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Tuesday on BPR, live from the BPL:
CNN’s John King
Sports authority Trenni Casey
Tufts food policy analyst Corby Kummer
Immigration lawyer Mahsa Khanbabai
Ask the Mayor with Michelle Wu, 1-2pm
Recent segments
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Medical Ethicist Says COVID-19 Vaccines For Kids 5-11 Shouldn't Be Mandated — Yet
As shipments of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for children ages 5-11 arrive at hospitals, pediatric centers and vaccination clinics around the… -
No Permanent Housing Means Mass And Cass Evictees Will Be Back On The Streets, Says ACLU Exec. Director
Carol Rose, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union in Massachusetts, told Boston Public Radio on Tuesday the city should be making a housing-first effort, not evicting people and offering temporary shelter or involuntarily committing them to live in a detention center, as proposed by Suffolk County Sheriff Steve Tompkins. -
Mayoral Candidates Wu And Essaibi George Have One Last Pitch To Boston Voters
Regardless of who comes out ahead, the winner of Tuesday’s election will become the first duly elected woman to lead the city -
Margin Between Boston Mayoral Candidates Wu and Essaibi George 'May Not Be Quite As Wide As Polls Suggest'
As Bostonians prepare to cast their vote for the city's next mayor, GBH News reporters Adam Reilly and Saraya Wintersmith joined Boston Public Radio on… -
AG Healey Pledges To Continue Fight Against Big Oil
The attorney general's lawsuit against ExxonMobile proceeds -
Wu Says Vaccine Mandate For Indoor Recreation Should Be Citywide Policy
Wu and Essaibi George made separate appearances Wednesday on GBH News’ Boston Public Radio.
Listen to previous shows
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Best Of BPR 6/11: A Spotlight On Massachusetts' History Of Mistreating Disabled People
Today: A new report shows how, throughout its history, Massachusetts failed thousands of disabled residents living in institutions, and then tried to cover their tracks with bureaucratic stonewalling decades later.GBH’s Megan Smith joins alongside Alex Green, vice-chair of the commission behind this report. And, naturalist Sy Montgomery is back to talk about axolotls, as researchers at Northeastern look into whether humans could ever tap into their secrets around limb regeneration. -
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Best Of BPR 6/10: RFK Purges CDC Panel & Embrace Ideas Festival
Today:Dr. Katherine Gergen Barnett of the Boston Medical Center joins to discuss the latest medical headlines.And, ahead of this year’s Embrace Ideas Festival, we talk with Embrace Boston CEO Imari Paris Jeffries. Plus, joining Imari both at the festival – and today’s show – Giselle Byrd. She’s the first Black trans woman to lead a regional theatre company in the United States at Boston’s The Theater Offensive. -
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Best Of BPR 6/09: Trump's Law-And-Order Hypocrisy & The American Myth Of Meritocracy
Today:Trump deployed the national guard in California, without the consent of Governor Gavin Newsom. We talk through the existential questions of presidential authority with retired federal judge Nancy Gertner. Plus, her suspicions about the government's new charges of human trafficking against a man they wrongly deported, Kilmar Abrego Garcia.And, journalist Adam Chandler argues in his new book “99% Perspiration” that the American Dream equating hard work with success has turned out to be more of an American fantasy.
