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Young scores 38 points, Hawks beat Raptors 125-104 to end five-game losing streak

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:16:49 GMT

TORONTO (AP) — Trae Young had 38 points and 11 assists, Bogdan Bogdanovic scored 20 points and the Atlanta Hawks snapped a season-long five-game losing streak with a 125-104 victory over the Toronto Raptors on Friday night.“We’re learning, we’re growing,” Young said. “We’re not satisfied with how we’ve been playing.”Clint Capela scored 10 of his season-high 18 points in the first quarter and finished with 15 rebounds. “I really think that it was important for us to set the tone early,” Capela said. “I felt that we did that.”Dejounte Murray scored 17 points as the Hawks bounced back from Wednesday’s 135-128 loss in Toronto, when the Raptors halted a four-game losing streak.Toronto’s 104 points were the fewest by an Atlanta opponent this season.“Defensively I thought we played one of our best games tonight,” Hawks coach Quin Snyder said. “Our guys were really focussed on the game plan and the things they need to do to help each other. When you play that way defensively, that’s when yo...

Watch parties on tap for Colorado School of Mines football championship game

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:16:49 GMT

GOLDEN, Colo. (KDVR) — Watch parties are planned Saturday morning for the Colorado School of Mines Division II football championship game.Bars and restaurants in downtown Golden plan to have their flatscreen televisions set to the game, which will be played in McKinley, Texas. Take a look inside Denver’s newest apartment building with a tree-filled canyon No. 1 School of Mines plays No. 2 Harding University, out of Arkansas.Over at the Golden Mill, staff said special amenities are being offered."We are gonna have a huge LCD screen out in the yard over here and hopefully watch the School of Mines win," said Danielle Quigley, with the Golden Mill.Kickoff, locally, is set for 11 a.m.

Gaskin: Environmental justice $$ needs better priorities

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:16:49 GMT

At the federal level, billions of dollars have been budgeted to fight climate change in the Infrastructure Act, the Inflation Reduction Act, and others with funding from the Departments of the Environment, Energy, and Labor among others. With billions of dollars available, why isn’t the money making it to environmental justice communities such as Grove Hall in Boston?One reason is a large portion of the state (53%) has been designated an environmental justice community or designated as EJ Group Blocks. It is easy for the funds to flow to municipalities with more resources and capacity. Towns with more resources can get even more resources and those without, go without.  The second is that the current Massachusetts definition of an Environmental Justice (EJ) Community has nothing to do with the level of environmental damage or harm that has been inflicted upon certain communities. That’s right, the definition of an environmental justice community has nothing to do environmental harm ...

Bernstein: Will third-party candidates hurt Biden or Trump?

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:16:49 GMT

With former Republican Rep. Liz Cheney’s comments that she’s considering an independent bid for president against Donald Trump, experts are beginning to game out how she and other third-party candidates could affect next year’s election.A political action committee backing independent Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s campaign announced that it’s planning to spend at least $10 million to get his name on that ballot in 10 states. And the quasi-party No Labels has threatened to recruit a big-name candidate, with retiring Republican Sen. Mitt Romney and retiring Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin getting plenty of buzz.Then you have independent candidate Cornel West and Green Party candidate Jill Stein, who also ran in 2012 and 2016.There’s still time for more to join the field, with filing deadlines a ways off. As long as President Joe Biden’s approval ratings remain below 40% and similarly unpopular Trump remains the Republican front-runner, the race will seem tempting to many.Significant third-party...

Girls indoor track preview: Departures open door for new champions

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:16:49 GMT

The graduation of two of the state’s all-time track greats should figure greatly into the 1000 and mile events this winter.Gone are Newton South’s Amelia Everett in the 1000 and Brookline’s Camille Jordan in the mile, but still on the scene is a huge middle-distance presence.The 1000 is still top-heavy with talent with Plymouth North’s Macey Shriner, Weymouth’s Gracie Richard and Carmen Luisi of Holliston. Add Delaney Dyer of Wellesley, Marshfield’s Ava LoVuolo and Audrey Adam of Needham to the mix and the 1000 should be a can’t miss event for fans.Ditto in the mile.Oliver Ames’ Katie Sobieraj had a big cross country season and that base should carry over to the winter season. Ciara Evans of Newton North, Charlotte Tuxbury of Wellesley and Holliston’s Maggie Kuchman are enormously competitive, as are Eliza Dickie of Cambridge, Woburn’s Sinead Butler, Paige McInerney of Acton Boxboro, Lilly DeDecko of Barnstable and North Qu...

Editorial: Universities selective when it comes to free speech

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:16:49 GMT

Apologists for the three college presidents who embarrassed themselves at a congressional hearing earlier this month on antisemitism are now attempting to portray them as brave defenders of free speech. That’s utter garbage.The leaders of Harvard, Penn and MIT appeared before a congressional committee and couldn’t bring themselves to acknowledge that “calling for the genocide of Jews” amounts to bullying and harassment on campus and would be a violation of their codes of student conduct. “It depends on the context,” one of them said.In the ensuing firestorm, two of the presidents apologized. The third, Penn’s Elizabeth Magill, resigned.Since then, some leftist defenders of these academics have said that, while their testimony was unfortunate, they were simply trying to acknowledge First Amendment concerns regarding the regulation of offensive speech. If so, that would be entirely out of character. These university presidents — and others across the country — have a track record of s...

Russell: Why is everyone expecting a tip these days?

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:16:49 GMT

If you’ve ordered a coffee and been asked to tip your barista at Starbucks and hesitated, you’re not alone: If you don’t tip, will your chipper barista be let down? What does everyone else do?This was the subject of a fascinating new study by the Pew Research Center, which created an interactive fictional American town, “Tipping Point,” that asks users how they’d tip in various situations and then lets you see how your answers compare to others.The survey is timely: Establishments requiring or asking for tips has increased. If I’m at a business and an employee hands me an iPad, I know I’m about to be asked to tip them on something that I’ve probably never paid a tip for before.According to Pew, 72% of U.S. adults say that tipping is expected in more places today than it was five years ago. Some have dubbed this new era “tipflation” because it seems so excessive.High-tech electronics are not the only cause. It seems like a trickle-down effect of participation trophies, the trend that...

T.3 tenors ride viral TikTok wave to fame

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:16:49 GMT

If you haven’t heard of the vocal group T.3, you probably didn’t spend a lot of time sharing TikTok videos of Disney songs during the pandemic.Tenors Jim Hogan, Brendan Jacob Smith and Liam Fennecken started posting a cappella versions of favorite tunes online just a few weeks before the pandemic hit. Once it did, the viral videos became a full-time occupation and a runaway hit, earning them hundreds of thousands of TikTok subscribers. They even got some thumbs-up from artists they covered, including CSN’s Stephen Stills and R&B star Ginuwine.“People told us it was their lifeline, but I can honestly say it was ours,” Fennecken said in a group interview this week. “The truth is that all three of us have been performers our entire lives, we are all musical theater professionals — so there we were with no work whatsoever,” Adds Hogan, “We basically asked Brendan to shoot us one video on his parents stairwell. That was the only plan.” And Smith adds, “We definitely got creativ...

Dear Abby: ‘For better, for worse’ – but not this

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:16:49 GMT

Dear Abby: Is it normal to be disgusted by your wife’s lack of concern about her appearance and her belongings? My wife drives a $50,000 car that never gets washed and is so filled with “stuff” that seldom can she take even one passenger.Her side of the bedroom is just as bad. She never makes the bed and can no longer get to her dresser because there are so many clothes piled in front of it. It’s the same down the hall. In addition to plowing things aside or piling them in a spare room, her messes take over the house.She also doesn’t take care of herself. She often doesn’t shower for days. Her clothes are frumpy, and I can no longer count how many pounds she keeps adding. It is embarrassing for me, especially when she proclaims she “will never be concerned about her weight again.” I feel it’s disrespectful to me when she says those things, and I can’t let this continue. I am supposed to get used to it? It doesn’t seem...

‘Insurance godmothers’ sign up Latinos for Obamacare in pro-Trump areas as he threatens to repeal it

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:16:49 GMT

MIAMI (AP) — Salsa music blares from the food court in a rundown Miami shopping center as Latinos head to a kiosk and an office showing signs for “Obamacare,” where they hope to renew their health coverage plans before the year ends.It’s areas near this mall where former President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul is more popular than anywhere in the country, according to federal data. The region has also shifted away from Democrats to Republicans in recent years, with former President Donald Trump hosting several rallies here as part of his outreach to Latino voters. Trump has vowed to renew efforts to repeal and replace the 2010 law — something that would be felt heavily in the region and could possibly reverse some of the GOP shift among South Florida’s Latinos, experts here say. President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign has already seized on Trump’s statements about “Obamacare,” enacted when Biden was vice president, as part of its broader efforts...