Cross your fingers that the 3/4 of a Pedroia's worth of snow we've seen this winter will be the final tally. In the meantime, here's what WGBH News has been up to this week:

• Speaking of which, on The Curiosity Desk, Edgar B. Herwick III breaks down why this winter has been so … warm . That's right, warm.

• Dan Kennedy parsed a Boston Magazine feature about Red Sox and Boston Globe owner John Henry's plans for the newspaper, coming up with six key takeaways .

• Herwick also broke down Boston Mayor Marty Walsh's salary , comparing it to similarly sized cities like Seattle and Denver, to New England's other large cities, and to cities, like Boston, with fellow Boston College alumni running the show.

• Greater Boston turned its focus on cheap and easy access to heroin , and Narcan, the overdose treatment that can " bring people back from the dead ."

• Anne Mostue watched the heartbreaking U.S. women's hockey team's gold-medal-round loss to Canada at Harvard, home to Team U.S.A.'s coach and three players .

• The Scrum crew put on their crisis management hats to review recent missteps by gubernatorial candidates Juliette Kayyem and Jeff McCormick. Meanwhile in the Lightning Rounds, Adam Reilly and David Bernstein delved into another gubernatorial candidate, Steve Grossman, calling his competition, Martha Coakley, "squishy" on crime, and Reilly and Peter Kadzis threw a pre-emptive wake for the Southie St. Patrick's Day political breakfast.

• In This Week In History, Herwick reported on a Quincy man who threw himself on a grenade to save his fellow Marines at the Battle of Iwo Jima, 69 years ago.

• Callie Crossley lamented the financial squabbles among the children of Martin Luther King Jr.

• Greater Boston also took a look at Newton's recent spate of teenage suicides , and how families and schools can help.

• In arts, Jared Bowen just saw the opening of Circus Oz , a raucous show perfect for kids on school vacation. He promises the risqué moments will go right over younger heads. 

• Witness Uganda at the A.R.T. tells the true story of Griffin Matthews . He began teaching some of the kids he met in Uganda who had been orphaned during the country's AIDS crisis. Matthews later wrote—and now stars in—a musical about his time there: 

• " It's a sculpture of Sleep ," says "Sleepwalker" sculptor Tony Matelli.