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Join hosts Jim Braude and Margery Eagan for a smart local conversation with leaders and thinkers shaping Boston and New England. To share your opinion, email bpr@wgbh.org or call/text 877-301-8970 during the live broadcast from 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. Join us live at our Boston Public Library studio every Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday. We stream every day on YouTube.com/GBHNews.

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Congressman-elect Dan Koh
Live Music Friday from Bailen
Media maven and local woman Sue O'Connell
Organizers of the new arts venue The Platform

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Recent segments

Lawyers suggest more ways Healey can limit ICE activity

The discussion comes as state lawmakers weigh a bill from Gov. Maura Healey to block immigration arrests in courthouses, schools and hospitals.

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As cannabis prices tank, regulators want to cut red tape to help businesses

Cannabis commission chair Shannon O'Brien says she hasn't talked to the treasurer who fired her since she’s been back on the job.

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Campbell says she supports Minnesota AG seeking 'accountability' in Renee Good's death

Attorney General Andrea Campbell says the shooting by an ICE agent in Minneapolis "could be murder" but an investigation would need to prove it.

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Healey on ballot questions: ‘yes’ for public records, ‘no’ on rent control

The governor says she's already seeing housing investors pull out of Massachusetts.

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Make Dorie Greenspan’s cocoa-swirled pumpkin Bundt: ‘Cakes are for sharing’

The James Beard Award-winning cookbook author discusses her latest book, “Dorie's Anytime Cakes.”

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Following anti-trans hate messages, women’s commission member doesn’t regret joining

Giselle Byrd received hate messages and death threats on social media after right-wing accounts picked up her appointment to the Massachusetts Commission on the Status of Women.

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Margery Eagan

Margery Eagan is the co-host of 89.7 WGBH’s midday program Boston Public Radio. She has worked with co-host Jim Braude for 18 years, first doing a TV show together at NECN then a radio show at WTKK. The duo came to WGBH in 2013.

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Jim Braude

Jim Braude

Jim Braude

Jim Braude is the co-host of Boston Public Radio.During law school, Jim ran a small retail business in Provincetown (HUBE - Help Us Break Even!). He started his professional career as a legal services lawyer in the South Bronx handling housing and prisoners’ rights cases. He was the founder and first president of the National Organization of Legal Services Workers, a union representing staff in civil legal offices for the poor in 35 states. NOLSW helped lead the fight to preserve the national program when President Reagan proposed its abolition.

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