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The future of Boston I would like to share with you my thoughts about the recent column written by Joan Vennochi for the Boston Globe titled “Do George Regan and Friends Help or Hurt Annissa Essaib...
The Boston Globe has begun letting people ask to revisit or remove past coverage of their actions that has since damaged their reputations. Here's how a similar effort has played out in Cleveland.
Boston biotech Verve Therapeutics announced it had edited the DNA of a person with a genetic condition that causes high cholesterol and predisposes them to heart disease. The base editor is...
Invest in child health ; When the world can come together in less than a year to create effective treatments and vaccines for a deadly novel virus, there is no excuse for children dying of preventable, treatable conditions like malnutrition or diarrhea. Yet globally in 2022, 4.9 million children under the age of 5 died of largely preventable causes. That’s more than the city populations of Houston and Phoenix combined. This gut-wrenching problem might feel overwhelming and impossible, especial...
Sox earned win · As a longtime New York sports fan, I must nonetheless congratulate the Boston Red Sox on their World Series victory, beating the St. Louis Cardinals (Oct. 31). The Sox stayed focused on winning the World Series, the team’s third in 10 seasons. A winning combination of timely hitting, fielding and pitching put this team on top. Herb Stark, Mooresville, N.C. A little boy’s plea · I feel sorry for the Salem couple’s three kids (“Cops: OUI mom ignored son’s plea,” Oc...
April 14, 2013 · Evolution of a story: Day 1 ; April 15, 2013 · The wounded ; April 16, 2013 · The victims ; April 18, 2013 · Evolution of a story: The manhunt begins ; April 19, 2013 · Evolution of a story: The capture ; April 18, 2013 · The suspects
Siding with criminals ; News of a Boston police officer shot should cause this town to shake with rage. Boston could barely muster a collective harrumph on the evening news amid the media din of Robert Kraft’s human frailty. One politician managed to rise above all the noise. Her voice rose not in condemnation of evil, but in words of solace for the dead criminal and his family. Kasim Kahrim, the gunman who put three bullets into a Boston police officer Friday morning, merited the following fr...
Time for more ‘sunshine’State and national leaders of the Society of Professional Journalists, which represents about 7,500 journalists nationwide, stand with the Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Patri...