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  ❤️  Donate Friday, April 3, 2026 ☁️  Mostly cloudy, with patchy fog this morning and a high near 64. Good Morning Boston, It's Friday. Baseball returns to Fenway Park this afternoon, with the 1-5 Red Sox hosting the San Diego Padres for their home opener at 2:10 p.m. — and yes, it is  too early to panic.  (But ask me again on Monday.) On deck:   The Red Sox finished 89-73 in a tough division last year, their best regular season record since  the "Dancing on My Own" team . But it ended last fall with  a gutting loss  to the archnemesis New York Yankees in the first round of the playoffs (which  budding superstar  Roman Anthony missed due to  injury  — something you should remind the Yankees fans in your life). In the offseason, the team focused on bolstering its starting pitching staff and developing their young talent, though it came at the cost of  losing veteran third baseman Alex Bregman . Here's a look at t...

  New from  CommonWealth Beacon FLOOD INSURANCE:  Boston residents have collectively  faced  at least $785,000 in unnecessary flood insurance costs since 2021 because the city missed a self-imposed deadline for a federal program. Jordan Wolman has more.    Looming federal food aid cuts put state Democrats in the hot seat   October 31, 2025 By  Chris Lisinski and Jordan Wolman When federal money suddenly disappears, how much responsibility does the state have to use its own limited resources to minimize the impact?    The rapidly approaching cutoff of food aid to tens of millions of Americans is posing that question to Beacon Hill, boxing legislative leaders and Gov. Maura Healey into a corner over whether and how to fund the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program now – and foreshadowing challenging budget math that looms on the longer-term horizon.   Anti-hunger advocates and budget analysts stressed that the imminent crisis is a fede...