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Learn about the most important issues facing Massachusetts from the people in charge and the people most affected.
Rev. Miniard Culpepper has been elected to fill the Roxbury-based city council seat, per Boston's unofficial election tally. Culpepper joins WBUR's Morning Edition to discuss his priorities.
New England Conservatory teacher, composer and musician Mehmet Ali Sanlikol has a new record out called “Lessons from Nightingales: Songs of Sufi Mysteries.” It features a local singing group called Blue Heron. He tells us why he feels a deep connection to these songs.
Chelsea mom Iris Ivette Montufar gets a little over $400 each month in benefits from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program or SNAP. Right now, she only has $30 left to support her and two of her children for November.
Cuts to federal food assistance and high grocery prices have heightened concerns about hunger in Massachusetts. Some Boston city councilors want to explore a possible solution: publicly owned grocery stores.
Congressman Jake Auchincloss, a Newton native who served the city alongside Setti Warren, joins WBUR's Morning Edition to reflect on Warren's life and legacy.
Romy Neumark, an Israeli journalist and a lecturer at Harvard, explores the divide within the American Jewish community in the new podcast "My Home Fronts."
State Sen. Peter Durant joins WBUR's Morning Edition to discuss how local and national politics have aligned to produce the unusual partisan standoff in a high-stakes moment for food access.
Massachusetts Congresswoman Lori Trahan says the state does not have enough money in its rainy day fund to cover the food assistance program SNAP and other federal benefits that will cut off Saturday.
The goal is to mimic the natural features of the shorelines — enough to attract some sea creatures to make the wall their new home. So far, it's working.
As the nation marks 250 years since the American Revolution, a new Boston Public Library exhibit looks at some local acts of resistance beyond the shot heard around the world.
The photographer credited with taking the photo, then an AP staff member, won the Pulitzer Prize for it. But a former AP editor says a freelance photographer took the picture. That photographer has always told those close to him that he took the picture. And now an investigative film backs up that claim.
U.S. Congressman Seth Moulton, 46, will challenge Sen. Ed Markey, 79, in the primary next September. Moulton has made Markey's age a main sticking point in this race but Markey says he's "more energized than ever."
Abby Chin, Celtics reporter for NBC Sports Boston, joins WBUR's All Things Considered to preview tonight's game and tell us more about the new editions.
Evan Horowitz of Tufts University's Center for State Policy Analysis joins WBUR's Morning Edition to explain why the seemingly sleepy legislation is in the spotlight.
The new documentary by a local filmmaker about the intense Boston music scene of the 1970s and '80s is full of interviews with and archival footage of artists that helped change the future of rock.
