Today on Boston Public Radio:
EJ Dionne and Miles Rapoport talked about the low voter turnout in recent elections, arguing for mandatory voting as a part of Americans’ civic duty. Dionne is a columnist for the Washington Post and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. Rapoport is a senior fellow at the Ash Center of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and a former Connecticut secretary of state. Their new book is “100% Democracy: The Case for Universal Voting.”
We then opened the phone lines, talking with listeners about schmoozers in the workplace.
Charlie Sennott discussed his experiences reporting from the Poland-Ukraine border in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Sennott is a news analyst for GBH, where he also heads up the GroundTruth Project.
Revs. Irene Monroe and Emmett G. Price III shared their thoughts on the Supreme Court case involving a former high school football coach who lost his job after praying with players on the field. Monroe is a syndicated religion columnist and the Boston voice for Detour’s African American Heritage Trail. Price is founding pastor of Community of Love Christian Fellowship in Allston, the Inaugural Dean of Africana Studies at Berklee College of Music. Together they host the All Rev’d Up podcast.
Attorney General Maura Healey discussed ex-Boston Police Union President Patrick Rose’s guilty plea to child rape charges, and answered listeners’ questions during this month’s edition of “Ask the AG.”
