Today on Boston Public Radio:
We opened the show by taking our listeners' calls to get their reaction to Donald Trump’s announcement that he is running for president for the third time.
Shirley Leung talked about the record-breaking number of women on corporate boards in Massachusetts. She also commented on the Boston Globe appointing Nancy Barnes as the paper’s new editor, making her the first woman to lead the Globe in its 150-year history. Leung is a business columnist for the Boston Globe.
Juliette Kayyem provided analysis on the aftermath of Ukraine’s accidental missile launch into Poland. She also discussed how Trump’s 2024 announcement influences the current leadership choices among Republicans in Congress. Kayyem also talked about how Elon Musk’s handling of Twitter is creating a security risk for users and is allowing misinformation to spread wide and far. Lastly, she discussed how our cultural obsession with tech figures allowed Samuel Bankman-Fried to build a cryptocurrency house of cards. Kayyem is former assistant secretary for homeland security under President Barack Obama, and the faculty chair of the Homeland Security program at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.
Ryan Landry provided a colorful, blunt and humorously crass list of suggestions for how to properly handle Thanksgiving dinner with your family. He also previewed his new holiday play, “Little Christmas Tree Shop of Horrors,” which starts its run on Dec. 1 at the Iron Wolf Theatre at the South Boston Lithuanian Hall. Landry is a painter and playwright.
Paul Reville gave his opinion on how Governor-elect Maura Healey should try to address the setbacks students experienced during the pandemic. He also discussed how a right-leaning nonprofit "Parents Defending Education" has been suing local schools because of how they approach topics of race, sex and gender. Reville is Massachusetts’ former secretary of education and a professor at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education, where he also runs the Education Redesign Lab.
Sy Montomery talked about bees playing with toys, octopuses' rage-induced object tossing, romantic reptiles and cuddly turkeys. Montgomery is a journalist, naturalist and Boston Public Radio contributor
We ended the show by asking our listeners if they have endured the wait times and high ticket prices similar to Taylor Swift’s to see a favorite artist or musician.
