District 7 Boston city council race heads toward recount
Third-place finisher Mavrick Afonso and several former rivals planned to submit paperwork Monday afternoon.

‘Very disheartening’: Americans reading for pleasure plummets in 21st century
A national study that looked at data over the last 20 years has found that the number of Americans who read for pleasure has dropped by 40%.
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GBH Daily: Union trouble at the EPA
Plus: how Boston is preparing for the threat of a National Guard deployment. -
Insurance rebates coming soon for 350,000 people in Massachusetts
More than 350,000 people in Massachusetts will begin receiving health insurance rebates in September. -
New Catholic school comes to Framingham as private education looks to bounce back
Chesterton Academy of the Immaculata will be the first Massachusetts school in the global Chesterton network. -
Brookline nonprofit fills Little Free Libraries with diverse stories
Brookline for Racial Justice and Equity hopes the stories will inspire empathy and reconnect people with the joy of reading. -
Trump administration moves to curtail union representation at EPA
The move is part of a larger effort by the Trump administration to terminate contracts and end union representation at agencies across the federal government.
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College Uncovered
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What Is Owed?
Boston has begun to wrestle with the notion of paying reparations to Black people to make up for 400 years of enslavement and economic exclusion. -
The Big Dig
This Peabody Award–winning podcast dives into the cynicism that hangs over the topic of American infrastructure. No project embodies that cynicism quite like ‘The Big Dig.’

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