link, https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86918048614,
from a computer, smartphone, or tablet. No prior software download is required. For audio-only access to the public hearing, attendees can dial in at +1
for workers already here. If em-
309 205 3325 (not toll free) and then enter the Webinar ID: 869 1804 8614. Interpretation services (Spanish, Portuguese, Haitian-Creole, Mandarin, ployers boosted wages, they say,
and Khmer) will be available over the Zoom platform by clicking the “Interpretation” button on the menu at the bottom of the Zoom application more people would jump into
screen and selecting your language (i.e., English, Spanish, Portuguese, Haitian- Creole, Mandarin, or Khmer).
The Department will accept written comments on the Company’s filing until the close of business (5:00 p.m.) on April 30, 2024. Written comments
the labor force.
from the public may be sent by email to dpu.efiling@mass.gov, the Hearing Officer at marc.tassone@mass.gov, and the Company’s attorney, Robert Each side can point to re-
J. Humm, Esq. at rhumm@keeganwerlin.com. Please note that in the interest of transparency any comments will be posted to our website as search that supports its argu-
received and without redacting personal information, such as addresses, telephone numbers, or email addresses. As such, consider the extent
of information you wish to share when submitting comments. The Department strongly encourages public comments to be submitted by email. If, ments or undercuts the other’s.
however, a member of the public is unable to send written comments by email, a paper copy may be sent to Mark D. Marini, Secretary, Department of Final thought: If there were
Public Utilities, One South Station, Boston, Massachusetts, 02110.
an easy solution to the US mi- NASDAQ Composite index
Any person who desires to participate otherwise in the evidentiary phase of this proceeding shall file a petition for leave to intervene no later than
5:00 p.m. on January 12, 2024. A petition for leave to intervene must satisfy the timing and substantive requirements of 220 CMR 1.03. grant crisis, we’d have at least
Receipt by the Department constitutes filing and determines whether a petition has been timely filed. A petition filed late may be disallowed as made some progress by now.
untimely, unless good cause is shown for waiver under 220 CMR 1.01(4). To be allowed, a petition under 220 CMR 1.03(1) must satisfy the standing But the causes are complex and
requirements of G.L. c. 30A, § 10. All responses to petitions to intervene must be filed by 5:00 p.m. on the second business day after the petition to
intervene was filed. Any person who seeks to intervene in this matter and desires to comment on the Attorney General’s notice of retention of experts often out of the US govern-
and consultants must file the comments no later than 5:00 p.m. on January 12, 2024. ment’s control. In Central and
All documents should be submitted to the Department in .pdf format by e-mail attachment to dpu.efiling@mass.gov, and to the Hearing Officer and South America, poverty, political
Company’s attorneys at the above email addresses. The text of the e-mail must specify: (1) the docket number of the proceeding (D.P.U. 23-150);
(2) the name of the person or company submitting the filing; and (3) a brief descriptive title of the document. corruption, lawlessness, and cli-
All documents submitted in electronic format will be posted on the Department’s website through our online File Room as soon as practicable (enter mate change are all factors.
“23-150”) at: https://eeaonline.eea.state.ma.us/DPU/Fileroom/dockets/bynumber. To the extent a person or entity wishes to submit comments or This much is clear: The
intervene in accordance with this Notice, electronic submission, as detailed above, is sufficient. To request materials in accessible formats for people
with disabilities (Braille, large print, electronic files, audio format), please contact the Department’s ADA coordinator at Gabriella.Knight@mass.gov by southern border is in chaos, and
March 1, 2024. that can’t be allowed to contin-
For further information regarding the Company’s filing, please contact the Company’s attorney, identified above. For further information regarding this ue.
Notice, please contact Marc J. Tassone, Hearing Officer, Department of Public Utilities, at marc.tassone@mass.gov or visit: https://www.mass.gov/info-
details/dpu-23-150-national-grid-electric-base-distribution-rate-case. Both Trump and, more re-
cently, Biden have talked about
“shutting the border.” Such a
drastic cut in immigration
would leave the US economy S&P 500 index
Boston’s Best Jobs vulnerable to a growth-chilling
worker shortage.
Regardless of who the next
The Careers Section of president is, we need an intelli-
gent and fair system that allows

the Boston Sunday Globe asylum seekers into the country

— and allows them to work
within weeks, not months.
Fixing the broken immigra-
tion system is a question of na-
tional security. It’s also an eco-
nomic necessity.

Larry Edelman can be reached

at larry.edelman@globe.com.
Follow him @GlobeNewsEd. SOURCE: Bloomberg News
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PLUGGERS by Rick McKee
CRABGRASS by Tauhid Bondia
ZITS by Jerry Scott & Jim Borgman

DOONESBURY by Garry Trudeau DUSTIN by Steve Kelley & Jeff Parker

RED & ROVER by Brian Basset ARCTIC CIRCLE by Alex Hallatt

FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE by Lynn Johnston CURTIS by Ray Billingsley

RHYMES WITH ORANGE by Hilary Price ARLO & JANIS by Jimmy Johnson

UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD PUZZLE

DOCTORED FIGURES BY DREW SCHMENNER | EDITED BY DAVID STEINBERG
ACROSS 66 Chai or oolong
1 Weekend comedy 67 ___ bear (Arctic
show, familiarly predator)
4 Singer Ronstadt 68 See eye to eye
9 Carpet style popular 69 ___ and outs
in the ’70s 70 Scream
13 Uncle, in Mexico 71 Yours, in times of yore
14 Jeered from the 72 Show of affection for
bleachers mom?
15 Princess’s crown
16 Kitchen pest DOWN
17 Large type of a small 1 Employees
crustacean (In this 2 Joe Montana, from
answer, unscramble ’79-’92
letters 2-8) 3 State-run game of
19 Greek salad cheese chance
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22 Reuben bread 5 Payment promise
23 Major headline material 6 Oscar recognition,
(... letters 3-10) informally
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32 Little rascal 9 Madam’s counterpart
35 “Voila!” 10 Musical set in 1960s
37 St. Louis skyline feature Baltimore
38 Unwelcome one 11 West Point’s military
(... letters 5-11) branch
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44 Soothing succulent mouth
45 Yang’s opposite 15 One-fifth of 15
46 Some nonprofit 18 Transmit
supporters 20 Bait ___ switch
49 Sicilian volcano 24 Yellow Brick Road
51 Being authentic dog 34 Practical joke that 48 Health resorts 57 Annual sports award
(... letters 6-13) 25 Scheme victims pick up? 50 Pitcher’s prized limb 58 Heel, but not an
57 “Exit full screen” key 26 Alan of “Marriage 36 Actress Gasteyer 52 Defunct Apple ankle
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New England marine forecast  Gale warning  Storm warning ♠ 10 8 5
Wind Seas Temp Wind Seas Temp
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Boston Harbor S 6-12 kts. 2-3 ft. 46/44 Martha’s
Temperatures are ♦ A Q 10 5
today’s highs and East Cape Vineyard SE 8-16 kts. 1-3 ft. 50/44
tonight’s lows. Cod Canal SE 7-14 kts. 1-2 ft. 51/44 Nantucket SE 8-16 kts. 1-3 ft. 50/43
♣ Q 10 9 4
Buzzards Bay S 7-14 kts. 1-2 ft. 52/44 Provincetown SE 7-14 kts. 2-4 ft. 48/43 West East
Cities Forecast high and low temperatures and conditions For current Charles River Basin water quality, call (781) 788-0007 or go to http://www.charlesriver.org. ♠ AQ9 ♠ 7642
 Travel delays possible, C Clouds, F Fog, H Haze, I Ice, Pc Partly Cloudy, R Rain, Sh Showers, S Sun, Sn Snow, Fl Flurries, T Thunderstorms, W Windy ♥ Q9654 ♥ 10 8 7
Today Tomorrow Today Tomorrow Today Tomorrow Today Tomorrow ♦ 6 ♦ KJ92
 Atlanta 64/59 R 73/53 R Los Angeles 65/48 Pc 63/50 T Seattle 46/29 Pc 45/32 C Jerusalem 66/49 S 63/47 Pc
 Atlantic City 55/42 R 56/50 R  Miami 82/73 T 82/67 T Washington 63/49 R 58/48 R London 53/35 Pc 54/37 Pc
♣ 8532 ♣ 76
Charlotte 73/56 C 67/49 R  New Orleans 76/63 T 78/63 Pc  Beijing 41/27 S 50/26 Pc  Moscow 33/11 C 30/11 Sn
 Chicago 48/37 R 51/36 Pc  New York City 51/48 R 56/49 R  Cancun 87/74 Pc 88/74 S  Paris 48/39 Sh 51/36 Pc South
Dallas 78/53 Pc 79/62 C  Philadelphia 54/45 R 60/49 R  Mexico City 84/52 S 86/53 S Rome 61/44 Pc 60/40 Sh ♠ KJ3
Denver 48/32 Pc 57/31 Pc Phoenix 76/54 Pc 77/52 Pc Montreal 55/39 Pc 42/33 R  San Juan 85/73 Pc 86/73 Pc ♥ AJ2
 Detroit 63/38 R 52/36 Pc Salt Lake City 49/39 Pc 53/39 C  Toronto 61/39 R 45/31 Pc  Stockholm 34/25 C 40/23 S
 Fort Myers 83/69 T 81/67 T San Francisco 62/49 C 62/48 C Vancouver 42/30 C 42/30 Pc  Tokyo 45/40 R 49/39 R
♦ 8743
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HOROSCOPE
HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Tuesday,
March 5, 2024:
You love adventure and variety.
You are charming and smooth,
but privately, you can be emotion-
ally tempestuous. You have a
sharp wit. This is a year of learn-
ing and teaching. Make time to
pursue knowledge formally or in-
formally that you want to acquire.
Travel is also likely.
ARIES (March 21-April 19)
This is an excellent day for you to
make your pitch to bosses or ask
permission from parents or au-
thority figures, because the gods
are smiling on you. In fact, what-
ever you do today, especially when
dealing with bosses or authority
figures, can somehow boost your
earnings now or in the future. To-
night: Independence.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20)
This is the perfect day to explore
opportunities in publishing, the
media or anything related to med-
icine and the law. You also might
sign up for a course or check out
new avenues in higher education.
Make travel plans if you can or,
better yet, get outta Dodge. To-
night: Explore!
GEMINI (May 21-June 20)
Issues related to shared property,
taxes, debt and inheritances are
ideal areas to explore for you to-
day. You will be pleased with the
results. Furthermore, bosses and
people in power will help you.
Stand up for your rights and de-
velop a healthy self-interest. To-
night: Check your finances.
CANCER (June 21-July 22)
Discussions with close friends,
spouses and partners will go well
today. It’s a good day to discuss
joint travel plans. You also might
explore legal or medical matters
or something to do with publish-
ing. Groups and friends will likely
help you. Things are going your
way! Tonight: Listen.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)
You will accomplish a lot today be-
cause people are supportive to
you. This is an excellent day to ask
for an increase in your budget or
better equipment at work. What-
ever you need might come your
way. This includes approval or
permission from bosses. Tonight:
Be alert.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)
Make sure you make time to have
fun today. This is a playful day for
1 NT Pass 3 NT All Pass
you! Enjoy social outings, the arts, CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Opening lead — ♥ 5
the entertainment world, sports Today the Moon is in your sign,
events and fun activities with which gives you an edge over all
“At least it was only a vulnerable game,” North mourned.
kids. Meet friends for happy hour, the other signs. Therefore, ask for “Sometimes the man’s relentless pursuit of overtricks costs
coffee, lunch or dinner. Live it up! what you want! Short trips, a slam.”
Tonight: Surprises. conversations with others and a Joe Overberry believes it’s nobler to go down trying for
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) chance to learn something new overtricks than to make what he bid. His habit costs him —
Although your focus is on home will please you. Accept invitations and his unfortunate partners — thousands of points.
and family today, you will still to socialize and party. Tonight: Joe was declarer at today’s 3NT, and West led a heart,
make things happen. Life is sup- Spontaneity. riding to the jack. Joe next led a diamond: six, 10, jack.
portive to you today. Your health AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) East returned a heart to dummy’s king.
feels more vigorous, and people You might do things in a low-key Joe next led a club to his hand and a second diamond ...
are willing to help you financially way today because you feel the and West threw a club. Joe frowned, took dummy’s ace and
or in practical terms. You might need for some privacy. With Venus led a spade to his jack. West took the queen, led another
entertain at home as well. To- in your sign, you are charming, heart to Joe’s ace, won the next spade and cashed two
night: Patience. and Mars in your sign makes you hearts. Down one.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) bold and proactive. Nevertheless, “There goes another 700 points,” North grumbled.
Your creative vibes are hot, which this is a good day to take a breath Joe starts with four clubs, three hearts and a diamond.
is why this is a great day to write, and figure out your job scene. Is it For one more sure trick, he leads the king of spades at
sell, market, teach or act. You’re in time for a change? Tonight: Be Trick Two. If West wins and leads another heart, Joe wins
a playful frame of mind, and some low-key. and leads a second spade to set up his ninth trick.
of you are also redecorating and PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20)
making improvements at home. Enjoy schmoozing with friends DAILY QUESTION You hold: ♠ 10 8 5 ♥ K 3 ♦ A Q 10 5
Stock the fridge and invite some- and groups today. With Mercury ♣ Q 10 9 4. Your partner opens one heart, you respond two
one over! Tonight: Pay attention. in your sign, you are eager to clubs, he bids two diamonds and you raise to three dia-
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) share your ideas, and the Sun in monds. Partner then bids three hearts. What do you say?
Financial matters favor you today. your sign gives you confidence
Go after what you want. Think of and energy. Discuss your hopes ANSWER: Your partner would have stopped at three dia-
ways to boost your income or get a and dreams for the future with monds with no game interest. His three hearts accepts your
better job. Similarly, you might be someone to get their feedback invitation and suggests a six-card or strong five-card heart
pleased with some purchases that today. Tonight: Something suit. You can afford to play at the cheaper game: Raise to
you make today, which might be unusual. four hearts.
related to home repairs or helping
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