The Boston Globe’s “opinion team” on Sunday took a look back at its Trump parody front page from a year ago and discovered most of its predictions were off-base.

The parody predicted stock markets would tank but they’ve actually soared. It said the attorney general would be Chris Christie, but instead the position is held by Jeff Sessions. The page said Congress would approve funding for a “massive deportation force” and pass a new libel law targeting the press — neither happened, although the White House is still looking at ways to make it easier to sue the media.

On immigration, the Globe’s parody review noted that Trump’s crackdown, statistically, doesn’t look all that different from what took place under former president Obama. In the first two months of this year, Immigration Control and Enforcement removed 35,604 people, only slightly higher than the 35,255 removed last year in Obama’s final year in office.

The Globe said its parody page was “eerily prescient” because it got the broad strokes right. Trump did move swiftly on immigration, got into unnecessary fights with friendly foreign leaders, and pushed an America-first philosophy. But most of the president’s priorities — abolishing Obamacare, cracking down on illegal immigrants, and building a wall along the Mexican border — have fallen victim to administration missteps and the checks and balances contained in the US Constitution.

“We worried about brownshirts, but the country’s being run by Keystone Kops,” the editorial said.

A front-page story in the newspaper suggested the Trump team, after a very rocky start, is making some progress. Policy ideas are now being vetted more thoroughly before being passed along to the president. “There’s a consensus that the president and his top lieutenants are beginning to understand that they must learn to swim in the swamp before they can drain it,” the story said. “And they have to make some friends in Washington if they expect to cross anything off their agenda.”

Republican Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and John McCain of Arizona give the Trump team credit. “The administration is doing a much better job of reaching out,” says Collins.

Cass Sunstein, a professor at Harvard Law School, isn’t so sure. He says an instinctive president like Trump can succeed but he needs a professional, experienced staff to turn ideas into action. Sunstein recalls working in the Reagan administration when the president called for less regulation and the staff made it work. By contrast, Trump has ordered that every time an agency issues a new regulation it must eliminate two others. Sunstein said the order’s rigidity makes it difficult to implement. “It looks pretty arbitrary,” he said.

Trump, not surprisingly, doesn’t see it that way. He says his administration is transferring power from Washington back to the people. “Issue by issue, department by department, we are giving the people their country back,” he said. “After decades of a shrinking middle class, open borders, and the mass offshoring of American jobs and wealth, this government is working for the citizens of our country and no one else.”

–BRUCE MOHL

BEACON HILL

Lawmakers are pushing a Safe Communities Act that would bar authorities from inquiring about an individual’s immigration status unless required by law. (Gloucester Times) Conservative court opinions could lead to a liberal victory over President Trump on sanctuary cities. (Governing)

Wait times are way down at the Springfield Registry of Motor Vehicles office. (MassLive)

State Auditor Suzanne Bump says her stint as secretary of Labor and Workforce Development in the Patrick administration opened her eyes to waste and inefficiency in government spending and prompted her to run for her current post. (Keller@Large)

MUNICIPAL MATTERS

Boston says it’s studying whether to rebuild the Long Island Bridge, which is a significant shift for Mayor Marty Walsh, who vowed to rebuild the span. (CommonWealth)

The Boston police spend millions of dollars each year in overtime — at great cost to the city treasury and, say experts, to officers’ safety and that of the public. (Boston Globe)

A Globe editorial suggests Boston rethink the proposed exemption to a state shadow law for the  Winthrop Square tower, saying it may be too restrictive of future development in the Copley Square area.

Renee Loth writes that residents are organizing “Jane Walks” this week in Boston, Worcester — and cities around the world — to commemorate what would have been the 101st birthday of urban thinker Jane Jacobs. (Boston GLobe)

The Salem City Council names Anton the Great (aka Anton James Andresen) the city’s official magician. (Salem News)

Southborough, where voters rejected the state ballot question on recreational marijuana last November and fought to prevent a medical marijuana facility from opening in town, becomes the latest community to vote to ban the sale of legal pot as well as bar growing and distribution facilities. (MetroWest Daily News)

WASHINGTON/NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL

Congress reaches a deal to fund the government through September. (NPR)

Herald columnist Kimberly Atkins says President Trump needs some new material to freshen up his stale lines attacking the fake and dishonest media.

Trump, who has rejected the 100-day benchmark as a measure of the administration, releases a campaign-style TV ad touting the successes in the first 100 days and deriding the :fake news” that reports otherwise. (New York Times)

White House chief of staff Reince Priebus says the administration has looked at changing the nation’s libel laws to allow Trump to sue news outlets who criticize him. (U.S. News & World Report)

Trump has invited controversial Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte, who has allegedly launched a bloody effort to hunt down and kill addicts in the island country, to visit the White House, surprising aides who are bracing for backlash. (New York Times)

ELECTIONS

Boston Mayor Marty Walsh and his chief challenger, City Councilor Tito Jackson, try out their talking points. (Boston Herald)

BUSINESS/ECONOMY

The Cape Cod Times talks with officials and business owners in Vail, Colorado, to compare how a seasonal vacation destination balances the sale of legal marijuana while maintaining a family-friendly tourist atmosphere.

Massachusetts-based sports fantasy site DraftKings, which launched five years ago, seems poised for growth — and a possible merger. (Boston Globe)

A local family foundation has been very generous — in its payments to the three daughters of the fund’s benefactor. (Boston Globe)

Could a 25-story residential tower be coming to Roxbury? (Boston Herald)

EDUCATION

The two Central Catholic High School officials who were suspended for alleged inappropriate activities were identified as the dean of students (who was also the basketball coach) and a social studies teacher. (Eagle-Tribune)

The achievement gap in Massachusetts tells a disturbing tale of two states, says Ranjini Govender of Stand for Children Massachusetts. (CommonWealth)

School districts around the country are increasingly shaming children by refusing or substituting lunches when their parents fail to satisfy unpaid lunch debts, prompting federal officials to set a July 1 deadline for states to comes up with policies on how to deal with the issue. (New York Times)

HEALTH/HEALTH CARE

The Massachusetts Medical Society voted to urge the state to establish clinics where drug addicts could safety shoot up drugs under the watchful eye of medical professionals. (Boston Globe)

The Veterans Administration office in Boston misclassified one in six traumatic brain injury cases in 2015, resulting in both underpayment and overpayment of disability benefits to vets. (Boston Herald)

Using his pal Jarrett Barrios as an example, James Aloisi explores the benefits of pilgrimages. (CommonWealth)

TRANSPORTATION

Bridj, the transportation start-up that was a cross between Uber and a city bus, shut down over the weekend after an effort to raise more funding for the company fell through. (Boston Globe)

The state’s congressional delegation should butt out on MBTA privatization, says the Pioneer Institute’s Jim Stergios and Charles Chieppo. But James Aloisi says at Pioneer it’s always more reform and never new revenue. (CommonWealth)

Running the numbers on the commuter rail’s Fairmount Line. (CommonWealth)

The Pioneer Valley Transit Authority signs a long-term lease to move into Springfield’s Union Station. (MassLive)

And you thought the MBTA had a daunting state-of-good-repair capital improvements backlog? (New York Times)

Maryland is looking to join Virginia and North Carolina in a growing movement to fine drivers who travel too slowly in the left-hand passing lane on highways. (U.S. News & World Report)

ENERGY/ENVIRONMENT

More than 60 percent of the schools tested in the state had elevated levels of lead in the drinking water, but more than half the school districts opted not to take advantage of the free testing program by the Department of Environmental Protection. (The Enterprise)

Eversource has reached an agreement in a suit filed by Orleans officials to move power transmission lines that have become roosting places for cormorants who defecate in Cedar Pond, creating an environmental and public safety hazard. (Cape Cod Times)

CRIMINAL JUSTICE/COURTS

A pub crawl leads to arrests in Lowell. (Lowell Sun)

A Dorchester police captain is trying out a new app in an effort to combat a rash of commercial burglaries in his district. (Boston Globe)

MEDIA

The New York Times and the Times-Picayune of New Orleans form a partnership on coastal reporting. (Times-Picayune)