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These maps show just how hot it will be in Mass. over the next few days

These maps show just how hot it will be in Mass. over the next few days
Shannon Larson
© John Tlumacki/Globe Staff
The fountain at the Christian Science Plaza provided cool relief for the hot weather during an afternoon in early June.
For the second time this season, Massachusetts is contending with another oppressive wave of heat.
The heat wave is expected to continue through Wednesday for most of the region before “somewhat cooler” temperatures arrive by Thursday, forecasters said.
Scattered showers and thunderstorms also are possible Tuesday and Wednesday, but there is a “greater risk for unsettled weather” later in the week, forecasters said.

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They went to the woods, because they wished to build a cool cabin

The annual Studio North workshop lets young architects hammer through design challenges.

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McKee to sign R.I. nursing home staffing requirement into law

McKee signs R.I. nursing home staffing requirement into law
Alexa Gagosz
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The majority of COVID-19 deaths in Rhode Island occurred in nursing homes, and unions have long sought staffing requirements. And on Thursday afternoon, their demands will finally become a reality when Governor Dan McKee signs the Nursing Home Staffing and Quality Act.
PROVIDENCE — The COVID-19 pandemic made a bad situation worse in nursing homes throughout Rhode Island.
Many facilities had shared rooms, and the virus easily spread from one resident to the next. The shortage of personal protective equipment didn’t help. And when hospitals transferred their patients to nursing homes for rehab, they were not always required to test them again for COVID-19, which increased the number of infections.

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Mayoral hopefuls, debating in person for the first time, clash over school police, other issues

Boston mayoral hopefuls, debating in person for the first time, clash over school police, other issues
Meghan E. Irons
© Jonathan Wiggs/Globe Staff
At Wednesday’s candidates forum, held at Suffolk County Jail, inmate Autumn Harris (middle) posed a question.
Candidates vying to become Boston’s mayor tangled over school policing, the addiction crisis raging along Melnea Cass Boulevard and Massachusetts Avenue, and strategies to curb violence at a public forum Wednesday on criminal justice and public safety.
All six candidates agreed that expanded educational, housing, employment, and economic opportunities are needed to address entrenched public safety problems.
Essaibi George said schools need to be safe and that the school-to-prison pipeline is “not directly related to school police officers.” Its primary cause, she said, is “the broken education system,” which puts Black and Latino students in separate classrooms and away from crucial services.Candidates for Boston mayor face off on environment

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With the end of the COVID-19 state of emergency, a new question: What will the Legislature keep from it?

With the end of the COVID-19 state of emergency, a new question: What will the Legislature keep from it?
Matt Stout
© Jonathan Wiggs/Globe Staff
The future of sidewalk dining is among the aspects of pandemic-era life now in the hands of the Massachusetts Legislature.
Governor Charlie Baker is ending the state of emergency in Massachusetts. Now, the Legislature has to decide what aspects of pandemic-era life they want to keep from it.
Faced with a suddenly ticking clock, state lawmakers are being pressed to extend, or make permanent, a host of COVID-related rules governing sidewalk lunches, to-go margaritas, and virtual town council meetings before Baker lifts his emergency declaration on June 15.

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For the first time, no white men running as a major candidate for Boston mayor

Boston fields historically diverse crop of mayoral candidates; all top candidates identify as people of color
Meghan E. Irons
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The pandemic and social justice protests — for Black lives and to stop Asian hate — have introduced a new sense of urgency in reckoning with Boston’s racist past and confronting the lingering effects.
As Tuesday’s deadline to take out papers for city office came and went, the field of candidates for the next mayor of Boston emerged as a historic one: For the first time, all of the major candidates identify as people of color.
It is a significant and transformational milestone in a city with a notorious history of white political power, although most of its residents are Black, Latino, Asians, or other people of color. This moment highlights the fact that “the city is ready to move on,’' said state Representative Russell Holmes of Mattapan, who added that he does not see Boston returning to a time when there aren’t any women or people of color on the mayoral ballot.

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Narragansett is opening a brewery in Providence. Yes, the public will be able to grab a pint

Narragansett is opening a brewery in Providence. Yes, the public will be able to grab a pint
Brian Amaral
© Jonathan Wiggs/Globe Staff
From left: Mark Hellendrung, President and CEO of Narragansett Brewing Company at at the new brewery in Providence, with production manager Tony Barber and head brewer Lee Lord.
PROVIDENCE — Narragansett, a quintessential Rhode Island beer, has made a big comeback since Brown University graduate and Rumford, Rhode Island, native Mark Hellendrung revived it a decade and a half ago. But except for some local batches here and there, it’s mostly made up in Rochester, New York.

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Newly released data shows just how much our climate is changing

Newly released data shows just how much our climate is changing
Dave Epstein
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The sun rising over Rowe's Wharf in Boston
It’s likely at some point you have heard a newscaster or meteorologists say, “temperatures today were 10 degrees above or below normal.”
But what is normal, especially around New England?
Meteorologically, our weather normals come from 30 years of data of high, low, and average temperatures that are compared to the weather of the day. Our normals are updated once a decade and this week we got a new set of data.
Writing about 30-year normals might seem a bit mundane but it’s super important to understand what’s going on with the atmosphere on a long-term basis. When NOAA releases these normals it gives us an opportunity to look at trends and things are definitely trending warmer.

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Encouraging signs are beginning to emerge in Mass. coronavirus data

Encouraging signs are beginning to emerge in Mass. coronavirus data
Martin Finucane
© Craig F. Walker/Globe Staff
The key to ending the pandemic. A coronavirus vaccination being prepared at the Harvard Street Neighborhood Health Center vaccine clinic at the Prince Hall Grand Lodge in Dorchester.
Is it possible the coronavirus is beginning to loosen its deadly grip on Massachusetts?
Encouraging signs are emerging in the coronavirus data being released by the state Department of Public Health. Experts say the data suggest that the state’s vaccination campaign, which has now fully protected more than 2.1 million people, is working — even as worrisome coronavirus variants spread through the state.

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Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine will be paused in Rhode Island

Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine will be paused in Rhode Island
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