Rebecca Ostriker
@globeostriker
Deputy Op-Ed Page Editor at the Boston Globe. Former Globe Spotlight Team investigative reporter, Arts Editor. Also at Bluesky @rebeccaostriker.bsky.social
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“The goal of this crossover? To introduce our readers to each other and reveal a little more about ourselves in the process,” Marcela E. García writes. Read the second part of the #Outtakes and #Mira crossover: trib.al/pZqkVfA
A top deputy to Everett's mayor faces second drunken-driving charge, his fourth arrest in two years. bostonglobe.com/2025/08/06/met… via The Boston Globe Stephanie Ebbert
A Boston luxury tower tale: "Nearly three years after the first tenants moved in, 40 percent of the 114 units remain unsold." bostonglobe.com/2025/08/11/new… via The Boston Globe
"There is a housing crisis on the ground, but a surplus in the sky": Two years ago, Boston Globe Spotlight Team found that with so many luxury units hitting the Boston market, developers were sitting on scores of unsold luxury condos, worth over $1 billion. apps.bostonglobe.com/2023/10/specia…
"The entire time the man in the pink shirt was yelling, he held in his left hand a floppy parcel wrapped in paper. Call it Chekhov’s bun." Devra First on DC's pink-shirted hoagie hero, pitching that Subway like Pedro Martinez in the rough bostonglobe.com/2025/08/13/lif… via The Boston Globe
Boston Mayor Wu: “Stop attacking our cities to hide your administration’s failures....Unlike the Trump administration, Boston follows the law.” Meanwhile under Trump, “good news on our economy has been as hard to find as the Epstein list.” bostonglobe.com/2025/08/19/met… The Boston Globe
“As I was saying before I was interrupted”: Kimmel’s first words in his return echoed Jack Paar in 1960. “There have been two pivotal moments in the history of late-night television,” and with both “it didn’t take long for the tide to turn.” Boston Globe Opinion bostonglobe.com/2025/09/22/opi…
“Bill Russell is a bridge,” writes daughter Karen Kenyatta My Father’s Daughter Russell🍀 of the newly named span connecting Boston and Charlestown. “His relationship with Boston was, in many ways, like a bridge itself. At its best, it was proud, glorious, and unifying.” bostonglobe.com/2025/09/23/spo…
‘Yankees suck!’ The rise, fall, and healing power of Boston’s most famous chant, from the great @bethteitell. bostonglobe.com/2025/10/01/lif… via The Boston Globe
🧵 Nearly 250 patients have filed civil lawsuits alleging sexual abuse by Dr. Derrick Todd, a renowned doctor at top Boston hospitals. He also faces two criminal charges of rape. A Boston Globe Spotlight Team report found he could have been stopped earlier. apps.bostonglobe.com/metro/investig…
The rowdy colonists you never heard of, and how they might have changed the world: Terrific take on Thomas Morton and a demented piece at Boston Public Art Triennial in Boston bostonglobe.com/2025/10/03/art… via The Boston Globe
The late, great The Boston Globe classical music critic Richard Dyer’s final gift to the Boston music community: an astounding library of 20,000-plus records, in a pay-what-you-can sale this weekend at his Cambridge condo. bostonglobe.com/2025/10/10/art…
DEA claims of 171 'high-level' Sinaloa Cartel arrests in New England? Overblown. Boston Globe Spotlight Team investigation found they arrested shoplifters, addicts. bostonglobe.com/2025/10/29/met… The Boston Globe Andrew Ryan Hanna Krueger Joey Flechas Steven Porter Amanda Milkovits Gordon Russell