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🎁 💸 What are you spending on this holiday season? Gifts? Travel? Donations? However you're budgeting your $$$, I want to hear from you for a Boston Globe Media story. Comment here or email me directly at [email protected] to talk holiday budgets!

On Boston Globe Today: There is nothing more comforting than a simple, perfect cookie. ⁠ Former food editor Sheryl Julian gifts her curated list of treats everyone will enjoy. Plus, she shares a common mistake people make when gifting cookies. Watch: https://trib.al/cWo63mZ

"The Harvard Plan" is here a 3-part audio doc I made with The Boston Globe and On The Media about the short, troubled tenure of Harvard's first and only Black President, and the people and forces that brought her down Please listen w/ On The Media & Boston Globe Media https://lnkd.in/eZbeUfWS

On Boston Globe Today: The Patriots may have returned physically to the field Sunday, but mentally, many still looked like they were on a bye week break. Boston.com reporter Khari A. Thompson tries to make sense of it and looks ahead to next week against the Bills. Watch: https://trib.al/qOeappf

The Fed is poised to cut interest rates on Wednesday. But what happens after that is uncertain. Larry Edelman explains.

Steward Health Care benefited from insufficient scrutiny from the Healey administration and other elected officials until the company foundered. Then it was too late. A new Globe Spotlight Team investigation details the state's failure to act.

Bold Types: Shuttered storefronts. Empty office towers. How do you rebuild a city’s economy in the wake of a pandemic? That’s the challenge Segun Idowu, Boston’s chief of economic opportunity and inclusion, has been tackling since he arrived at City Hall three years ago. And he’s found no shortage of solutions, from the city’s grant program that places small businesses in empty storefronts, to the 225 new liquor licenses created for Boston’s restaurant scene, to the high-profile score of bringing Lego’s headquarters to town. https://trib.al/l1tE7j6

The competition is fierce to become the definitive climate-tech hub. But Massachusetts just got a big boost in its efforts, thanks to two pieces of legislation that will set aside up to $100M a year over 10 years toward the effort. Here's my explanation of how it could all work, published this week to be timed with the ceremonial signing of one of those bills. (Pictured here is a big battery project planned for a former oil tank farm in Everett.) https://lnkd.in/e4aykzh6

The Massachusetts Department of Unemployment Assistance needs assistance. Boston Globe Media's Larry Edelman explains why.

On Boston Globe Today: Lots of people suffer from email overload, but until recently, reporter Aaron Pressman's inbox had been feeling more like an avalanche. He spoke to experts and shares how to avoid a life of digital disarray.