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Three years into its anticipated seven-year timeline, construction is well underway on Massachusetts General Hospital’s massive new $1.9 billion clinical care facility on its Boston campus. At over 1.5 million square feet, the Phillip and Susan Ragon Building will house the Mass General Cancer Center and the Corrigan Minehan Heart Center. Read more: https://trib.al/u6vPBnn

On Boston Globe Today: Is "Wicked" wicked good? Boston.com entertainment writer Kevin Slane reviews the highly anticipated broadway adaptation and "Gladiator II."

Employers are on the hook after Massachusetts mistakenly used federal money in 2020 to pay jobless claims that were its responsibility. In the latest edition of Trendlines, Boston Globe Media columnist Larry Edelman writes that Governor Maura Healey is now scrambling to resolve the shortfall before Donald Trump becomes president. 📈 Read it here. And subscribe for more Boston business news.

How will Trump impact Massachusetts' energy transition? The #IRA put the US on a much faster track for cutting emissions — double or even triple the pace it had been on prior — and injected a big burst of enthusiasm for the energy transition. But with #Trump promising to repeal that legislation and attempt to block federal spending on #climate, uncertainty could be “suffocating” for emerging #cleanenergy and #cleantech industries, which face strong competition from rivals in China and Europe, one analyst told Aaron Pressman. The US is behind on its targets to cut emissions in half by 2030 and achieve #netzero emissions by 2050. And now, “instead of a president committed to further accelerating that progress, we are left waiting to see how well the recent gains can be defended against repeal,” Jesse Jenkins told me. Read more in Boston Globe Media: https://lnkd.in/guKFWcSE

Brown University is transferring 255 acres of land in Bristol to a preservation trust set up by the Pokanoket Indian Tribe, marking one of the nation’s biggest victories in attempts by Indigenous people to reclaim ancestral lands.

MIT said that starting next fall, undergraduate students whose families earn less than $200,000 annually can attend without paying tuition, while families who earn less than $100,000 can expect to “pay nothing at all."

Ten primary care doctors from a single Brigham and Women’s Hospital practice in Chestnut Hill — who together care for 13,000 to 15,000 patients a year — are resigning to join a new practice in Wellesley affiliated with rival Beth Israel Lahey Health. The move could cost MGB millions of dollars.

People are freaking out about the election, and the impact isn’t just emotional, writes Boston Globe financial columnist Larry Edelman. It’s starting to show up in the economy in small but telling ways. 📈 Read more in the latest edition of Trendlines, our newsletter on business news in Boston and beyond.

Amazon is bringing everyone back five days a week, starting in January. Are they the start of another return-to-office trend, or an outlier? It feels like we are reaching another milestone here after a year or so of stability, in terms of ramping up pressure to bring workers back. That said, many more companies are holding onto their existing hybrid schedules. The norm around Boston seems to be settling in at three or four days in the office, but the range of RTO policies has never been wider since the pandemic began. https://lnkd.in/ehQ-wrw9 via @BostonGlobe Micah Remley John Dolan Ashley Lane

From giant companies to local businesses, many executives have been rethinking their return-to-office requirements after a year of relative stability. And while many major office employers show no signs of budging, evidence of a changing mood is starting to pile up.