A week that promised reflection on the coming one-year anniversary of the Boston Marathon bombing gave way to fresh tragedy when two firefighters were killed in a Back Bay fire Wednesday.
This is what the week looked like from the WGBH Newsroom:
• Early in the week, Greater Boston turned its focus on the coming bombing anniversary. Anne Mostue dropped by the site of the first bomb, Marathon Sports on Boylston Street, where runners were gearing up for this year's run . Adam Reilly, meanwhile, reported on the business of "Boston Strong."
• Phillip Martin reported on the Boston Marathon bombing symposium at B.U., and examined the two reports clearing the FBI in the shooting death of Tsarnaev associate Ibragim Todashev.
• The fire hit on Wednesday afternoon — click here for WGBH News' coverage.
• On Greater Boston, P.J. O'Rourke called out the Baby Boomers — his own generation.
• After Gov. Deval Patrick declared a "painkiller crisis" that Sarah Birnbaum covered here , Alan G. White wrote an op-ed outlining the true costs of Massachusetts painkiller epidemic.
• Innovation reporter Cristina Quinn composed a soundtrack to her imaginary video game with a local video-game music composer.
• The Curiosity Desk's Edgar B. Herwick III talked to former Pats general manager Pat Sullivan about how the team ended up as the "New England," rather than "Boston," Patriots , 43 years ago this week.
• On Tuesday, MassEquality and WGBH News hosted a gubernatorial forum on LGBT issues at the Boston Public Library. During the ensuing, first-time-out-of-the-newsroom episode of The Scrum , David Bernstein broke the news of the kidney stone that Treasurer and candidate Steve Grossman was passing during the forum.
Stay safe this weekend, we'll see you Monday.
