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Dr. Robbie Goldstein presents himself as a progressive hopeful and said he thinks he better represents a district that has changed since Lynch was elected

The former Suffolk County Sheriff said she wasn’t surprised at all by the charges brought Thursday morning against former Trump advisor Steve Bannon.

During a wide-ranging interview on Boston Public Radio, Warren touched on a variety of topics including the state's looming eviction crisis and investment in the arts.

Despite Postmaster General Louis DeJoy's promise to defer changes to the USPS operations until after election season, Healey says she wants to keep the pressure on.

The American Prospect co-editor gave his thoughts on the dangers of a loosely regulated financial sector under a Biden administration.

The CNN anchor was frank in his support of forthcoming hearings, in both the House and Senate, to oversee the work of Postmaster General Louis DeJoy.

Today on Boston Public Radio: We opened our lines to talk with callers about a potential witness swap in the Senate impeachment trial. Medical ethicist Art Caplan discussed the latest on the Coronavirus’ spread in the U.S., and new testimony exposing the role of doctors in the CIA’s Guantanamo Bay interrogations. CNN analyst Juliette Kayyem discussed the Trump administration’s approach to the Coronavirus, along with the latest on the Senate impeachment trial. Boston Globe business columnist Shirley Leung spoke on her recent profile of Mass. Environmental Secretary Kathleen Theoharides, and discussed 99 Ranch Market, a newly opened Asian supermarket in Quincy. We aired live audio from Wednesday’s impeachment proceedings.

A new food movement in California is attempting to reduce carbon footprints in restaurants and make meals more climate friendly by tacking on a surcharge to fund a pilot called Restore California. Food writer Corby Kummer told Boston Public Radio on Tuesday the program is just one system of numerous programs across the country to help restaurants be more sustainable. "This is saying if every restaurant in the Bay Area … if they could put a one percent surcharge that goes toward regenerative soil, which is caring about making the soil better for future generations, that’s even better than organic, that’s what matters now, so this Restore California 1 percent surcharge, fancy restaurants are going along with it, they’re getting with the program." Kummer said the fine dining restaurants are serving dishes like beef tartare sourced with meat from a ranch affiliated with a program to help fields absorb more carbon, local lavender, and toast created from Kernza, a "perennial grain with deep roots that helps restore prairie land." Corby Kummer is executive director of the Food and Society policy program at the Aspen Institute, a senior editor at The Atlantic and a senior lecturer at the Tufts Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy.

Today on Boston Public Radio: We opened our lines to talk with callers about impeachment, and whether new revelations from former National Security Advisor John Bolton will have an impact on the Senate trial. NBC Sports Boston Reporter Trenni Kusnierek discussed the passing of John Altobelli, former head coach of Cape Cod’s Brewster Whitecaps, who died Sunday alongside Kobe Bryant in the Calabasas helicopter crash. Boston Globe cannabis reporter Dan Adams discussed the bureaucracy holding local marijuana entrepreneurs back, and a new study linking heavy marijuana use as a teenager to impaired driving as an adult, even while sober. Food writer Corby Kummer discussed the merits of noisy restaurants, and a restaurant surcharge bill in California aimed at fighting climate change. We aired live audio from Tuesday’s impeachment proceedings.

Today on Boston Public Radio: Michael Curry and Jennifer Braceras discussed revelations in a forthcoming book from former National Security Advisor John Bolton, and what to expect from Monday’s impeachment proceedings. Curry is senior vice president and general counsel at Mass League of Community Health Centers, and a member of the National NAACP Board of Directors. Braceras is a political columnist, senior fellow with the Independent Women’s Forum, and a former Commissioner of the United States Commission on Civil Rights. NBC Sports Boston commentator Trenni Kusnierek spoke on the legacy of Kobe Bryant, who died on Sunday. Journalists Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn discussed their latest book, “Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope.” Reverends Irene Monroe and Emmett Price, hosts of WGBH’s All Rev’d Up, discussed the life of Kobe Bryant, and a case before the Supreme Court that could alter the separation of of church and state in the U.S. We aired live audio from Monday’s impeachment proceedings.

Today on Boston Public Radio: Attorney General Maura Healey stopped by the Boston Public Radio studio for our monthly “Ask the AG” series. Emily Rooney, host of WGBH News' Beat The Press, joined us for her famous list of fixations and fulminations. Under the Radar host Callie Crossley discussed Cambridge becoming the fourth Massachusetts city to ban the use of facial recognition technology, and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries quoting Biggie Smalls in the Senate impeachment trial.